Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BARON BLOOD-who is referred to by the hero with unconscious levity as "that ghoulish baron on my father's side"-is a long-dead nobleman brought back to life by some frivolous incantations. His visage is ghastly to behold, but he is crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance...
...first it seemed ghoulish to me, sitting there in a hole in the ground eating a dead man's Almond Kisses. But none of Doc's buddies thought of it that way. For them the cellophane-wrapped candy was a Eucharist. It was Doc. And in a way, he was Still with them...
...after years of dangerous work at inhospitable field stations, investigators from the U.S. and Mexico have developed techniques that promise to vanquish the vampire. With ghoulish justice, the little beast that lives by blood will be made...
...reflecting that disappointment, the Senate Armed Services Committee last week did not grant an Administration request for authorization of a second U.S. ABM complex near Washington, D.C. Besides avoiding a horrendously costly new turn in the arms race, the ABM treaty is cheered by defense experts for the rather ghoulish reason that it leaves the U.S. and Soviet populations both openly exposed to attack-and thus maintains the postwar nuclear balance of terror...
Deep End is being advertised as if it were a sequel to Repulsion. But instead of ghoulish psychodrama, it offers canny black comedy. Executed with a surrealistic flourish by Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski (who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script of Knife in the Water), it transforms the rite of puberty into a frenzied and often wildly funny vaudeville...