Sentences with phrase «haunted by their stories»

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

Ever since I read their emails, I've been haunted by their stories.

The South has genuine friendliness and strong family ties, but it is also haunted by stories of racism, classism, sexism, and violence.

Not exact matches

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

«The Exorcist Files» will recreate stories of real - life hauntings and demonic possession, based on cases investigated by the Catholic Church.

From the story of the Garden of Eden, where such natural hardships as earning one's livelihood by the sweat of one's brow, contending with weeds, bearing children with travail, and even wearing clothes, are interpreted as definite penalties for the sin of Adam and Eve, the Old Testament is haunted by the idea that adversity is retributive.

The writer builds his story around the life of biblical Gideon who was being haunted by an altar his father brought from a foreign land.

According to Bronx historian Paul DeVillo, the Bronx is riddled with ghost stories and is still haunted by ghosts.

The movie is based on a true story about a family that was haunted by various ghosts and ones ghost in particular was very evil.

A haunting story starring Kristina photographed on film by Olesya Asanova.

There's a certain minimalism to this story concept that is exacerbated by its interpretations own limp areas, but Oscar Wilde's personal story is as captivating as any of his stories, particularly during its climax, which shines an almost haunting light on dark secrets and how society interprets them, and establishes a pretty solid deal of potential, done a degree of justice and injustice by either overambitious or lazy storytelling.

I felt that the original film adaptation, The Haunting, by Robert Wise had been so enjoyable and affecting that to create another film treatment would ruin people's views of the story and not make the effort to see the original.

Adapted from a well - known short story by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting is also a remake of the modest but genuinely creepy 1963 film directed by workmanlike industry veteran Robert Wise, who counts among his many credits the editing of Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and Oscars for the helming of West Side Story and The Sound of Mstory by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting is also a remake of the modest but genuinely creepy 1963 film directed by workmanlike industry veteran Robert Wise, who counts among his many credits the editing of Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and Oscars for the helming of West Side Story and The Sound of MStory and The Sound of Music.

Haunted by the kidnapping and murder of his ten - year - old son, a grieving detective (Jon Hamm) seeks redemption when he investigates a fifty - year - old murder case with eerie similarities to his story.

But I was really looking forward to «The Haunting» for many reasons: the actors (Liam Neeson, in particular), the story (I haven't seen any of the other Hill House movies, but my dad seems to like them and the plot intrigued me), and I was hoping for a movie that would scare me by being subtle, psychological, and spontaneous, like the kind «ol Hitchcock made.

He tries again with the insertion of a ghost story - Darwin haunted by the 10 - year - old daughter (Martha West) he lost to illness.

Pictures film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

Here's two new TV trailers for the upcoming film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

The Lives Of Others helmer tells the story of an artist who is haunted by is childhood during the Nazi regime.

Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges with a screenplay by Graham Moore and a haunting score by Alexandre Desplat, the film unfolds as both a biography and an intriguing adventure story with key moments in his life depicted in flashbacks.

Nicolas Roeg's trademark non-linear approach to narrative is put to unnerving use in this haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story about a couple, John and Laura Baxter (played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie), who relocate to Venice in an attempt to come to terms with the accidental death of their young daughter.

Warner Bros Pictures just released this brand new TV spot for the upcoming film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

Warner Bros Pictures released this very cool international poster for the upcoming film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

Divided between two countries, the story follows two children being haunted by a creeping phantom named Hollowface, who may or may not be the product of one child's imagination.

The story revolves around a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces.

The character is haunted by the start of the film, after he and Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) lose a child, but his madness grows and grows over the course of the story.

Warner Bros Pictures just released these new movie trailers for the upcoming film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

WAKING THE DEAD This is the strongest romance of the year, a time - shifting story about a congressional candidate (Billy Crudup) haunted by memories and visions of his one great love, an idealistic activist (Jennifer Connelly) who was killed by a terrorist bomb years earlier.

Amongst many of Winchester's curiosities: It's based on the true story of Sarah Winchester, who did inherit her husband's large gun fortune, did believe she was being haunted by the souls of every person killed by a Winchester rifle, did spend 38 years of non-stop construction on her estate, trying to build a resting home for those souls.

Tell No One Not Rated but intended for ages 17 + Available on DVD and Blu - ray French language with English subtitles (contains English - dubbed version as well) This French thriller, based on the novel by Harlan Coben, tells the story of a Pediatrician that is haunted by the death of his wife.

Here's the first official Russian movie poster for the upcoming film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

Here's the latest set of movie stills from the film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

The story follows a group of college students who play a supernatural game of truth or dare who are then haunted by spirits.

In the decades since that first film told the story of a quaint American family whose house was haunted by a group of disgruntled spirits, there have been countless horror entries offering up the same basic premise in slightly titled ways.

No one believes Liam when he starts raving about a lookalike haunting his periphery, but his radical communist - leaning son happily analyzes the rich man's crisis in line after line of overwritten dialogue: After calling Liam a «victim of internal contradictions of capitalism,» he diagnoses the doppelganger as «a projection of the part of you that you hate,» then delights in being in a «story by Kafka» when father and son go hunting for the mystery man through the vomit - strewn streets of Dublin.

There is plenty of story, and Webb treads the line of too much: Peter is haunted by the ghost of Captain Stacy (Denis Leary), to whom Peter promised he'd keep Gwen out of danger at the end of the first movie... by keeping her out of his life.

Still, Rebecca is clearly a superior classic film, one that is immensely engrossing, leaving you forever haunted by its memory, much the way Rebecca does to those she left behind in this terrific story from Daphne du Maurier's novel.

In his brilliant and haunting first feature, he tells the story of a vicious young serial killer and his impassive underage girlfriend, both perfectly rendered by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Picnic at Hanging Rock is haunted by similar guilt, but like a good mystery story shores itself up with red herrings in order to displace it.

He follows a psychological (rather than chronological) narrative into an interactive patchwork of long flashbacks that reveal the genesis of the haunting and tie the whole six - degrees - of - separation story together in its latest victim — an exchange student played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Written and directed by Ari Aster, A24's Hereditary stars Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff in a modern take on the haunted house story — or, perhaps more accurate here, a haunted family tree.

Horror director James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring) continues the story of the haunted Lambert family - plagued by a childhood mystery that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Such production design - heavy haunted house features as The Shining, The Haunting, and The Innocents have also been cited as a heavy influence on Crimson Peak by del Toro; of late, though, the filmmaker seems to have begun playing down the idea that he's making a haunted house genre throwback, and more than Crimson Peak is a Gothic romance first, set piece - oriented ghost story second.

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The story concerns two brothers who are haunted by the specter of their alcoholic father (Forest Whitaker), who was killed by one of the sons.

Legendary Pictures» «Crimson Peak», a co-production with Universal Pictures, is a haunting gothic horror story directed by the master of dark fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy series, Pacific Rim), written by del Toro, Matthew Robbins and Lucinda Coxon and starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam.

It doesn't broadcast those ideas, but folds them into a story that's also a maternal melodrama about a poor white mother (Minnie Driver) and a black daughter (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) who's as talented as she is haunted by her place in the world.

From the stunning set design to the visual effects of the ghosts, I expect to be blown away by this haunting gothic horror story written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins.

The haunting images of the orphaned children of Sherwood forest even recall stories of black magic practiced by the Celts encountered by the first Roman invaders on the island.