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"macabre" Definitions
  1. unpleasant and strange because connected with death and frightening things
"macabre" Antonyms
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839 Sentences With "macabre"

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" The most macabre: "Assigned as your lab partner… Dies.
The Trump Show is a macabre, fascinating, appalling, thrilling spectacle.
The national dialogue has taken a turn for the macabre.
Some come to worship, some come out of macabre curiosity.
But his satirical danse macabre has more than one target.
Authorities eventually entered the house and found a macabre scene.
But most dark tourists seek meaning, not merely the macabre.
And what kind of macabre mother names her child Chastity?
Fleury claimed the threats were a macabre attempt at trolling.
Occasionally, a macabre echo occurs in the tour guides' patter.
Even the story behind Hield's cuddly nickname is somewhat macabre.
No really, this episode took a turn for the macabre.
Think Martha Stewart of the macabre — with puppets and jokes.
It was a moment of macabre beauty, power, and tragedy.
And then, the whole macabre affair ends in abrupt tragedy.
There's such a narrow line between the macabre and laughter.
There is a macabre fascination to seeing blood spilled onstage.
Despite the name, it's not as macabre as it sounds.
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And finally, happy birthday to a delightfully macabre Disneyland institution.
And finally, happy birthday to a delightfully macabre Disneyland institution.
The catchy, eerie "True Believers," released last October, was macabre.
Its tiny but macabre grandeur is stunningly rude and risqué.
Because I've never fully managed to anesthetize myself against the macabre.
Pavlensky, known for macabre, politically charged actions, was detained by police.
You might, like me, even find the concept a tad macabre.
Constructed vaginal openings, done with rudimentary painkillers, bordered on the macabre.
That's where the rather macabre Gin-Ji Knife Set comes in.
O'Hair's influential life ended with a deeply disturbing and macabre twist.
Why do you think goths identify so heavily with the macabre?
Dozens of locals can be seen driving past the macabre display.
"We found the macabre in all of this," Mr. Machos said.
The theft strikes even L.A. cops as especially bizarre ... or macabre.
Their commercial work had a macabre wit that anticipated the Sueños.
After the first wry, macabre, winkingly dystopian story, I was hooked.
More than 40,000 skeletons were used to create this macabre museum.
There are cinematic found sounds, towering Sequoia falsettos, and macabre whistles.
Whither the weird, macabre artist responsible for Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns?
It's very games-centric, and has a very macabre sense of humor.
Much like Riverdale, This Is Us needs a macabre mystery to run.
We ended up using that image for the cover of Pulp Macabre.
I mean, it was really that simple and somewhat macabre, I know.
You were following up the success of Danse Macabre with this album.
As for the macabre edge, the combination with cuteness just comes naturally.
But for this macabre and peculiar undertaking, what other system is there?
The intense privacy of female solitude acquires a macabre, yet formal power.
She creates elaborate, macabre performances to shock and disgust her viewing fans.
One particularly macabre genre of early-21 TikTok: the coronavirus stockpiling video.
The macabre mentality of multiple bombings can be gripping, Mr. Klapec said.
Today, Liveleak is less a wire service than a macabre aggregator. Rotten.
Lunch was—perhaps a macabre touch, but I appreciated it—pheasant sandwiches.
Stories with a macabre element — I've written quite a lot of them.
The journalists emerged with deliciously macabre stories, which I had studied admiringly.
The courtroom itself was a destination for the curious and the macabre.
The words also suggested, Mr. Adams said, the Totentanz, or danse macabre.
After all, she's made a career out of highlighting the spooky and macabre.
This serves as your group's invitation to the puzzling, macabre world of Personas.
If that sounds macabre, well, apparently it happens more often than you'd expect.
Sardonic humour and gothic plot-twists add a layer of macabre rustic comedy.
The lilting but incongruous notes of a flute sometimes accompanied the macabre demonstration.
The group practiced and perfected their macabre entrance at home before heading out.
The show's trailer features the classic theme song perfectly timed to macabre images.
I had come to see tests as macabre rituals designed to trick me.
I'm curious about the macabre and the fantastic, the joy and the despair.
The mortars were a macabre invitation to a fight for the bunker complex.
The show concluded with a danse macabre between Harding and a giant crustacean.
The scene is a bit macabre, like the aftermath of a gruesome dismemberment.
"Fierce Kingdom" is a portrait of a mind at work under macabre duress.
"My tie to the marine culture is something a little more macabre," he says.
The IDF announced the strike in a tweet that included a nerdy, macabre joke.
Step back and façades of buildings fall into a twist — delayed, made fittingly macabre.
Lemony Snicket's relentlessly upsetting narrative makes no moves to hide its macabre foundation, either.
Sorta like Glinda in Wicked, she rides around in a giant, macabre dead snake.
There's an "extremely macabre 'wait and see'" mood around the office, one staffer said.
Back then occasionally we would be called to cover macabre regime-organized baby funerals.
Through 1916 French and German losses kept climbing in a macabre pas de deux.
It drifts between borderline-Beatles pop, swirling shoegaze, macabre balladry, and grubby pop-punk.
Nor the more inappropriately macabre question of what ratings he received for his rides.
"I thought of it as a macabre joke, not a racist slur," another said.
When a celebrity dies, the resulting media circus becomes a macabre form of entertainment.
Elvira is currently appearing in the show Elvira's Danse Macabre at Knott's Berry Farm.
The pumpkin, macabre toys and bloody hand would provide inspiration for any suspense author.
The Halloween season, resplendent in all its macabre glory, is now in full swing.
This past year, Brazil averaged 175 murders a day, surpassing its previous macabre record.
Some were macabre, like the dozens of coffins that were nudged aboveground in Texas.
In this macabre game of musical chairs, whoever was left holding the loans was dead.
The official statement also ignores a final, macabre question: the fate of Mr Khashoggi's body.
Or photocopy each hand separately onto clear sticker paper and piece together your macabre masterpiece.
The macabre case has riveted Swedish and Danish media, and made headlines around the world.
A spooky feeling gripped many Phuds, the macabre thought that a killer was targeting them.
People have been using the cave and its skeletons as a macabre playground for decades.
You become a macabre fascination to many, which the Baudelaire's realize in the first episode.
On America's opposite coast, Scott Michaels can also attest to the allure of the macabre.
Marilyn Monroe covered in blood, that would be pretty macabre, that would be pretty scary.
Méndez gazed at the macabre accessory, which was fitted with a glinting, ruby-red eye.
Macabre does not even begin to describe this collection steeped in the Southern Gothic tradition.
Their macabre photos suggest a brutal world full of monstrous people traveling to haunting locales.
That's a low bar, but we've cleared it and that is real, if macabre, progress.
It pulls from Blank-Wave Arcade, Danse Macabre, Wet From Birth, Fasciinatiion, and Doom Abuse.
It's Such a Beautiful Day is an unusual masterpiece that's beautiful, macabre, sad, and hilarious.
It saps the skin and blood of dead things and turns them into macabre trees.
Brazil has averaged 175 murders a day this past year, surpassing its previous macabre record.
Giselle, a new initiate into this macabre society, must kill Albrecht, whom she still loves.
Another grabs the shovel and they begin the macabre work of uncovering the skeletal remains.
The most suggestive evidence for such transgenerational transmission may come from a macabre human experiment.
With macabre serendipity, the tsunami had hit during the peak of the holiday travel season.
While some of his illustrations tend to the macabre, the end-results are hauntingly beautiful.
The first was the deliciously rowdy semistaged performance of Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre" in 2010.
Teenage bullying is met with macabre revenge in this adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel.
When my mind conjures the corresponding imagery and assembles the components, it's a macabre scene.
It's macabre but comic, demonstrating a deftness with which Cardboard Computer handle weighty subject matter.
It's a macabre cover, but one that perfectly captures the prog-rock vibe of these Dutchmen.
It would be a bold and risky move, but it has a macabre logic to it.
The show features a macabre display of works that celebrate the biology of life and death.
When they do, there is usually someone nearby with a camera to record the macabre episode.
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Nothing like adding a little macabre to make a love story pop, in my humble opinion!
How would you describe Coye's style to someone unfamiliar without using the terms "pulp" or "macabre"?
Of course, we have the moon to thank, in part, for this tendency toward the macabre.
Jughead describes that in juxtaposition to the town's typical macabre atmosphere, #Varchie is quite the opposite.
The macabre list is quite long and includes recent as well as decade-old mass shootings.
Unfortunately, and despite its best intentions, the #WalkersWave soon became the victim of a macabre prank.
Eve is observant and obsessive, with a fascination with the macabre that borders on the erotic.
"These terrorist groups are now attacking religion with the macabre aim of dividing us," it said.
Everyone she meets, from a macabre makeup artist (Jena Malone) to a lecherous motel owner (Mr.
A macabre confrontation seems certain, and it is, but not in the way the reader expects.
So there "Mysteries of the Macabre" was on Friday evening, in all its nine-minute glory.
The gag follows a basic Addams Family formula: the collision of the drab with the macabre.
Where Burbank was sunny and benign, Burton was moody, interested in the dark and the macabre.
It's called The Second Law, by London artist Paul Fryer and it's both macabre and amusing.
But nowadays it feels like I'm being forced to watch the macabre, black version of it.
Look at it from a purely aesthetic standpoint and it may have a certain macabre appeal.
He has an intensity suited for the macabre, but he tunes it to a comic frequency.
She was at once warm and deeply serious; a gracious, smiley person with a macabre bent.
Spending an afternoon at this 212-acre graveyard that borders Sunset Park feels anything but macabre.
For reasons never fully elucidated, Jones waited until the following day to report his macabre discovery.
His macabre enterprise, so dependent on the landowners' self-interested incuriosity, disintegrates under Gogol's exuberant scrutiny.
On an individual level, being goth also suggested a fascination with the dark, macabre, and otherworldly.
The macabre video shown at a weekend conference for President Trump's supporters has raised many questions.
In his intense and surreal opera, Mr. Adès explores the terrifying undercurrents of Buñuel's macabre comedy.
But he discovers he's been misled about the would-be victims in this macabre daisy chain.
Although lamenting "vanishing New York" has become a macabre pastime for some, Pietro's remains strangely uncanonized.
It has magic, color, and flamboyance cloaking an extremely macabre context of crime, duplicity, and immorality.
"It's not like he was intentionally after the macabre in making that picture," Mr. Lord said.
Over the course of two decades, we've witnessed the public's disturbed disposition morph into a macabre curiosity.
On a recent visit, the gallery was full of gleeful, wide-eyed adults enthralled by the macabre.
It has a fine, macabre sense of humor, and the performances are strong from top to bottom.
The pestilence is described coldly from behind a panel in the form of a macabre press conference.
And while Beetlejuice has a "macabre wit," it also engages with serious themes about life and death.
Hunchback: The thrill of horror and the macabre wears off extremely quickly when it's interpreted too seriously.
Cupio Dissolvi  continues your tradition of penning morbid, macabre lyrics that match the gloominess of the music.
Diver Dimitris Roumpianos said the teams didn&apost find anything today, but the macabre search will continue.
Del Toro is a master of the macabre; his films are all wonderfully crafted things of beauty.
The back-to-back sudden deaths of Fisher and Reynolds were heart-wrenching, horrifying and almost macabre.
With macabre consistency, he and his allies let slip fantasies in which she is murdered or executed.
The "Danse Macabre" frieze at St. Mary's Church in Lübeck was painted in 1463 by Bernt Notke.
Baudelaire owed much of his macabre aesthetic to Edgar Allen Poe, whose works he translated into French.
Instead of your standard gingerbread people, your slightly macabre giftee can bake some crime scene outlines instead.
"Dark Souls isn't as grim and macabre as the marketing made it out to be," Black explained.
The latest trend in baby-naming is as macabre as the batshit-crazy times we live in.
It's also macabre, our culture's counsel to stay quiet about being pregnant in case of a miscarriage.
A macabre reminder of this successful ruse surfaced when Mr. Kertész was preparing his Nobel acceptance speech.
The video for "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" is macabre, uneventful, and yet very watchable.
But the massacres around the town of Beni were the most macabre and mysterious in recent memory.
The case at hand involves hunting down a famous artist known for her grotesque and macabre paintings.
