"When the Jesuits were killed, it was one of the most horrible moments, almost like a punch in the stomach.
And — this is almost too horrible to type — "juniorize".
The poor are depicted as almost universally horrible, grasping and heartless.
More recently, Time of the Wolf was an almost unwatchably horrible vision of post-apocalyptic Europe.
When the coach divides his gym class into shirts and skins, Doug has a truly horrifying reason that he can't run around gym class without a shirt, courtesy of a father who is almost too horrible to be believed.
My favourite film in the festival - if "favourite" can be applied to something so harrowing and gruesome - is the brilliantly acted and composed, but almost unwatchably horrible Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu.
At its worst, it's almost unbearably horrible, a queasy stew of falsetto backing vocals, have-a-banana oompah and lyrics that don't so much sneer at the working classes as sneer at everybody.
Want to hear something almost as horrible and disturbing as the stanza above?
I can still remember almost every horrible feeling for the two years after I first saw it.
Sure, there are plenty of adorable felines out there in the world, but the truth of their sex lives is almost too horrible to think about.
