Like so many movies centered on African misery, "Beasts of No Nation" exquisitely takes the most gruesome and horrifying elements of war and turns them into a kind of visual poetry.
But behind this comfortable façade, a horrifying number of ordinary people are being slaughtered with apparent impunity.
The North Norfolk MP, Norman Lamb, said: "This is a horrifying breach of security.
Instead it is a horrifying example of how bad they really are".
The reporter said Jackie immediately launched into a horrifying account of the alleged gang rape.
His death helped put in motion a horrifying era of purges and blood baths.
The work presents a horrifying view of Stalin's brutal rule in the early 1930s; Sasha, the hero, is a thinly disguised version of the author.
Her photographs, some of the first photographic evidence of the Holocaust, were a horrifying glimpse of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the camps.
The physical consequence of stroke is a horrifying catalogue of damage that includes personality changes, impaired sensation, paralysis, incontinence, visual or language problems, deafness, blindness and seizures.
The best known is probably Gin Lane, a horrifying portrayal of poverty, which famously shows a gin-addicted mother carelessly dropping her baby.
