The school stands as an isolated paradise on the edge of the war, but in the final act, violence emerges: out comes a hacksaw and a tampered-with batch of the woodland mushrooms Mr. McB so adores, as the film enters a realm of tangible body horror and debatable gender politics.
Merwin's insistence on a poetry of imaginative utility, against the encroachments of decades of literary fads, has succeeded in giving his imagined worlds some of the tangible pleasures and horrors we associate with real ones.
Writer/director/editor Xavier Coleman aims to highlight a tangible, less slasher-y horror: the plight that emerges when an urban neighborhood lacks community and displacement occurs.
In other words, he believed that when faced with the choice of focusing on horrors small and tangible or vast and incomprehensible, humanity goes small.
Our horror post-Newtown or Boston is tangible; we can taste it, feel it, and relate to it.
The horrors that are unimaginable today suddenly became so tangible that no amount of cinched eyes or covered ears could block out the sights, screams and air of desperation that filled the space around them.
Horror is even more horrifying when it's something real, tangible, and wholly out of your control. .
As much a horror game as Resident Evil, You Must be 18 or Older to Enter evokes tangible fears.
The death and horror of those bygone days of Medellin's history may be past, but at street level, a tangible element of that time is still quite prevalent: Cocaine is everywhere.
It's impossible to ignore the devils and demons who have a tangible presence in this story, but the novel's deeper pleasure comes from the analysis Ullman applies to these horrors.
