I clearly recall sitting through "Amityville 3-D" and "Friday the 13th, Part III" and feeling the last traces of genuine atmosphere drain away, to be replaced by a litany of giggles.
The general tone is one of high comedy combined with a "genuine atmosphere of doom, danger and chaos" with the BBC website listing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as an inspiration together with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Homer and Virgil.
Working from a Hungarian play (by Emric Foeldes) on sets designed by the Polish-born Anton Grot (some of which seem to have been recycled from Archie Mayo's 1931 "Svengali") Curtiz -- born in Budapest but formed as a filmmaker at Vienna's Sascha-Film studios -- creates a genuine Old World atmosphere, not least by his use of low camera angles, elaborate back lighting and slow tracking shots.
Clever manipulation of shop space has engendered a genuine club atmosphere within the store.
With Christ the Redeemer looking down like some kind of despotic overlord – which, in many way, he is – Meirelles somehow managed, through science, to engineer a genuine party atmosphere – no easy feat for a televised broadcast with Brits on Twitter primed to make digs at.
NST-T provides a "high-quality therapeutic relationship that provides a warm, genuine, and accepting atmosphere through the use of supportive and reflective communications" (p. 9); it does not provide advice, suggestions, or coping methods.
The atmosphere and genuine heartfelt goodwill towards Alastair Cook's England team on Monday at Lord's would have been almost unthinkable a few days before.
It wasn't, he said, "as perfectly staged as those in Beijing, but there was a much better atmosphere, a genuine carnival feeling.
Purgatorio, however, also implies blessedness after turmoil, and the symphony's closing bars convey an atmosphere of genuine serenity, unique in his turbulent output.
The old spymaster initially scorned Mr Solana as an irrelevant pipsqueak, not worth taking seriously but eventually agreed, in an atmosphere of genuine personal warmth, to sign a loose co-operation agreement with NATO.
Read more 10.10am BST Yesterday's report from Durham v Sussex Durham in the driving seat thanks to Paul Collingwood and Phil Mustard Durham 245 & 212-6; Sussex 112 When Paul Collingwood walked out to bat in mid-afternoon the Durham captain found himself in an atmosphere of genuine tension.
