In a single hour on that night, a horde of drunken animals in uniform wrecked the possessions, the past and the future of thousands of people, while bloodthirsty, savage, brutal creatures, decked out in and protected by the brown and black uniforms of the ruling party, slaughtered poor, tormented people in the thousands and sadistically abused thousands of wretched people.
As the demo ends, a large brutal looking creature sporting as many guns as it does teeth stamps into view.
It will sit well with The Slap and Christopher Wakling's What I Did (2011) on the shelves of those who enjoy seeing what happens when the cosy certainties of middle-class families are shattered, when the thin facades of decency and manners are wrenched aside, showing the brutal, violent creatures that lurk beneath the surface.
Her female subjects appear to be calm and collected in the face of these brutal looking creatures.
While Weaver's brutal performance as a creature with human and xenomorph lineage arguably took the character into intriguing new territory, the absence of the original Ripley meant the connection to all those fabulous moments from Alien and Aliens was slight.
Even the cruelty found in the destruction caused by a hurricane, or the brutal reality of a stronger creature killing a weaker one, mirrors our human lives.
In the extremely bitter fourth part, Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent, virtuous horses served by brutal, filthy, and degenerate humanlike creatures called Yahoos.
A signature move sees Platinum's poster girl unwind the hair from her body – it makes up her clothes, obviously – and using it to shape brutal attacks or summon demonic creatures.
Apathy must increase when voters realise that these marginalised creatures are facing a brutal struggle for survival.
It was the predictable outcome of a brutal system that compels sensitive, intelligent creatures to risk life and limb for profit.
