Word: horrors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album begins in horror-like style with "Anthropod." This track begins with an interesting array of soft, slow drums, a soothing bass line and quiet samples. The song then releases a sudden onslaught of unconventional guitar riffs and loud synthesized noises, ranging from a ticking clock to the sound of dragging chains. This sudden outburst from apparent tranquility is incredibly frightening, particularly when listened to in a dark room in the wee hours of the morning. The initial effect of this outburst is powerful, as the overwhelming and deceivingly random sounds immediately pump the body with surging adrenaline, much like...
...Below exhibits another limiting pattern, as the order of the songs on the album is as symmetrical and methodical as an assembly line. Ironically, the straight jacket of conventional patterns ultimately subverts the intrinsic randomness of Hovercraft's musical style. Experiment Below has a frighteningnumber of similarities with a horror film likeThe Bride of Chucky. Initially, the albumis innovative, promising and startling with itssudden climaxes and its metallic, synthesizedsound. Yet, Experiment Below loses itsshock value after the listener becomesdesensitized by the relentless repetition ofclimaxing patterns, as is the case with thesenseless gore in The Bride of Chucky.Music must be built...
Assassination, torture, kidnapping and execution were tools of law enforcement in apartheid South Africa -- that much is clear from the 3,500-page true-life horror story released by the Truth Commission Thursday. Its exhaustive accounts, from perpetrators and victims, of almost every apartheid-era violation is a gut-wrenching chronicle of evil's violent banality. Little will change as a result of the report; even the recommendation of prosecution for those who failed to seek amnesty for specific violations -- such as former president P.W. Botha and former first lady Winnie Mandela -- is unlikely to be deemed politically or legally...
...entry into B-movie heaven, but as this is the fourth of the Child's Play movies (it's been 10 years since the first) something new is added: Chucky's ex-girlfriend is turned into an equally evil and equally plastic doll. So there are all your standard horror movie tropes--"chilling" music, ridiculous quick cuts, and so on--but it's two dolls causing the mayhem. The brilliance of this premise will not be appreciated during our lifetime...
Unlike most horror movies these days, Chucky has a smart, talented director in Hong Kong's Ronny Yu, who also directed the excellent Cantonese-language Bride With White Hair. Chucky's Hong Kong action-movie heritage is evident in the extreme violence and good, lame humor present. Everything bursts into flames and blows up: a police car, a RV, a waterbed (no joke) and much more. A person hit by a Mack truck is completely atomized. John Ritter (as the police chief out to separate our teen lovers) is murdered horribly--twice! A goth who wears Speedos (played by another...