Sentences with phrase «funhouse of»

Packed with cutting - edge technology, the Here One aren't without their quibbles — and for average listeners they probably aren't the best fit — but they do offer solid music playback along with a funhouse of features that allow you to thoroughly explore and control the sonic world around you.

Just one week after the project's close, it is difficult for this writer to remember what it felt like to laugh at a funhouse of political horrors, featuring privatized national parks, designer oxygen boutiques, anti-abortion pep rallies, and -LSB-.....]

Unlike either of those, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood will join Resident Evil 7 in being PlayStation VR's first foray into the horror genre that will strap you into a carnival-esque rollercoaster and send you hurtling through of funhouse of horrors.

The Bathroom: The bathroom, like the rest of the suite, is a funhouse of floor to ceiling mirrors which makes it feel bigger (and disorienting).

It's like nothing you've every seen, or maybe more accurately it's like a whole lot of wonderfully weird things you've seen, from young romance Technicolor melodramas to Mario Bava horrors to Looney Tunes cartoons and more, blended into a surreal puree and poured into a funhouse of cinematic delights.

The Bronx is turned into a funhouse of jump scares and buddy cop banter in Deliver Us From Evil, a loose adaptation of Beware the...

The latest disaster movie takes a digital trip through a morbid funhouse of collapsing buildings, casually watching people die while ardently focusing on the few one - dimensional characters meant to matter.

It springs to life in a funhouse of horrors kind of way that leans into some great jump scares -LSB-...]

When the adolescent Philomena encountered a handsome boy in the funhouse of a traveling circus, she barely knew the meaning of sex.

29Rooms is an interactive funhouse of style, culture, & technology, brought to life by a group of global artists and visionaries across mediums, and powered by you.

But the problem is the story's just not that interesting and even if it were, the incredibly over-the-top atmosphere prevents the movie from becoming anything more than a relentless funhouse of images and sounds.

Refinery29 hosted an interactive funhouse of style, culture, and technology in New York City on Thursday (September 7), where a number of PYTs came out to play at this 3rd annual 29Rooms event.

Welcome to Albany, a funhouse of smoke and mirrors.

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Today (or a couple of years ago) the «person of the year» is (was) «you» yourself shown in a trashy make - shift mirror — depending on how long the magazine sat under the sun or under a coffee cup, one could even call it a funhouse mirror.

The writings of a false religion are like a funhouse mirror (some more than others), which is as it ought to be — a distortion.

Its governing premise is a lurid funhouse mirror of the gospels: Everything we think we know about Mary through Scripture is wrong, which means that everything that we think we know and that we believe about Christ is also wrong.

Indeed, Koons reveals my own lifelong failure to have noticed the beautiful sheen of automobiles, and their funhouse reflective optics.

«Distortive effects of short distance photographs on nasal appearance: The selfie effect: Researchers develop new mathematical model to explain how smartphones act as «portable funhouse mirrors».»

But each portrayal is only one view; indeed, with five of nine symptoms required for diagnosis, there are dozens of ways to have BPD (plus, put a Hollywood filter on any psychological disorder and you'll almost always end up with the funhouse mirror version).

And it's not just ignoramuses whose news is thus polluted: the recent furore over Facebook's curation of its trending topics suggests that anyone who leans on social media for their news may be seeing a funhouse mirror of the truth.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

«The gravity from all that mass has distorted the image that we see of the background galaxy,» like a telescope or a «funhouse mirror,» Rigby tells Newsweek, explaining that it's an effect that Albert Einstein predicted and that has been proven over and over again since.

Funhouse is a bright pastel lavender crelly based polish filled with neon pink, pastel pink, aqua, and bright purple glitters in a multitude of shapes and sizes.

Smigel eventually had enough bits to launch a whole show as creator, executive producer, and voice actor of TV Funhouse on Comedy Central.

On Halloween night, a group of notorious serial killers escape from an asylum and terrorize the patrons of a funhouse carnival - leaving only a rag - tag bunch of kids, a clueless deputy and a local sheriff to stop the carnage.

Emboldened by how beautiful it looks, «The Post» isn't afraid to be playful with the past, even if that makes it less of a time capsule than a funhouse mirror.

By focusing on the tumultuous friendship between Violette LeDuc and Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Provost creates not so much a dichotomy of femininity as a funhouse mirror of it.

Together Rick and Holly go to explore a potential rip in the time - space continuum, which just happens to be inside a funhouse ride manned by redneck scam artist Will (Danny McBride, keeping up his yearlong streak of scene - stealing sidekick roles).

I don't know that I've laughed that long or hard in ages — at least since the last episode of Robert Smigel's «TV Funhouse».

