Sentence examples for creepy edge from inspiring English sources

The movie does not exonerate Mr. Williams (given a creepy edge by Cle Bennett).

But a pleasure it is, giving a genuinely creepy edge to the story of the policeman who stumbles into a pagan enclave where the population is hungry for human sacrifice.

A frightening update of Don Siegel's 50s adaptation of Jack Finney's cult novel, it proves remakes can work by transplanting the original's small-town chaos to the big city without losing the story's creepy edge.

As interpreted by Mr. Malkovich, who is at least a decade too young for the role of a showbiz old-timer, Kreskin's courtly geniality assumes a slightly creepy edge of self-deluding egomania.

It's a big-budget action saga, but without the sadistic, creepy edge you may have come to expect--the obsession with virility, the cheap cynicism, the squalid, endless kill count.

"Reap" may put some readers in mind of Denis Johnson's drugged-out 1997 novel, "Already Dead," another tale of macho violence and alternative horticulture in a creepy edge-of-the-world setting.

There's a creepy, malignant edge to these sequences, in which toys who've suffered rejection by their owners are portrayed as cynical and calculating: they're like feral street toys, compared to the comfortable, cossetted – dare one say middle-class?

Maybe it was all a little creepy around the edges, maybe he was a little like the brave Apollo he sings about on Diamond Dogs.

Too much eye contact can be creepy, if not edging on disturbing.

The resulting album (Califone's third) feels like a creepy drift at the edge of sleep.

The countertenorial voice — a high girlish tone produced by using the outer edges of the vocal cords — is something of an acquired taste, continually teetering on the knife edge between creepy and sublime.