Sentences with phrase «sorts of body horror»

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In some cases this means continuing the author's lead in A Sort of Life, which, for instance, presents the horrors of boarding school (on the other side of the «green baize door» from his family quarters) as a season in hell, replete with demonic adversaries among the student body.

As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.