Noisey: Some people think goths are obsessed with death and the macabre—would you say that's true?
The pictures are beautiful and macabre, as well as a valuable record of old forensic photography techniques.
Biological engineers are developing a method for regrowing human tissue that's straight out of a macabre carnival.
As it turns out, Mr. Roeg is just the right match for this macabre and funny idea.
Less than a minute long, it was one of the first filmic depictions of a danse macabre.
"These terrorist groups are now attacking religion with the macabre aim of dividing us," the statement said.
Now an exhibition by the artist Skylar Fein is shedding light on this macabre and overlooked episode.
The next time someone tries to look behind that metaphorical and very macabre curtin — they're seeing Jason.
Wacker's "Autumn Bouquet With Butterfly," a morose, macabre still life from 1938, could serve as his epitaph.
Mr. McConnell's every move then seemed calibrated to enrage his opponents, to inspire some new macabre moniker.
Those who delight in lush, shadowy compositions and macabre manifestations of an unbridled id will celebrate, too.
This macabre scavenger hunt was in search of worms that lay coiled within some of the insects.
The more macabre present sees the severed appendage embarking on a journey to reconnect with its owner.
Some version of this macabre scenario seems to be playing out on a regular basis in America.
We're at the home of Kozaburo Hamamoto, a captain of industry with a macabre sense of humor.
The atmosphere of this course is fairly macabre, not solely because of the twisted, glitter-studded clam corpses.
Warren told me the macabre costuming in these works was greatly influenced by her youth in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Photo: Amazon JapanAs Halloween draws near, it's time to start thinking about macabre ways to prank your friends.
Renowned film director, composer, and master of the macabre, John Carpenter has announced a new album for 2016.
No parent would ever volunteer to put their family, themselves, their pre-teen daughter, in that macabre position.
The effect is macabre, surreal, like a Dalí painting come to life — except it's utterly devoid of life.
Bryan, the show definitely has your visual stamp, combining a sense of awe and whimsy with the macabre.
The New York Times bestselling author of 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' has a taste for the macabre.
The macabre family was then the subject of a TV show in 1964, with several movie reboots thereafter.
"Don't let them bury me, I'm not dead" was my response, mimicking the macabre gestures of a zombie.
Click here to view original GIFGIF: Paramount PicturesWhere did the macabre tale about a human spine come from?
Centipedes are professional killers Like some other alien creatures living among us, the centipede's lineaments are utterly macabre.
The abuses are so frequent and so uniformly macabre that the narrative becomes paradoxically dull rather than provocative.
One New Jersey teen decided to forgo the stretch limo and opt for something a little more macabre.
It's knowing that cruel and macabre systems were put in place to destroy me and those like me.
At the same time, Dr. O'Connor's openness has exposed some of the more macabre requirements of scientific research.
Set aside the macabre demand for Bucklew to design the gas chamber in which he will be executed.
"If you pop open one of these nests in springtime, you discover a macabre scene," Dr. Zielinski said.
Every other element of this tale is a perfectly balanced mixture of the macabre with pure human poignancy.
In March, "Sweeney Todd" - the macabre tale of a murderous barber set to Sondheim's music - made its debut.
It's basically a classic arcade racer with a delightfully macabre twist, at once comfortingly familiar and thrillingly different.
One is part of the Art History Series, a collection of printed patches of famous old macabre paintings.
When: Friday, October 28, 6–9pm Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn Looking for some respite from the dark and macabre?
New mysteries appear as well, so readers can look forward to the continuation of this macabre, masterly series.
But he also plied his signature wit with wicked word play on matters macabre (see: "A Little Priest").
Red Orchid Theater's "Traitor" adds the macabre touch of Stockmann's son dropping dead onstage, poisoned by the water.
Some see the collection of 750 objects on display as macabre and others see it as medically intriguing.
Killings, the burning of homes, pillaging and the massive displacement of people, those are the macabre everyday spectacles.
Perhaps the couple saw their vision of "home" slip gradually into a macabre backdrop for an unwelcome reality.
Satellite trucks, national news reporters and animal rights activists converged for what had become a macabre death watch.
There's "Fifty Ways to Eat Your Lover" which embodies Gray's flair for the macabre juxtaposed with the sentimental.
"I guess this spiralled me into becoming obsessed with the morbid and macabre," he wrote in The Mirror.
New technology allows researchers to look beneath the layers of the Dutch master's works, revealing some macabre details.
The musician is depicted in a neo-Greek style, yet the skeleton evokes a Renaissance-style Danse Macabre.
In the past decade, New York City real-estate prices have gone from merely obscene to downright macabre.
Venus in Scorpio is not your average aesthetic; goth and macabre looks are appealing and appropriate for Halloween.
The enormous success of "Le Grand Macabre" emboldened the Philharmonic and its players, at least for a while.
On Twitter, "#northkoreachristmasgift" trended Wednesday, with users making macabre jokes about a nuclear attack on the United States.
A roll of string, its loose end damp and frayed, lay next to me amid this macabre picnic.
The macabre "Washing Monsters" may comment on the challenge of motherhood without resorting to using women or children.
Ryan Murphy's sprawling American Horror Story series stands as a macabre testament to what anthology horror television can be.
Their unique and macabre research method is focused on the stock return of companies following a CEO's unexpected death.
With this rather macabre technique, it wasn't just blood that was shared—the two interconnected mice also shared organs.
Sure, that may sound pretty macabre compared to trick-or-treating, but Samhain isn't just about gloom and doom.
This macabre teaching aid vividly demonstrates the various injuries that a person may receive through war, accident, or disease.
Horror movie buffs and anyone looking for a more macabre getaway have a new destination for their bucket lists.
Though Goldberg makes the scene funny in a macabre sort of way, it's incredibly hard to watch—or forget.
If you delve into the heart of Hackney, East London, you'll find a strange house holding a macabre exhibition.
In "Danse Macabre," King's study of the horror genre, he explains that there are two different kinds of horror.
Becoming an organ donor isn't about some bureaucratic form or macabre human-parts harvesting; it's a chance for redemption.
Their solos came across as the voices of animated objects in a way that marvelously suited Berlioz's macabre vision.
Years ago, Ms. Janes founded a company that gave walking tours of historical New York, focused on the macabre.
I react with mild amusement to this obviously macabre gift, which, in fact, my wife's grandmother has asked for.
The whole sequence plays like a dark comedy, something propped up at the intersection of macabre, silly, and hilarious.
I can't take credit for the macabre twist from Will and Joel and Sam, but I did enjoy it.
Assad and his supporters have attacked civilians with a macabre mix of tools, including aerial bombs and chemical weapons.
While discussing national security, Mr. Trump celebrated in macabre terms two targeted killings he had ordered in recent months.
The sadness I felt was matched by a macabre desire to learn that his death was a violent one.
Day Trip Tastes for fine art, thin-crust pizza, the macabre and more can be sated in New Haven.
It was a macabre costume for girls as young as 403 and 8, performing before the mayor and governor.
He incorporates self-portraits in fantastical and sometimes macabre paintings, which have garnered him frequent comparisons to Frida Kahlo.
Maybe it's because they're born during a time of year that we already associate with all things spooky and macabre.
The macabre history of the island, which will become the venue of the historic summit on Tuesday, is less known.
The worst, most macabre part of my brain assumed that the cello statue is made out of a real woman.
I watched that one Mothman video and fell down an internet rabbit hole into an online underworld of the macabre.
As usual, Ford is way too excited about the kind of macabre themes that should give him far greater pause.
But, UnReal, like its two leading ladies, forces itself to stop being enamored with its own macabre, sometimes brilliant darkness.
These macabre book covers created by Etsy seller South House Boutique will make your house feel like Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory.
I could appreciate the sheer attention to detail, even if staring at animal skulls while eating meat seemed somewhat macabre.
Lemony Snicket's (real name: Daniel Handler) novels celebrated the macabre in a way few other kids' stories would dream of.
In this docu-series, the New Zealand filmmaker David Farrier follows tourists seeking strange and macabre thrills around the world.
Every few months, another macabre headline would hit the newspapers ("Groans: They Bring Attention to Man Killed in Folding Bed").
Does this wholly imaginary scenario play into a macabre desire to explore what a worst-case scenario might look like?
"It is a macabre form of eugenic human cloning," declared a Nebraska congressman, Jeff Fortenberry, at a hearing in 2014.
His attitude veers from contempt to condescension as he tells macabre jokes delighting in death, dropped babies and casual murder.
In Las Vegas it shared a macabre double-billing with the semiautomatic version of the Russian AK-47. Chattanooga. Orlando.
And, while it is a macabre form of accounting, the need to repair buildings could create a surge in output.
The bodies floated to the surface on consecutive days, macabre signposts of suffering amid the spring foliage in Central Park.
"It's a macabre plan," said Superlano, a lawmaker from Lopez's Popular Will party who won the opposition primary in Barinas.
The second story is a bit macabre: While staying at an inn, Nicholas discovered three dismembered children in pickle barrels.
You must not succumb to the comic-book temptation to glorify gore or indulge in the macabre bloodsloshing of murder.
This purgatory story would be macabre if not for its matter-of-fact approach to death and its charming illustrations.
This is where the story changes and Looking loses its macabre hunger for a fruitless investigation into a horrifying tragedy.
His death was a macabre echo of Gongadze's murder, and it, too, crystallized the fear and disorder of the times.
That was when Paramount's young production chief, Robert Evans, turned a macabre drama, "Rosemary's Baby," into a box office juggernaut.
Gorey doesn't use animals but rather the conventions of the macabre to represent the terrible loneliness of his youthful characters.
The camera attached to his head recording the massacre follows the barrel of his weapon, like some macabre video game.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Bring up Edward Gorey and certain words come to mind — "eccentric" and "macabre" most frequently.
Which suggests that George Hodel's interests in macabre paintings may be more violent than just that of a fun new hobby.
" Morris responded that he is working against "the whole idea that black is supposed to be something macabre, negative, dirty, filthy.
Of course it's a stick leg, because this is a stick man, but there's something very funny and macabre about it.
But Wednesday's macabre find in an industrial park was a reminder that criminal gangs are still profiting from large-scale trafficking.
Clearly, by closing UNRWA schools the U.N. employees meant to encourage youngsters to become cannon fodder for Hamas' deadliest macabre theatre.
She told how behind each macabre and surreal photo is a complex process of research, consent, intimacy, pain, and psychological pioneering.
Gay recasts and reclaims this idea in her fiction; there is no shying away from the macabre, only avowal and ownership.
Lodged snugly in its gullet was a drowned mole—a macabre death scene the fisherman excitedly shared on his Instagram page.
One of the family's residences, at 411 Elm Street, was believed to be the inspiration for the macabre Addams Family house.
MILFORD "Spirits of Milford Ghost Walks," 90-minute lantern tours of downtown Milford, blending tales of the macabre with local history.
"These terrorist groups are now attacking religion with the macabre aim of dividing us," according to a statement from the government.
I was afraid to turn on the light and find myself in a macabre tête-à-tête with a rotting corpse.
Speaking to the BBC, Peachey said there's "nothing particularly macabre" about the burials, and that they weren't the result of executions.
This level of macabre entertainment is completely apropos of their band name and previous reputations, but is still kind of...strange.
The unglazed ceramic humans, animals, shoes and underpants that compose Sally Saul's long overdue New York solo debut seem gleefully macabre.
Billie Eilish, 18, is one of the few pop stars working today with a Marilyn Manson-like interest in macabre transgression.
Billie Eilish, 18, is one of the few pop stars working today with a Marilyn Manson-like interest in macabre transgression.
They would be the lamest of ducks, living with their jilted fan base in a fittingly macabre countdown at the Coliseum.
We're covering another macabre coronavirus milestone in Italy, what the American government knew about pandemics, and the anxious mood in Madrid.
Despite the macabre reputation, the Overtoun grounds remain a popular dog-walking area and many of the animals are off leash.
In a chapter titled "Pickled Brains," Epstein seems to delight in the macabre spectacle of abandoned organs in a university basement.
Either way, Chernobyl is still full of mystery, both macabre and fascinating, over three decades after the region was changed forever.
Almost a century after her death, the question of what drove Mathilde de Rothschild's passion for macabre artifacts remains an enigma.
