Sentences with phrase «dead girl christabella»

That was the hot - button question surrounding 2005's Shadow of the Colossus, a beautiful, generation - defining game about a young boy on a quest to defeat gigantic monsters in an effort to bring a dead girl back to life.

- Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times bestselling author about DEAD GIRL RUNNING

Christina Dodd's latest book Dead Girl Running has an interesting premise: a woman is looking for a home, a job, and her own history.

The first two novels in her Living Dead World series — Living Dead Girl and Reaper Madness — were published in 2014

She goes on to present a historical view of the allure of the dead girl (Poe, the Pre-Raphaelites) before concluding that in this instance, it's teen girls» own obsession with mortality that is driving this trend.

The Last Dead Girl, the prequel to Harry Dolan's critically acclaimed Bad Things Happen, plucks an ordinary guy from an ordinary life and draws him into an amateur investigation of his lover's death, an investigation discouraged in no uncertain terms by the cop assigned to the murder.

Thus, when seventeen - year - old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full post-mortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue: in the dead girl's nostrils they find a type of parasite normally seen only in dogs.

Soon after, the priest who held vigil by the dead girl's corpse is brutally murdered.

They announced three new licenses, Sakura no Ichiban, Pavane for a Dead Girl and Mr. Clean: Fully Equipped as well as providing more information on other titles previously announced / discovered.

It keeps the reader present and in the moment, even when that's hard to sit with (think Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl, 2008).

Jo Knowles is the author of the young adult novels Lessons from a Dead Girl, Jumping Off Swings, Pearl, and See You At Harry's.

Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her.

Lou Berney, William Morrow, Michael Rutger, The Anomoly (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group); Paul Doiron, Stay Hidden (Minotaur Books / Macmillan) Christina Dodd, Dead Girl Running (Harlequin).

Teens are quite capable of handling the occasional Living Dead Girl.

Sitting uneasily at the junction of thriller, mystery, horror, and literary fiction, Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl presents a world so closed off and self - contained it leaves no room for slow reveals or plot twists.

To discover who «Alexandra Madison» was, Cassie must go undercover as the dead girl herself, even moving into the house that Alexandra shares with her unusually close - knit group of friends.

Living Dead Girl is a bomb planted in Scott's bibliography, tucked between the YA romances Stealing Heaven (2008) and Something, Maybe (2009).

The bundle books include compelling urban fantasy reads with some of the strangest detectives you've ever met, including Dan Shamble Zombie P.I. in my own Unnatural Acts, as well as ghosts, elves, vampires, sorceresses, modern - day dragon slayers, immortal Shakespearean characters, and more in Dean Wesley Smith's The Deep Sunset, R.R. Virdi's Grave Beginnings, Patrick Hester's Into the Fire, Susan Sizemore's Living Dead Girl, J.A. Pitt's Night Terrors, L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, Alex Berg's Red Hot Steele and Cold Hard Steele.

Here, a state trooper choked up as he described coming upon a dead girl who'd hit a bridge abutment when responding to her sister's text, «Where R U?»

Washington's film credits include «Mr. & Mrs. Smith,» «Fantastic Four,» «Little Man,» «The Dead Girl,» «I Think I Love My Wife,» «She Hate Me,» «Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer,» «Miracle at St. Anna,» «Life is Hot in Cracktown,» Lakeview Terrace,» «The Details,» «A Thousand Words» and «Mother and Child.»

Directorial debut of «Sicario» screenwriter turns story of a tracker, a Fed and a dead girl into sharp social commentary

Recently The Sensation of Sight was named one of the top 10 films on loss and grief by the Official Best of Fest Awards, along with such films as The Hurt Locker, Departures, and The Dead Girl.

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What follows is a series of events so familiar that they leapfrog right over cliché and land in the realm of «classic,» a search for a seemingly good girl caught up with some very bad men that wouldn't be out of place in a Philip Marlowe novel, were it not for a plot point involving the dead girl's cellphone.

The Dead Girl left me wanting more.

There is one nice guy in The Dead Girl, but that's about it.

For every tiny gem like The Dead Girl, there was a 28 Weeks Later which totally fizzled.

Jonathan panics and chooses not to report the dead girl.

Obviously harboring a deep guilt for his living high on the hog in the West while his ancestors were massacred in the motherland, Egoyan never misses a chance to revisit Armenia as a theme in his films — even if, say, it's a movie about a strip club and a dead girl (Exotica).

And because the movie depicts rape, sexual mutilation, and murder, and especially because the third act involves a dead girl's father taking revenge on her behalf, à la Bergman's The Virgin Spring, Night Train Murders is often regarded as a blatant knock - off of The Last House on the Left.

In this decade she's taken a strange detour but continued to take all kinds of risks in Shaft, Hotel Splendide, Changing Lanes, About a Boy, Dirty Deeds, The Hours, Japanese Story, Connie and Carla, The Last Shot, In Her Shoes, Little Miss Sunshine, The Night Listener, The Dead Girl, Mary and Max... and the United States of Tara.

A hospital midwife (Naomi Watts) finds the dead girl's diary, which leads her to the red - plush restaurant that is the mafia's front.

An extra enjoyable element comes from the discreet self - reference in the screenwriting: the protagonist has phone conversations with a certain Baciu and a certain Rădulescu; Baciu has a cameo waiting in queue; a couple of likes on the dead girl's Facebook page come from actors credited in the film, and so on.

Ryan and Lupino are at their best, and Ward Bond gives a fine performance as the dead girl's revenge - minded father.

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SYNOPSIS: A group of immoral friends awake after a night of hard drug use and alcoholism to find the body of a dead girl in the bathroom.

Once the Ain't Rights are locked in the green room, it's a claustrophobic room of tension as they are now stuck with the dead girl and one of Darcy Banker's henchmen.

The stories are all independent, more about their central characters than about the event tying them together, in this case, a dead girl.

As they are leaving the club, Pat (Yelchin) witnesses a dead girl lying in the middle of the green room with a knife through her temple.

The Dead Girl offers absolutely nothing new to... anything.

The film is divided into five chapters: «The Stranger,» «The Sister,» «The Wife,» «The Mother» and «The Dead Girl.»

As it is, The Dead Girl segues from one turgidly - paced, soul - crushing sequence to another with very little reason to continue watching.

The last story, which finally gets around to revealing the dead girl, is terrible, but not the worst.

The final chapter, «The Dead Girl,» recounts how Krista's life came to its fateful end.

The Dead Girl is one of those films where its parts are greater than the film as a whole.

Mike might wear a cheap suit — as the dead girl's pimp Mood (Clifton Collins, Jr.) churlishly points out — but this character is exquisitely tailored to Hawkes, one of the greatest character actors working today.

They have surrounded Hawkes with a terrific supporting cast that in addition to Spencer (who also executive produced), Anderson, Vartan, and Collins, includes Robert Forster as the dead girl's vengeance - seeking grandfather, Dale Dickey as a no - nonsense bartender, and Jeremy Ratchford as a thorn in Mike's side.

Jerry becomes obsessed with the case after emotionally pledging to the dead girl's parents that he will find the killer.

Did they just happen to have a stained - glass Victorian lampshade that converts into a coffin lying around in the event a pretty dead girl stopped by?

I haven't seen all the nominees («The Dead Girl,» «American Gun,» «Wristcutters: A Love Story,» etc.), but, as always, there are some most welcome nominations.