Sentence examples for horror rules from inspiring English sources

In these films, horror rules, not, as is true of "Dark Water," the filmmakers' palpable distaste for this oft-abused genre.

It's a sort of Purple Rose of Cairo for the Scream set, wittily highlighting how mainstream horror rules have shifted in the last 30 years.

As low-budget horror rules again.

It does not play by all the horror movie rules (e.g., the black guy always dies first).

But if there is any temptation the powers that be to intervene, perhaps they should remember horror's rule No 1: the repressed always returns.

In an era when superhero movies and horror flicks rule the box office, Hellboy is positioning itself as a horror-tinged superhero movie.

Although the film mostly plays by the horror-genre rules, a few plot twists add footnotes to the traditional outline of vampire abilities and weaknesses.

The horror-movie rule about characters who have sex being killed first applies here.

That's the case in Japanese horror, but the rules are different than in American horror.

One of the effects of the 9/11 attacks was to wake up the distracted Western public to the horror of Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

But the central conceit of the characters' fates being determined by the "rules" of horror movies feels irredeemably tired; a clever idea that was worth one movie.