Sentence examples for frightening characters from inspiring English sources

Emboldened by countless viewings of Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets," which gave him the confidence to tell stories about the funny and occasionally frightening characters he'd grown up with, he soon began churning out short films at a rate of more than one a month.

In the book The Shooting Scripts, Russell T Davies claims that he had originally set out to write this episode from Adam's perspective, watching the adventure unfolding from his point of view (exactly as Rose did in "Rose") and seeing both the Doctor and Rose as enigmatic, frightening characters.

As one of Ligotti's most frightening characters notes: "while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page".

The frightening characters of Spirited Away are reminiscent of the kind of creatures Rupert would bump into in the woods, such as Raggady, the stick monster.

Two of the most frightening characters ever to lace on gloves had been sedated by a genius whose temperament was as strong as his chin.

Before your foray into adult literature, your imagination was likely visited from time to time by Roald Dahl's colorful and often frightening characters, whether they be Matilda, Augustus Gloop or a pack of witches.

Simon Keenlyside, as the Count, also declines to play the buffoon, instead using his considerable virtuosity to create a manic, almost frightening character.

Steven Moffat, the television producer who created "Sherlock" with Mark Gatiss, recognized similar qualities in Mr. Cumberbatch after seeing him play a quietly frightening character in "Atonement".

SAN FRANCISCO — There was no doubt that Phillip Garrido, a paroled sex offender, had long been known as an odd and sometimes frightening character to neighbors, business associates and even the few people who called him a friend.

Four bedraggled, mysteriously frightened characters draw together and separate in fragmented combinations to a lurching waltz, until one is cast out of their fraught world and into the audience.

Mr. Conrad observes that "food served Hitchcock as a metaphor for killing, for copulation, and for their secret similarity"; that in movies like "Notorious" and "Psycho," mothers tended to be controlling or fear-inducing figures; that in "Lifeboat," "Foreign Correspondent" and "Rear Window," among other films, light is used to torment or frighten characters.