Word: horror
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...latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls to a close: The slow reserved pace that initially generates bloodcurdling moments soon begins to retard the motion of the film. It never picks up pace leaving the great horror movie moments without resonance at all: They are simply empty shocks. Even the supposed surprise ending becomes an “Oh, okay” moment instead of a “Wow, no way, that’s his father...
...Except for Zabriskie reinventing the doped-up old woman role, the rest of the cast disappoints—especially Gellar. Sure, she can wield a wooden stake, seduce her brother and spot Scooby Doo like no one else, but Gellar just can’t handle the role of horror heroine...
...That was a moment I shall never forget. It went beyond the fact that they were used to the sound of bombs and bullets. They were overburdened by a reality they didn’t create, so overburdened for their age that it made them so detached from the horror surrounding them. Fear made them fearless, Mr. Peres. I believe this is not right...
...must not overlook that our professors, with their “publish or perish” motto, are prey to the same issues which beset us. Horror stories abound about the way in which academic work by the great minds who teach us sometimes gets rushed to print without proper proofreading. Some graduate students who work for professors are forced to drop everything and spend the three days prior to a printers’ deadline reading a professors’ text through; undergraduate faculty aides sometimes correct mistake-addled bibliographies only hours before a conference paper must be given. Something...
...young bride. Filled with hope and ambition he starts a job as a laborer in a packinghouse and puts a down payment on a house. Thereafter Jurgis endures a nearly endless stream of misfortune, exploitation, and pain that gives lie to the fantasy of the Happy Immigrant. From the horror of the fertilizer factory to the mansion of a robber baron, Jurgis experiences the extremes of capitalism run rampant...