Word: chainsaw
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...were violent, obsessive and often focused on sexual abuse. One especially profane play titled Mr. Brownstone told of a student being repeatedly sodomized by a teacher. Another was about a 13-year-old who accuses his stepfather of abusing him. The protagonist's mother at one point brandishes a chainsaw. The play ends with the stepfather crushing the boy to death...
...immediate lesson is not to take a chainsaw to all of Alaska. “Clear-cutting mountains to slow climate change is, of course, nuts,” wrote Ken Caldeira, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution and one of the study’s authors, in a January op-ed in The New York Times. Slowing global warming while destroying ecosystems is poor policy, he says. But so is blindly planting trees...
Directed by Martin CampbellMGM/Columbia Pictures4 StarsThere seems to be a recent trend in cinema of going back to a character’s origins—some notable examples including “Batman Begins,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning,” and the upcoming “Hannibal Rising”—which has now gained popularity with the 007 franchise. Once you’ve incorporated invisible cars and ice mansions as crucial plot elements and cast Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist, it’s time...
...haunts in the U.S. Neil invested three-quarters of a million dollars this year in her haunt, and she anticipates a hefty return as well. Imported live kelp lends authenticity to a pirate scene, the putrid scent of rotten meat permeates a slaughterhouse, complete with a locker from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Hollywood make-up artists transform teenagers into depraved beings. "I make monsters on people," says make-up artist Chris Cannon as he puts the final touches on a festering wound. "And that helps bring out the monster in them...
...shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o, once the most feared man in Colombia. It was a faster death than Casta?o probably deserved; many of his victims were killed by chainsaw...