Word: gothic
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Helena Bonham Carter's role as Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth has been rewritten from Shelley's domestic angel into a well-dressed bundle of Gothic spitfire. Her courage in facing the horror of Frankenstein's unnatural creations is far greater than his own self-absorbed cowardice...
...architectural style is Victorian Gothic, its penology just plain gothic. Or maybe Visigothic. It is a place designed not to reform but to drive you crazy. Cool is what you need to survive here, and supercool is what you need to maintain a semblance of humanity. Andy, who insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical...
...sexual child abuse should provide Shelter with a hot selling point. The violent and fanciful conclusion, in which the children carry out feral justice, should satisfy current assumptions about victimization and empowerment. There are high literary expectations for Phillips, but Shelter -- overwritten and trendy, an example of Southern gothic, 1990s style -- does not justify them...
Fine Arts 246y. Gothic Tomb Sculpture and Courtly Imagery: A Walk With Madness, Love, and Death...
...Wolf," with its all-star cast of Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, retells the gothic werewolf story without any spark or creativity. Rent it on video, if you can't resist...