Sentences with phrase «macabre tale of»

This dark, macabre tale of New England terror is about little Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit - McPhee) a fairly normal kid who has a special talent.

In other categories, Disney / Pixar's uproarious and inspiring Ratatouille was named Best Animated Feature, and Paramount's macabre tale of vengeance, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was honored for Best Art Direction.

Snicket's macabre tale of three newly orphaned siblings has been lavishly visualized.

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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).

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.

Serge Bozon's sharply political comedy — a giddily imaginative reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale — stars Isabelle Huppert, who revels in its sly blend of dissonant humor, intellectual fervor, and macabre violence.

Out of the three episodes based on the macabre tales by Edgar Allan Poe, the third — the only modern - day one, directed by Federico Fellini — is far and away the best.

Other Things To Celebrate... 1809 Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston and life was harsh from the get go - before he was two he was an orphan but his tales of the macabre will live forever in print and in their film and TV adaptations 1839 Post impressionist giant Paul Cezanne is born in France.

Gore with his fascination of the macabre, has come up with some bizarre ideas of undead woven into a romanticised tale of pirates in the Caribbean.

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

It begins with a title crawl and voiceover informing the viewer: «What you are about to witness are three twisted tales connected to the tragic and macabre events that befell the town of Riverdale.

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 (GomorrahOf Tales, a macabre collection of stories within stories — featuring sea monsters, giant fleas, and water - breathing albino twins — from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrahof stories within stories — featuring sea monsters, giant fleas, and water - breathing albino twins — from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah).

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.

From what I heard, John Carpenter was hoping this could be the future of the Halloween franchise, with every subsequent film having been a different macabre tale centered around Halloween.

(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 seemof 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 seemOF 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 seemof 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 seemof 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 seemof 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 seemof Strongcliff (Cassel) is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.

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 Christmas season only truly begins with the coming of the first Christmas movie however Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is not the usual naff, over-sentimental festive fodder but a macabre mix of a dark fairytale and an action adventure.

Victor Frankenstein (PG - 13 for violence, macabre images and a scene of destruction) James McAvoy plays the title character in this variation on Mary Shelley's classic tale about a mad scientist whose experiment in reviving the dead goes horribly wrong.

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)

While more well - known as a horror writer and pioneer of the tales that became the Hellraiser franchise, The Thief of Always shows that Barker can pen a book that speaks to young adults just as powerfully as his horror novels speak to lovers of the macabre.

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Macabre Horror Stories That Will Taunt Your Dreams: The True Tales... Get Your FREE BONUSES When You Grab This Book!Scotland as a country has more than its fair share of ghost stories.

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.

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.

Inspired by the weird fiction (and other tales of the macabre) from the early twentieth century, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter aims to significantly evolve immersive storytelling in games.

«This tale was the perfect genesis for the beautiful, yet slightly macabre, pieces I wanted to create, and became the jumping off point for this group of paintings.»

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.