The sight of a corpse oozing blood in the middle of the street could elicit as much apathy as alarm.
In Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema, Scott Von Doviak commended its effective use of daylight shots, unusual among horror films, such as the sight of a corpse draped over a tombstone in the opening sequence.
What stopped me short one morning as I was walking our dog was the sight of a "human" corpse smashed up against the front of this house.
For most of us the sight of a rotting corpse is at best unsettling and at worst repulsive and frightening, the stuff of nightmares.
But the idea that Brookish innocence vanished at the first sight of a rat-bitten corpse in a trench is, of course, much too simple, and it conceals a continuing battle over the war's meaning.
Add to this Josie Rourke's lively production of Friedrich Durrenmatt's seldom-seen "Physicists," which begins with the sight of a lovely young corpse center stage and proceeds to contemplate the nuclear annihilation of the world.
It was merely the twitching of a corpse.
One less image of a corpse in my mind.
Critics compared her skin tones to those of a corpse.
He has exchanged his identity for that of a corpse.
