Word: horror
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...option, food is scarce and raw, and instinct threatens to rule their passions and actions. A militant group of inmates soon takes command of the wards, raping the women and killing anyone who disobeys them. Excrement, garbage, blood and corpses slowly fill the hospital as, with horror, the inmates feel themselves sinking further and further away from humanity, helplessly approaching the degradation and raw violence of rabid animals. "Perhaps humanity will cease to live without eyes," an inmate claims, "but then it will cease to be humanity, the result is obvious, which of us think of ourselves as being...
...idea that humans are distinct. Individuality crumbles when self-survival becomes the primary objective and everyone eventually realizes that, at their core, they are profoundly, horribly, the same. "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are," one inmate claims with horror. Saramago's use of dialogue mirrors this loss of individuality. The words of the blind meld together without paragraphs, quotation marks or periods. Separated only by commas, the statements of the blind become a confused mass of speech. Language loses its personal nature and the horror of the situation melds into...
...process travesty tragedy. The witnesses to the Holocaust--its living victims--inevitably grow fewer every year. The voices that would deny it ever took place remain strident. The newer generations hurry heedlessly into the future. In this climate, turning even a small corner of this century's central horror into feel-good popular entertainment is abhorrent. Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing us of judgment and moral acuity, and it needs to be resisted. Life Is Beautiful is a good place to start...
...whole affair is utterly ludicrous, but it succeeds because it so gleefully revels in its own absurdity. While so many horror films these days desperately try to copy the Scream formula, in which teen stars act hip while being terrorized (Disturbing Behavior and Urban Legend come readily to mind), it's refreshing to watch a horror flick that isn't afraid to rely on excessive campiness. While Vampires never quite reaches the level of ingenious nonsense as, say, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, its clever blend of Dracula and The Wild Bunch makes for an embarrassingly fun ride. Much like...
...that both aspects were changed--not only was it produced backwards, it was produced backwards in an insane asylum. While the viability of both changes is suggested by the text itself, their simultaneous implementation is a very bold move. The historical Richard III was the deserving subject of horror stories for a good century prior to Shakespeare's dramatization, and undoubtedly, this is the same story, with all the murder, intrigue and back-stabbing that suggests...