To play Falstaff, he relied on the same variety of body-horror transformation that he submitted himself to in "Mr. Arkadin," "Touch of Evil," and even in the self-aging scenes of "Citizen Kane".
Kadare and Wolf make us see the seduction and the horror of the transformation.
Soon they were posting the two images alongside one another on club message boards and forums, expressing their horror at his transformation.
In many cases the horror of this rapid transformation kills the victim seconds before their final physical deterioration.
The horror of the queen's transformation from a beautiful woman into an abject old hag is still potent.
In second place, with $23.5m on debut, was the dark fantasy Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans in the story of Vlad the Impaler's transformation into the horror icon.
With its story of a sweet, small-town girl (Phyllis Thaxter) who harbors a murderous second personality, "Bewitched" belongs to an early stage in the postwar transformation of the horror film from supernatural to psychological menace, as the genre moved from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Alfred Hitchcock's Norman Bates.
The Machinist 10.10pm, Sky Movies 3 (Brad Anderson, 2003) The focal point of Anderson's atmospheric psychological horror is star Christian Bale's horrific physical transformation.
Catching sight of the photographers poised to record her transformation, she beamed them a look of mock horror.
I'd like to argue that the current transformation from zombie to witch as the go-to horror storyboard is representative of a nuanced shift in our ever-changing sense of collective self-identity.
So it was a cunning bit of body horror to see the poor, civilian sleeper agent, trapped midway through a transformation he is desperately trying to avert.
