It was, as the sequence of horror first began to unfold across New York's skyline, initially unbelievable.
He knows that last night's debacle is merely another in a sequence of horror policing operations that have occurred on Sir Paul's watch.
Episodes contain several trademarks, including the alien characters Kang and Kodos, "scary names" in the credits, a special version of the opening sequence, and parodies of horror, science fiction and fantasy films.
As a result, Prologue Films, the company he founded, devised the opening sequences of both "American Horror Story" and "Elementary".
That it is a film of precision and inventiveness, taking fight sequences into the realm of horror, slapstick comedy, even the musical, guarantees its place in action-movie history.
Stephen King felt that one of the film's most powerful shocks — the discovery of Elizabeth's hideously decayed corpse — had a major impact on the genre and served as one of the most significant horror sequences of the decade.
Similar sequences had been used as introductions in all four previous Treehouse of Horror episodes, but have not been used since this episode.
Other sequences evoke horror movie scenes, like one of those armored crickets, shot in extreme and frightening close-up, looming over a nest of tiny, blind quelea chicks.
While the early Treehouse of Horror episodes featured a Halloween themed opening sequence, the later ones only included the title and the "created by" and "developed by" credits.
There's even a terrifying sequence where the horror of the "internet of things" comes to its natural conclusion.
