There they stand at the back of the cupboard, a dusty, cobwebby army.
And then one of the poor girls is dragged into a cobwebby corridor and sexually assaulted by one of the mill owner's sinister henchmen.
Having taken the trouble to exhume the series from its cobwebbed vaults (at least, watched clips on YouTube), I can tell you it looks cobwebby indeed, like Edward D Wood trying his hand at Douglas Sirk melodrama, or Peyton Place gone Transylvanian.
A free-form promenade sends the audience wandering the building's dark and cobwebby crannies to stumble on evidence of Odysseus's trials: a mysterious harpist, men with pig faces, and a chill-out room strewn with vinyl LPs of music with Odyssean connections.
Inching my way, bent double, through a friend's labyrinthine and cobwebby wine cellar, and taking a perhaps too-eager right turn towards the Romanée-Conti burgundies, I bashed my head on the sharp edge of an unseen metal junction box.
But it is a psychological profile of a man who lived and died long before our psychological age, a romantic portrait of a man who was not a Romantic: Washington lies upon the analyst's couch, teeth clenched, tormented by his mother, the madwoman in Mount Vernon's cobwebby attic.
It was dimmed in a cobwebby haze, & I realized that it had begun to spin its cocoon.
It is equipped with electricity, but the bar is stubbornly illuminated with a pair of gas lamps, which flicker fitfully and throw shadows on the low, cobwebby ceiling each time someone opens the street door.
Darren Aronofsky's Grand Guignol of a film both reflects -- and anticipates -- a trend in the making, its multilayered tutus, feathers and cobwebby knits attesting to a shift in the fashion wind.
No reviewer could blow the surprise of a convict benefactor or Miss Havisham's cobwebby cake when these were yet unwritten.
With films like "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todddd," Mr. Burton popularized the consumptive look: waxy pale faces punctuated with blood-red lips and circular sooty eyes atop angular bodies (or the odd heaving bosom) heaped in layers of heavy velvet and cobwebby lace.