The scene also reminded us Tom has a son who died, which is prime sympathy building for a show this macabre.
Fourth place at this weekend's box office went to "The Addams Family," an animated family movie based on the macabre comics.
To choose the lucky survivor, he has devised a macabre game, allowing each in turn to make his or her case.
I could not leave him to stand without me at the concentration-camp gates, sniffing the air, eying the macabre chimneys.
There is a macabre fascination, tinged with pitch-black humor, in Koji's meeting Ippei again after he is released from prison.
Six new episodes, from the playfully romantic to the downright macabre, traverse lonely roads in desolate lands alongside overcrowded sensory byways.
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse is an online exhibition that unearths the macabre history of anatomy and criminal punishment.
We spoke with Doughty about these macabre affairs and what the rest of us might be able to learn from them.
Yeah. I think, in hindsight, Danse Macabre was a bigger deal than I think we thought it was while we were doing it and while we were touring on it, because in my mind Blank-Wave Arcade was our breakthrough record, and what I was worried about was doing it as good as that one for Danse Macabre.
Carol Hetherington, newly widowed, lives an unassuming life in a quiet neighborhood — until she makes a macabre discovery in her neighbor's garden.
In Danse Macabre, his 1980 treatise on horror film and fiction, he outlined three essential types of terror and how they work.
Danse Macabre grew out of a series of lectures King had been giving as part of a college course on horror fiction.
Sooner or later, every crayfish party turns into a macabre spectacle of boozed-up beasts in silly hats, brutalizing an inferior species.
No matter how fascinated you are with the macabre and the otherworldly, respect for the deceased and their families must come first.
There's a synth-heavy soundtrack with an industrial edge and unsettling, unexplained scenes that are reminiscent of Playdead's macabre side-scroller Inside.
From movies like My Friend Dahmer to true crime-inspired Netflix series Mindhunter, the entire world is wrapped up in the macabre.
Serial killers have always been a macabre form of titillation, but it feels like they're having an especially big moment right now.
Gravenor's astonishing yet chilling piece is accompanied by several other works in the exhibition that are much less visceral, distressing, or macabre.
Their memories ranged from scary to sweet to macabre: needles and tubes, gifts of toys from well-wishers, the stickiness of blood.
Once the pair makes it over the felled boulders, the camera takes us on a macabre tour of the death-addled mine.
Many of their designs draw from tattoo imagery but also the rich art historical lineage of the macabre... The darker, the better.
So by the time we'd done Danse Macabre, doing Wet From Birth, we had to feel like doing something a little different.
We did some research, and the May 19 date of the Royal nuptials has a past that could be labeled rather macabre.
The first victim was found dead by tourists taking pictures at a mining shaft in late April, unravelling the macabre killing spree.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Friday, Sunday, Thursday) A frightful program opens the society's week: "Macabre" (Friday at 7:30 p.
This is morbid territory, and Clapin struggles to balance the tone as he cuts between the macabre present and the hopeful past.
But when he and his father started leveling the ground and removing shrubs this summer, they made an unexpected and macabre discovery.
" Esa-Pekka Salonen, who conducted her in "Pelléas," was present when she first took the podium to helm "Mysteries of the Macabre.
Well, we now know the answer and, turns out it's not so much macabre as it is just a weird life decision.
A story like this, thoroughly macabre and seemingly impossible, summons infinitely more questions than it answers, and has accordingly garnered feverish attention.
Drones and repetition have appeared throughout his work; so have dissonance and noise, along with lyrics that favor the bleak and macabre.
Its fins and fluke were adjusted, and its macabre grey coloring was painted over with 25 gallons of cobalt and cerulean blue.
She grabbed my hand and we sprinted toward the forest as the severed body parts fell around us in a macabre rain.
The first victim was found dead by tourists taking pictures at a mining shaft in late April, unraveling the macabre killing spree.
It is a delightfully macabre footnote to the story, but anecdotal evidence and hearsay are not enough to declare the Countess guilty.
It's as if 200 years of disputed American entertainment are rattling his bones and pulling his strings to perform this dance macabre.
Apparently that's why that particular war went so well, which sounds more like a macabre joke than a sober assessment of policy.
SEX EFFECTS In the infection-horror film tradition, "It Follows" was a macabre parable of a "supernatural S.T.D.," as one critic wrote.
As long as it's within the realm of the macabre, it's a certified Halloween movie — and Amazon Prime has them in spades.
Once the Danse Macabre music stops playing and everyone has claimed their chair, many Americans will be left standing, chairless and all.
Detailed discussion of his sometimes macabre runway shows reveals a man obsessed with death and spectacle and haunted by childhood sexual abuse.
You have set an example for the world to follow when it comes to this macabre and sickening trade in Nazi trinkets.
It is exactly as macabre as you would expect, as Nana reveals the Blossoms were forced into cannibalism that very first holiday.
Yes, writing an advance obit is a tad macabre, but really it's just the journalistic equivalent of buying your own cemetery plot.
"It has so many elements of things Matt that loved so much," Ms. Kouyoumdjian said: Brooklyn, low-budget horror films, macabre humor.
From abandoned ghost towns and macabre museums to extraordinary manmade wonders, here are the weirdest places on Earth you've never heard of.
The incident pulls Antonia into a mysterious world of Gaudí acolytes and macabre murders, which all occur on sites designed by Gaudí.
Partly, this is because the swollen forms in her works on paper feel rooted in Symbolism, channeling the macabre spirit of Alfred Kubin.
Also known as the "Butcher of Plainfield," Gein had exhumed bodies from local graveyards and murdered two women for his macabre DIY crafting.
The front cover bore the ominous image of a black cat with glowing green eyes, a tasteful and mature symbol of the macabre.
One particular dress, in different shades of vibrant and deep reds, hung upon a red fishnet bodice, was equal parts sensual and macabre.
Aamis can be simultaneously read as a slow-burning forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.
Miller presents the macabre subject matter so objectively that readers will find their opinions of Borden's criminal potential shifting from chapter to chapter.
The British, on the other hand, make Withnail & I, a macabre comedy about two withering actors getting drunk in the damp English countryside.
The printed A is from the masthead of a 1916 special issue called 'La danse macabre' in which Death dances with murderous Germania.
With Little, Edward Carey (who worked at Madame Tussauds in his younger years) has created something utterly transportive, macabre, and very, very fun.
The macabre miniseries is actually a BBC-commissioned project that already aired across the pond last December; Lifetime is merely a co-producer.
Her working relationship with Tim Burton, the master of weirdo pop-macabre, did what it did for other stars and launched her career.
Which is why it's a good thing one unique and macabre lip balm fell into our laps this week to fill the void.
This spring, FX aired the Atlanta installment "Teddy Perkins," a macabre tale of a reclusive pop legend holed up in a Southern mansion.
Burton's movies have always followed the theme that it's lonely but rewarding being different, and that there's a wholesome innocence in the macabre.
A panel from "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (1963), an abecedary in which a procession of children meet a variety of macabre or absurd ends.
The macabre, horror sci-fi narrative also infuses enough originality to make the eight-episode series more than an exercise in filmmaking karaoke.
Homecoming has what I can only describe as a "midcentury macabre" look—a sleek, aloof style that signals something is not quite right.
MILFORD "Spirits of Milford Ghost Walks," 90-minute lantern-lit tours of downtown Milford that blend tales of the macabre with local history.
MILFORD "Spirits of Milford Ghost Walks," 453-minute lantern-lit tours of downtown Milford that blend tales of the macabre with local history.
MILFORD "Spirits of Milford Ghost Walks," 63-minute lantern-lit tours of downtown Milford that blend tales of the macabre with local history.
"That somebody can become that successful while also being that emotionally undisciplined—it's so macabre that you have to watch it," he said.
Earlier this, year the band's first album, Rise of the Macabre, popped up on YouTube, and aFacebook page followed a few months later.
She does gravitate toward the dark side of things, but she always has a sense of humor about her passion for the macabre.
Horror fans are in for a macabre menu of varying flavors when FearNYC, a new film festival, makes its debut on Friday, Oct.
And given the trailer, and what we've seen of Phoenix's macabre performance, it doesn't seem like fans will have to wait very long.
The dismembered limbs of her sculptures took on an almost decorative, attractive glimmer that remained brave because of Smith's allegiance to the macabre.
If one were to itemize the distinguishing characteristics of the novel itself, the list might include gruesomely macabre, intellectually ambitious and historically vivid.
To put that in perspective, a 33-year-old tyrant who specializes in macabre family executions would hold a gun to America's head.
"The Addams Family," distributed in the United States by United Artists Releasing, offers a new take on the macabre comics by Charles Addams.
Macabre new transcripts show that the Saudi hit squad was discussing the dismemberment even before Jamal walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
There are distant echoes here of Ian McEwan's macabre, early work, Shirley Jackson's demonic families and even the apocalyptic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.
More than anything, it drove home the futility of the tortured, macabre exercises the court engages in whenever it deals with capital punishment.
The works in Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us bring together a community's wide-ranging self-representations, from macabre self-portraits to Chicana punk screenprints.
At the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Laura Bernstein took the figure into macabre territory with her explorations of the idea of the cuckold.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER AZTEC BALL COURT IN THE HEART OF MEXICO CITY Paintings and written descriptions from the early colonial period document the macabre scene.
Britta Jaschinski spent four days last September photographing its macabre inventory of stuffed toucans, tiger pelts, and other animal products for her series Crimes.
When you're writing a macabre scene & a giant candle suddenly explodes in your vicinity, adrenaline levels take a while to return to normal. pic.twitter.
So it's with no joy that I report that, in a macabre coincidence, a novel pervaded by death has been rendered largely lifeless onstage.
Netflix has a slew of scary originals for fans who love the macabre, including new miniseries Ghoul and David Fincher's serial killer series MINDHUNTER.
The weird, macabre sentiments in her routines don't feel like coincidence so much as they feel like a peek into a someone's morbid psyche.
Mavrakis was among those volunteers out on patrol, sometimes confronting the macabre sight of dead pets still chained up on their owners&apos property.
Newcomers will be singing along to the catchy, macabre bop in no time, and old fans will feel as if they've been welcomed home.
Until recently, there hasn't been any proof that the skin on your face will look younger and more taut after this macabre-sounding treatment.
W. Scott Poole: The macabre had existed long before the Great War, in epics, gothic novels, the work of Shelley and Stoker and Baudelaire.
It was a macabre reminder to residents that Islamic State (IS) had declared the capital of its so-called caliphate in the Syrian city.
But the 1908 Kresge fire also belongs to a longstanding and macabre American tradition: Independence Day celebrations marred by discord, injury and, sometimes, death.
The director, Mike Flanagan, who with Jeff Howard also wrote the script, demonstrates rare patience for horror fare as he builds toward the macabre.
There were characteristics that clearly made him the Joker, like his pension for theatricality, the multiple origin stories, and a macabre sense of humor.
The style, in which the everyday and the macabre, the American small town idyll and the metaphysical killer BOB, collide in an unusual way.
But once you step inside and see the animal bones artfully fixed to its whitewashed walls, any thoughts of macabre catacombs are quickly forgotten.
For years, Moffit's work has been defined by its austere, hyper-masculine geometric forms that match the macabre chic of his gallery, Blackman Cruz.
For visitors to the lake, Sax said, the site's macabre history is plainly visible: "You can't take a single step without steeping on bones."
There was a touch of the macabre: two sisters kill their third sister out of malice before the redemptive power of magic revives her.
This macabre ad touted Charles Kaufman's low-budget film about a mentally unstable matriarch and her twisted sons who capture and terrorize three campers.
According to the season's official logline, Hays investigates a "macabre crime" in the Ozarks and becomes tangled up in a mystery spanning three decades.
Though the Black House was never monastic,  its mixture of Buddhist motifs and macabre decor was an inspiration for Chalermchai, who was Thawan's student.
Johnny Fox, a showman with a taste for the macabre and an appetite for swords, died on Sunday in Damascus, Md. He was 64.
I can't have been the only viewer playing a macabre mental game this week: Do these characters' nice moments mean they're about to die?
When Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov drives his carriage into the provincial town of N., he plans to carry out the most macabre heist in literature.
