When Will examines that heart sculpture, for instance, it folds open, ventricles falling to the floor, and then walks toward him on twisted, black, nightmare legs, transforming into a demonic elk.
Cronenberg's twisted Hollywood nightmare takes its punning title both from new age astrology and from the tourist maps handed out in Beverly Hills from the early days, pinpointing the homes of the most adored actors.
Bug (written by August: Osage County author Tracy Letts) was a taut and twisted motel-room nightmare; Killer Joe (Letts again) a turbulent pulp thriller about crime, compromise and punishment in a Texas trailer park.
Laid out on a trolley, his twisted creations are the stuff of nightmares.
One reason to have a night-shift Staffer down in the front office is so somebody's there for the residents to talk at when — not if, when — when the detox nightmares ratchet them out of twisted sheets at like 0300.
It's the sheer twisted imagination of the premise; the idea of lucid waking nightmares bleeding into the real world makes Freddy Krueger a much more formidable and interesting foe than any of his slasher rivals.
Similarly, I am fairly certain that none of Gerhard Richter's magnificent paintings would provide me with $50,000,000 worth of pleasure - although some of Francis Bacon's twisted works could easily provide me with $142,400,000 worth of nightmares.
Walker's masterpiece feeds off the logic of legends, nightmares and clichés, carefully arranged through suspicion, paranoia and twisted pleasure.
United's nightmare season showed no sign of easing when they learned that the twisted ankle sustained by midfielder Michael Carrick against Sunderland on Wednesday night will keep him out for at least three weeks.
