Sentences with phrase «shriek of violins»

Hardcore horror audiences won't find much that's frightening in Insidious: The Last Key — there's not even that wonderfully unsettling shriek of violins under the title this time — but as a delivery system for more great work from Lin Shaye, it more than accomplishes its mission.

Unlike other horror games that announce the appearance of a monster with a shriek of a violin, Machine for Pigs only sometimes announces the release of a monster into the area.

Not exact matches

Additionally, the sound design is disappointingly typical of the genre, with sudden movements and noises emphasized by predictable and cheap violin shrieks.

Other Hitchcock memorable scenes include a glowing poisoned glass of milk in Suspicion (1941), a man chased by a crop duster in North by Northwest (1959), a stabbing scene in the shower to shrieking violins in Psycho (1960), and killer birds gathering in a schoolyard in The Birds (1963).

Marcel Duchamp's mixture of leather, tin and broken violins, which he calls «A Nude Descending a Staircase,» draws shrieks of laughter from the crowds who gather about it eight deep, in their eagerness to discover the lady or the stairway.