More of a metaphysical adventure tale that delves into some moments
of abject horror, Annihilation is a potent demonstration of Garland's range within the genre itself, as well as those who have provided him inspiration (if Ex Machina was haunted by the specter of Stanley Kubrick, Annihilation is possessed by Andrei Tarkovsky).
Not exact matches
So completely amorphous and entirely unpredictable is this season, and so totally and incessantly drowned out by the
abject hysteria
of current world affairs, that focusing on potential nominees is at least a solid diversion from the
horror of the daily news feed.
Although I'll admit the reveal
of a 30 minute time frame to file a review filled me with
abject horror.
No matter how raw Esti and Ronit's love and passion, the
abject horror of being discovered trumps their pleasure.
He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work
of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle
of Hammer
horror movies — while paying
abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots
of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).
With both gold and silver, we saw an extended period
of time where prices rose to stratospheric levels, and more recently, advocates have watched in
abject horror as prices
of both gold and silver have literally collapsed.
I like how in the span
of two years Inkopolis went from
abject horror at the thought
of other sea - life being cannibalized to «Y» know, Sean's relatives are actually pretty tasty.»
Inspired by Julia Kristeva's 1980 essay «Powers
of the
Horrors: An essay on Abjection», the show explores her notion
of the
abject and its «psychic origins and mechanisms
of revulsion and disgust» emerging out
of a confrontation with death, with violence, with vulnerability
of decay.
As Christoph Grunenberg has written, Brown's paintings «live on the productive tension between extreme glamour and
abject misery, confronting the viewer with a set of mysterious paradoxes» (C. Grunenberg, «Capability Brown: Spectacles of Hyperrealism, the Panorama and Abject Horror in the Painting of Glenn Brown,» Glenn Brown
abject misery, confronting the viewer with a set
of mysterious paradoxes» (C. Grunenberg, «Capability Brown: Spectacles
of Hyperrealism, the Panorama and
Abject Horror in the Painting of Glenn Brown,» Glenn Brown
Abject Horror in the Painting
of Glenn Brown,» Glenn Brown, exh.