Sentences with phrase «nightmarish phantasmagoria»

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.