To be sure there's a touch of the macabre to her appearance in his 1965 film "Lupe," in which she plays out the last moments of the Hollywood actress Lupe Velez, who tried to stage a beautiful suicide and ended up wrapped around a toilet bowl, but only because Ms. Sedgwick herself provided the fatal postscript.
Though he details the existence of such horrifying aberrations as "a Dutch child born in 1995 [that] had the remains of 21 foetuses (as determined by leg count) embedded in its brain", he stops short of describing some laboratory mice, engineered to manifest profound physical disorganisation, because "it would be gratuitously macabre to detail the appearance of these mutant mice".
This show was alongside Macabre and Cephalic Carnage, among others.
Yet the show is more playful than macabre.
Relocated to a working pub, Brooker tells me about his appearance at the Brighton festival, where two episodes of his macabre Black Mirror dramas will air.
But nothing in their records, or in their daily appearances around the neighborhood, could foretell what became the macabre final chapter of a bond reminiscent of the days when Hell's Kitchen was known more for its drugs and robberies than its fashionable bistros and high-rises.
The second act includes appearances of a werewolf and a severed limb — prodigious, sensational macabre excesses that are neither subtly psychological nor laughably over-the-top.
("She's an actress, not a whore," Burke corrects Hare, who has characterized her as such. Hare: "What's the difference?") And Mr. Landis has great fun sandwiching in appearances by English stars, including Jenny Agutter from his earlier macabre visit to this part of the world, "An American Werewolf in London".
All will presumably become clear if and when we track down Mr. Herzog during his proposed trip to this heart of pop cultural darkness (macabre weaponry must be inspected at the door) and light, as with the giggly appearance of Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-Wee Herman on Thursday.
