Word: horror
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...imaginations have had to turn sinister in hopes of anticipating the enemy's next move. We have braced ourselves for the reports of burned children in Afghan hospitals, dead civilians on a Kandahar bus; we know more personally now about the horror of innocent casualties of war. We understand what the Defense Department video doesn't show us--that when soldiers go in on the ground, the caskets begin to come home. This is not the cold war, in which bluffing worked; it is not a land war over borders and ports, which ends with a newly drawn...
How’s this for a horror film tagline: “The only thing worse than being trapped in a house with a ghost… is being trapped in a house with 13 ghosts.” So goes the ad copy for Thirteen Ghosts, opening today. I could make the obvious joke and say that the only thing worse than being trapped in a house with 13 ghosts is being trapped in a theater showing Thirteen Ghosts, but the movie, though decidedly uninspired, doesn’t quite deserve that. (Incidentally, I also think that...
True, Thirteen Ghosts doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a low-budget horror flick released in time for Halloween, but it doesn’t even fare very well at that. Perhaps owing to the film’s (at times intentionally) laughable dialogue and generally unoriginal direction, genuine frights are few and far between. The visual effects and set design do have their moments, but the ghosts themselves too often look like tired haunted house props. And while the story holds the audience’s attention well enough, its supposed surprise twist is rather...
...received news of the Sept. 11 attacks: stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the U.S. to build a big coalition against terror, one that would include armed force. "I saw it in very simple, clear terms. I don't really see how you can see it any differently." The horror of the attack meant that the U.S. "would put its entire strength into dealing with the perpetrators." It would either "be left to do it on its own, or do it with other people." He concluded that "if the rest of the world gets with America, it's not just...
...Land Rover with three workers from Amnesty International when I hear the crack of gunfire and see rebel soldiers storming from the bushes. They are dressed in camouflage with balaclavas pulled over their faces and guns in their hands. I watch in horror as my colleague is pulled from the seat next to me. I feel hands forcing me out of the car, shoving me onto the ground. The barrel of a pistol digs into the back of my neck. A burlap sack is pulled over my head and tightened by a cord. The world has gone dark...