There are long, slow tracking shots down shadowy corridors.
Against this background are excursions down shadowy corridors like race, sexuality and politics.
He sends his camera down shadowy corridors and into cavernous rooms to create a mood of elegant dread.
There are whores, of course, with laughing and lurid mouths, and shadowy corridors that, in suggestively female anatomical fashion, lead to dark rooms.
A labyrinthine journey through shadowy corridors and meticulously decorated rooms, it exposes the sinister undertones of these childhood tales, while grappling with the more adult complexities of Carroll's attraction to his prepubescent muse, Alice Liddell.
We passed along more shadowy corridors, through a door hidden in a bookshelf and up another winding staircase, until we found ourselves in an unexceptional bedroom, a single unshaded light in the ceiling illuminating piles of uniforms.
It needs breathing room for the executives, game developers and engineers who currently double and triple up in windowless offices in Bel-Air, often working at desks set up in the middle of cluttered, shadowy corridors.
"The Cat and the Canary," with its elaborate dolly shots through spooky, shadowy corridors, seems like a direct inspiration, as do the opening scenes in Tod Browning's "Dracula" (1931).
Wanting to kill the Buffaloes is a 78-year-old insider, who over the decades navigated the shadowy corridors of politics and media to seize control of Japan's, and the world's, largest newspaper and, ultimately, Japanese baseball.
