"terrifying landscape" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a landscape that invokes fear or terror in the viewer. Example: As they reached the summit, they were met with a terrifying landscape of jagged cliffs and a raging thunderstorm in the distance.
Soon they are hopelessly lost in a vast and terrifying landscape, which looks like the parched surface of an alien planet, and in which there is no more drinking water.
Ms. Amacher layered her noises — buzzing tones wrapped in sandstorm textures, rumblings like faraway thunder storms late at night, an idling motorcycle, jets swooping by — into an apocalyptic, terrifying landscape".
Though I am a modern, civilised, 21st-century young woman, there is a pesky corner that still thinks it is roaming the terrifying landscape our ancestors navigated thousands of years ago.
Back then, New York was still reeling from its brush with bankruptcy, the deadly crack wars were raging, and one could drive for blocks and blocks through terrifying landscapes of bombed out buildings in poor neighborhoods.
PAGE E1 AT THE PRADO, A SURPLUS OF GOYA O.K., so the Prado announced that "Colossus," the famous and much-reproduced Goya painting of a giant terrifying a landscape, was not, in fact, a Goya.
MADRID — There was a little orchestrated flurry of drama here at the Prado a few sweltering days ago when the museum staged a news conference to announce what was hardly news: that "Colossus," the famous, much reproduced Goya painting of a giant terrifying a landscape, may not be a Goya after all.
Annie insists that "being responsible for a musical landscape is terrifying", but to be fair she's pretty good at it.
On that Friday afternoon, the couple has arrived early to see Ben Frost, the Australian producer who tries to break skulls with his icy noise landscapes and terrifying growls.
On the global landscape, Palestine and Pakistan are terrifying.
In 2004, the urban landscape in Enziteto was terrifying.
The landscape he records is simultaneously terrifying and magical.
