Sentences with phrase «more macabre»

The town of Winden lives in the shadow of eternal clouds, lending Dark a more macabre vibe than Stranger Things, which peppers in comic sequences and lots of nostalgia.

Toward the end of life they were drawn to more edgy, more emotional, more macabre works.»

In addition to being a successful horror author in his own right, Morris has written novels featuring Doctor Who and Captain Jack Harkness, so he should have no problem merging his more macabre sensibilities with characters not of his own making.

It seems that the romantic notion of the writer toiling away at his desk in spurts of inspiration for years only to emerge from the cocoon of his desk with a literary masterpiece has been traded out with another, more macabre.

In comparison to the films immediately preceding it, (Ober and De laatste dagen van Emma), Borgman is a bit more macabre, but without losing its comic tone entirely.

Later, a pursuit and scramble over a vast repository of books and furniture looks like one of Nigel Molesworth's more macabre imaginings.

Although they are stamped with the logo of a banana import company, they contain, not fruit, but something more macabre.

Not exact matches

The episode has always held a certain macabre fascination, but there are other more substantial reasons for drawing attention to it as we reach the 80th anniversary.

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 Daily Telegraph's Tim Stanley has described the use of the remains of the unborn to heat hospitals as being «more akin to cannibalism» than the efficient recycling that these macabre practices were presumably being justified under.

On Fire Island it is more than unattractive, it's macabre, sinister, irritating, and somehow tragic.

Novels like The Castle of Otranto and, more famously, Dracula are characterised not just by their sensational plots and their use of the macabre but also by their deep - rooted and, sometimes explicit, opposition to the Catholic Church.

By the same token, his shambolic attitude is begetting other further shambolic acts from the Zambezi Street, Abuja headquarters of INEC, as the macabre dance steps in Kogi, Bayelsa, Gombe and the unfolding drama in Anambra Central senatorial district could have been avoided had Mr. President paid more attention to the need for an improved electoral process by obeying the Constitution regarding the composition of INEC.

Although recent media coverage argues that macabre images are not persuasive or may backfire, provoking smokers into smoking more, research suggests otherwise.

The movie, directed by Rob Bowman, plays more to the show's chief strengths: its macabre wit, its creepy - crawlie scares, and especially the tense, complex relationship at its center.

Unfortunately, this macabre movie is marked by a fatal flaw, specifically, the fact that it's based on more unsubstantiated urban legends than authentic Darwin Awards cases.

His Pennywise is more theatrical, more of an exploitation of all that's inherently macabre and grotesque about clowns.

Claude Chabrol's «This Man Must Die» is advertised as a thriller, but I found it more of a macabre study of human behavior.

Alternatively mirthful and macabre, while poking fun at modern mating habits and the paranoia of espionage culture, Burn after Reading proves to be a refreshingly - intelligent diversion designed with the more cerebral cineaste in mind.

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.

More importantly, The Business of Strangers doesn't betray the same kind of misanthropy as LaBute's danse macabres.

That alone is enough for many to rush out and rent this gorehound import, but there's more: this is terrific, a dryly hilarious horror comedy with a macabre sense of splatter humor a la Evil Dead 2 (complete with zombie hunters armed with chainsaws and other deep woods implements of destruction) but minus the self - conscious wisecracking of the genre.

It certainly has an interesting turn of events, and the unexpected macabre nature seems to come out of nowhere, but aside from a jolt or two, there's not much there to take the film from being more than just okay.

There are also more than a few macabre laughs — the piece is cowritten by Nyman and Jeremy Dyson of the comedy troupe League of Gentleman.

King himself identified a hierarchy of horror, in his book Danse Macabre, that ranged from disgust, which is a base revulsion, to terror, which is a more elevated, purer form of fear.

Deleted Scenes and four more featurettes are exclusively available on the Insidious Chapter 3 Blu - ray and Digital Extras, including «Being Haunted: A Psychic Medium Speaks» which shows Leigh Whannell's inspiration for the hauntings and a tour of a haunted location with Psychic Medium Michael J. Kouri; «Macabre Creations,» follows the makeup process via time - lapse photography for the ghosts and specters and discusses the process of creating the things that go bump in the night; Stefanie Scott interviews the band Cherry Glazerr in the featurette «Cherry Glazerr: Tiptoe Through the Tulips;» and «Stunts: The Car Crash,» which explores the creation of the car crash scene from the stunts on set through the special and visual effects processes.

Kirsty Capes with everything we know so far about Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events... If you're like me, and grew up devouring volumes of Lemony Snicket's macabre and witty series, you'll be a little more than a bit excited about the announcement late last year that Netflix will be turning the thirteen - volumes - strong A Series of -LSB-...]

Punk fans are notoriously fickle about bands selling out, but Alkaline Trio's ascension from small - time macabre punk band to Killers - sized modern - rock band was so gradual and so natural that many fans might not even have noticed that their... more

Sadly though for all the macabre folk out there, Nine Parchments is a decidedly more upbeat and colourful affair that doesn't require you to defeat the denizens of Hell itself.

Instead of in your face sight gags and gratuitous blood shed, Sinister plays more against the audience's imagination with glimpses of macabre.

And the humor as well feels kind of like that film [The Trouble With Harry], one of his more humorous, if still macabre, movies.

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.

If you're more into the fun and goofy side of the macabre à la «The Addams Family,» then pick up a copy of Forrest Leo's debut.

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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.

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assuming you always thought «ya know, I wish there was just a bit more of the macabre in this game».

Title: Pathologic Classic HD Version Tested: PC Available On: PC Developer: General Arcade Publishers: Gambitious Digital Entertainment Genre: Open World Psychological Horror / FP Macabre Adventure - Mystery Official Site: http://www.gambitious.com/games/pathologic-classic-hd Release Date: October 29, 2015 Where to Buy: GOG, Steam Pathologic Classic HD is a remastered version of the cult classic psychological horror game Pathologic which was released... Read more

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

to the sound of a delightful electro - macabre soundtrack is more than enough to make me want to play this game again and again.

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 endless procession of figures in South African artist William Kentridge's 8 - screen, 14 - minute animated movie, More Sweetly Play the Dance (2015), is part parade, part danse macabre.

His macabre series of work is brought together for the first time in more than 30 years (to 18 October).

As such, Kienholz» work is more appropriately related to that of the «beat» artists of the Bay Area, such as Wallace Berman, Jess, Wally Hedrick and Bruce Conner, and their macabre, surrealistic «proto - pop» imagery.

Instead of fighting over pickled sharks or macabre canvases, the European and Asian new rich here have far more conservative taste, gravitating toward instantly recognizable names and softer images.

The Complete Spot Paintings instead feels more like a scientific experiment, one of Hirst's macabre vitrine works spun out into real - life testing grounds, intended to divide the camps into those who follow and those who resist.

Each canvas provides more than enough visual information to stimulate the imagination without becoming literal, allowing for a fusion of essences and emotions ranging from the ordinary to the macabre.

In the upper gallery, More Sweetly Play the Dance, an eight - screen processionary danse macabre features a 40 metre, life - sized, circular caravan.

The township - jazz soundtrack to his multi-screen puppet danse macabre «More Sweetly Plays the Dance» sounds discordantly through the galleries.

As is characteristic of Cattelan's best work, this tableau is more than mere macabre spectacle, and goes beyond the institutional critique so often ascribed to him as the art world's arch jester or Shakespearean fool.