Sentences with phrase «almost unbearable levels»

Having captured the reader's hearts with his wonderfully empathetic characters, Pullman then ratchets up the suspense to almost unbearable levels.

The ambiguity of resident boogeyman Michael Myers is part of what makes the original Halloween so damn creepy, and it's Carpenter's nerve - jangling musical score that amplifies the suspense to almost unbearable levels.

Taking a measured, understated docu - drama approach was clearly the right one (particularly when placed against Oliver Stone's ill - judged «World Trade Center»)-- it paid true tribute to the heroes of United 93, while still enabling Greengrass to heighten the tension to almost unbearable levels (we vividly remember several people fleeing our screening while hyperventilating during its final sections).

The Coen brothers» No Country For Old Men and Michael Haneke's similarly set, post-apocalyptic cabin - in - the - woods movie Time Of The Wolf used long silences and the absence of music to draw out the dread to almost unbearable levels.

Good crime fiction puts the reader smack into the confusion detectives have to endure in order to solve the crime, and this novel does so to an almost unbearable level.

Not exact matches

Annihilation has its share of action — including one horrifying encounter that ratchets up the tension to an almost - unbearable level — but this movie, unlike something produced for mass audiences, is about what happens in the calm moments between the loud, splashy sequences.

When the drivetrain is in Sport, the steering weight is heavier, the suspension firms up to an almost - unbearable - for - longer - than - five - minutes level and gearchanges are so sharp you might get whiplash.

The gun control on the game is almost unbearable at the beginning of the game and never really gets great, but does become tolerable after leveling your character up.