metacritic- who's rating what horror?
Metacritic is an online website that gathers reviewed and their ratings of the newest films, music, games and television shows that have been introduced. Each of the ratings is then given an overall rating by the owners of the website. The rating is out of 100 and also has it's own colour system which is red, yellow, orange and green. The colour system is provided to show the contrast amongst the medium rating of each film. The rating displayed will be given depending on what people have been saying about in their reviews. With this, the website creates an conclusion rating which people will see next to the film, game etc.
Also people's rating is looked over the comments and scan over the tone of the person while writing their review, as well as observing at people's overall rating. The site runners also provide their own opinion on the media content. As well as the summary of the public's critic, reviews is also looked over. In conclusion the rating is provided in percentage (100%) in order to provide the most accurate review of the media content. The website was first introduced in 1999 January by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle and Doyle Roberts. The website also provides a link to each film. There is also additional information about the film such as the running time and types of genre's (Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi etc.)
Also people's rating is looked over the comments and scan over the tone of the person while writing their review, as well as observing at people's overall rating. The site runners also provide their own opinion on the media content. As well as the summary of the public's critic, reviews is also looked over. In conclusion the rating is provided in percentage (100%) in order to provide the most accurate review of the media content. The website was first introduced in 1999 January by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle and Doyle Roberts. The website also provides a link to each film. There is also additional information about the film such as the running time and types of genre's (Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi etc.)
Wreckmeister harmonies
Release date:April 18, 2003 (United Kingdom)
Director: Bela Tarr 92% In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather - without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus trailer, which is put up in the main square, to see - as the outcome of their wait - the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighbouring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. |
repulsion
Release date: May 1965
Director: Roman Polanski Budget: From the Box Office this film gains $3.122 million and has budgeted $300,000 91% In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word "sensitive" to describe Carol's overall demeanour, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything. |
eyes without a face
Initial release: 2 March 1960 (United Kingdom), and has been released on DVD in November 21 2002
Directors: Georges Franju Budget: In Box Office this film is one of the highest gross revenues worldwide, racking in $52,107. 90% Repulsion is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an automobile accident. With the help of his assistant (Alida Valli), he kidnaps young women, surgically removes their facial features, and attempts to graft their beauty onto his daughter's hideous countenance. This naturally has an adverse effect on the "donors," some of whom commit suicide rather than go through life faceless. |
son of Saul
Release Date: 11 June 2015 (Hungary)
Directors: Laszlo Nemes Budget: 1.5 million Euros 89% Saul Auslander (Geza Rohrig), a member of the camp’s Sonderkommando—prisoners forced to help the Nazis exterminate Jews, thereby delaying their own deaths for a few months—walks toward the camera from far off in the woods before finally coming into focus in the centre of the frame. From there, Hungarian director and co-writer Laszlo Nemes follows Saul as he goes about his daily work herding new arrivals toward the undressing room and into the gas chamber. |
jaws
Release date: 26 January 1975
Directors: Steven Spielberg Budget: $7 million 86% During a late-night beach party on Amity Island, a young woman goes swimming in the ocean. While treading water, she is violently pulled under. The next morning, her partial remains are found on shore. The medical examiner's ruling the death a shark attack leads Police Chief Martin Brody to close the beaches. |
the Babadook
Release date: 2014 (Australia)
Directors: Jennifer Kent Budget: The film scoops $2 million and in the Box Office is $7.5 million. 86% Amelia, a single mother plagued daily with the death of her husband, struggles to raise her troubled and angry son Samuel. After a time, Samuel finds a book sitting on the top shelf, titled "Mr. Babadook". After she reads the disturbing book to him, Samuel starts making weapons that get him expelled from school. |
raw
Release date: 10 March 2017
Directors: Julia Ducournau 85% Raw follows the story of a delinquent teen enchained by drug addiction, an ideological movement caught in the fire of extremism, and a grieving family. Seventeen-year-old Jacob Levin is sentenced by the courts to work on his uncle Joseph's transformational organic farm on Salt Spring Island. After arriving on the farm, he discovers that there is more at stake than first appears. |
the host
Release date: 22 March 2013 (Spain)
Directors: Andrew Niccol Budget: $40 million, and the film gained $63.3 million from the Box Office. 85% The Host is a 2013 American romantic science fiction thriller film adapted from Stephanie Meyer's novel of the same name. It tells the story of a young woman, Melanie, who is captured after the human race has been taken over by parasitic aliens called "Souls". |
under the shadow
Release date: 7 October 2016 (USA)
Director: Babak Anvari 84% Amidst the terrors of war-torn post-revolutionary Tehran in the 1980s, former medical student Shideh is barred from resuming her studies because of her involvement with student leftist groups. The war intensifying, Shideh elects to stay in the city with her daughter Dorsa despite the protests of her husband Iraj, a doctor working for the military who has been assigned to an area of heavy fighting. During the shelling of the city, a missile strikes their building, leading to the death of an upstairs neighbour. Dorsa's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbed. |
Dracula: pages from a virgin's diary
Release Date: 12 December 2003 (United Kingdom)
Director: Guy Maddin Budget: 1.6 million CAD 84% In 1897, a visitor from the East, Count Dracula, arrives in London and is inadvertently invited into the home of Lucy Westenra. She is bitten by Dracula, and taken by his curse. Lucy's behaviour becomes more erratic leading her to bite her fiancé. Lucy is immediately put under the care of Dr. Van Helsing. Van Helsing does blood tests on Lucy and declares "Vampyre!" as the source of the problem, and puts Lucy to bed adorned with garlic. That night, Renfield, a mental patient who lives in the asylum next to Lucy's home, escapes from confinement and Lucy's house is broken into by demons. Lucy's mother awakens in the commotion. |
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