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It has to know that Trump is exploiting the horror of 9/11 to rally the faithful for his reelection effort, but it says nothing.
Where early writers used turrets, dungeons, creaking stairs, rusty hinges, snuffed-out candles and a profusion of cobwebs as a litany of fear, today's masters, when not using graphic violence, create fear and gloom, a la Alfred Hitchcock, by exploiting the horror of the ordinary.
Writer Jordan Peele exploits the horror film genre with his directorial debut in Get Out.
The first "Stepford Wives" exploited the horror-movie implications of this premise, rather than its comic possibilities.
In a move meant to exploit the attention from the film, a straight-to-DVD Z-movie horror film with a supernatural twist, Snakes on a Train, was released on August 15 , 2006 three days before the film's theatrical release.
Rocky Horror, originally made to exploit the popularity of glam subculture, became what academic Gina Marchetti called a "sub-subculture", a variant that outlived its parent subculture.
I see no real reason why she can't just methodically utilise the services of the local law-enforcement agency to find her son in a manner that doesn't exploit the very real horror of child abduction for cheap kicks.
He seems to be so intent on piecing together Kidman's past that he doesn't quite exploit the mind-bending horror of her present.
It's a common complaint that thrillers in general, and anything inflected by horror in particular, exploit the spectacle of the female victim.
Ms. Kazan's burdensome narrative seems positively tidy compared with the lurid turns of plot that eventually sink "Slasher," a confused comedy-drama by Allison Moore that attempts simultaneously to spoof the bloody tide of crazed-killer horror movies, exploit the stylistic tricks of the trade for suspense, and explore the anti-female agenda being disseminated by these films.
'Poe was so good at writing stories that exploited the unspoken horrors of his day.
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