Haynes finds, within the sensationalist and the melodramatic, a culture's vision of itself, distorted by a funhouse mirror but nevertheless evocative of the unvarnished truth.

Where the later films move away from the painstakingly literal translations of J.K Rowling's increasingly sprawling novels, these first two films are perfect replicas created with a kind of funhouse spectacle of the wonders of the magical world come to life.

It's simultaneously funny, discomfiting and this year's best funhouse mirror of our anxious racial zeitgeist.

The real events of Amin's spectacular rise and fall in Uganda are distorted by the narrative of this movie in much the same way the events of one's life are distorted in one's dreams — or, more comically (and the best elements of this film are comic), the way a body is distorted by funhouse mirrors.

It's a picture that has a couple of genuine - seeming moments drawn out like slow taffy until they're rendered a funhouse version of a genuine moment (the best bit of the film might be Drew dancing by himself — it only lasts ten seconds).

The Lady From Shanghai — Orson Welles's craziest film appropriately ends in a funhouse Hall Of Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularitOf Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularitof parody at the very peak of its popularitof its popularity.

The Witch's woodland farmhouse setting also counted as one of many backdrops of dread, pinning in the year's unluckiest of movie heroes: the quiet, empty spaces of a Manhattan mansion, where the young caretaker of Mickey Keating's Repulsion homage Darling comes violently unglued; the London haunted house of James Wan's bigger, sillier The Conjuring 2, a spring - loaded funhouse ride of a movie; and the claustrophobic underground bunker of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which proved less a sequel to its blockbuster «cousin» than a feature - length Twilight Zone episode.

Fassbinder and production designer Kurt Raab create a near future out of modern architecture (some of it still under construction), gangster - movie fashions, futuristic bric - a-brac, and more glass and mirrors than a carnival funhouse, and his camera is constantly reframing, moving around for a better look, or simply tracking through the increasingly alienated world of his reluctant hero.

In addition to funhouse shocks that are among the best in new wave horror, What Lies Beneath offers Michelle Pfeiffer in the most haunted (pardon the pun) performance of her career.

What is cool is that the movie they're making is like a funhouse version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, though it also serves to remind us what a really great Almodovar movie is like.

Chaplin conjures up an array of comedic moments that are both ingenious and hilarious; from the Tramp's escape from the police in a hall of mirrors funhouse, to a dazzling and dangerous tightrope act performed by the Tramp without a safety harness (but with the attention of several monkeys who are running loose in the circus and decide to join him on the tightrope!)

It's potentially gratifying to think of Trick» r Treat as a misogynistic throwback to the glory days of slick mainstream exploitation in the 1980s — like Funhouse, for instance — except that unlike, say, Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s masterpiece of schlock Silent Night, Deadly Night, the misogyny in Dougherty's film is based primarily on inexplicably poor object choice.

The goth culture's predilection for body mutilation carries through to its logical undead end in a Sadeian workshop of grue that distinguishes the standard underground industrial rave club sequence from also - ran into funhouse queasiness.

In our regular features, we take a look at TOBE HOOPER's THE FUNHOUSE, heading to HORROR CHANNEL, and Independents Day talks to the man behind some of the most intriguing UFO documentaries.

He quickly made a name for himself on Dana Carvey's short - lived variety show as a writer, and as the voice of Gary for the TV Funhouse segment «The Ambiguously Gay Duo» on «SNL» before moving on to Comedy Central's «The Daily Show.»

Take your pick: the particular way constellations of pinkish - red candle flames help illuminate Gianni D'Antonio's shadowy underground chambers; the riotous cacophony of icy blues and fiery reds that accompanies the funhouse climax; or how peering into the detailed aerial shots of midtown Manhattan at night feels a little bit like hanging out of the helicopter.

The film's other motif of puppets manipulated by unseen hands (carnivorous machines, funhouse mannequins, children's toys, Trevor's «Howdy Doody» nickname) finds allegorical reduction in the perverse hangman's game that forms The Machinist's central means of symbol - dispensation, provoking a slow - advancing existential dread.

Watching Neighbors felt like standing in front of a funhouse mirror: Suddenly, you could see how everything else was warped.

Their characters seem to adopt a dim view of the world, where everything is disposable, where self - image can be warped with just under 140 characters on Twitter, but Tragedy Girls never accepts a passive stance, instead its sarcasm and lampoonery is reflective, and god knows the world we live in today needs a look in the mirror — even if it's of the funhouse variety.

Even if his stuff was looked down upon during its initial release, home video companies such as Shout Factory and Arrow Video have done a great job of highlighting some of his under appreciated genre gems such as Lifeforce and The Funhouse.

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