Sentence examples for achieve horror from inspiring English sources

Some scenes may achieve horror, and some characters dramatically experience horror, but for these films conventional clues and a logical explanation, at least an explanation plausible in hindsight, are usually crucial, and are of necessity their makers' first concern".

Fittingly, Mr. King's impatient fans may have achieved a horror beyond anything the Master of Horror himself would dare imagine.

But it was in New York that the calamity achieved levels of horror and destruction known only in war.

Think also of modern horror movies, which achieve their ghastliness through makeup and technology but remain significantly less frightening than the unseen or barely glimpsed terrors of "The Black Cat" and "The Turn of the Screw".

Is director Chuck Parello's movie trying to achieve a pre-history of horror, maybe in the form of a deadpan, Truman Capotalesh tale, finding something of value to say in simply recounting the facts - or a lightly cooked version of the facts?

The nightmare she creates for herself is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in the cinema: the way scenes will end with bizarre hallucinations and jolts; the "assault" scene played out to the amplified ticking clock; the sudden, giant cracks she imagines on switching on a light – they always creep me out with a thoroughness that run-of-the-mill horror movies never achieve.

Whether the book will achieve any sort of pop-horror critical mass is hard to say, but Hill seems to know his audience.

Ditto for horror movies, which can achieve their desired results perhaps a bit too successfully.

Israeli pundits deride Netanyahu's erstwhile threats to bomb Iran, and lament that this summer's Gaza conflict, with all its horrors, achieved almost nothing.

This was a generation of young American men who wanted to remake the great republic after the horrors of the Second World War and to achieve that through literature.

The horror is achieved through editing, sound, composition, lighting and drama.