Sastre's first major production, Escuadra hacia la muerte (1953; Death Squad), a disturbing Cold War drama, presents soldiers who have been accused of "unpardonable" offenses and condemned to stand guard in a no-man's-land where they await the advance of an unknown enemy and face almost certain death.
The 19-second ad is the first thing everyone hears at the beginning of Sarah Koenig's Serial podcast, and while the series is about a disturbing cold case high-school murder, the ad has grabbed everyone's attention for its unintentional hilarity and charm.
Anyone who doubts the power of drug company marketing to overcome a dearth of scientific evidence need only ponder the disturbing matter of cold medicines used to treat children and infants.
Certainly one of the most influential – and most parodied – British series ever made, The Prisoner's unsettling, surreal and disturbing themes of Cold War paranoia seem as important today as they ever were.
It shows sex between people of different genders and sex between people of the same gender; it shows cold, disturbing hate-sex, and fun, let's-have-an-adventure hook-ups, and the comfortable, friendly make-outs that can only happen between people who have been making out for years.
(In a way, Westworld is nothing more than Grand Theft Auto VR: Sweetwater.) The common bloodthirst of guests is contrasted with what is perhaps the most disturbing violence of all: the cold, unfeeling indifference with which Westworld employees regard their artificial charges, despite the fact that they look, feel, and act almost identically to human beings.
Brilliant yet emotionally cold, Dead Ringers asks disturbing questions about the nature of individual identity and explores such themes as eroticism, narcissism, misogyny, and masculine-feminine dichotomies.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
Imagine our surprise, then, when we began hearing disturbing reports about something that you colder souls call "snow" and the tremendous amount of it recently dumped on the Northeast.
And it is a fine, literary thriller; cold, at times almost nauseatingly disturbing.
His vision can be disturbing and dark but it is not cold: humour and compassion are never far away.
