Word: horror
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SHEREE WILLIAMS AND HER HUSBAND LEROY LYONS came home to a scene of unimaginable horror. While they were away for 45 minutes, all seven of their children, left unattended, had perished in a swift, smoky blaze that gutted their two-story house on Detroit's east side. Iron burglar bars on the windows had prevented the youngsters, ranging in age from seven months to nine years, from escaping. In New York City two children, ages seven and five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed day-care center whose owner had stepped...
...figure of power and poignance, horror and mystery. He dwells in the fetid cellar of the subconscious; from those depths rises the music of passions we hardly dare attend. He is the Id aching for the Ideal, loathsomeness wanting to be loved, unknown fear reaching up to touch or break our hearts. He is every teacher who fell in love with a beautiful student, every middle-aged man who has a star-struck boy's swoony soul. He is kin to Pygmalion, Cyrano, Quasimodo, Dracula, the Elephant Man and King Kong -- artists isolated in their genius, Beasts pining for Beauty...
Jonathan Weinber handles his role as the police captain with droll aplomb. As a portrait of savagery, the captain delightedly lectures on execution and demonstrates on a dog Selig displays appropriate confusion and horror at such antics...
...Desire" also shows off the vibrant, stylish production Almodovar is justly famous for. The movie plays slyly with dubbing and visual perspective in a way that never comes off as precious; Almodovar is careful not to let his tricks upstage the story he tells. Half romance, half horror flick, "Law of Desire" displays a ferocious energy sadly lacking from Almodovar's more recent efforts; it showcases the full talents of a director who can make audiences squirm...
Schindler's story is unique only in the magnitude of its horror. The harassment he experienced while he was awaiting a discharge for being gay is hardly unusual. But Schindler's punishment for his sexual orientation was death: On the night of October 27, 1992, at a U.S. naval base in Japan, Airman Apprentice Terry Helvey fatally battered him against the toilet fixtures of a public restroom...