Sentences with phrase «nightmarish vision of»

So many disturbing enemies, so many customisation and progression decisions — all housed within a towering gothic world that combines the nightmarish vision of a Piranesi prison etching, with the intricate workings of a Swiss - made watch.

I was shocked by the brilliant way the film created this nightmarish vision of an up - close ghostly experience.

Added to this, the combination of hand - held camerawork, harsh artificial lighting and an erratic grunge - synth score by Brooklyn - based electronic musician Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) lends a heart - pounding fever dream quality to this nightmarish vision of urban decay.

Uwe Boll's nightmarish vision of this survival horror game series has pretty much nothing to do with the games, reality, or fun.

Nick (or should that be Dorothy) then outlined a nightmarish vision of a David Cameron / Nigel Farage government with «public services cut to the bone; our communities divided; our shared British values of decency, tolerance and generosity cast aside».

The SNP could actually find themselves enabling David Cameron's nightmarish vision of lower pay in some regions, particularly northern (probably Labour - run) constituencies and in the SouthWest where some health trusts tried to break away from national pay bargaining during the last 5 years.

That realistic air contrasts with the flashes of crimson, which feel all the more graphic, exploding in nightmarish visions of blood - soaked waterfalls and bat - covered cliffs.

Nightmarish visions of serving in the Gulf War haunt Joe (Phoenix) night and day.

Nightmarish visions of lava pits, hellgates and public executions of unfaithful creative developers all flash before my eyes... but apparently, the first thing he'd like is for the PC development scene to start flourishing again.

Not exact matches

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.

There was no sign of individuality on Green's part because he felt more like an extension of Bay's nightmarish vision.

Wasting no time in its unrelenting brutality, the opening frames are of a strangled corpse and a man sobbing in the shower before nightmarish visions from his past invade his apartment.

But unlike Rain Man, there's very little moral redemption in the Safdies» nightmarish vision especially in the third act, which includes the ruthless manipulation of an underage girl (Talia Webster, pictured above with Pattinson).

The film follows the story of a widower (Hinds) who is haunted by nightmarish visions.

For example, despite feeling like the dummy is (at least indirectly) responsible for the brutal murder of his wife, Jamie takes Billy along wherever he goes like a surrogate travel companion, and even when he begins to see nightmarish visions and fears for his life, he still manages to contrive ways to have the doll in his room or riding shotgun in his car.

Never has climate and landscape — a nightmarish, claustrophobic vision of snowbound Copenhagen — been more central to the meaning of a novel than it is here.

The point - and - click gameplay of the original trilogy served as the basis for the re-imagined gameplay, which focuses on close - up investigation and interaction with nightmarish visions that plague the protagonist of the game David Gordon.

Condemned is a first - person experience which puts you in the shoes of Ethan Thomas, a police officer investigating a murder which slowly takes him down a path to discovering secret societies, mysterious entities, encountering nightmarish visions and the city falling into the grip of madness.

This first - person section put you in the shoes of a Gotham cop as he is afflicted with Scarecrow's fear toxin and we bear witness to the nightmarish visions he has before being brutally murdered.

Burgert's monumental paintings are an unsettling collision of traditional scenes (interiors, still lifes, full - scale portraits, art - historical quotations) and nightmarish visions.

Don Van Vliet injects those legacies with his own unique vision, a kind of homespun surrealism born of the lore of the American desert and the artist's own inspired visions, alternately whimsical and nightmarish.

In June last year, Max Beckmann's Hölle der Vögel (1937 - 8)-- a nightmarish allegorical vision of a man being tortured by vicious birds — sold for # 36 million at Christie's in London.

An untitled Jean - Michel Basquiat work has sold for $ 110.5 m, becoming the most expensive American painting ever — thanks to a combination of romance and sheer nightmarish vision

Power Lines is a nightmarish, apocalyptic vision, combining military and industrial imagery with glimpses of an incongruous utopia in a disquiet and unnatural landscape.

They present a vision of society that is at once seductive and nightmarish, exaggerating contemporary preoccupations and behaviours.