A final shriek of unexpected feedback reveals the hidden menace beneath the song's surface.
Mr. Voight is well suited to the part of Mickey, a thug with a perpetual air of menace beneath the blarney.
Even when Jackman tries for sinister, in Deception or Woody Allen's Scoop, it's the suave front that is more convincing than the menace beneath.
The Age, Melbourne's non-Murdoch daily, praised Mr. O'Shea's portrayal of Mr. Murdoch as "a roguish larrikin" (Australian slang for a hooligan or rowdy) with a "hint of menace beneath the charisma," while complaining that Mr. Williamson pulled too many punches.
GOUPI MAINS ROUGES Jacques Becker's second film, made in 1943, during the German occupation of France, suggests an air of corruption and menace beneath the folksy drama of a prodigal son returning from the city to his rustic home.
As Judge Brack, a family friend of the who-needs-enemies variety, Thomas Jay Ryan communicates the feral menace hiding beneath the insinuating banter.
The confrontation between Thompson and Hatch is one of the great scenes of American literature: menace throbs beneath a veneer of civility, and the mood shifts queasily between humour, pettiness and grave threat.
While the first film was flamboyant, the new "Sleuth" is full of spare, sometimes cryptic language, significant pauses and another familiar quality of Mr. Pinter's work: a hint of menace lurking beneath the surface.
For all the talk of "Get Out" being slotted into the genre of a horror comedy, the horror elements are strongly and, clearly, intentionally underplayed. The biggest jump moment is utterly innocuous, a middle-of-the-night apparition that's in no way physically menacing but gives a hint of the menace looming beneath the family's placid surfaces.
The rough-edged cabaret manner owes nothing to the opera house and everything to the gutter — in the opening number, "Moritat" (later translated as "Mack the Knife"), Ernst Busch's trilled "r"s alone evoke a lost world of menace lurking beneath suave affectations of civility.
