Sentences with phrase «gothic horror characters»

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It's a good idea, yet the movie, despite its oppressing vision of an urban gothic landscape, turns into a fairly standard horror tale — with visions, which might be repressed memories come to life or phantoms from the other side, terrifying the characters with little logic (It's strange that the original — or, for that matter, this remake — doesn't consider the most obvious possibility: brain damage).

What was once pure Gothic horror adds elements of the Western to its palette, and the narrative moves fluidly from London to Africa to the New Mexico Territory and the frozen Arctic as it catches up with (most of) our regular characters and introduces a few new ones.

Any costume drama with Helena Bonham Carter in a main role probably is worth at least a look for her performance, and she commands attention as the story's most beguiling character, Miss Havisham, even though the way she's utilized feels borne more from the tradition of Gothic horror than customary.

At Art in America Constance Mallinson reported that the initial impression was of a grisly house of horrors or a makeup shop for an alien movie, but then a wider range of references emerged — Gothic grotesques, Buddhist demon iconography, Goya's Caprichos, a repertoire of Surrealist and Expressionist facial distortions, and even animated characters like Shrek and the Incredible Hulk.