Sentences with phrase «like funhouse»

Policy is often like a funhouse mirror.

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.

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.

Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a «space warp» phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.

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

Not exact matches

Neanderthals sometimes seem like our defining Other, recognizably human yet not: Homo sapiens in a funhouse mirror that pushes the face forward yet obliterates the chin; inflates the brow ridge yet compresses the skull; and bulks out the chest yet truncates the lower limbs.

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.

Like so much good sci - fi, World War Z is a funhouse extrapolation from the world we know: Brooks's zombie onslaught throws existing international tensions (especially in the Middle East) into bloody relief.

I can't defend it on an inventiveness level, but «Child's Play 3» is an inimitably sinister, underrated trek back to the Good Guy mythos and the funhouse finale is like a florid Dario Argento throwback with red and purple gel lighting galore.

It's definitely not very memorable like Poltergeist or TCM, or even The Funhouse.

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 films that did standout were like when Tobe Hooper's Funhouse opened and there's an actual «creature» in it, that was cool.

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.

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

And who wasn't holding onto their butts for the funhouse - like fight scene as they tumbled through the spinning hallway?

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.

Looking at these percentages is like «viewing progress through a funhouse mirror,» Ho cautions.

But at the first hairpin the Wraith reminded me that despite its angry appearance and mildly improved performance, it's still a 5,200 - pound luxury coupe that leans and dips like a drunk in a funhouse.

As if you are in a funhouse car, you are hooked onto the tracks of the story and pulled into its depths... His abiding love for frame narratives places Auster in the company of metafiction novelists like Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, or Italo Calvino, yet he is not a flashy, fancy, or difficult writer.

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).

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-.....]

There will also be a site - specific installation comprising two - way mirror glass circles that, when set near the room's structural elements, create a funhouse - like effect.

In November 2005, Kelley staged Day is Done, filling Gagosian Gallery with funhouse - like multimedia installations, [15] including automated furniture, as well as films of dream - like ceremonies inspired by high school year book photos of pageants, sports matches and theater productions.

The iGV1 looks like a Google Home in one of those funhouse mirrors, but it has a display that can show the time, alarms, and weather, and there's a USB port for charging devices.