Sentences with phrase «like nightmarish»

Any notion that humanity has learned piety, reconciliation, harmony and co-existence since the right panel of Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptych, is thoroughly dispelled by Canyon Castator's comic book - like nightmarish scenes.

It becomes not only a ground for painting but also an element of the work, like the nightmarish brown fur lining Meret Oppenheim's teacup.

A cult classic from the 2012 heyday of the Slenderman craze, born out of an internet forum post and spiralling like a nightmarish killer clown meme into popular culture.

The monstrous and bizarre story of Russian ultranationalists invading the US and then turning their feverish gaze toward Western Europe is essentially a re-reading of the «reds under the beds» sci - fi of the 50s — except here, the aliens actually are Reds, though they operate like nightmarish terrorists and they have the limitless technological armadas that HG Wells imagined for his Martian warlords.

It's driven by your learners and like a nightmarish tapeworm, it doesn't end.

As the blood swirls in the backdrop like a nightmarish version of those cheesy silk sheet opening credit sequences of the days of old, an opening narration tells us, «Movies are full of shit.»

The dark city of Terminal certainly seems like a nightmarish criminal underworld, a fanciful updating of classic crime story conventions: the grimy motel, the seedy strip club, and so on.

There's so much to write about with «Hereditary,» but it's positively groundbreaking how the scares of this movie function like nightmarish manifestations of grief, sometimes slowly transforming the psychologies of its characters and other times striking with merciless, back - breaking ferocity.

Lathimos makes the film's 121 - minute running time feel like a nightmarish eternity of suffering with his slow pace, long takes, morbid humor, disturbing violence, and moral ambiguity.

Once the geysers and fireballs commence, the movie functions like a nightmarish cross between «The Poseidon Adventure» and «The Towering Inferno,» where the characters must overcome all manner of challenges.

Unfortunately, that's at the expense of humans, and there are some seriously gnarly encounters as team members are picked off by animal hybrids, like a nightmarish bear whose roar is imbued with the screams of its previous victims.

It was like a nightmarish game of dodgeball that would air on LOGO.

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Some small companies have had nightmarish experiences working with sites like Groupon and others.

Untreatable STDs sound like the stuff of a nightmarish sexual education class (like the scene in Mean Girls: «if you touch each other, you will get chlamydia, and die»), but the CDC seems to consider their development fairly likely.

They are on the last couple games of a nightmarish December schedule, and it looks like they have just hit rock bottom with this stretch.

This rotation would continue like we were on a nightmarish carousel.

Nothing says nightmarish fun like having a great time on the playground with your kids, and your oldest — who you're potty training — decides he has to pee RIGHT NOW!

Nothing says nightmarish fun like having a great time on the playground with your kids and your oldest, who you're potty training, decides he has to pee RIGHT NOW!

In the version according to Mandelson, sometimes in his own words, and sometimes in words he attributes to Tony Blair or other members of the cabinet, Gordon Brown was «impossible», «nightmarish», «mad, bad, dangerous and beyond hope of redemption», «brutal», «back - stabbing» and «like something out of the mafioso».

For a star like Pitt, there could be no prospect more nightmarish than having his family not being treated as if they're special.

The film chronicles the manner in which Hope and her family handle the nightmarish situation, often with what Saget described as «irreverence and dark humor» (At one point, Hope's brother Alan — a comedy writer — quips that scleroderma sounds like «a deli entrée»).

The game is as hard as any Metroidvania game and it only gets worse the deeper down the rabbit hole you fall, and you'll know things are really bad, when you notice the change of music and how nightmarish your surroundings appear and nightmarish in this context means like something you would see in a nightmare and not that the game's graphics themselves look nightmarish, as they look more like a complete work of art.

A storyboard - to - screen comparison of «Frogs & Eggs» and «Dylan's Birthday Party» is exactly what it sounds like — which leads us pleasantly into our nightmarish featurettes portion of the disc.

There was no sign of individuality on Green's part because he felt more like an extension of Bay's nightmarish vision.

