Sentence examples for horror work from inspiring English sources

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The director, Mike Mendez, shows no signs of knowing how to make campy horror work the way that the creators of similar movies on Syfy do.

It was, after all, a story of humanity — and in this way, Wolverton's comic horror work and his grotesquely humorous drawings were consistent with his theological understanding of the human condition," his son Monte tells us in the introduction.

At the top of the horror comics ladder there's EC, then Steve Ditko's horror work, then those Boris Karloff horror comics, and then maybe this.

Jack Davis is one of the most beloved EC artists, so making a book of just his EC horror work seemed like a no-brainer.

I also looked at Mark Rothko for color inspiration because modernism is so established and dry, I thought it would be funny to base horror work on it.

It is rare to find a popular horror work that is truly eerie, that lurks in the shadows and tries to drive you to madness instead of morals... well, rare, at least, unless you're watching an adaptation of Stephen King. Stephen King is a lone strange light in the best-seller section over the years.

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Christmas, as well as being a long weekend (four days long this year, in fact four days long for the next four years, I have just, with some horror, worked out) presents a cocktail of additional stresses.

The horrors they practice seem too far outside us; the best horror works on what's inside, as "Repulsion" and "A Tale of Two Sisters" and "The Uninvited" aim to do, and as another popular Korean shocker, Park Ki-hyung's "Whispering Corridors" (1998) — in a way distinct from "Two Sisters" — also does.

"20th Century Ghosts" was originally published a couple of years ago in England, before the writer had outed himself as genre royalty, and you can sense in it the urgency of his desire to figure out how horror works, why so much of it is so bad and why, despite everything, it continues to matter to him.

It wins Emmys and the like (though it is alone in mainstream telly drama for winning a prize from the Gaylactic Network, an organisation for gay and lesbian sci-fi fans, and from Spectrum, honouring science fiction, fantasy and horror works that include positive explorations of gay, lesbian or transgender characters).

Phantom is an overstuffed prestige pic when horror works best without delusions of grandeur.

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