Word: horror
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McDonagh has put grisly deeds onstage before, in plays like The Beauty Queen of Leenane. But with The Pillowman, he almost seems to have invented a new genre of horror theater. In this macabre fable with echoes of Kafka and Pinter, a man (Billy Crudup) is interrogated for a string of child murders that mimic the gruesome short stories he has written. Somehow, in the transfer to Broadway from London's National Theatre, a lot of unwelcome laughs have been allowed to sneak in. They're only a distraction from a dark, intense and truly shocking meditation on cruelty...
...We had police officers standing guard to ensure that a human being died a slow death while her family watched in horror and was powerless to do anything to help. Was this the U.S. in 2005 or a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s...
...might have faded, or, in the best of scenarios, it might have been addressed by counseling. Too many fights--between husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings--wind up with someone dead rather than with just dishes thrown and doors slammed. So long as weapons are easily available, this horror will continue...
...Jody is one of many ways in which “The Amityville Horror” is a fundamentally lazy movie. The film is based on a prior movie based on ostensibly real events that took place in the mid-’70s and it follows the standard horror-movie set-up more or less point-by-point...
...addition to stealing from specific movies, “The Amityville Horror” mines the collective tropes of all B horror (without the X factor that can induce sleazy fun). Fleeing from danger, the family runs up the stairs, only facilitating their capture. In the course of a drive from one attempt to unravel the mystery, it is suddenly a dark and stormy night. After escaping danger, it is daylight and sunny again...