A gruesome eye-gouging scene in Spectre helped make the latest instalment in the James Bond franchise the most complained about film of 2015, British film censors have said.
The shock tactics of early episodes (the big reveal after the birth of the Queen's baby being a standout) were replaced by the almost languid spinning-out of dry court conspiracy, peppered with the odd gruesome eye-stabbing or beheading to keep things from flatlining.
How could a thoroughbred come to such a gruesome end?
Kinsinger says people who are too shy to go in public should figure out what they're most afraid of whether it's creating a gruesome stench or making eye contact with someone and them making that "I-know-what-you-did" face and then think about the likelihood of those outcomes.
Aperture, unusually, is a gruesome head of a man - puffy, one eye battered closed.
There is even a gruesome close-up of a man with his eyes gouged out – almost 50 years on, Hitchcock's sense of what shocks us cannot be bettered.
In a gruesome way, "Hollywood Ending" is evocative of Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut," which felt like a movie made by a man who hadn't been outside in 30 years.
It is a gruesome convulsion.
"Finning" sharks is a gruesome business.