Despite tying for lowest opening within the franchise, this macabre movie can still bring enough horror to signal the transition into the Halloween season.
Unearthly sounds (like "a terrible war cry" ), a few remember, accompanied the macabre doings; the surviving witnesses can't explain what they saw or heard.
It's actually really gross and macabre, and will have you thinking more about Daniel Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man than you've ever care to.
The macabre premise of the series -- from "The Good Wife" team of married producers Robert and Michelle King -- certainly has an "X-Files" vibe.
Thrifted garments, a touch of macabre makeup, and a simple prop will turn any mere mortal into Patricia, the spirit of a rich woman.
Depending on whom you ask, it's either a proper remembrance for an overlooked president or a macabre cash-grab for a tourist-starved town.
A boy, no more than 10, appeared from the house next door and hardly gave the macabre scene on his doorstep a second glance.
Attention to the macabre in dog portraiture began in earnest in the 19th century, when the genre got its biggest boost from Queen Victoria.
Not in a macabre, Hannibal Lecter sort of way, but in a life-is-beautiful-so-we-must-honor-our-deceased-loved-ones way.
Holden spends a lot of Mindhunter trying to convince everyone around him his macabre obsession with serial killers is not affecting him in the slightest.
The macabre poignance of the first two-thirds of the film swiftly devolves into silliness, ending on a note that is neither heartbreaking nor horrific.
Seasons of shows like True Detective and American Horror Story are united by mood (stoic and grim, camp and macabre, respectively), rather than by plot.
Instead of opening safe and regular routes for them to travel, governments are in a macabre race to the bottom to make their lives hell.
They wrenched the teeth and their extensive bridgework from the mouth, placed them in the secondhand jewelry box and entrusted the macabre package to Rzhevskaya.
It's a poignant, hilarious, and often macabre examination of grief, and it revels in the (deeply relatable) messiness of intimate, loving, but complicated family bonds.
In fact, the only jokes he makes are the kind you have to nervously laugh at because it was pretty macabre for a high schooler.
Even centuries later, one of the world's most famous catastrophes continues to yield amazing discoveries that also somehow tap into our love of the macabre.
Given Halloween's roots in death and the spirit world, you might wonder how an activity as tame a pumpkin carving fits into this macabre holiday.
Some in the conservative village consider the ceremony they conducted un-Islamic, but Palestinians broadly have celebrated it as a macabre romance of national sacrifice.
The choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti's production of Prokofiev's "Cinderella" updates the ballet to the vague present-day, with video designs and villains clad in macabre costumes.
In a beautifully macabre study published today in Nature Human Behaviour, 72 children aged four to six individually interacted with puppets in a miniature theater.
L7's charm was always their cheesy humor, their cartoon defiance, their fusion of serious feminist protest with delight in the macabre and the scatalogical.
It's clear where that comes from in the interview, animated by Patrick Smith—who dresses the iconic auteur into all manner of macabre situations—below.
It may sound a bit macabre, but sometimes when I hear a great song, I think, This would be a great song to die to.
The idea that the blood of the young is a magical anti-aging elixir is one the most delightfully macabre themes in folklore and horror.
Whether you're attending a haunted house, dressing up as your favorite movie villain, or watching a horror flick, Halloween is a celebration of the macabre.
It's an arresting, almost macabre commentary on how artists' work — a part of themselves — are valued for so little in the current pop-culture machine.
It was only thanks to Netflix that the macabre book series was revived 13 years later as a television series with an entirely new cast.
It made me wish Shirley Jackson were alive to take a Room 104 assignment; the form is perfect for highlighting the creaky and the macabre.
Always, in one form or another, the destabilizing "danse macabre" extends a reassuringly "sacred" promise to reward the "faithful" with freedom from earth-bound mortality.
Last summer's hurricane season offered a macabre illustration of how Puerto Rico's lack of representation fairs in comparison to states with fully empowered congressional delegations.
The results, which involve a reanimated corpse singing the business's praises while an onlooker wonders why it is alive, are equal parts hilarious and macabre.
McDonell also covers the activities of the "Civilian Casualty Mitigation Team," engaged in the macabre work of "consequence management" when civilians are injured or killed.
But Smith has also fashioned her into an astute observer with a macabre sense of humor; she's fun, or at least fascinating, to be around.
The macabre and whimsical meld into a potpourri of lighthearted chaos in the assemblage paintings, mixed-media collages, and jewelry of artist Alexis E. Mabry.
Andra Ursuta's "Alps" (2016) is a macabre metaphor for the walls we must climb to get ahead, or plainly just survive in a man's world.
But it was only after 1992 that he felt a compulsion to write a novel on the narcissistic dictator and his love of macabre spectacle.
As Mr. Sabsabi acknowledged, many, if not most, of the returning children were exposed to unspeakable acts of macabre violence, including roles in execution videos.
On that trip, we skipped the macabre crypt of the Capuchin friars, a subterranean chamber lined with bones, in favor of more ancient Roman catacombs.
In 2016, eBay put the kibosh on human skulls but you can find them on Amazon and Instagram, or even your local flea market. Macabre?
But when we look at the final version of the painting — the one we see with our own eyes — these macabre elements aren't there anymore.
"It is not the baroness's choice of macabre artifacts that is surprising, but the fact that it was a woman collecting them," Ms. Motsch said.
The reality stars posed for their announcement photo inside the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery, as Schroeder is a big fan of murder and the macabre.
"Velvet Buzzsaw" thus becomes more about atmosphere than anything else, as well as the dichotomy between its macabre elements and its lavish white-wall trappings.
And, indeed, the rhythm of his life seems to be this: macabre lows followed quickly by the kind of triumph that feels like a joke.
As loyal fans of her reality show, podcast and book (Next Level Basic) well know, the New Orleans native has a penchant for the macabre.
The idea of macabre punishment seems to have acted as a stimulant on the creative faculties of everyone involved, as the show turns increasingly surreal.
The black and Mexican gangs used bats to rough people up; MS-24 started using machetes, and macabre stories of decapitations spread throughout the city.
Yet there he sat, in pristine white prison scrubs, reciting a catalogue of macabre achievements in the matter-of-fact tones of a college interview.
But in a recent Reddit post, user IncrediblyShinyShart shared the story of a motorcycle crash that put him face-to-face with the macabre hypothetical.
A sketchbook drawing is as rough and tumble of a place as the stripped, scarred, raped South African landscapes Kentridge renders for his danse macabre.
Black Mirror, the dystopian television show set in a future "ten minutes from now," presents as advertised: It's a dark mirror, reflecting a more macabre reality.
He has a remarkable gift for loose, raw, figurative painting, often infused with macabre humour and arresting colour, which straightaway imprints itself upon the viewer's imagination.
I had one year of sitting on my dark, macabre, gothic throne and quickly realized that the soothing, Xanax-, Band-Aid-like feeling fame is fleeting.
Macabre humor aside, the CPSC seems to want to have a holistic discussion on IoT devices and safety regulations and understand how to prevent these scenarios.
I know I say this a lot, but this time it's really, really true: The less said about Jess Zimmerman's macabre viral love story, the better.
It's a bit of macabre public relations for the Bulletin, and the setting of its time is at least quite subjective and at most quite arbitrary.
Illustration: Jim Cooke/GizmodoHumans have been eating other humans since the beginning of time, but the motivations behind this macabre practice are complex and often unclear.
Playlist: "Into the Crypt of Rays" / "Procreation of the Wicked" / "Circle of the Tyrants" / "Dethroned Emperor" / "Morbid Tales" / "Danse Macabre" / "Dawn of Megiddo" Moving right along!
In fact, she packed nine suitcases for her six-month trip to Budapest to film for her latest role in the macabre television series, The Alienist.
"Swiss Army Man," starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano, is about a castaway and a corpse, in an original mix of the macabre and the magical.
And not to be too macabre, but in the event of an accident or a face-swelling allergy attack, how will Face ID know you're you?
I don't necessarily mean obvious touchstones like GWAR, Ghost, Alestorm, Babymetal, Macabre, or (sigh) Mac Sabbath, who are loud and proud and open about their gimmickry.
This all seems a bit macabre, but for the most part, they live a quiet life on a farm in the Midwest, and things seem peaceful.
The photographer's visual interpretations of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man are eerie and supernatural, and dark in a way only Parks could be — not macabre, but melancholic.
The sweet-faced Ms. Reynolds played against type — opposite Shelley Winters, no less — in this macabre thriller about murderous sons, religious fanaticism, lesbianism and bunny rabbits.
The fantasies depicted were encyclopedic in their macabre scope, including murder, séances, ghost hunts, telekinesis, black magic, Nazis, lycanthropy and a visit by Jack the Ripper.
Extremists all too often attack women and girls not as "war booty," but rather in a macabre power-grab — the girls and women are coveted territory.
But that strategy doesn't appear to be working in the face of brazen acts of violence, including the macabre practice of hanging of bodies from bridges.
"Tito and the Birds" is more macabre than the average cartoon, though it contains nothing that anyone familiar with Tim Burton or Roald Dahl couldn't handle.
When "No Russian" arrives, it feels not so much like a surprising and confrontational turn in the narrative, but a macabre reward for having strong stomachs.
Indeed, at Galerie Vallois, weaving my way through Tinguely's clanking animist evocations, I encountered a strong danse macabre sensibility that hints at the chop of death.
Most noticeably, a visual obsession with the graphic depiction of self-destruction through burial, car accidents, suicide, asphyxiation amongst a backdrop of macabre and nightmarish scenarios.
While the two women haven't spoken in months, they still have a macabre memento in common: the ashes of Caylee in matching vials around their necks. 4.
References to lost cosmonauts, the Russian Sleep Experiment, Hungarian serial killer Elizabeth Báthory (aka "the blood countess"), and macabre Soviet mythology seem tailor-made for internet readers.
A lesser photographer would have gone for shock value here, but Shults uses dark shadows and punches of light to transform macabre scenes into Poe-esque beauty.
It was a huge responsibility to craft the complex, macabre world of Gilead, but her leadership was felt in everything from the color tones to the costumes.
Doors, even those leading to dank candlelit basements in which creepy bards wait with tales of the macabre, do not make this much noise in real life.
Boomer's the real star, though: the mutt chews on enemy arms, tears out their throats, and then brings you their rifles like a macabre game of fetch.
So, when it came time for season 3, fans could only expect more references to real crime — in addition to lots of made-for-the-screen macabre.
The nation quickly became both fascinated and sickened by the case, which grew even stranger and more macabre as details behind the killers slowly began to emerge.
We're all fascinated by the macabre to various degrees, and Mortal Kombat 11 is a safe place to experience those carnal rushes without hurting ourselves or others.
W.A. group member collaborations: N.W.A. Members: Dr. Dre, Ice CubeDre and Cube double down on the macabre in this contribution to the Murder Was the Case soundtrack.
In her photos and films, which have been widely exhibited and screened, she has also drawn on the macabre, surreal, and darkly funny writings of Dennis Cooper.
So here's a fittingly and gleefully weird, macabre piece of fiction from doom metallurgist—he's also the drummer for Witch Mountain—and dark fiction scribe Nathan Carson.
During Louis's 72-year reign, France was the leading European power, and this is what gives the macabre exhibition a cumulative tone — one that is, ultimately, comic.
It is a classic haunted house known not only from "Psycho" but from American horror movies in general, as well as the deliciously macabre Charles Addams cartoons.
The irony, in a masterpiece like Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," is that these Dadaistic gestures now serve the purpose of highly sophisticated, entertaining and virtuosic art.
We talked about the complexities, horror, and macabre humor of combat and they asked me blunt questions about what they could expect in their future as graduates.
Searching for home, she meets a series of witchlike figures who pull her into macabre adventures—avoiding enormous insect swarms or flying in a ship of bone.
That macabre find has sparked a mystery in Cross County, Arkansas as authorities try to piece together who would have left the babies in a roadside ditch.
The more chemsex came up in these court cases, the more this niche subculture, in the eyes of the public, came to represent a macabre, depraved underworld.
But it's smartly constructed and stylistically thrilling from the first page to the last, providing the reader with a distinct, macabre pleasure of chugging toward inevitable carnage.
But she also has an astonishingly prolific sideline as a popular author, writing some 59 books on a variety of macabre subjects, including ghosts and ghost hunters.
