Sentence examples for horror like a from inspiring English sources
"It really was going to be a horror: like a public lavatory.
THE place often seems like a black box from which the occasional horror (like a nuclear bomb) emerges without warning or welcome.
Indeed, Welles's opening shot pulls us into the cauldron, down to bubble level, to see what is forged in the clayey gruel: an image of such primitive horror, like a creation myth gone bad, that it makes Kurzel's prelude, set on a battlefield and glutinous with gore, seem a touch ordinary by contrast.
Frank Zilinyi, the narrator of "The War of the Worlds" and the title character of "The Invisible Man," an old tale of scientific hubris that now walks the line between comedy and horror like a drunk, has a deep voice and solid girth, but he seems more like a Welles impressionist than the real thing.
Similar tension animates "Welcome Home," a video depicting, horror movie-like, a face melting away — a fantasy on a theme of digitally corrupted images.
Real Hollywood horrors like a washed-up Bela Lugosi cruising Beverly Hills funeral homes for a fix of paraldehyde with the no-budget director Ed Wood Jr. are lightly touched upon.
"It's important to make people feel what happened here," said Mr. Freiberger, as he showed off horrors like a pitch-dark, underground chamber where prisoners were hung waist-deep in frigid water for days at a time.
Two days before I met with Sarmento, the morgue where the autopsies took place was shut down by inspectors, citing "blood on the walls," "corpses stored on top of each other on shelves and on the floor," "a strong stench of putrefaction" and a parade of other horrors, like a corpse "being dragged across the floor by two employees".
It was a shame that "Wolf" had to morph, halfway through, into a horror film, because horror, like war, was a barren field to Nichols.
A supernatural boy-racer revenge horror like this needs a leading male who is no stranger to broodingly intense over-acting.
And who doesn't like a good horror story?
