They know they're supposed to hate her, so anything she does inspires juvenile sneers and self-righteous displays of horror - including a visit to a farm where some people earn their living raising and killing livestock.
Instead of creating voids, Ms. Bontecou displays symptoms of horror vacui — the fear of blank space — as she fills up more and more of the page.
And a display of war's horrors, as in "The Trojan Women," can have a different meaning when it is part of a mythic heritage that implicitly acknowledges war's inevitability.
Robert Koehler of Variety applauded that "Shirley Walker's score displays a thorough understanding of horror jolts".
I can't think of another movie in which the display of a graph elicited gasps of horror, but when the red lines showing the increasing rates of carbon-dioxide emissions and the corresponding rise in temperatures come on screen, the effect is jolting and chilling.
Despite "retiring" from directing, Steven Soderbergh just released a clip that stacks two versions of Psycho (Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece and Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake) atop one another, displaying at once the universality of horror and the sharp attention to detail Gus Van Sant gave his critically-panned shot-for-shot update. .
In a touching display of humanity amid the horrors of war, lieutenant colonel Arthur J Mills of the 4th (Anzac) Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, carried a four year old Armenian girl sleeping in his arms, on his camel, to safety.
That book was both a firework display of genres - sci-fi, horror, medieval allegory - and something entirely other, definable only by itself.
And when formal politeness is in fashion (thanks to Charles Portis's "True Grit"), sometimes, to be sure, combined with numbing expletives (thanks to the HBO series "Deadwood"), its ultimate source is novels written by Eastern authors who were taught in school that good writing displays a horror of contractions.
Guillermo del Toro is a horror movie fanatic (just ask anyone who has been a guest at his memorabilia-filled home), and that genre love is on full display in the newly released opening sequence for the upcoming "Simpsons" Halloween episode, known as the "Treehouse of Horror XXIV".
