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The premise is far more complicated, but the arching storyline should not be forgotten.
All three of these tales are pretty creepy and suspenseful because you're never really sure what to expect, and the premise and the settings are so unlike those of conventional horror films that it adds to the strangeness.
This is a clever premise.
The ridiculous, yet somehow obvious, cliché, and banal premise.
The premise may seem goofy, but since Murphy's character doesn't take it seriously, it helps ease the audience into this mix of mysticism and modern-day hard-boiled child abduction.
The premise has been obviously worked for a long time, so that they can suceed in making a movie set with almost no different sets (only ice caps and rocks), and three characters.
C'mon, how the hell can you take the premise of a killer snowman seriously?
The filmmakers knew this was a silly premise, and they didn't try to deny it.
So if you like B-movies, and the goofy premise appeals to you, then you'll certainly like "Jack Frost".
His follow-up feature project "Cube", released later that year, had a very similar premise, this time with 6 people and instead of an elevator it was a vast expansion of interlocking cubic deathtraps.
this could be the premise for a fowl movie, full of rigid, cold, uninteresting commentaries.
This movie is loosely based on the "They loved and lost" premise.
From a simple premise - Jean-Pierre Marielle's request for water being ignored in a restaurant - Blier spins off in all directions and allows the cream of French cinema to strut their stuff before the camera even throwing in nods to those no longer around (Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura) including the Director's father, Bernard, one of the great stalwarts of French cinema, from whom he fields a celestial phone call at the end of the film.
The premise may sound familiar.
The premise certainly draws the audience in because it is a mystery, and throughout the film there are hints that there is something dark lurking about.
It doesn't pack the kind of open door, winter chill that was to be had from such an awesome premise.
The premise of the show is unique and fresh ( I guess the executives at ABC are not used too that, as it was not another reality show).
It has a conventional 1940's premise told in a most unconventional way, and I am sure some scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
The superb premise of this story is made manifest by an equally superb cast of excellent actors.
The film has a simple premise: a poor debt collector has to stay in a secluded area while trying to collect a debt.
His bargaining with Stanwyck, which comes down to his demanding sex in exchange for saving her husband (by implication only, as this is 1953), makes for an intriguing premise which, had this been a different kind of film, could all raised all sorts of interesting questions about Stanwyck's character.
The premise is a bit better than the execution, but that doesn't mean the film is worth a look.
and thought the premise looked interesting so I took a look see.
This is sort of a Mr. Smith goes to Washington type of movie, with some variations but the same premise.
The premise for this movie is simple and so is the script: an elderly Muslim gets his teenage son to drive him in his similarly elderly station wagon from France to the haj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, so that he can fulfill his holy Muslim obligation before he dies.
Of course these movies lack quality, lack a sophisticated storyline, very often lack first-class acting, but if they do fulfil their primary premise - that's okay.
This is a pleasant film, even if the premise is silly.
A neat 'race against time' premise - A murdered John Doe is found to have pneumonic plague, so while the health authority and NOPD battle everybody and each other trying to find his waterfront contacts, the murderers think the heat is because the victim's infected cousin is holding out on them.
The movie is based on the premise that you can, indeed, tell a story in that short amount of time.
The premise works.
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