Sentences with phrase «killing spree of»

It is the worst killing spree of elephants since early 2012 when poachers from Chad and Sudan killed as many as many as 650 elephants in a matter of weeks in Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida National Park.

His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial - killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact - based story — about the seventy - eight - day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family — into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern.

The endeavor of dramatizing the events of something as horrific as the 2002 Washington D.C. killing spree of «The Beltway Snipers», John Allen Muhammed and his then 17 - year - old partner, Lee Malvo, requires a deft hand and a measure of control and restraint typically demonstrated only by the most seasoned of filmmakers, especially if you're going to examine the infamous killers as intimately as writer - director Alexandre Moors does in his debut feature, Blue Caprice.

Worst killing spree of all - time (if you believe the Bible) was when God wiped out humanity in the flood.

Amboseli researchers witnessed two killing sprees of infants and unborn babies at the hands of separate males in the 1980s, but they were presumed to be isolated incidents until now.

Not exact matches

Elliot Rodger — the 22 - year - old man who allegedly went on a shooting spree late Friday night in Santa Barbara, California, killing six then turning the gun on himself — wrote a 141 - page manifesto that conveys themes of misogyny and entitlement.

His shooting spree lasted an hour and 13 minutes, as he methodically stalked and killed many of the 600 up - and - coming leaders of Labour, Norway's dominant political party, which he blamed for the rise of multiculturalism.

Suthers was inspired to become a prosecutor after he spent part of an internship in the Colorado Springs district attorney's office watching the trial of a gang of soldiers convicted of killing various citizens, including actor Kelsey Grammer's sister, during a crime spree in the 1970s.

The man accused of carrying out a three - week bombing spree that killed two people in Texas before blowing himself up as police closed in on him was a 23 - year - old unemployed man from suburban Austin, authorities said.

Synopsis: «A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.»

then when someone shoots up a bunch of people, or goes nucking futs on a killing spree, and suddenly people are praying, asking why..

The group has come to everyone's attention because of Anders Behring Breivik's killing spree in Norway, now just over a week ago.

Try to show me how I'm about to go on a serial killing spree because of my disbelief.

Also, do you really think that atheists are on the edge of going on a killing spree at any moment?

Maybe the people in Murphreesboro though are concerned that this mosque will produce radicalized Muslims like Carlos Abdulhakim Muhammad Bledsoe, who attended a mosque in nearby Nashville, then went on a killing spree in Arkansas in the name of Islam.

Christians got away from the killing spree activity hundreds of years ago.

The Bible says that when God got done with his killing spree, there were only EIGHT PEOPLE left on the face of the earth.

For the love of God you should figure out a way to limit access to magazines that aid massive killing sprees like this and have no other justifiable use.

Some of us here are old enough to remember the Co $ mo $ and how that spending spree killed the NASL.

A hate - fueled white supremacist told cops his killing of a random black man, Timothy Caughman, in Midtown Manhattan was merely a practice run for a racist mass murder spree.

British anti-immigration tabloid articles were among the reading materials of Anders Breivik before he went on a killing spree in Norway.

Eradiri, who is the immediate past President of the council, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, wondered why Fulani herdsmen were on a killing spree at a time their leader is the President of the country.

Minority Leader John Boehner said the report shows «the pressing need to immediately enact the Pledge to America and help end the uncertainty caused by Washington Democrats» out - of - control spending spree and job - killing policies.»

The monarch told newsmen in his Obosi Palace that the herdsmen who had already attacked farmers in Benue, Taraba, Ekiti, Delta and Adamawa states, may spread their tentacles to other states of the federation and continue with their killing spree.

The FALN to include Oscar Lopez Rivera were involved in a terrorist bombing spree of 114 attacks that killed six people and injured 130.

But only a few of the millions of people who qualify for those categories translate their personal demons into killing sprees.

By any standards of morality, this killing spree would be labelled «evil».

The letters written by Charles Whitman on the eve of his killing spree provide a chilling window into a mind losing the ability to understand good, bad, and other people: «It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy... I love her dearly, and she has been as fine a wife to me as any man could ever hope to have.

In interviews by Nyseth Brehm, McDoom and others, perpetrators listed many reasons for joining the 1994 killing spree — hatred of Tutsis, a perceived need to protect nation and family, a desire to claim a neighbor's property or a decision to join a suddenly popular cause, to name a few.

Likewise, an upsurge of international travel has expanded the range of West Nile virus, and overuse of antibacterial drugs has helped lethal strains of Salmonella continue their killing spree.

In 1898, according to numerous accounts and no fewer than three Hollywood movies, two male lions went on a nine - month killing spree around the Tsavo area of Kenya, devouring between 28 and 135 workers building the Kenya - Uganda railway.

I guess it's because of all my shopping spree habits that I need to kill!

Confused and jealous of the new woman, Locke and her «killer doll» Aaron go on a killing spree.

Two criminals go on a killing spree in a small town where a group of students are staying.

He's nothing but trouble and kills anyone who crosses him, or so we're told by the government agents that hire him to put together a team of seven deadly operatives to stop a criminal killing spree taking place in Hawaii.

The title may be in the singular form, but it turns out there are multiple human monsters lurking on Moll's native island of Jersey, though presumably only one of them is on an escalating killing spree targeting young women just like her — and annoyingly enough, he might just be the rogueishly cute guy she's really into.

It's not hard to imagine a story in which the roles are inverted and a man (probably Liam Neeson) embarks on a violent killing spree to avenge the death of his wife and son.

No one comes out clean in the end as the crook begins a vengeful killing spree and the corruption of both the judge and the sheriff are exposed.

The story is pretty good, revenge is always the best motive to go on a killing spree and take bad people out of power.

And, of course, he goes on a killing spree.

I also saw the Alexander Payne-esque Norwegian comedy «A Somewhat Gentle Man» starring Stellan Skarsgard, the heart - warmingest movie ever made about the aftermath of an assassination «Golden Slumber,» and my overall favorite of the festival, the deconstructionist comedy about a psychokinetic spree killing tire, «Rubber.»

All hell breaks loose at during the auction when a strange force animates all of the various puppets throughout the convention as they go on a bloody killing spree.»

At first blush, Ramsay's film would appear to be a look into the genesis and reasons behind the title teen's killing spree; the film we get is something different entirely, an exploration of loss and pain and grief through the eyes of the mother (Tilda Swinton) left shattered and battered in the wake of her son's irrational, irredeemable actions.

«You are still haunted by the demons of your past,» notes Pathfinder, recalling Means» still resonant warning to those crazy spree - killing kids in Natural Born Killers («Too much TV»).

In an attempt to raise public interest, the park has genetically engineered a brand new dinosaur called Indominus Rex, but when it gets loose and goes on a killing spree, operations manager Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) enlists the help of raptor wrangler Owen (Chris Pratt) to hunt it down before it wreaks havoc on the park's attendees.

Hope for survival rests in the hands of a mysterious vigilante (Frank Grillo) to get them through the 12 - hour killing spree.

In many ways it feels like an update of Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales, except this West is from the modern perspective of Black Lives Matter, Trump and spree killings rather than Vietnam and Watergate.

While hooker - matriarch Mother Fireplay (Leslie Easterbrook) is locked up in jail, three of the remaining killers, Otis (Bill Moseley), Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), go on the lam and on another killing spree.

The screenplay is effective in helping us understand how a bunch of students can go from small time — arson — to the extreme — coordinated killing sprees.