DANCING WITH DEATH Five centuries of European works on paper celebrate the so-called "danse macabre," an allegorical meditation on the inevitability of death. Sept. 217–Nov.
The collection of this National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement can verge on the macabre; its prized artifact is the St. Valentine's Day Massacre wall.
But what goth personally means to me is an obsession with the macabre, and the understanding that the only thing that binds the human condition is death.
So, in an especially macabre development, McCall and his allies hustled to have Odom executed for the second rape before he could be implicated in the first.
This is a macabre artifact of economic accounting — no one would suggest that people are actually better off when billions of dollars' worth of capital is destroyed.
Saturday Night Live relied on wacky throwback accents and a dash of the macabre in "The Corporal" sketch, starring Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, and host Jennifer Lopez.
While the urge to own a piece of history is obviously understandable, this is all very weird, sort of macabre, and solely attainable for bored rich people.
Their debates were punctuated with macabre phone calls — "We lost another one" — and urgent questions from the Obama administration wondering why intelligence about the Chinese had slowed.
Mr. Williams said that he and Ms. Jarcho, who are frequent collaborators, did some "really fantastic homework" to come up with a macabre menu of sonic references.
Hawley and company have disrupted that idea, by telling a story that's much more macabre: Perhaps even superhumans can't save themselves from the demons that haunt them.
A case in point: Super Rude Bear Resurrection, a thoughtfully-designed platformer in the vein of Super Meat Boy (but with a very clever, macabre corpse mechanic).
The Blanton Museum of Art in Texas is exhibiting works on paper from the 219th to 21851th centuries, all representing the danse macabre, or dance of death.
But I am who I am, and I am a woman who has always loved a happy ending that comes with a touch of melancholy, nostalgia, or macabre.
Wrapped in beautifully printed designs and somber Biblical quotes, bakeries did a brisk business in the macabre treat at a time when life expectancy was around 40 years.
"School shooters refer to and study the Columbine shooting as a macabre source of inspiration and motivation," Jason Glass, district superintendent, said in a letter to the community.
Liveright Shirley Jackson is best known for her macabre 1948 short story "The Lottery," about villagers who gather once a year to ritually murder a randomly chosen victim.
Gang's all here: the fierce Jennifer Barkley (Hahn), the brilliant, powerful musk-ox Ann Perkins (Jones), the proudly macabre April Ludgate (Plaza), and MY president Leslie Knope (Poehler).
No one story sounds like another, yet her singular voice floats through the collection, tying it together with opulent prose that draws heavily on history and the macabre.
But even before fans got a glimpse of her devotion to Hillary Clinton and love of the macabre, the show's posters offered up one more detail: her outfit.
Synopsis: In a speculative and dystopian not-too-distant future, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
But they probably didn't go for religious reasons; instead, patrons admired the painter's skill, or they may have been drawn to the macabre out of much deeper instinct.
Certain words come up when you talk about the kinds of comedy Julia Davis stars in, or writes, or sometimes both: goth-diary words like dark, twisted, macabre.
The macabre discovery was made in an area popular with tourists and comes at a time of increasing concern over the impact of plastic pollution on marine life.
As much of a macabre enthusiast's dream the Mutter Museum may be, be prepared to pay for admission — it costs $18 for adults, and photos are not allowed.
According to The Times, the macabre video concludes with Trump driving a stake into the head of someone representing CNN, and going on to smile at the carnage.
Ransom Riggs's novel "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," with its haunting photos, quirky outsiders and feel for the macabre, reads a bit like a Tim Burton movie.
In 2011 she made her conducting debut in Paris, simultaneously leading and singing Ligeti's crazed "Mysteries of the Macabre," a daunting enough assignment purely as a soprano soloist.
In a macabre twist, it was announced on Monday that Winston Moseley, the man who murdered Kitty Genovese, died in prison last week at the age of 81.
Museums catering to perverse, macabre, or just plain bizarre curiosities are nothing new: there's Sicily's "human library," Pennsylvania's Mutter Museum of medical oddities, and Missouri's Glore psychiatric museum.
Despite surrounding herself with the gruesome and macabre, she reads as the prom queen of the Monster Mash, or the most popular gal at the Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.
Ari Aster's "Midsommar" (July 123) is set in a village in Sweden, where a vacationing American woman (Florence Pugh) believes that she has stumbled upon a macabre cult.
Based on cartoons by Charles Addams, this dark comedy centers on the macabre Addams family, whose members open their doors to a long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd).
Their targets were Muslim or lower-caste butchers and livestock traders, and dozens were beaten to death, sometimes with a crowd recording the macabre scene on their phones.
WASHINGTON — A White House communications aide who made headlines in May for cracking a macabre joke about the health of Senator John McCain has left the White House.
" She said she tried to capture that breeze as "a brief dance of changing and passing," like the danse macabre that closes Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal.
But I felt that in the raw maw of this bleak winter, I was definitely in the mood for whatever gently macabre release a cozy thriller might provide.
" In "A Girl of a Certain Age," two roommates compose a macabre musical inspired by the domestic murder of one of the women's co-workers, and also "S.
Hodgkinson's decision to open fire on an early-morning baseball practice organized by House Republicans in Alexandria, Virginia, was horrifying even by the macabre standards of mass shootings.
Armas was seen speaking with López when a group of inmates stormed in and repeatedly shot and stabbed him to death in a macabre scene caught on camera.
And nothing — not increased police patrols, high-level visits, a surveillance drone or a dog vigilante squad that employs macabre tactics — has been able to stop the attacks.
One of the unintended consequences of the transportation revolution Silicon Valley is unleashing on city streets is a macabre new array of traffic jams, injuries and even deaths.
With his face veiled behind fabric hair that looks like a cross between a tasseled matador hat and Cousin Itt, the enigmatic industrial producer Headless Horseman exudes macabre mystery.
This board game, called Now and Then, is a bit less macabre than laying with your arms folded six feet under, but it's designed to do the same thing.
Though the former leader of the Manson family died in prison of natural causes in November of 2017, the macabre interest in his story has not yet gone away.
In "Never Again Human: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" (2016), large macabre figures with oversized reptilian heads, skeletal bodies, and drooping breasts hold blue medical masks and gloves.
But I will wear it onto a macabre dance floor, look up at the lights, and hold him in my heart — knowing he'd love how fucking silly I look.
At once calculating, charming and cryptic, Fassbender serves as macabre ringmaster to a tale that oftentimes veers Frankenstein — with some Lord of the Flies thrown in for good measure.
Whether the macabre crimes and farcical situations in "Happy End" are "realistic" is open to debate, but its scenario is probably less outlandish than we would like to think.
The attraction is the brainchild of Drake, a magician who appeared on television in the early 1990s in his macabre, S&M-tinged Channel 4 program, The Secret Cabaret.
Speaking to former soldiers involved in a program to build an Iron Age roundhouse, Harry touched on a macabre brand of humor that civilians could find hard to understand.
For director Pamela Romanowsky, the visionary behind 2015's macabre The Adderall Diaries, starring James Franco and Amber Heard, this sense of unbounded wonder is always near at hand.
In the 1950s, artist Alfred Mahlau designed two stained glass windows that pay tribute to the lost "Danse Macabre," which are installed in the surviving structure of St. Mary's.
They say they had no idea their new mansion was a "macabre tourist attraction" ... visited by hundreds of loyal 'AHS' fans who trespass and even attempt to break in.
Even so, the reduction in new death sentences may augur a future where seven executions a year isn't celebrated as a noteworthy dip, but questioned as a macabre reality.
In a macabre statement after the meeting, the Russian government cited "improving" stability on the ground and support for a political process, despite recent chemical attacks and ongoing violence.
But the film of Quinn's life, a "fairly standard coming-of-age L.G.B.T. genre film," turned toward the macabre when Annabeth died after crashing her car while texting Quinn.
Conjuring a scene from the macabre comedy "Weekend at Bernie's," Mr. Cross argued that Mr. Mugabe's allies were propping up a dying president to maintain their hold on power.
"A macabre, perverse plan constructed in Washington and executed with factions of the extreme Venezuelan right," Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said of the outage, according to NBC News.
Over a period of just 60,000 years, roughly 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial species perished, earning this event its macabre nickname: The Great Dying.
Zak Bagans doesn't just collect haunted items for his museum -- he also goes the macabre route ... like adding the brothel bed connected to a death and an infamous overdose.
With the new exhibition, King, now on at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, add fan artwork inspired by King's fruitfully dreamlike and macabre imagination to that pop-cultural landscape.
Call me macabre, but I would really like to know how much jeans cost that guarantee their makers weren't maimed, poisoned, harassed, starved, or even killed in the process.
"The White Savage (Drawing After Nature)" (21779–21815) is half camp-macabre and half camp-compulsive while being brilliantly structured by a virtuoso sense of visual and narrative rhythm.
In addition to providing a macabre and detailed description of al-Baghdadi's death, Trump raised eyebrows when he thanked US adversaries like Russia and Turkey ahead of US intelligence.
The fun and games were over when the British studio Hammer Films sought to take a more macabre approach to the subject, something more similar to the 1910 version.
In 1918, at war's end, Nash produced "We Are Making a New World," a macabre vision of broken trees in a shellshocked landscape, considered one of his seminal works.
Paraguayan officials believe the slaying was a macabre escalation of the trafficker's bid to remain in their custody, and avoid the harsher detention conditions he would face in Brazil.
Her notoriety is summed up by a macabre ditty, the one in which she gives her mother 40 whacks with an ax and then gives her father 41 more.
"'The Dead Don't Die' fancies itself a cutting-edge macabre comedy, but the truth is that it's behind the curve of pop culture," wrote the Variety reviewer Owen Gleiberman.
This is the comic-macabre idea that "American Horror Story: Cult," beginning Tuesday on FX, grabs hold of, shakes up and sprays like bloody seltzer all over its audience.
Its creators include Randy Weiner, a producer of that long-lived prototype of macabre, site-specific revelry, "Sleep No More"; the choreographer Ryan Heffington; and the designer Desi Santiago.
Under his leadership, the group became known for macabre massacres and beheadings — often posted online on militant websites — and a strict adherence to an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
But the mood is undercut by its juxtaposition with Nassar's stark prison hallway march, with its sonic flourishes forming a macabre musical interlude: cuffs jangle, doors creak and thud.
As directed by Bill Buckhurst, this latest version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1979 musical macabre puts its audience within throat-slashing distance of its sociopathic title character.
In his award-winning 1981 collection of essays on horror, Danse Macabre, King names three emotions that belong to the realm of the horror genre: terror, horror, and revulsion.
Fortunately, some food companies are demanding changes to this macabre system, to hopefully correct course for the nine billion birds we raise and kill each year in this country.
The originality of the cards' stylization, draftsmanship, and composition make for a magnificent aesthetic achievement while displaying Smith's jaw-dropping imagination for fantasy, folly, ecstasy, death, and the macabre.
Photo: GettyWhen security systems rely on our unique human characteristics—like our fingerprints and eyeballs—techniques for circumventing those systems can be far more macabre than just guessing a password.
But if you're familiar with any of his films — like the World of Tomorrow series, "It's Such a Beautiful Day," or the hysterically macabre "Rejected" — that demeanor might surprise you.
They probably had particularly angsty teen years and are known to have a dark sense humor — some will admit to being drawn to the flat-out macabre side of life.
A second theory is that, rather than there being a split at the top, Mr Mnangagwa and Mr Chiwenga are engaging in a macabre game of good cop, bad cop.
Nell is reunited with everyone she ever loved, and all versions of them, too, kind of like a macabre version of the ending of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
It makes extremely macabre sense that Kelly, who couldn't stop talking to any camera in a one-mile distance about the flight, was similarly silenced by that very same source.
He has the gift of gab, mercilessly regaling Nish (Letitia Wright) with macabre stories about how he used unregulated brain interface technology to fuck people over for his own profit.
The Black Death conjures imagery of a dramatic danse macabre in the popular imagination, but Gfrörer sees no reason not to apply an indie comic book sensibility to the subject.
Take this macabre countdown of "the femicides that marked 2016": a listicle of the most noteworthy gender-based murders of the year, featuring play-by-play retellings of the deeds.
