Sentences with phrase «as fright»

It's vital stuff, this Oldboy, its very title suggesting an ironic superhero alter ego — sketching anti-hero Oh Dae - Su (Choi Min - sik) as a fright - mask of arrested development, a child raging against its prematurely - aged body.

Never mind that Conway doesn't appear to know the difference between Stanleys Kubrick and Kramer, or that Malkovich's portrayal of him is so offensively fey that it could be used as a fright vid at «Focus on the Family» scare revivals — Color Me Kubrick is a grand drag revue without a rudder, and because it's not particularly entertaining, it harbours no purpose great or small.

They are secreted from the adrenal gland, above the kidney, in response to stresses such as fright, anxiety, hunger or cold, as well as excitement, when they activate the sympathetic nervous system for fight or flight.

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Thursday's move prompted a painful 8.7 per cent drop in Switzerland's stock market as investors took fright at the worsening outlook for Switzerland's traditional exporters, such as those selling chocolate or ski holidays.

As overwhelming and physically debilitating that performance anxiety can be, there are proven ways to harness your stage fright and deliver a rock solid presentation.

No wonder the people who would soon become known as the fundamentalists took fright.

What results from the foregoing is that, confronted by this technico - social embrace of the human mass, modern man, in so far as he has any clear idea of what is happening, tends to take fright as though at an impending disaster.

This problem was already understood by Soren Kierkegaard, who turned away in radical fright from that which Professor Altizer takes as a portent of apocalyptic liberation.

«Six Flags is known as the industry's top Halloween destination with Fright Fest, which begins mid-September and runs through late October,» he adds.

As I was swearing up the hill on my 1908s Fuji through the frost tipped fields skirting Ithaca, my stomach began to rumble with fright.

Steve Bruce was a great player at Manchester United and had some success as a manager as well, most notably when his Hull City side gave Arsenal a big fright in the FA Cup Final a couple of years ago.

If we show that same committment against Spurs AND if Wenger picks the right team / formation, always a big IF, then we should get three points, esp as Dele Alli and Lloris will probably be absent and Palace gave them a real fright today too.

The players exchange frights and laughs as part of a Spurs TV segment featuring Kyle Walker as the Grim Reaper

For some reason, as I sat nearly hallucinating with stage fright in the green room on the night of the show, a Jeffrey story came back to me.

As for the symptoms of evil eye, just as with the symptoms of fright, there are many possible causeAs for the symptoms of evil eye, just as with the symptoms of fright, there are many possible causeas with the symptoms of fright, there are many possible causes.

Each piece from Lemon Loves Lime collection is wonderfully unique and resembles cherished memories of our daughters» childhood that we hold dear in our hearts; their exuberant smiles and laughs of happiness, their tears of sadness and fright, their innocent curiosity and wonder of the world before them, as well as their playful mischief.

Have you ever set your little one down to sleep only to watch her suddenly throw her hands out as if in fright?

Video of the landslide posted to the Twitter account of the official People's Daily showed the side of a hill collapsing, with dirt rushing across the outskirts of the town as onlookers shouted in fright.

The sight of eight long black legs crawling slowly over the floor can make some people scream and run — and women are four times as likely to take fright than men.

Although it doesn't slide quite as smoothly off the tongue, a more accurate description than «fight or flight» would be «fight, freeze, flight, or fright» — or, for short, «the four fs.»

I share my story to serve as example of how performance anxiety, stage fright, lack of confidence and low self esteem is created and re-enforced through traumatic events in our life.

The stage fright symptoms are the same as those listed in the section of this article sub-titled: Performance anxiety symptoms.

Affirming to yourself that you are safe performing to an audience, as you breathe in deeply, can help you to some extent to overcome stage fright.

If you have a student who is into theatre, singing or performance, point out how yoga and meditation can help with concentration, the ability to remember lines and conquer fears, such as stage fright.

If you're in Charleston and looking for something to do, go there this weekend, as they will be holding «Magnolia Fright Night ``.

Stage fright, which is what you are describing, is specifically the fear of speaking in front of an audience because you imagine them having negative thoughts about your performance or you as a person.

I get severe stage fright even when speaking in front of a small group of people (I blame it on my voice cracking on stage as the star of my 3rd grade play LOL.)

