Sentence examples for Powerful horror from inspiring English sources

Like every powerful horror movie, "The Exorcist" gains from being seen on a big screen, with an audience primed to scream and talk back.

From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein of 1818 to Clive Barker's Hellraiser in 1987, the walking, dissected human corpse remains a powerful icon of horror imagery.

This is what makes Until Dawn more powerful than any horror movie you can stay devoted to each and every character, because if you root for them and try hard, your work will keep them alive.

Our appreciation for the beauty and scale of a mountain landscape is accompanied by equally powerful feelings of horror and dread.

("As a Christian, I am completely opposed to the doctrines of Mormonism... ..) The old guard of the religious right is terrified that if Rudy Giuliani gets the nomination people will conclude that the evangelical leaders aren't all that powerful after all or — horror of horrors — that the evangelical rank and file are not obsessed with abortion and homosexuality to the exclusion of everything else.

Like drones and derivatives, migration policy allows the powerful to inflict horrors on the powerless without getting their hands dirty.

Needless to say, "The Bridge" would not be nearly as powerful with its horrors merely recounted or otherwise occluded.

The Zuhdīyāt depicts the leveling of the rich and powerful by the horrors of death; these poems found an enthusiastic following among the masses, as well as being popular at court, and were frequently set to music.

Are the images powerful because of the horror they capture?

Disasters evoke powerful, if contrary, emotions: horror, fascination, sympathy and wondering how well we would do.

"The town of Auschwitz is powerful testimony to the horror of the Holocaust.