Sentences with phrase «macabre deaths»

The film, following the book series, is about a group of teenagers who must solve the mysteries surrounding a bunch of sudden and macabre deaths in their small town, according to Variety.

The origin story of that macabre death machine is fascinatingly told by The Paris Review.

The origin story of that macabre death machine is fascinatingly told by The Paris Review.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Although Americans view the dancing skeletons and the celebration of death as macabre or related to Halloween, they are not.

Mansour cited the macabre juxtaposition of smiling faces at the embassy ceremony and a scene of anger, terror and death at the Gaza border.

«Any deaths of these kids during this period is on the governor, and that's totally macabre and awful, and also true.

Jensen's death was followed by the death of his third cousin Margretha, along with a string of macabre news articles about this undiagnosed genetic condition that had been shattering families in the Faroes for decades.

If they lack the macabre aspect that can make the holiday so fascinatingly exotic to adults beyond Mexico, they do succeed in peopling a colourful, attractive and kid - friendly vision of life after death.

A thoughtful, emotive, occasionally macabre comedy - drama about such issues as life, death, knowing when to hold on and knowing when to let go.

The ABCs of Death Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun (Shutter, Alone), Angela Bettis (Roman), Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Cold Sweat), Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun), Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (Mirageman), Bruno Forzani and Héléne Cattet (Amer), Xavier Gens (Frontieres), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Lee Hardcastle (Competition Winner), Thomas Malling (Norwegian Ninja), Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police), Simon Rumley (The Living and the Dead; Red, White and Blue), Marcel Sarmiento (DeadGirl), Jon Schnepp (Metalocalypse), Srdjan Spasojevic (A Serbian Film), Timo Tjahjanto (Macabre), Andrew Traucki (Black Water, The Reef), Nacho Vigalando (TimeCrimes), Jake West (Doghouse, Evil Aliens), Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List), Adam Wingard (Pop Skull, A Horrible Way To Die), Yûdai Yamaguchi (Battlefield Baseball) http://www.facebook.com/theabcsofdeath All Superheroes Must Die Director: Jason Trost Screenwriter: Jason Trost Starring: Jason Trost, James Remar, Lucas Till, Lee Valmassy, Sophie Merkley

The Act of Killing (Unrated) Macabre musical documentary in which Indonesian death squad leaders reenact real - life mass executions in a manner mimicking the classic Hollywood films they so admire.

«Body» finds a trio of young women panicking when their pranksome holiday hijinks result in an accidental death — a premise that, while unoriginal, could have resulted in some suspense, narrative twists and macabre humor.

Unfortunately the Phoenix family didn't give their blessing, possibly looking at the project as a macabre cash - in on the upcoming 20th Anniversary of his death.

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life - and death — in this stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author.

Their daddy, put to death, leaves the children fatherless, their mother, little more than a shadow, all but abandons the siblings until the day when Reverend Harry Powell ---- a macabre Robert Mitchum in what would become perhaps his most recognizable role ---- a false prophet and shyster, arrives.

Then there's a taste of macabre comedy, where the sisters find themselves disposing of the body of a man whose death they accidentally caused.

He and buddy Zach Shields also sing in their own band called Dead Man's Bones where Gosling and Shields explore their morbid side and devote their unique music style to death, zombies and anything macabre.

Also, the Hell Cafe, The Death Tavern and this macabre murder / entertainment scene in Paris in the»20s.

Edison favoured direct current and Westinghouse alternative current, and it was a titanic war of personalities and ideas, which incidentally involved a gruesome minor battle, which this film tactfully passes over: Edison tried to get the rival AC approach identified (and stigmatised) in the public mind with the death penalty and the electric chair, whose frazzling executions were macabre and often bungled.

The robbers» disguises are all pretty creepy — from the «Skeletor with dreadlocks» masks to the horror movie nun outfits — and lend a sense of the macabre to the jobs and an ever - present sense of death.

In a macabre play on «The 12 Days of Christmas,» she even depicts her mother's death rattles as «two woodpeckers out of synch; / Three geese choking on crabgrass,» and employs the formality of end - rhymed couplets in «Blessed Thistle» to play with Shakespearean language in a contemporary context.

The Golden Gate Bridge, located in San Francisco, California, holds the macabre record for being the world's most popular suicide point, with an estimated 1,550 deaths having occurred at the national landmark.

Paul Koudounaris is a macabre bon vivant, traveling the world with his repertoire of velvet frock coats and gaining access to crypts and ossuaries that the average death - interested tourist could only dream of.

Macabre thought: in the world of Laser League, are the characters fighting to the death in each match?

The Macabre is an enemy in Chrono Trigger that appears in Death Peak in the Future (2300 AD).

They've also given you an unbreakable knife as a weapon of last resort; no more kicking the undead to death like you're in some macabre chorus line.

The first solo exhibition since his death in Berlin in 1967 was held at England & Co in 1988 — a retrospective that led to the British Museum acquiring the set of macabre ink drawings that he made for his book Out of My Mind (1946).

His motto: «We work with the macabre and applied sciences because the most futuristic idea we can experience is death.

Here, surrounded by the eerie plaster casts, Art Macabre present Death Drawing — a fantastical life drawing salon complete with dark woodland creatures, fearsome faerie queens and transformed beings inspired by moments from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

One of these, an eight - screen danse macabre, which gives the exhibition its title, offers a ghostly enquiry into solitude and death, making use of Kentridge's trademark silhouettes.

Through multiple examples of assemblage, painting and lithography, Dark Visions: Mid-Century Macabre illustrates the ways in which artists have portrayed humankind's struggle to come to terms with death and life's evils — whether through catharsis, psychosis, or a portrayal of horrors.

Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy / tragedy of love, death, and farce.

The program will also put into context the construction of popular imagery departing from the tension in baroque representations of death, modernization and the macabre, death in the invention of Modern Art in Mexico, and its political implications with visual culture.

Miniature skulls, insects and rodents adorn androgynous sunken - eyed sitters: a macabre display of internalised thought and the permeated boundaries between life and death.

His macabre obsession with death and decay evokes the Prague mannerist court of Rudolph II, the bizarre paintings of Arcimboldo who was cherished there, and the modern Czech surrealism of Jan Svankmajer.

The new body of work showing at the Shooting Gallery in SF explores the «immediacy of the human experience through the examination of macabre themes such as death and the eternal passage of time.»

In Cambridge, the inevitable end is the subject of Death On The Nile (Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 Feb to 22 May), a macabre but no doubt beautiful exhibition examining the death practices of the ancient EgyptDeath On The Nile (Fitzwilliam Museum, 23 Feb to 22 May), a macabre but no doubt beautiful exhibition examining the death practices of the ancient Egyptdeath practices of the ancient Egyptians.

A riveting artist whose dual investigations of ecological issues and archival resources have yielded everything from large - scale installations — entire overgrown felled trees, greenhouses, etc. — to 19th - century - style cabinets of curiosity containing a richly macabre array of dead animals that operate as invocations of both death and practical knowledge.

Fernando Casasampere: A Death @ Parafin Boxes filled with bleached vertebrae straddles the line between the macabre and the clinical in this sculpture exhibition.

Mr. Kentridge based the piece on a medieval danse macabre, a common artistic trope in pre-Renaissance Europe that celebrated death as the great unifier of all of humanity via a metaphorical march.

The first solo exhibition since his death in 1967 was held at England & Co in 1988 - a retrospective that led to the British Museum acquiring the set of macabre ink drawings that he made for his book Out of My Mind (1946).