On the other hand, layering is a dreadful experience for many because the need for keeping warm often leads to dressing up as an eskimo, a fashion fright indeed!

As a Saturday afternoon, in half - term, with the added draw of Fright Nights, the theme park was surprisingly busy considering how cold and wet it was outside.

Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright - inducing effects.

Amy purports itself to be survival horror, but the only surviving you'll be doing is trying to make sense of the muddled gameplay mess laid before you as you're «scared» by the same gimmicky frights, like bursting gas pipes and falling portraits, over and over again.

«Fright House,» a coven of satanists try to pass off a murder as a suicide.

By the time the nigh endless climax rolls around, Fright Night has certainly established itself as just another in a long line of needless horror remakes - with the movie's failure especially disappointing given the strength of Farrell's engaging performance (and it's also worth noting that David Tennant does manage to inject some life into the proceedings with his small role as a Vegas vampire hunter).

Emerges as the most conventional and least imaginative of the recent crop of high - class fright movies that includes «The Others,» «Session 9» and «Wendigo.»

It's a strong (albeit familiar) premise that's immediately threatened by a surprisingly (and distractingly) low - rent visual sensibility, as filmmaker Craig Gillespie, along with cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, has infused Fright Night with a hackneyed artificial darkness - ie it's almost as if the pair were trying to emulate the appearance of David Fincher's movies - that both holds the viewer at arm's length and highlights the laughably unconvincing computer - generated special effects.

It's essentially a things - that - go - bump - in - the - night - in - a-spooky-old-house film and it does deliver a few decent scares, although the frights diminish with time, as does the quality of Mirren's performance.

«Fright Night» 2011 stands on its own as a decent enough film that gives nods to the original.

Both a Halloween movie and Christmas movie, the spooky tale follows the ambitious Jack Skellington as he pursues a change after getting bored of being the Pumpkin King of frights.

As a skinnier guy, Tennant has a similar physicality, but he's also proven he can handle the mix of horror and comedy Jack Dylan Grazer brings to the role in the movie with his role in «Fright Night.»

, with cameos by horror heavyweights such as Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Lin Shaye (Insidious), John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), John Landis (Director of Animal House), Joe Dante (Director of Gremlins), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, We Are Still Here), Booboo Stewart (Twilight), Keir Gilchrist (It Follows), Grace Phipps (Fright Night), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills), Kristina Klebe (Rob Zombie's Halloween), Greg Grunberg («Heroes,» Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes), Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman), and more.

A highly stylized slasher film embellished with numerous creative touches and shot on a miniscule budget, Stage Fright served as an effective calling card and won much acclaim despite only moderate success in his home country.

Subsequently working with Lamberto Bava in such efforts as 1985's Demons, the aspiring director would serve as director of the documentary Dario Argento's World of Horror as well as a promotional Bill Wyman rock video (both 1985) before embarking on his maiden voyage as a director with Stage Fright (1987).

Tom has also written and directed such great films such as «Child's Play» and «Fright Night».

Personally, I've seen such diverse films as Hard Core Logo, The Innkeepers, A Lonely Place to Die, Speed Racer, Ghostbusters II, Fright Night, Manborg, Pontypool, and Mad Monkey Kung Fu.

Fright Night as well.

As you probably already know, a new Fright Night 3 novel is also on the way very soon.

The movie is especially adept at mixing goofily grim humor with its fright tales, as in the casting of Ted Danson and Leslie Nielsen as amorous rivals in the «Something To Tide You Over» segment.

Holland frames the halls of Mrs. Appleby's as a labyrinth of corridors and darkened office space, inserting into its claustrophobic environs the kind of «wrong man» intrigue favoured by Holland in his previous exercises in pop fright.

The crew — Spock, Bones (Karl Urban, «Dredd»), Sulu, Uhura (Zoe Saldana, «Colombiana»), Chekov (Anton Yelchin, «Fright Night»), Scotty (Simon Pegg, «Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol»), among others — encounters debris fields, technical malfunctions, betrayal and bona fide drama as they pursue their crafty adversary, but who will be double - crossed and fooled as tensions build?

What could have been «It Follows» instead becomes a Nancy Drew movie, exploring a mystery you simply don't care about, laden with fake frights (dog barking, umbrella opening) and Vincent D'Onofrio as a blind graveyard caretaker.