Sentence examples for ghoulish effects from inspiring English sources

Winterson is always a grand conjurer of ghoulish effects, sometimes backlighting them with visible merriment over her own excesses.

There are other ghoulish effects (Herman's heart needs replacing, a procedure shown in colorful detail), and there is a decent amount of droll humor.

Tom Savani's ghoulish effects are not for the faint of heart, so be sure you're in the mood for explicit slaughter!

9 P.M. (Bio) A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE INSIDE STORY This two-part special edition goes behind the scenes of "A Nightmare on Elm Street," Wes Craven's 1984 horror film that introduced the razor-gloved, dream-stalking bogeyman Freddy Krueger, played to ghoulish effect by Robert Englund.

Without a false camera move (and without the ghoulish special effects that he has used in many of his other movies), Mr. Cronenberg probes the splintered psychology of a mentally ill Londoner (Ralph Fiennes) who is tormented by the memory of his mother's murder.

The ghoulish side effects of a struggling economy.

For the past hour, he had been picking up the dead, and the ghoulish task had the effect of a nightmare.

Mr. Zemeckis marshaled all his skill with special effects to stage a ghoulish new conclusion.

And while the frequent references to his demise verge on the ghoulish, they certainly have the desired effect.

The Romanian-born twins Gert and Uwe Tobias make suave assemblages that combine appropriated dishes and vases with ghoulish little hand-made figures to lighthearted effect.

It was not a corporal party but an amorphous one, a ghoulish presence that functioned as both cause and effect of the absence of a child.