Sentences with phrase «lurid pulp»
They were the early - eighties equivalent of the lurid pulp novels and EC Comics of yesterday's drugstore and barbershop ledge.
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It's rather a simple story and it deals explicitly with Big Themes, but it always seems to defy expectation and never fully descends into lurid pulp.
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For 45 years Specter has appeared at critical points in lurid national dramas, skipping from part to part like a pulp fiction Zelig.
Argento's pulp - lurid colour palette explodes like an over-saturated dye rag — the widescreen print is impossibly pristine, with none of the popping and imperfections that might be expected from a source of this age.
by Walter Chaw Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness is lurid unto beautiful, exquisite pulp, just barmy enough to attract a cult and just smart enough to deserve it.
by Walter Chaw A bona fide auteur in an age of facile pretenders, Guillermo del Toro is the pulp genre's Martin Scorsese, his films filtering devout Catholic imagery through a lurid colour palette and obsessed with insectile machineries and mentor relationships between boys and old men.
Penny dreadfuls were the pulp fiction of Victorian Britain — cheap paperback novels, usually lurid and often gothic in theme.