The tension is whipped up by frenetic samples of jungle and drum and bass, a futuristic soundscape which matches the stark, spooky footage captured in Hangzhou in China's Zhejiang province.
They resurrected Bush the Elder's Willie Horton strategy from the 1988 campaign: stark, staged footage of smiling criminals leaving prison as part of Labour's early-release policy and a recitation of the crimes they went on to commit, including two rapes.
Stark video footage from Wednesday's apparent attack - which showed bodies of people stacked up in medical clinics - has stoked demands abroad for a robust, U.S.-led response.
Guernica's blacks, whites and greys, as stark as newsreel footage and front-page news, were continued in works such as the less-than-successful 1951 Massacre in Korea, or the great Charnel House, now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harrisuffereded fresh embarrassment on Thursday as undercover footage revealed stark differences between his public and private criticisms of wind power.
The footage blends stark hospital scenes and tender moments between Ann and Sandy, her husband.
From this cautionary tale, the film grows even more stark, showing hard-to-watch footage of shelter dogs being thrown into large bins and gassed, then even harder-to-watch images from a raid on a wretched puppy mill in Tennessee.
The footage began with Stark (Downey Jr).
Something of a cross between Walt Disney and Howard Hughes, we see him in flashback film footage at the Stark World Expo 1974, set on the site of the real world New York World's Fair.
This video footage should be a stark reminder to Cameron and those sitting beside him in the Commons that countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have become uninhabitable places of fear, murder and anarchy.
