Word: horror
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...movies -- cheap horror films, dingy porno, old instructional pictures on dating technique -- suspend belief. They become documentaries of people trying to make a good movie. With their preposterous narratives, fractured editing, tatty sets and monotonous line readings, they play like doomed dress rehearsals. First you are drawn into the catastrophe of the filmmaking process, like a rubbernecking motorist passing a road kill. Then you notice that these movies are doubly subversive: they not only subvert themselves, they rebel against the timid rules of traditional filmmaking. In this sense, bad movies are the first modernist movies, as the French long...
...head taller than the star (who died during the filming) and must cover his face with a cape; to the thespian exertions of 400-lb. ex-wrestler Tor Johnson in Night of the Ghouls; to the rantings of TV mystic Criswell in the 1965 nudie horror musical Orgy of the Dead ("Torture! Torture! It pleasures...
...Hanan, the thing you cannot doubt, is her passion and compassion. She interrupts an endless day's work to receive two unexpected callers: Ramallah women she's never met before who seek her help to free their sons held in Israeli detention. "To me," she says, "this is the horror of it. This is why I do it." To have a nation is the only way to stop the wrenching apart of families, she says. There is no way you can question the authenticity of her commitment, the ferocity of her determination to bring the occupation...
...Horror stories are easy to find. Eastern Airlines had a net worth of more than $1 billion when it entered Chapter 11 in 1989. But there was little left for creditors by the time Eastern exhausted $400 million trying to remain aloft before it quit flying last year. Manville Corp. filed a 1982 petition solely to escape $2 billion of liability suits brought by defendants who claimed to have been harmed by the firm's asbestos products. The next year Frank Lorenzo steered Continental Airlines into bankruptcy, allegedly to break union contracts. But the tactic could not save Continental...
...white truck driver being beaten senseless by a marauding mob is real, and several Bush aides say they would "not be surprised" if some snappy voice-over were contrived to run along with that tragedy, played again and again in the fall as a reminder of the horror that awaits "us" if "they" are not contained...