Directed by Edgar «Spaced» Wright, co-written with Wright by Simon «Spaced» Pegg (who also stars as Shaun), and featuring other comic stars from «Spaced» (Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson), as well as from «Black Books» (Dylan Moran, Tamsin Grieg) and even «the Office» (Lucy Davis), «Shaun of the Dead» is like a who's who of talent from the most cutting - edge British TV sit - coms of recent times, which is why it is much funnier than British comic films like «Bridget Jones» Diary», Johnny English and Love, Actually — and unlike those other films, «Shaun of the Dead» is nightmarish for all the right reasons.

«No Escape» posits a scenario in which the entire world around its characters becomes unintelligible and nightmarish, yet the scariest proposition of all is that we're no closer to ridding ourselves of movies like these in the 21st century.

Like many horror sequels attempt and fail to accomplish, The Conjuring 2 takes careful stock of the characters it introduced in the first film, in this case within a nightmarish prelude, building on existing relationship with modest drama and vivid consternation.

Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.

The trailer is very, very moody indeed and looks like it's a nightmarish decent into hell.

Hell, it plays like a dream — a fever dream with nightmarish overtones — but a dream nonetheless.

When Alonzo (Denzel Washington) takes Jake (Ethan Hawke) out on his Training Day the day looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional tour.

What makes it nightmarish isn't so much its premise — a man set loose inside the mind and writings of a crazed hack novelist — as the many elliptical details that the premise occasions: things that go bump in the head, fleeting suggestions of horrors that brush the edge of our attention and perceptions, like the peripheral events in bad dreams.

Apart from the fact that Natalie Portman is pretty much perfect in everything she does, and that this film is directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler), Black Swan looks like it's going to be a beautiful and nightmarish blend of insanity, rivalry and a psychological, sexual thriller.

It manages to be uplifting, extremely tense, grisly, nightmarish and full of dread without ever feeling like a jumbled mess tone wise.

For example, despite feeling like the dummy is (at least indirectly) responsible for the brutal murder of his wife, Jamie takes Billy along wherever he goes like a surrogate travel companion, and even when he begins to see nightmarish visions and fears for his life, he still manages to contrive ways to have the doll in his room or riding shotgun in his car.

The film plays like a Tim Burton Travel Channel series... each stop more nightmarish than the previous.

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Were it ever to get to the point where, like musicians signed to Spotify, authors were to be paid in fractions of a cent, it would be a «nightmarish figure».

People enjoy reading about the experience of folk like us who have taken the plunge to «live the dream», however nightmarish it turns out to be occasionally!

It's also nightmarish because that conclave of so many fine folks is a little like one of those dreams in which everybody you know seems to have turned up at one strange house party, and you're supposed to be conversant with everything on everyone's mind.

No Like: Nearly every software - based feature outside of the actual e-reader is flawed (at best) or nightmarish (at worst).

Alan Wake A psychological thriller the likes of which Silent Hill only aspires to be these days, the world of Alan Wake is nightmarish, bleak, and insanely fun.

Inspired by the tropes of horror cinema and classic gaming experiences like Dungeon Keeper, MachiaVillain lets you build the macabre mansion of your dreadful dreams from harmless house up to nightmarish palace of panic.

Nightmarish visions of lava pits, hellgates and public executions of unfaithful creative developers all flash before my eyes... but apparently, the first thing he'd like is for the PC development scene to start flourishing again.

Gamers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief after Activision confirmed that it currently has no plans to implement an obscure patent filed for a nightmarish beast of steel which stalks like death through the cold night.

Gamers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief after Activision confirmed that it currently has no plans to implement an obscure patent filed for a nightmarish beast of steel which stalks like death through...

I'm sure that's the way that the likes of Princess Peach and Bowser see it, but the grim reality for the vast majority of the population is a nightmarish 1984 situation with the interminable wars that they are engaged in merely a smokescreen for the real war being waged against the working populace of Mushroom Kingdom to maintain the intolerable status quo.

Originally conceived for Ridley Scott's eponymous film, the creature was a nightmarish amalgam of snake and skeleton, outfitted with lethal claws and a dagger - like tail.

Unique Enemies and Bosses - Fight with 27 nightmarish warriors in Mental's army, including old favorites from The First Encounter like Beheaded Kamikaze, Syrian Werebull and Kleer Skeleton.

Originally conceived for Ridley Scott's eponymous film, the creature was a nightmarish amalgam of snake and skeleton, outfitted with lethal claws and a dagger - like...