Sentences with phrase «nightmarish visions»

In his breakout role, Jake Gyllenhaal uses his haunted eyes to their greatest effect as the titular troubled kid, living in an anonymous late»80s suburb, where he's plagued by nightmarish visions of a man in a rabbit costume, ominously counting down to the apocalypse.

It Follows / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Robert Mitchell)-- After a strange sexual encounter, a teenager finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her.

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.

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).

In Frankenstein, Whale conjured nightmarish visions of peasants marching on Frankenstein's monster with pitchforks and torches.

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.

Rapp returns with his most nightmarish vision yet.

Exploring the painter's mansion, which can shift and change at any moment, players will uncover nightmarish visions and learn the mystery behind the painter and help him create his ultimate masterpiece — a true Magnum Opus.

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.

The excellent use of the uncanny during memory hacking sequences creates a rush of wild and often nightmarish visions that create a sense of anxious wonder uncommon to the run - of - the - mill horror title.

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.

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

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.

It Follows stars Maika Monroe (The Guest) as Jay, a young teenager who, after a strange sexual encounter, finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions and a sense that something is... following her.

Brief scenes fade in and out, ranging from lyrical vignettes to nightmarish visions.

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 show's producer (Fred Willard) goes ga - ga over Jerry's slant on a cemetery scene, a nightmarish vision of the author's obsession with his father's suicide.

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

Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her.

Director / writer Jeff Nichols, whose debut film Shotgun Stories also starred Shannon in an emotionally intense and conflicted role, takes us through Curtis» nightmarish visions but keeps his story and his ordeal rooted in the real world.

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

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

After a strange sexual encounter, a teenager finds herself haunted by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that something is after her.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.