Sentence examples for straight horror from inspiring English sources

Crucially, she does not view Room as a straight horror story.

So far, a film version of the A.L.C.S. for the Tigers would be more of the adventure genre, if not straight horror.

As straight horror slowly waned in popularity among adult audiences from the '30s to the '50s, filmmakers found that comedy could be used to accentuate shock effects.

These scenes are played not for straight horror but with a benign, almost comic mood: After he gets over the initial shock, Mike would like nothing better than to have his wife around to lean on, even if he can't physically lean on her.

Known to be miffed at being dismissed by those who considered his fear-inducing stories less than literary, Mr. Herbert veered away from straight horror tales and wrote books that edged into other genres, borrowing elements of fantasy, crime and supernatural stories.

It's territory that Yrsa Sigurdardóttir knows well: apart from her series of accomplished legal procedurals set in her native Iceland, Sigurdardóttir has also dabbled in straight horror with the ghost story I Remember You, and this second stand-alone book seems initially to be following that novel's path.

This sign represents true horror for straight males who aren't in touch with their assholes.

The language Martin uses can evoke a mood of true darkness that has more in common with straight up horror than anything else.

While The Lobster (which also stars a ridiculously on-point Farrell) was an absurdist black comedy, The Killing of a Sacred Deer is straight up horror.

Manhunt is a straight-up horror survival game for adults.

Mr. King's "Full Dark, No Stars" has a lot of straight-up horror.