One particularly macabre advisory issued earlier this month recommended that travelers leave DNA samples with their medical providers before going to Somalia, in case they are needed to identify remains.
So, in Sunday's Season 6 finale, there was a macabre symmetry to the fact that Jaime's own son, the callow King Tommen, leapt to his death from a castle window.
That diptych is the apotheosis of the postmodern real-time violence introduced at Columbine, macabre evidence that terror is as easily packaged and consumed as any other form of content.
Bitumen, a cover-all term, was prized for its tawny glow, but the popularity of the pigment had much to do with the nineteenth-century taste for the Oriental macabre.
The first stems from her contemporary exploration of Danse Macabre, a form of medieval memento mori art where skeletons and other personifications of death are embedded into otherwise typical scenes.
Her son Matthew, a US citizen through and through, was a prized cast member for ISIS as they increasingly sought to involve children in their macabre and sickening propaganda videos.
And anyway, fairytales are often macabre and unsettling, offering only a qualified happy ending; Chris Hughton leading Brighton & Hove Albion into the Premier League would just be a nice story.
These movies were hailed as a movement of sorts, as a new wave of female filmmakers interested in the horrific and the macabre brought their vision to the big screen.
"What Marcos has written, really, is something for collective virtuosity," said Mr. Fitch, the production's director, whose credits include an ingeniously staged "Le Grand Macabre" with the New York Philharmonic.
But many of the movie's most effective jolts are heard rather than seen, from the chilling score (including a macabre riff on Luniz's "I Got 5 on It") on down.
"The Addams Family," a musical adapted from the macabre Charles Addams cartoons that also tried to leverage nostalgia for the 1960s sitcom, was buried on Broadway but has toured widely.
The scene ferociously and swiftly shifts "Parasite" from a dark social-status comedy to a macabre social-status horror movie, and sets in motion the rest of its wicked twists.
The reason for the roughly 100 yards of new burial space is macabre: the country is going through a deadly outbreak of the disease that may only be growing larger.
Bainbridge's work is as spare and macabre as Muriel Spark's, but there's a rawness to it, a lack of ontological underpinning, that can make it even more unpredictable and disturbing.
The partying tavern crowd not long before the opera's end is a danse macabre, one of the sprawling parades of humanity that Mr. Kentridge has long taken as a theme.
The deeply macabre hanging of nine corpses from a bridge in the city of Uruapan in August is a reminder there has been no let up in cartel orchestrated killings.
The young McEwan, the author of blacker-than-black little novels, the man who acquired the nickname "Ian Macabre," would rather have gnawed off his own fingers than written it.
The site has the macabre habit of telling me to remember the past, and you can see in its unpleasantly cheery little slide shows where things began to go wrong.
Because it's celebrated within range of Halloween, and features an assortment of macabre imagery and costumes, some people assume it's just "Mexican Halloween," but it's not meant to be spooky.
While a hunger for the truth has rarely been more acute in a bizarre and macabre story like this, the three parties most involved appear substantially disinterested in providing it.
The macabre premise sees an art critic (Gyllenhaal) and an influential gallery owner (Rene Russo) descend on a collection of paintings from a dead artist who had wanted them destroyed.
The soldiers have re-created such a compound in North Waziristan to serve as a kind of macabre museum to remind outsiders about the threats they claim to have now squashed.
The macabre nature of some of the deaths was alarming; some of the prisoners were decapitated, with their bodies tossed over the prison gates while others were incinerated in their sleep.
When she's waxing poetic about the "cacophony of scenes and macabre moments" in her latest film, a horror thriller called Greta in theaters Friday, you almost forget how young Moretz is.
Nancy Kerrigan's shattered knee, O.J. Simpson's infamous white Bronco, and JonBenét Ramsey's macabre glamor shots plastered tabloid covers for much of the decade and continue to darkly fascinate through modern retellings.
So she inflicts the violence enacted on her onto other girls, taming their wildness (which, deep down, she shares) by turning them into the macabre dolls Mama wants her to be.
Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side mansion has become notorious for its reportedly macabre interior decor, immense size and monetary value, and as the site of some of his lurid alleged crimes.
The collection demonstrates his tremendous range, macabre wit, and above all, his risk-taking, most notably in the emotional core of the stories and the unflinching reality from which they derive.
This culminates in the frenzied rhythm of the danse macabre of the coda, which sounds both farcical and ominous, after which he emerges from his seat, unkempt and drenched in sweat.
Where Versace: American Crime Story deals with the "whys" of a serial killer like Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), TNT's brand new The Alienist deals with the "hows" of the macabre subject.
A macabre scene of cosmic and hallucinatory imagery begins with dancing skeletons and a carnage-strewn river of blood, before the familiar silhouette of the three-breasted woman enters the frame.
If you enjoy the surreal and slightly macabre, Sorry To Bother You, explores the ideas of corporate greed, social dynamics, and capitalism through the lens of a struggling telemarketer, Cassius Green.
Nightfall was thick and eerie, almost tangible, and local folklore has always produced tales of horror and the macabre, most notably the centuries-old legend of the deadly, winged Jersey Devil.
Van Dyke has been charged with murder, but cases like his—where a police officer actually sees criminal indictment for killing unarmed civilians—remain the exception to a macabre national rule.
Well, that's what a new poster for the remake of horror classic Child's Play would have you believe, with a rather macabre reference to everyone's favourite sheriff, Woody from Toy Story.
That game was a vast and macabre toybox that understood the black humor in feeding FBI agents poisoned donuts and dressing up as a clown to rig a horrific barbecue accident.
While many Royal Navy captains hold responsibility for their crew, Trident submarine commanders also bear a far more macabre role: the duty to play Britain's final political and diplomatic hand possible.
AS MIDNIGHT neared, five nights a week Mexicans with a taste for the macabre would switch on their radios to hear the latest spooky story, called in by their fellow listeners.
Rounding out the cast will be Chloe Grace Mortez as their macabre teenage daughter Wednesday and "Stranger Things" star Finn Wolfhard will play her brother Pugsley Addams, according to Entertainment Weekly .
Welcome 2 the Bronx founder Ed García Conde criticized the fair as following the footsteps of Macabre Suite, a Bronx art party decorated with burning oil cans and bullet-ridden cars.
In the initial moments after entering, the act of macabre visualization felt communal: it was impossible not to imagine the physical reality of what took place that night, its infernal logistics.
Restaurante-Parilla Don Jorge, across from the city's small central plaza, displays the macabre barbecue in its front window, with juicy fat dripping down from the lamb flesh onto the fire.
It tells the macabre story of a beloved cartoon character named Bubba the Bear who enters the real world to terrorize the actor who gave him his dopey voice (Seth Green).
Many of them had been sent to the Church of All Saints in Bergamo, located in the closed cemetery, where scores of waxed wooden coffins form a macabre line for cremations.
Many of them had been sent to the Church of All Saints in Bergamo, located in the closed cemetery, where scores of waxed wooden coffins form a macabre line for cremations.
To enjoy them requires a tolerance for ick, an enthusiasm for the macabre and (ideally) the iron discipline not to read before supper, especially if that supper is a nice steak.
A few scenes later, he drops dead, in a macabre twist that almost seems to suggest that being single and gay and on the wrong side of 50 can be fatal.
UNDER-INVESTMENT HAMPERS PLANS Similar macabre scenes plagued Karachi's cemeteries, where grave diggers refused to work in the baking sun and charged up to five times normal rates for burial plots.
A chipper young troupe out of Britain is pulling sunshine from the dark in "Life According to Saki," a bouncy adaptation of the elegantly macabre short stories of its title character.
"Our immersive simulation merges the macabre and the mundane as the social and economic consequences of climate change infiltrate the domestic space," Jon Arden, cofounder and artistic director of Superflux, said.
Following the lead of many micro influencers, Chief Gallagher's Instagram account has also endorsed veteran-owned coffee beans and muscle-building supplements with macabre names like Double Tap and Total War.
After driving by Coffinwood, a macabre, coffin-themed property and custom coffin-making business (it's private property but you can contact it directly for a tour), I headed toward Death Valley.
One of the more macabre — and a favorite of Mr. Bicakci's — is the Full Moon watch ($240,000) with its reverse-engraved intaglio of a skull and bones hovering over a graveyard.
In homage to Rollin's macabre sensibilities and transgressive use of horror to tantalize rather than frighten, sibling artist-curator duo Kelsey and Rémy Bennett staged a ghoulish, femme-powered photo shoot.
And his work is macabre, in a matter-of-fact way  — a great many of his books include or dwell on death, with a whole one devoted to the expiries of children.
Things end as badly as expected from horror veteran Niles, whose credits include work with recently departed macabre master Bernie Wrightson and whose 30 Days of Night went to the big screen.
Each episode also cuts to what I can only describe as a Looney Tunes short starring Jeremy Irons as the lord of a country manor and featuring plenty of macabre comic violence.
Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed harkens back to the early Peaceville Records days, when bands like Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride( as well as Nightfall-era Candlemass) married the melodic with the macabre.
While the whole thing is a little macabre, it's meant to be a hero's journey that leads Archie to the self-acceptance and self-forgiveness he so obviously needs to return home.
As proof A Million is just as obsessed with the emotionally macabre as Us, Rome learns of his longtime friend's death in the middle of his own attempted suicide, as previews confirm.
Shirley, clearly unable to shake off an ingrained appetite for the macabre, now works at a funeral home that she owns with her perpetually in-over-his-head and left-out husband.
From a scientist who makes it rain meatballs to a gothic hotel run by Dracula and his macabre cronies, Pete Oswald's fingerprints are all over the cutting edge of animated feature films.
Whereas contemporary audiences now understand the Birmingham bombing as a kind of macabre turning point that galvanized the Civil Rights movement, March emphasizes that at the time there was no such certainty.
Another macabre-loving female duo, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark serve as both a bottomless well of the most horrifying murders, and therapy for those concerned by their own love of murder.
Biggest, baddest villain A.D. is toying with the Liars in a very literal sense: by making them participate in a macabre board game that tasks them with stirring up trouble in Rosewood.
Booker prize winning Han Kang's new novel Human Acts is another exploration of the macabre, centered around the rites of cleaning and wrapping in plastic the many dead from a gruesome war.
Teenage girls from the town of Elizondo are being killed in "some kind of macabre purification rite" and their bodies provocatively posed by the river that carves its path through the town.
Much commentary on Gilbert has highlighted his promotion of modern work: the "Contact!" new-music series; the uproarious staging of Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre"; Stockhausen's "Gruppen," performed at the Park Avenue Armory.
The ensemble's new principal trumpet, Christopher Martin, slips into the dramatic lead of Ligeti's "Mysteries of the Macabre" beginning Wednesday in a program that includes Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
The three performances also fit into the delightful tradition of end-of-season ventures into operatic territory that Alan Gilbert introduced with a brilliant presentation of Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre" in 2010.
Written and directed by Michel Laprise, the production is infused with a vaguely macabre air, a touch of the eerie freak show, that gives the whole a more cohesive, occasionally entrancing effect.
Makeup and macabre antiques may not be the most obvious pairing, but for Bunny Meyer, the effervescent brain behind the YouTube channel Grav3yardgirl, they go together like "energizer" and, well, you know.
Despite pleas urging the public to avoid buying more supplies than needed, the quarantine stockpile is being showcased like it's any other haul, and Vox's Rebecca Jennings calls it a "macabre comfort."
The pathetic scene was a fitting symbol of the state of capital punishment in America in 280, a vile practice that descends further into macabre farce even as it declines in use.
Most food that's made to look like body parts or people (like these cakes and this bread) tends to border on the macabre, but these desserts feel like a celebration of birth.
Many players are comfortable surrounded by the macabre, and even recommend the experience; the apartment has a reputation in the RailRiders clubhouse as one of the lusher accommodations available in the area.
But the next evening the same symphony had gained clarity and vibrancy: Just look to the macabre opening of the scherzo, bland on Thursday but given a ghostly, glistening coating on Friday.
The nearly two-week celebration, by the theater company Radiotheatre, stages performances of the poet's work set to orchestral music, sound effects and other stagecraft to put you in a macabre mood.
When it opened in May 2010, "Le Grand Macabre" was a triumph — greeted as "an exhilarating success" by The New York Times and topping New York magazine's year-end top-10 list.
