The makers of this humorless horror comedy seemed to think that the mere existence of a gigantic, humanity-threatening spider would be enough.
To some people, it strained credulity that a person's first thoughts on watching such unrelieved horror would be to think of the president -- any president -- and to thank the Lord for his existence.
After watching Terms and Conditions, which some might categorize as a horror film, I began to think about all the "I accept" boxes I have clicked in recent months: iTunes, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook.
It was Sebald's conviction that the recent history of his country could not be written about directly, could not be approached head-on, as it were, because the enormity of its horrors paralyzed our ability to think about them morally and rationally.
But when potential investors hear the horror stories, they are likely to think twice.
Alan R. Cohen, the chairman of the special-education department at Adelphi, said that children tend to think of horror movies "as a good time".
Monday 21 January This is my birthday, and to my horror I am old enough to think of deducting years from my real age.
So, I know that for even thinking this I will have another day where at least a handful of people will think I've been possessed by Satan to contemplate the horror of boys being forced to think about girls and their roles in society.
We might not like to think of horror movies as wish-fulfillment fantasies, but for an anxiety haver, there's something irresistibly appealing about the idea that the thing you most fear could become solid: that it could have a body, a name, and best of all a weakness.
