Sentences with phrase «macabre fantasy»

«Narratives in Clay,» a group show at Gallery IǀMǀA, ranges provocatively from tastily macabre fantasy to polished abstract whimsy.

Questioned by the police, he discovers that his only memory is a fractured recollection of history, twisted into a macabre fantasy.

Dark Souls II offers a fresh adventure into what is quite possibly gaming's most punishing, macabre fantasy world.

A well - crafted musical, an imaginative macabre fantasy, and a subtle, well - observed comedy (though I did wish that a maggot (Enn Reitel) with Peter Lorre's voice whistled «In the Hall of the Mountain King,» just once), Corpse Bride is about love and loyalty — the importance of vows and the eternity of words.

Not exact matches

Oscar nominee will reunite with his Drive co-star Christina Hendricks for dark fantasy film set in a macabre underworld

Written by Gosling, the story centers on Billy, a single mother of two, who is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town.

Visually a macabre knockout, this 75 - minute fantasy boasts some of the wittiest, most vigorous stop - motion animation effects in the history of the process.

Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, Billy, a single mother of two, is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town.

The Baroque fantasy is based on three stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile.

It's the «boy who cried wolf» story with a vampire tossed in, merging a De Palma-esque sleazy, sensational thriller with goopy (but mild) gore, and making an entertaining adolescent fantasy film for lovers of the macabre.

Working with a suitably drab desaturated Super-16 palette, first - time director Fabrice Du Welz draws heavily on the macabre domestic slapstick of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the rural paranoia of Straw Dogs and Deliverance for this unsettling male - anxiety fantasy, striking the right balance between grim sadism and grotesque comedy.

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The new campaigns are for Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat And Rat (Ten Books) by Melinda Thompson with Melissa Ferrell; National Book Award winning coming - of - age story Love Like Gumbo by Nancy Rawles; Obama Search Words by Stephen Black; So You Want to be a Librarian by Lauren Pressley; and «a macabre, eco-friendly, erotic sci - fi fantasy satire» The Third Awakening by Dennis Weiser.

What we said: «Wildlands is that familiar glossy contradiction, the «gritty» quasi-realistic open world blockbuster - a work of great craft and care that's also a work of macabre war tourism, wowing you with its geography even as it casually up - sells the bankrupt fantasy of playing global policeman.»

These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.

Yoshitoshi's prints depict violent events in beautiful settings, creating what Rauschenberg later calls a sense of «fantasy - macabre» that he seeks to capture in his juxtapositions of found objects and transfer - printed imagery.»

Drawing on genres such as fantasy, sci - fi and horror, Andro Wekua (born 1977) creates fantastical, macabre tableaux that explore personal, collective and fictional memory.

Ornate in his depiction of «the fallacies of Man,» Kuksi's three - dimensional works are not simply replicas of fantasy, but rather shape a macabre likeness to our ultimately futile quest for accumulation.

The challenger is only a writer of science fiction, fantasy and the macabre, so shouldn't be too difficult for someone of the Viscount's calibre.