In the 1930s many prominent British aristocrats, like their French counterparts, developed a morbid terror of the left.
After the death by drowning of her brother, Edward, she developed an almost morbid terror of meeting anyone apart from a small circle of intimates.
The film is acted a bit broadly sometimes, and its ending is a little neat, but it reminded me of a phrase Martin Amis coined years ago: "tramp dread", a morbid terror of homeless people which is in fact a terror of how easy and even attractive it might be to give up work and responsibilities and become a tramp oneself.
Nonetheless, we don't live in morbid terror of lightning strikes or streetcars.
It takes lots of violent twists, however, before doc and patient join up in a mad break away from the asylum and beard Herbert Marshall in his den, where, under a similar drug injection, he confesses that he killed the wife.As straight movie melodrama, employing modern psychotherapy, "High Wall" is a likely lot of terrors, morbid and socially cynical.
Over Easter weekend, major cities geared up, with a kind of morbid expectation, for a terror attack similar to the one that hit Spain last month.
The disease attacked both young and old, plunging them into months or years of morbid lethargy and relentless terrors, and seemed - perhaps only because they wrote more and had more written about them - to single out men of accomplishment and genius.
"Still, I look back," Hall observes amidst the sea of horrors doing business as the single-stanza poem "Nativity," and yet the act is one of impassioned terror rather than morbid rubber-necking.
The big prizes go to books on war, terror, cancer and extinction, feeding our morbid curiosity about the gruesome ways in which things can go wrong.
Though faced with distinctly genuine threats of war, illness, impoverishment and terror, vast millions of Americans still choose to distract and amuse themselves with assorted forms of morbid excitement, public scandal and the thoroughly inane repetitions of an authentically illiterate political discourse.
Maxime André Taccardi, a.k.a The Priest of Terror, is a French artist, teacher, and Black Metal musician who often uses his own blood to paint morbid scenes that combine traditional horror motifs with anatomic abstraction.
