Plastic surgery bandages have never been quite so unsettling as in Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's "Goodnight Mommy," a quietly terrifying German-language film that came out in 2015.
"There's something terrifying about the language of the book, like a fear that you'll run aground while reading a word you hadn't read before," said Téa Obreht, the twentieth reader, who looked relieved at her performance.
For any adult learning an instrument or a new language is terrifying.
She issued something quick and terrified in a language he could not identify.
Of course, that's terrifying – Ellis's mastery of language alone guarantees that, his descriptions crude and brutal – but the coldness with which they're delivered separates them out from more conventional horror literature.
It is an extraordinary piece: like the Dillon, it is rich in effects, and its language can be abstruse, even terrifying.
Get ready, it's terrifying and you'll be using strong language.
"As an actor, there's something genuinely terrifying about not having facial expressions, your body language, a costume or a prop to cling to.
Again: "Language must name reality, which exists objectively, massive, tangible, and terrifying in its concreteness".
