Word: gothic
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Where is Mary Shelley when we need her? Please, somebody, let the cloning of humans be only the stuff of a gothic novel--today's tale of Frankenstein's monster--instead of the unspeakably true horror story you published. DONALD T. SANDERS Madison, Conn...
...genre; there are repeated references to infant deaths and faithless lovers, and both the title track and her collaboration with the Irish band Altan on her 30-year-old "Down From Dover" evoke the appropriate sense of dread. But in the most ambitious of these efforts, the mountain-gothic "Mountain Angel," Parton's narrative of a woman driven mad by grief is undercut by her cutesy, breathy delivery, a rare misstep for this most intuitive of singers...
...movie has gone goofily gothic--more Wes Craven than Truman Capote--and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant The Gift to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive, subtle, impeccable. She seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue...
...grabbed him before Jekyll & Hyde. But Marla Schaffel, as Jane, fares less well. Despite a lovely voice, she seems altogether too poised and polished (not to mention too pretty) from the outset. Her desire for Rochester remains something we must take on faith, and her character, for all the gothic doings around her, seems to change little from beginning to end. And that, gentle reader, is something Jane Eyre cannot do without...
...reminiscent of Antichrist Superstar. This is especially obvious in the syncopated, headbanger beat of current single "Disposable Teens," a near mirror-image of "The Beautiful People." Rather than reinvent his band a third time, Manson has instead chosen to tweak and polish that former album's brand of Gothic-flavored industrial riffage. Holy Wood's ultimate downfall is its refusal to take risks; as such, it's an anticlimactic conclusion to an interesting cycle. B- -Ryan...