Sentence examples for primitive horror from inspiring English sources
Indeed, Welles's opening shot pulls us into the cauldron, down to bubble level, to see what is forged in the clayey gruel: an image of such primitive horror, like a creation myth gone bad, that it makes Kurzel's prelude, set on a battlefield and glutinous with gore, seem a touch ordinary by contrast.
Gibson is terrific at painting blood-stained moving pictures of humans caught in primitive horrors that trigger profound repercussions – from the end of the Mayan civilisation, to Jesus hanging from a cross.
The figures, human and not, in primitive flight, embody the horror of living creatures under attack.
But he spins a good story, whether describing the savage sea, the horrors of primitive surgery or a "holiday camp cacophony" of seals.
A cover of Bobby Bland's beautiful I'll Take Care of You sounds like desperate pleading through the bottom of a glass; Robert Johnson's Me and the Devil is rendered as horror-flick collision of dubstep and primitive electro.
Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
This is the sellout audience that jabbered away with appreciative cracks and chortles over Ricardo Montalban's glorious divalike turn during Saturday's showing of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," part of the "Sci-Fi Horror Marathon" -- the real horror being the apparently primitive state of hairpiece technology in the 23rd century, where the movie was set.
The emotion horror stories strive to evoke — fear — is one that civilized folks are inclined to think of as low, primitive, animal.
