So there's a special context here of horror films that relate to the real-life terror of Spanish history.
In a flash of real-life terror, the sight of the fake city skyline here has suddenly become more accurate, not less.
"Before our film Rabies everybody thought that we were crazy to even dream about making a slasher film in a country that has no serial killers and has enough real-life terror on its hands.
As has been true since real-life terror arrived on Sept. 11, 2001, advertisers' and consumers' attitudes toward fantasy frights this Halloween are serving as a Rorschach test for the country, marketing consultants say.
Even his daughter, Kay, displays the real-life terror that many brides face when they realize that for one whole day they will be the focus of everyone's attention.
She says the idea came to her while she was channel-surfing between reality TV and coverage of the Iraq war, and wondering what this mix of entertainment and real-life terror boded for the future of society.
The opening credits of Homeland are usually a spectral pastiche of footage from real-life terror attacks clips of the characters brooding mightily as jazz horns trill in some grayed-out distance, with audio of crackerjack CIA analyst Carrie Mathison doggedly insisting that "I can't, I won't" miss signs of the next 9/11.
It's the sound of real life panic and terror experiencing a punch in the face, physical, and emotional.
For a good 40 minutes, Marshall, who cut his teeth on the rough-and-ready squaddies versus werewolves romp Dog Soldiers, grips his audience firmly by the throat, squeezing the breath out of them with a bravura evocation of the real-life terrors of entrapment.
One of the principles of the artists represented here visually regards such direct and frank portrayals of barbarism as being fundamental to exorcising humankind of such real-life terrors.
Therein lies real, life-sapping terror.
