The spectacle and horror that had befallen a 3-year-old filly had beclouded Breeders' Cup day.
Conditioned by the immense spectacle and horror of September 11th, the media horde was unsure of itself, not quite capable of recalibrating its coverage to the gruesome but more ordinary subject at hand.
Like a nuclear bomb, the biological weapon threatens such a spectacle of horror — skin boiling with smallpox pustules, eyes blackened with anthrax lesions, the rotting bodies of bubonic plagues — that it can seem the province of fantasy or nightmare or, worse, political manipulation.
The two pillars forming the core of "anticommunist films" were war films and spy films.8 The first Korean war film, the documentary An Assault of Justice (Chŏngŭi ŭi chin'gyŏk, dir: Han Hyŏng-mo, 1951) induced both the pleasure of spectacle and horror of war and was repeatedly used as the typical image of the Korean War even as recently as a few years ago.
IN RECENT months Mexicans have become inured to carefully choreographed spectacles of horror.
The make family movies, digital spectacles, thrillers, horror films, animated films.
It is a moment of sublime spectacle and bloody horror.
A Times Square audience sat in rapt silence the other week at a showing of the religio-satanic horror spectacle "Constantine".
In "Kokomo," time is collapsed, and the roles of the subjects are, Marcelle says, "continually deconstructed and reconfigured, through notions of spectacle, queerness, and horror".
In that respect, it's another comic-horror spectacle.
