Sentence examples for serious horror from inspiring English sources

Now in its fifth year, the festival was started by the filmmaker Michael Hein, who said he was dismayed by a lack of "serious" horror film events.

It may be that there's a gene for scary, because Joe Hill, Kingg's son) who wrote the brilliant Heart-Shaped Box, delivers serious horror, as good as dad.

It is truer to say that Herzog's movie is like Abel Ferrara off crack: dark and gruesome of course, but with something essentially more lenient than Ferrara – less self-torturing, more farcical and crucially more ironic, a quality not very apparent in the deadly serious horror of Ferrara's film-making.

As a serious horror enthusiast myself, Kirk was always on my radar as a pro-collector.

But, for me, I've always thought of Kirk as a serious horror dude.

Sachs said of the decision, "How can a serious horror movie end with the monster being shoveled into a garbage can?" Makeup artist Baker provided the special makeup effects for The Incredible Melting Man, which included the gradual melting of Steve West.

King is still America's dominant horror writer, but, for a while now, his wide-ranging, exploratory sensibility has felt at odds with the rest of the serious-horror landscape.

Maus, the story of Spiegelman's Holocaust survivor father, showed the world that words and pictures together, could express the most subtle and serious of horrors.

I hear every day from readers with serious complaints, including horror stories, about air travel.

While "Platform" is clearly serious in its horror at such exploitation, it is dangerously ambiguous in other regards.

Lux and the Cramps were serious about rockabilly, horror, foot fetishes, sci-fi B-movies and 50s kitsch.