Styron's assertion that "the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain" is acutely well-observed.
Signorelli had little sense of colour, but here his greenish and purple devils add to the horror induced by the strained poses and the anatomical details in the decayed bodies.
If the similarities between the REVII teaser and "Home" point toward anything, it's a tonal shift in the Resi series from big budget zombie slaying to subdued horror, induced by paranoia and regression, poignant in an age obsessed with technology, misinformation, and surveillance.
Others felt that Silent Hill was Konami's answer to the Resident Evil series in that, while they noted a similarity, Silent Hill utilized a different form of horror to induce fear, attempting to form a disturbing atmosphere for the player, in contrast to the visceral scares and action-oriented approach of Resident Evil.
Ms. Dwyer's "Slave Ship" reminded a viewer of Willie Cole's woodblock print titled "Stowage" (1998), whereby Mr. Cole employed the pattern of the perforated metal top of an ironing board, to make the same horror-inducing reference.
Every dramatization of the Holocaust has to decide for itself at what point the depiction of unimaginable suffering becomes too much to bear, and the horror threatens to induce a defensive numbness and revulsion instead of empathy.
It is a horror film - it induces feelings of horror and nausea.
It is an overwhelming experience that induces horror, triggers a frantic survival instinct.
The centerpiece of "Wake in Fright" — and its locus of Conradian horror — comes when John is induced to join the doctor and his drunken companions on a midnight kangaroo hunt.
Coyne's acquisition of the suit unleashes a fine sampling of supernatural horror: visual and auditory hallucinations, induced suicide, phantom dogs, phone calls from the dead, a spirit invoked via a Ouija board and a door drawn on the floor in blood, leading to another dimension.
In fact, all three writers are practicing variant forms of magic realism, which, for each of them, is, among other things, a means of reporting on political horror without inducing tedium.
