As we buzzed the bush airstrip, scattering some goats and one weaving drunkard, an astonishing apparition loomed into view, an immediate clue that the island of Likoma was once part of British-ruled Nyasaland rather than the Portuguese-ruled colony next door.
Bill Clinton makes the case for Hillary in intensely personal speech When the time came for Hillary Clinton to take the stage, she did so by satellite link from New York, a looming apparition over the party faithful that appeared to the sound of breaking glass following a montage of the 44 preceding male presidents.
We are led through its abandoned departments by caretaker Frank – played with self-deprecating melancholy by Geoff Leesley – and as the tour progresses it becomes increasingly apparent that we are journeying through Frank's own recollections, animated by apparitions of former mill-workers and the crushing roar of phantom looms.
It was a looming plane of green light that shimmered like an apparition.
We had a broadly similar experience on driving into the hotel grounds – seeing the chilling apparition of Danesfield House, a great white whale of a late-Victorian Gothic folly looming in front of you like Moby Dick.
For all the talk of "Get Out" being slotted into the genre of a horror comedy, the horror elements are strongly and, clearly, intentionally underplayed. The biggest jump moment is utterly innocuous, a middle-of-the-night apparition that's in no way physically menacing but gives a hint of the menace looming beneath the family's placid surfaces.
Her first book, Sleepwalking, was published 20 years ago but I can still remember the chilling image of a dead grandfather looming over a newborn baby's cot as the mother frantically bats the apparition away.
The biggest jump moment is utterly innocuous, a middle-of-the-night apparition that's in no way physically menacing — but gives a hint of the menace looming beneath the family's placid surfaces.
Maria Danforth Page paints herself looming behind a portrait of her husband; he sits in front of a mirror, so that she, an apparition, paintbrush in hand, is context, he the subject.
To the film's eerie apparitions and disappearances, an evil old crone, a vampire legend, secrets behind the door, and longhidden crimes, Sasanatieng adds a rhapsodic romantic melodrama, as well as a compelling visual design that conjures up the all-seeing gaze of looming spectres.