Bruno Dumont's "Slack Bay" (April 21), starring Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini, adds macabre mysteries to a society comedy set in a seaside town in France just before the First World War.
From the late 60s to the early 00s, Rollin made macabre movies centered on darkly powerful women, transgressive in their sexual freedom and monstrous beauty, choosing subversion and danger over mundane domesticity.
Sure, you could watch A Clockwork Orange or the Matrix trilogy — both out this month on Amazon — for the umpteenth time; or you could curl up and revisit this macabre childhood classic.
Zendaya's M.J. may be obsessed with serial killers, internet conspiracy theories, and macabre fun facts, but her deadpan charm isn't hiding the oceans of pain that are drowning the actress' Euphoria character, Rue.
The macabre crafting sesh gets the little taxidermists all worked up, and they proceed to mate atop their prized love-carcass, undoubtedly while Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" swells in their subterranean crypt.
Though the melodies they favor are often full of tension, there's quite a bit of color in their approach to arrangement—glittering flourishes surrounding the macabre, like a dagger with a gilded handle.
I previously predicted that this year we'll see the first fatality that involves a self-driving car, which is macabre I suppose but I'm really curious to see how the ramifications play out.
The Decemberists, who could tease comic macabre out of a sunny day at the beach, recorded a cover in 2007, but, despite lead singer Colin Maloy's best efforts, their version still sounds playful.
Both ghastly and beautiful in a way you wouldn't expect from a broadcast network, NBC ran Hannibal for three seasons, in which viewers were treated to a macabre parade of mutilation and murder.
But it lacks the crackling, macabre glee of Steppenwolf's 1996 Broadway production, and the breathlessly sustained tension of Daniel Aukin's fiery revival of Mr. Shepard's "Fool for Love" on Broadway earlier this season.
The internet has often repackaged the complexity of Japanese culture as a series of bizarre, cartoonish memes, but it is particularly sad to see the deaths of Japanese people treated as macabre entertainment.
To add to their realistic effect, each head hasn't got any hair, resulting in the macabre illusion that they've been decomposing for some time, not fresh from the oven as they actually are.
Everything that follows suggests James is then killed by police, which is exactly what happens in the comic series Netflix's Fucking World is based on (albeit in a much more macabre, definitive way).
For months, newspaper stories discussed the macabre experiments Dahmer performed on his victims: injecting their bodies with cleaning solutions, removing their vital organs, and attempting to lobotomize them while they were still alive.
Prosecutors said Greene inflicted a "macabre horror" on the 69-year-old retired minister, by beating him with a can of hominy, cutting him from mouth to ear and then shooting him twice.
Investigators are still combing through evidence in the macabre case of Dr. Lina Bolanos and her fiancé, Dr. Richard Field, who were found dead last Friday in Field's luxury penthouse in South Boston.
The macabre milestone was noted on Twitter by the climate reporter Eric Holthaus, based on the data recorded and presented by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
She didn't want the note to get missed, lost in the macabre shuffle that would follow the discovery of her body, hopefully by her neighbor, a prim scold she'd never gotten along with.
Impossible to categorize, this stunningly original mix of the macabre and the magical combines comedy, tragedy, fantasy and love story into an utterly singular package that's beholden to no rules but its own.
Years on, when Sean himself dies, Milly joins Coco's surviving twin and a crowd of relatives and hangers-on for a macabre funeral at the monstrous pile Sean chose to call Blackheath House.
Vinicius and Tom are mashups of Brazil's iconic species, but they're also macabre reminders of the environmental sacrifices made for gold and glory—aspects of the Games visitors are unlikely to ever see.
When: Sunday, October 19603, 11am–12:30pm Where: Historic Greenwich Village (Manhattan) This spectral walking tour from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation concentrates on the overlooked macabre history of the neighborhood.
On Daily VICE: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: VICE: You write in your book how artistic traditions like the memento mori and the danse macabre existed to process the reality of death.
Many stories took interest in the macabre, but there was a lot of variation between episodes; last year's set took its hyper-specific, intimate setting and filled it with wild shifts in tone.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil has beat its own macabre record for homicides: 63,2000 people were murdered across the country in 22017, up 226 percent from the year before, according to a new study.
Goreyland favors Victorian and Edwardian settings and costumes, is darkly comic to the point of absurdism and is hard to categorize except with hyphenated terms like camp-macabre, ironic-gothic or dark-whimsy.
That is just one of the many comically macabre anecdotes that Garrett M. Graff shares in "Raven Rock," a thorough investigation of Washington's longstanding efforts to maintain order in the face of catastrophe.
If the cleaner selfie recalls her underrated doll photographs, and if the more distorted selfie harks back to her more macabre photos, these are nevertheless direct testimony to her own body in pain.
" Marley lives in an Escher-like dwelling with, of course, a very striking knocker, familiar to readers of "A Christmas Carol," which Clinch renders newly macabre: It hangs "silent as an empty gibbet.
This macabre package was exactly what the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents found last weekend when they intercepted a package at Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan on Valentine's Day.
Just don't spend too much time looking into one of these things, because it gets macabre in there pretty fast, at least in the eyes of those of us who can ponder death.
The macabre drama began to unfold in May 2010, when Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old aspiring actress from Jersey City, N.J., who worked as a prostitute, was reported missing on Long Island.
I think that abortion ought to be available as a medical procedure when it's necessitated and when it's safe, and that it not be compared to some macabre practice from a haunted house.
In 2001, she was executive producer of a macabre television movie, "Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes," in which she also starred as the killer mom Sante.
She is an author who delights in the intensity of her subject matter — she has found art in the macabre since wandering through the cemeteries of her native New Orleans as a child.
To meet the unlikely demand for the macabre, there are serial killer tours across the country and abroad that satisfy every dark curiosity you could have about people who kill again and again.
Yet in this time of dank living spaces, poor hygiene, forced religiosity, and baleful delight in the macabre, the Masters of Defence, elite swordsmen with a passion for improving martial arts pedagogy, arose.
But even if playing the emotional keys in a case this macabre might normally turn a panel of Carter's peers against her, the 20-year-old is not being tried by a jury.
The staunchly individual approach to folk acts like the trio above have—as different from one another as night and day—is redolent of a very British approach to the macabre and horrifying.
Macabre to the core, the horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers is a truly dark, stunningly crafted experience that'll have you seeking out a church as soon as you leave the theater.
"September saw one of the highest ever amount of on-camera execution videos by ISIS since it started this macabre practice," said Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, a researcher at George Washington University's Program on Extremism.
Honestly, I don't even question why people still focus on the late royal's life, romantic troubles, and macabre death with fanatical detail, almost 20 years to the day since her fatal Paris car crash.
Occasionally, Scragg himself features in a post—black eye liner, druid-like face tattoos, a naval-length ginger beard that coalesces into a single dreadlock—a true influencer in the world of the macabre.
Hazarika crafts Aamis in a way that can be simultaneously read as an emotionally grounded slow-burn forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to the aftermath of socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.
There's something to do with a macabre book called The World's Angriest Boy in the World, about a boy who kills his own mother — a boy Dr. Poole, David's former psychiatrist, says is David.
The macabre episode was caught on camera by passers-by, with footage showing the unnamed woman in a black hijab wandering around in the street holding an infant's severed head high in the air.
On top of that, it wouldn't be all that difficult for someone with Chic's amount of identifying information to track down a teen girl's phone number and subsequently harass her with increasingly macabre demands.
Though it might seem a bit macabre to vacation in the spot where this famous murder took place, the lavish spot has a rich history that dates back to before the designer purchased it.
The story spirals out from there, and it's often very fun, especially because it's filled with music and song-and-dance numbers and a lot of skeleton humor (though none of it is macabre).
But she also agreed to host the controversial "Macabre Suite" party that Lucien Smith curated last year in the South Bronx, where wealthy merrymakers were encouraged to post memories online with the hashtag #bronxisburning.
Maybe it did fuel a love of horror and extremes in art but then I was reading the master of macabre at nine so I'm reasonably sure my brain was just wired that way.
Considering the peculiar ambition of Mija—a combination of entropy and DIY grind—not to mention her macabre sense of humor, it'd also be a pretty perfect way to describe her journey to now.
Developed by the team behind the similarly macabre hit Limbo, the game put players in the role of a young boy in a mysterious, gray world, uncovering all kinds of horrors along the way.
Though Buñuel preferred not to specify the symbolism in his work, this dark fantasy, a macabre comedy, has long been seen as a critique of the elite classes during the Franco years in Spain.
The details, even a macabre photo, swiftly followed: Arkady Babchenko, 41, an exiled Russian journalist who had been relentless in his criticism of the Kremlin, was shot dead as he returned to his apartment.
Can an artist be a creator of entertaining, technologically inspired, interactive creations that people line up to try, and be, at the same time, a somewhat macabre intellectual with a penchant for social criticism?
Robert Zemeckis, who went on to be an executive producer for "Tales From the Crypt," was a natural fit for the upbeat and macabre humor of this supernatural teen-comedy episode, which he directed.
The teen pop star has resuscitated the macabre and melancholy mood that has been mostly absent from the musical mainstream since the '90s heyday of rock acts like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
The symphony continues without pause to a playfully macabre second movement, followed by an explosive third in which the percussionists seem to log a mile in steps as they restlessly move among their instruments.
"Parasite" depicts a world where a chasm divides the rich, who live in airy minimalist splendor, and the poor, who exist — to a degree that becomes increasingly macabre as the film progresses — literally underground.
Instead, the men encountered an eerie quiet and a macabre landscape of dead, wounded and weaponless women and children as a platoon of American soldiers, ostensibly hunting elusive Vietcong guerrillas, marauded among defenseless noncombatants.
Officers terrorized several black teenage boys and two white women who had been staying there, a macabre episode that ended with the deaths of three of the boys and the acquittal of the officers.
The murders are certainly macabre, but the best fun is running all over the city with these amiable partners, meeting the denizens of the night and poking into this vast repository of ghoulish secrets.
Though the name sounds noble, its work is anything but, so it is entirely correct that the United States no longer plays along with this macabre charade and has officially withdrawn from the organization.
Nicole Eisenman, the witty and sometimes scabrous New York painter, is represented by a macabre painting of a Passover Seder, in which a young child stabs her gefilte fish with a serial killer's élan.
Why it's famous: In addition to serving as a fabulous explication of the past two centuries of horror writing, Danse Macabre is a look at the personal experiences that shaped King's views on horror.
Mai and Nguyen approach the subject through different perspectives: Mai's work veers on the macabre and is strictly focused on the toll a consumerist culture like Lolita takes on those who partake in it.
Shortly after an ambulance carted the man away and first responders began to return to their respective places in the park, another man stumbled across the lawn and passed out, spurring the same macabre routine.
Because it's celebrated within range of Halloween, and features an assortment of macabre imagery and costumes, some people assume it's just "Mexican Halloween," while attempts to co-opt the holiday have been repeated through history.
That might not mesh with the mainstream image of a medium (beaded curtains, crystal ball, an overall macabre and mystical appearance), but trust us, Korman's unique background plays a major role in her work now.
During the macabre Thanksgiving-like feast in the dining room, Camille flicks her eyes over to focus on the large carving knife laid out next to the formal ham in the center of the table.
A looming danse macabre figure makes the painting teem with a quixotic mix of fact and fiction, perhaps designed to provoke a blend of sacrosanct and soft-porn sensation that is imaginative but somewhat spurious.
From her wax figures of men mid-metamorphosis, with deer antlers protruding from their stomachs, to her abstract sculptures made from real horse skins, De Bruyckere's practice might at first seem to mine the macabre.
Though the premise sounds macabre, the approach is more a lush dreamlike mystery, with the voiceless hand searching for the young boy who lost it and flashing back to memories when it was still attached.
Netflix has picked the right vehicle to test those waters with the macabre anthology "Black Mirror," but its stealthily dropped effort "Bandersnatch" proves to be more of an interesting experiment than a creatively successful one.
In 2010, Mr. Gilbert collaborated with the director Doug Fitch on an innovative staging of Gyorgy Ligeti's satirical opera "Le Grand Macabre" (1978), an absurdist take on nothing less than the end of the world.
