Sentence examples for undercurrent of horror from inspiring English sources

There's a pantomime-style playfulness about the idea, but the photos carry an undercurrent of horror that was the trademark of the Grimm stories.

In all the stories told of Pickingill there is a subtle undercurrent of horror which one finds hard to pinpoint.

The melodramatic beats feel flat, though, compared to the horror movie undercurrent of tension.

This is a theatre of horror, the work of a man who has seen dark undercurrents behind the scenes of life.

Undeserving of horror?

PROFILE of horror writer Stephen King.

It was full of horror.

The moments of horror seem endless.

The look of horror!

Powers of Horror, Leon Roudiez (Trans).

What's even more disquieting is the persistent undercurrent of exploitation – the mixture of grief and jarring shock effects and the pitiless use of a disfigured child as a source of horror".