Sentences with phrase «eerie sense of»

And yet the way the townsfolk respond to these oddities is with an eerie sense of normalcy and status quo.

In his recent solo show of paintings, «Wang Yin» at Tang Contemporary Art, Wang continued exploring familiar themes such as folk art and representations of ethnicity, all via a Soviet - influenced realistic style, with a cohesive structure and an eerie sense of lucidity.

Pale monochrome shades, effortless textures and playful shapes give Spalletti's art a nonchalant cool and mind - cleansing beauty, as well as an eerie sense of calm.

Jack Joyce (of Iceman in the X-Men films fame) and Paul Serene are instantly recognizable as their real - life actors, and their facial animations provide an almost eerie sense of believably.

That eerie sense of recognition is a sure sign of a well - executed satire.

A period piece set in 17th Century colonial America, early word on the film raved about the eerie sense of dread that permeated the work, the beautiful attention to...

A period piece set in 17th Century colonial America, early word on the film raved about the eerie sense of dread that permeated the work, the beautiful attention to detail regarding the period setting and Eggers» refusal to pull any punches with what promises to be one of the more disturbing films of 2016.

The meat and potatoes are the film's many scenes of the various hauntings inflicted on the characters, which establish an eerie sense of dread with many a creaking door, creepy clapping and shattering glass coming from unpredictable corners.

Strangely enough it also has an eerie sense of humor almost until the end.

Holed up and becoming increasing desperate, these educators soon act out deadly revenge fantasies with an eerie sense of childlike glee before realising they're going to actually have carry them out in order to survive.

Extreme close - ups of bruised skin and dirty fingernails transmit an eerie sense of texture and tactility, binding us tightly to the minute details of the protagonist's experience.

Jean Rabasse's meticulous production design and Madeline Fontaine's splendid costumes contribute to the eerie sense of being transported back to the stiffer, more formal world of half a century ago (even if the slouchy Greta Gerwig, as Jackie's closest aide Nancy Tuckerman, sometimes breaks the spell).

The virus centralizes in the town's elementary school, and quickly the infected students have the teaching staff under siege, acting out deadly revenge fantasies with an eerie sense of childlike glee.

Most hotels are hermetically sealed, adding to the eerie sense of floating in a time vacuum.

There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent Fear and uncertainty that comes with once reliable faiths and truths and solid Institutions that are no longer safe to believe in...»

Not exact matches

After two games, Gaitan has not started (he came on as a substitute twice) and Kevin Gameiro has missed quite a few chances against newly - promoted sides on the way to Atletico collecting just two points in those two games and there is a sense of eerie familiarity with his start to the season.

The metal - on - metal crunch, the deafening roar of an engine and that eerie instant of silence before impact all stimulate the senses, often producing a simultaneous wince and grin.

«In some sense it is an eerie return to some of the histories of the novel written by Victorians themselves, which tended to single out Austen and Scott as progenitors,» says Nicholas Dames, chair of the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.

Her beautiful yet lonely characters are able to find a sense of belonging in an otherwise strange and eerie universe.

As he showed with his first film, Ex Machina, Garland has an expert sense of how to establish an eerie, enticing world, calibrating dread and allure in just the right measure.

However, Haneke manages to imbue these scenes with such a palpable sense of dread; there is something eerie and just not quite right about their interactions.

I really wish this scene was left in the film, it's so eerie and gives a real sense of fear.

The Sixth Sense is a pretty rare form of horror in that its ambience is as melancholic as it is eerie.

James Holden's eerie, Philip Glass - like musical soundtrack adds to the sense of foreboding that is evident throughout the film.

The Spierig Brothers and their production team, including their trusted cinematographer Ben Nott, are mostly effective in their use of eerie lighting and darker colors to create a sense of Gothic atmosphere, but struggle to hide the movie's low budget design.

None have those films have the sense of helplessness and eerie dislocation, of being played by powers beyond your control and seeing it all unfold with a hopeless inevitability, that Pakula gives The Parallax View.

The resolution that comes of it all at the end, will leave audiences with an eerie feeling, sensing how spirits can watch over us.

That failure of nerve is a shame, because in all the swooning close - ups of the Casters» spinning records during their early domestic reverie, and in all the eerie tableaux of Will 2.0 hovering over his wife's bed, smiling placidly on several reflective screens as he remotely measures her blood pressure, one senses that Pfister would rather be making his own modest riff on David Cronenberg's romantic melodrama The Fly.

Ward's directorial history isn't without complications: after the fantastic and eerie The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, he would have made a brilliant Alien ³ had the film execs had any sense, and after Map of the Human Heart he directed the big budget What Dreams May Come, a mammoth (and expensive) undertaking that received its fair share of scathing reviews.

Her beautiful yet lonely characters are able to find a sense of belonging in an otherwise strange and eerie universe.

The dreadful sense of isolation the game imparts is captured perfectly through the excellent sound design — one of the best of any title this year — and eerie soundtrack.

As the player, you naturally want to make sense of the things you'll see on the island, from eerie, empty structures to traces of former inhabitants.

Watching the sun rise and set in a matter of moments from the perspective of an oil rig is an unparalleled visual gaming experience, and though the environments are low - poly the effective use of an eerie modern synthetic score (from composer Ben Lukas Boysen) and a soft color palette contribute to the overwhelming sense of calm that pervades Everything.

Periodically throughout the video, an eerie voice - over, digitally manipulated to render it mechanistic and lacking in affect, gives voice to the characters or expands our sense of the narrative.

Rothko's paintings of the 1930s had an eerie mood and created a sense of mystery with tragic figures in apartments, on city streets and subway platforms.

Pieces like Mist draw the viewer into a quiet and eerie state, giving one pause for long enough to feel the sense of mystery O'Neil is trying to evoke.

In assemblages such as Terry Adkins's Tonsure, 2010, and Nayland Blake's October Chain, 2007, found objects take on a totemic quality through their eerie juxtapositions, indexing a haunting sense of an implied, disembodied human presence.

Borrowing from old photographs, birds, and different types of vistas and dwellings she observed as a youth, she creates images that invoke the sense of being both tenderly familiar and eerie.

But much of the drama comes from the gallery's plywood floor, which has been scorched black; it intensifies the sense of an eerie landscape, at once stark and excessive, in which nature is out of balance.

On the downside, this company is a scorned somewhat in the profession for adhering to a «cult like» sense of superiority within their sales ranks that borders on the eerie.

Her beautiful yet lonely characters are able to find a sense of belonging in an otherwise strange and eerie universe.