Sentences with phrase «nightmare vision»

This film represents my worst nightmare vision of the world.

I was also so worried about how my daughter would adapt to the new addition, I had nightmare visions of her hitting the new baby or something like that.

The genre is apologetics (albeit apologetics for an idiosyncratic idea of the faith), but the style is horror: Williams explains the communion of saints, the mechanism of prayer, and many other facets of the «sacred economy» by taking us through nightmare visions of ruined cities, doppelgängers, and succubi.

Along the way, Scarlet Witch's telepathic powers feed further into the sense of impending doom, by way of prophetic, nightmare visions for all, and Tony Stark in particular gets a really harrowing, vivid, and very specific view of a dead future in which the Avengers have resolutely failed to save Earth.

With a tighter cut and a meatier presence for characters like Ben Foster's doomed to hang Philip Wills, Cooper's meandering nightmare vision of a terribly unenlightened time could have been great.

With nightmare visions of a gunman stalking school halls, districts often rush to hire police officers to patrol their campuses after news of a school shooting.

There is a peculiar symbiosis, in which, Lynas and his ilk give the scientific establishment authority by constructing nightmare visions of the future, which are given credibility by figures such as Sir Martin Rees and Lord May.

If anything, these ominous «rescue» sequences serve to validate Batman's nightmare visions of the coming of Darkseid and Apokolips — hardly something that will ensure the audience is emotionally invested in the character.

Neil Kinnock's warning Realising his party would probably lose the 1983 election, Kinnock provided a nightmare vision of life under Thatcher: «I warn you not to be ordinary.

Tinge Krishnan's big - screen debut as a director offers a nightmare vision of survival on the pavement, where the homeless and the addicted live by their own rules without, it would appear, any support from society.

Always better at imagery than explanation, at set piece than story, Bava's films are at their best dream worlds and nightmare visions.

Without doubt, this is a nightmare vision, one that's both extremely paranoid and yet leavened by a certain awareness and amused distance from its own paranoia, and it's very much a product of the times.

In his feature debut, Aster presents a nightmare vision of domestic breakdown, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and disquieting.

Everything in this nightmare vision of the future is recognisable.

When Stuart Klawans says «the nightmare vision of white people exerting their dominance not just around him but inside his body», he points to what may be one of the most damaging aspect of Jordan Peele's vision — that growing up Black in America means that many young Black people see themselves through White eyes and suffer the sometimes crippling psychological effects of that sadly harsh and limiting vision.

What he does is scream in terror that this premise might be true; he howls at the nightmare vision of white people exerting their dominance not just around him but inside his body.

Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam): The corporate culture of the future tries to crush the dreams of clerk Jonathan Pryce, giving the great Gilliam a chance to use his gifts for satire and production design to create a nightmare vision of dehumanization.

Samuel's antics grow more troublesome; eventually, he is expelled from school and his nightmare visions invade their home.

Curtis isn't hearing trumpets or witnessing the opening of the seals, but he is confronted by signs and troubled by dreams until he, and we, begin to feel that if these nightmare visions come true, it'll almost be a relief.

Larry Cohen's sci - fi chiller about a detective investigating murderers who claim to be carrying out God's will is the surreal B - side to Taxi Driver: a nightmare vision of the city's repressed rage that starts with cameoing Andy Kaufman gunning down the St. Patrick's Day parade and ends with our hero becoming what he was trying to stop.

«This is our suggested position,» technical director Roberto Corradi says, no doubt having a nightmare vision of wadded - up MC12s.

In the psychiatric hospital of «Iron Maiden,» a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness.

He can't make any sense of the nightmare vision, but neither can he look away.