Sentences with phrase «macabre stories»

The aim of the exhibition is to show through these bodies of work how macabre stories, unseen forces, and fear of the...

Kaplan, a professor of parasitology and himself a victim of amebic dysentery and 8 - inch roundworms, gives a raucous crash course that blends surprising biology with macabre stories.

As Jean Genet's classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer's wife and daughter, still has the power to perplex

The grim view accentuates the macabre story, and while Ritchie can not help from giving into the intermittent stylistic flashes, they work and are occasionally exhilarating, like a slow - motion run through a series of explosions that leaves a main character's outcome in question, if only briefly.

I was a big fan of first game, praising the balance it struck between its macabre story, quick paced levels, replayability and addicting soundtrack.

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

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

In Stephen King's macabre short story «The Lawnmower Man,» a sex - crazed landscaper murders and dismembers the suburban homeowner who hires him to cut his overgrown lawn.

Vampire stories aside, the idea of rejuvenating the body with young blood dates back to macabre 1950s experiments that stitched young and old mice together so they shared a circulatory system.

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.

Season 3 will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Interesting considering Netflix's recent hit show, Ozark, True Detective season three will «tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.»

«Tim Burton's Corpse Bride» is not the macabre horror story the title suggests, but a sweet and visually lovely tale of love lost.

Here are a series of recent horror movie stories that should satisfy your cravings for the macabre:

The story is set in the post-WW2 Vienna, and the locations are used to the fullest, becoming if not an additional, full - bodied character, then at least the perfectly staged arena for the macabre events to unfold.

Keeping with that film's medieval European setting, you could also check out Tale Of Tales, a macabre collection of stories within stories — featuring sea monsters, giant fleas, and water - breathing albino twins — from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah).

The macabre writer is pitted against a serial killer who utilises the inventive murder methods described in Poe's mystery stories.

(2015) dir Matteo Garrone w / Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson [133 min; DCP] Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile, TALE OF TALES unleashes a barrage of mind - bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the (mis) adventures of three kings: in the kingdom of Darkwood, the King (Reilly) and his Queen (Hayek) attempt to conceive a child through very unusual means; meanwhile, in Highhills, the none - too - bright monarch (Jones) marries off his daughter to a brutal ogre while developing a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea; and, the sex - obsessed crown of Strongcliff (Cassel) is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.

Set in 1901, the film is a cozily macabre love story that splits its time between the United States and England.

Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic werewolf tale in this story of two American tourists who, while traveling in London, find their lives changed forever when a vicious wolf attacks them during a full moon.

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.

The killer leaves some clues, while Poe responds with some macabre original stories in the newspaper that he hopes will inspire a break in this perplexing case.

The movie possesses a certain energy that propels the story forward with macabre, cynical humor, but it also becomes repetitive after a few too many jabs — both satirical and physical.

Formerly called How to Catch a Monster, the story follows Billy, played by Gosling's Drive co-star Christina Hendricks, as a single mother of two who is pulled into the dark and macabre underworld of her dying city, Lost River, while her adult son Bones (Iain De Caestecker) finds a secret road leading to an underwater town.

Tapping into Burton's signature style, the duo support the story's macabre subject matter by creating an almost completely monochromatic vision of nineteenth - century London.

Blu - ray Extras: Deleted scenes; Being Haunted: A Psychic Medium Speaks; Macabre Creations; Stunts: The Car Crash; Cherry Glazerr: Tiptoe through the Tulips; and Origins Story: Making Chapter 3.

His latest film, Crimson Peak, again combines his abiding obsessions, a story about a macabre clash between the past and the future, modernity and archaism, the realm of the living and that of the dearly departed.

With the ongoing struggle between man and monster and the trippy mythology gifted to him by Moore, Swamp Thing presents different creators with the chance to tell deeply human and emotional stories in the world of the macabre and the supernatural.

The follow ups to each story were amusing and added some levity to Poe's macabre writing.

Those titles include Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers (2012) Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained (2013 — co-authored with Jenny Jelen), Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries (2014), Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region (2016) and Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales about Hospitals, Sanatoriums and Other Institutions (2017 - co-authored with Rhonda Parrish) and the forthcoming Macabre Montreal: Ghostly Tales, Ghastly Events and Gruesome True Stories (co-authored with Shayna Krishnasamy)

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.

Exceptional... While the plot hurtles along at a rapid pace, leading inexorably to the heart - pounding final conflict, Kidd injects ample doses of macabre humor and lyrical description in this memorable story from a strange, bold new voice.»

In spite of such responses, within a year the story was included in Prize Stories of 1949 and 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, acknowledging the power of Jackson's storytelling craft and introducing very widely a writer whose first novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), had disappointing sales but cannily and hauntingly depicted the humorous, horrific and sometimes macabre irony of suburban life.

This wonderfully macabre collection of short stories is guaranteed to entertain and disturb readers of all ages.

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The city is also the birthplace of Edgar Allen Poe, known for his tales of the macabre, and considered the father of the detective story.

For a taste of the macabre, consider the Downtown haunted tour, which delves into spooky stories of Sacramento's past, including the Indian burial ground under City Hall and rumored ghosts at the allegedly haunted Crest Theatre.

And if that makes you suspect we're making this game inspired by the weird fiction stories and other tales of the macabre from the early 20th century, then you're on the right track.

That's intensely macabre, and I applaud the Zelda series for being that mature in story without having to be mature in violence or sex.

Hallowed Legends, Enigmatis, PuppetShow and Danse Macabre are must - have titles for mystery games addicts and those who enjoy dark ghost stories.

The story of Drakengard is extremely dark and macabre, much more than most Japanese games.

Eipix Entertainment, the studio that brought you Danse Macabre and Off the Record present the next story in the Dead Reckoning series!

This publication is conceived as a platform to present the wider scope of her work and at its core is a compendium of her writings, which oscillate between lyrical poems and fable - like macabre short stories, including three new texts: The Half - Smile, Problems With The Moon, and An Inquisition To Divine The Necessary Things.

The story takes a macabre and surrealistic turn as the heroine takes matters into her own hands, resulting in a cannibalistic revenge.

Kim draws inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock, Terry Gilliam, Franz Kafka and Lewis Carol to produce her fantastical, macabre fable stories.

Lanthimos» provocative film displays one father's inexplicable subversion of his children's world through interrupted story - telling and macabre humour.

In another gallery, a collection of Dezsö's illustrations for an edition of fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm underscore the often macabre elements of the stories while still foregrounding their essential narrative simplicity.

The subject of both this print and the painting it is based on (featured in Miller's 2012 exhibition The Next Life's On Me at White Cube Hoxton Square) Charles Addams, the macabre American cartoonist and notorious womanizer who was best known as the creator of the Addams family stories.

Le Roy's stunning macabre renditions of fairytale princesses and childhood icons take the innocence of classic stories to the darkest layer of the human psyche.