As he figures out how to channel this gloom into increasingly affecting assemblages, he also took some time to look back to the roots of his fascinations with the macabre for our latest THUMP mix.
You can do just that at the Brooklyn Museum, which is presenting the New York debut of what its officials think is the first exhibition ever on an intriguing, if slightly macabre, topic: animal mummies.
Didion writes about the body dumps, where "a skull surrounded by a perfect corona of hair is a not uncommon sight," and details the macabre lessons about the body's deterioration that one learns upon arriving.
But recent moves by the Trump administration have increased the likelihood that much of what is known about the macabre humiliations that unfolded in those jails around the world will remain hidden from public view.
" V. I. asks one of the locals, who fails to see the humor in this macabre trend: "Some people are buying them to live in right now, because they're cheap and they think it's cool.
The same theater's less-vaunted titles of note included most recently the American writer Julia Jarcho's "Grimly Handsome," a macabre fantasia that featured actors dressed as pandas adrift in a "paradise of perversions" (don't ask).
One of the only bad things about Halloween season is that it ends, signalled by a retail sea change that sees cute, cheesy pumpkins and ghosts and candy replaced by the truly macabre: Christmas decorations.
What is one of Michael Garlington's monumental, lavish chapels, laden with baroque details, macabre, gothic photography, toys, and weird, old-fashioned tchotchkes, without the spectacular, sometimes painful razing of it at the end of the week?
One cannot overstate the influence of From's uniquely ruthless and macabre rules around in-game death, in which you have to return to your corpse to hang on to progress you've made, and brutally unforgiving combat.
And zombies serve as metaphors for infection, racism, and climate change in books, movies, and TV. Dillinger's relatives wanted to film the exhumation as part of a macabre History Channel documentary, which has since been scrapped.
"[The Netflix version of the character] is a darker, more macabre version of Sabrina, and we're incredibly excited for people to see Kiernan make this iconic character her own," Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told Variety.
She felt like she didn't fit in academia, having been a goth/metalhead hybrid since the 9th grade who'd always been "interested in explicit content and all forms of visual terrorism," including taboos and the macabre.
The guy penned some of the most twisted, macabre, and brilliant kids' stories out there over the course of his unparalleled career, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to James and the Giant Peach and beyond.
With so many film actors heading to television — and so many television shows diving into the macabre — it was only a matter of time before Dakota Fanning would star in a very creepy new TV series.
Sure, most are interested in the slightly macabre and have a flair for the dark and dramatic, but it's more a style that offers you the chance to embrace freedom in whatever way you see fit.
But if research continues to show promising results for this macabre method, it'll just raise the chances that we'll see ghoulish and foolhardy new iterations of longstanding grey health markets spring up to meet emboldened demand.
Though some viewers might only know Giger from Alien, the Xenomorph creature design is fairly typical of the macabre, humanoid figures he created from his earliest work in the late 1960s to his death in 2014.
He speculates about the devil "howling in the wind" (there's a menacing-looking statue of Satan himself), reports Puritan superstitions about witches' bacchanals, and captures each gory execution of the accused with thoroughly macabre sound effects.
Theatrical décor — a doll's head with macabre splatters of blood on its face, like a Grand Guignol stage set, superimposed with drawings to look like a head of a Medusa — gives way to more familiar surroundings.
And now, with the third Purge film, Purge: Election Year, in theaters, it's as good a time as any to examine the popularity of the franchise that's not only macabre but almost too appropriate for 210.
Since his death, however, he has earned a more macabre claim to fame, with his remains at the center of a disagreement between two Roman Catholic dioceses, each of whom want the honor of interring them.
But now that he is so unpopular at home and challenged by the anti-Europe "yellow vest" protesters, "the more macabre and gruesome the British situation is, the better given his domestic situation," Mr. Leonard said.
Ms. Hynes — the imaginative director who introduced New York to the macabre mind of Martin McDonagh with "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" in 1998 — has presented one of the most accessible, and enjoyable, "Godots" on record.
Theater Macabre, which opens in Los Angeles on October 11th and will run indefinitely, is a choose-your-own-fate immersive theater experience by Clint Sears, Gordon Bijelonic and Darren Bousman, all mainstays of horror films.
The term itself goes back to a 2000 song by Eminem, where he combined the words "stalker" and "fan" to create a rather terrifying, macabre story of a fan whose obsession with the rapper went too far.
Sterling has achieved the most tragic kind of posthumous fame since being killed a day earlier, his name joining a macabre catechism of other black Americans whose lives were ended by police for little or no reason.
Morose, melancholy and withdrawn, he barely resembled the resolute tyrant of Reza Baraheni's Crowned Cannibals, the late 70s bestseller that depicted the shah's rule as a period of macabre palace orgies and prisons brimming with dissident youth.
While the idea of embedding with a gaggle of international tourists on a macabre getaway such as this would be a fascinating read at any time, Jerry's account of this trip turned out to be especially prescient.
There, she discovers a new world of authors and macabre fans, and when her annoying roommate turns up dead and missing his face, she begins investigating a crime that might have roots since the beginning of time.
It's a mystery without a detective, no Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple to make sense of things — just 10 people trapped on an island, being murdered one by one per the instructions of a macabre nursery rhyme.
From the labyrinthine guitar lines of the ominous "Danse Macabre" to the grand storytelling of "The Room of Shadows" and beyond, the record is resolutely infused with that enduring indefinable quality that makes Pagan Altar so essential.
In a scratchy wail, Mr. Cole led Dead Moon in ragged, macabre-obsessed songs, like "Graveyard" and "Dead Moon Night," that sounded as though they could have been made at any time in the last 50 years.
Whether in the bananas "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," the tender "All About My Mother," or the macabre "Bad Education," the characters in Pedro Almodóvar's movies share one thing: They all have fabulous apartments.
I was interested by a macabre, slightly disturbing multimedia installation called "The Theater of Apparitions," by Roger Ballen, as well as work that involved the beautiful layering of Chinese calligraphy and traditional darkroom techniques by Sun Yanchu.
Submission did not win that top literary prize, but in its pages lie the clues of how art can hasten a macabre moral shift, legitimate prejudice, and mask the tyranny a majority can enact on a minority.
Aside from the aforementioned influences, "Scary Stories" tonally has much in common with the macabre tales that were popular in the 1950s, such as those movies starring Vincent Price based on classic authors like Edward Allan Poe.
On a visit to the old city of Mosul on Wednesday with General Saadi and his men, it was clear that the militants' resistance was still fierce and often fanatical, even by the Islamic State's macabre standards.
Then this week, it transformed into something more macabre when a red tarp flew off one of the pancaked upper stories, revealing the dangling legs of a corpse that has been wedged under the rubble since October.
Conspiracists like John Lear, a pilot and heir to the Learjet fortune, spun macabre and bizarre stories about aliens being held and studied in such underground camps, where the government fed them abducted children and mutilated cattle.
Enormous cherry still lifes and loony faces, macabre chorus lines of legs, hapless-looking Ku Klux Klan figures: These paintings deliver a sardonic commentary on art, art-making, politics and life that never goes out of style.
Kenny Meadows, a British caricaturist best known for his contributions to Punch magazine, brought a macabre sensibility to his work: etchings of dueling crowned serpents for Macbeth; a wretched hag Sycorax, usually an unseen character, for The Tempest.
For another dose of macabre nastiness after "Alice" and "The Black Rider," head to Schauspiel Stuttgart, where The Tiger Lillies' "Lulu," originally performed in Britain by Opera North in 2014, has been given a grueling and acrobatic production.
Macabre pedigree aside, the house does have a couple of things going against it: It's fairly isolated, located about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, and it's got only one bathroom despite having four bedrooms and a finished attic.
One of the most macabre and surprising details was revealed a year after Casey's stunning 2011 acquittal, when multiple sources told PEOPLE that Casey and her mother, Cindy, had matching necklaces that contained Caylee's ashes in small vials.
His material, paired with what our reviewer, Sarah L. Courteau, called a "macabre sense of humor people in adrenaline-jacked jobs often develop," makes for engaging reading, whether he's describing his rookie missteps or solemn 9/11 memories.
"What seemed macabre to me is that this person mentioned 10 cases in which he gives details, the names of the victims; he gave us the clothing they had on at the time," Gómez told the radio outlet.
Adam Blackman and David Cruz have been fixtures of the Los Angeles designscape ever since they opened their gallery-atelier-emporium, Blackman Cruz, in 1993, as known for their odd couple partnership as for their macabre-chic aesthetic.
For much of the past 20 years, Toyn's working life has been spent inside the Old Bailey's walls, watching, listening, and reporting on the cases—the macabre, the weird, the dull—that come through the courts every day.
Most poignantly, we see her anorexia, exercise mania and macabre plastic surgeries — heck, her entire professional drive — in the context of her mother's unforgiving gaze: Cleo Gurley made it clear that she never thought her daughter was beautiful.
In "Teledildonics," modern-day lotus-eaters lost behind V.R. headsets masturbate one another with long-distance sex toys; in "Provenance: A Vivisection," flayed and preserved human bodies are put on display as part of a macabre art exhibit.
Even in the 1890s, a killer who targets prostitutes is such well-worn territory that it's tempting to turn off the series after its premiere, writing it off as an exercise in macabre, exploitative style and little else.
Dreamlike, macabre imagery like the one in the painting was not de Lappe's signature style, but the artwork contains the seed of social and political consciousness that Kahlo, Rivera, and other mentors would help foster during her lifetime.
Macabre and elegant, "No Time to Die" proves that — despite the fact that the franchise has existed for 39 more years than Eilish has — there is quite a bit of overlap between the aesthetics of Billie and Bond.
My heart dropped further when I thought about the growing macabre club of families in Las Vegas and Orlando and Charleston and Newtown, who have to relive their own day of horror every time another mass killing occurs.
What gives the show its edge is how well it teeters on the ed of the macabre; Dory (Shawkat) becomes morbidly fascinated with a missing high school classmate to the point where the search consumes her life and thoughts.
The macabre, poignant, candy-colored, and provocative "Electric Chair" works make up one of Warhol's most significant series, executed as part of his grisly Death and Disaster production, as conceived by Henry Geldzahler along the lines of film noir.
Unified by the surgical precision of the Radio Silence brain trust (aka Tyler Gillett, Chad Villella, and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin) in how they dole out frights, the two shorts make a fitting end to this hodgepodge of the macabre.
But the stage version, Timbers says, brings the character of Lydia Deetz (the macabre-obsessed teen played by Winona Ryder in the film, and on stage by 17-year-old Sophia Anne Caruso) to the center of the story.
It is a horror story in reverse, a narrative pinball bouncing from one set of eyes to another across a gradually unfolding and macabre catastrophe, via the final, desperate moment of each human being when their light goes out.
There's something slightly creepy or at least uncouth about "bringing back" a celebrity who passed away for our own enjoyment; a macabre tribute at best, or a disrespectful co-opting of another human's likeness, without their consent, at worst.
The $425 million pandemic bond adds a macabre twist to this credit risk - the buyers, in this case institutional investors like Baillie Gifford, lose their shirts if enough people die from Ebola, or other killers like SARS or Marburg.
Mr. Timbers — whose varied credits include the immersive Imelda Marcos-centered disco frolic "Here Lies Love" and the punch-drunk "Rocky" on Broadway — uses visual wit and gleefully macabre gags to provide awakening jolts during this sustained singing hayride.
"All control of the vessel is mine," he declares with a macabre cackle, sounding like he's talking through a mouthful of clotting blood—and The Darkness provides no happy ending, Jackie forever cursed to carry the wickedness with him.
This year's concert features the macabre yet compelling Lana Del Rey, singular singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, Vampire Weekend alum Rostam, and Hayley Kiyoko, a young pop singer who's made advocating for LGBTQ representation a central part of her music.
That macabre furnishing, a framed mirror and a rocking chair are the museum's only pieces that actually belonged to Poe, Ms. Davis said, but memorabilia on the walls reveals his life, as do an audio tour and a video.
It's been 40 years since the author made his name (and his nickname "Ian Macabre") by rolling grenades about thrill kills, incest and dismemberment into what he regarded as the polite, heat-drowsy garden party of contemporary British fiction.
The original story has a macabre, mythic grandeur and shares motifs with the tale of Medea, who murders her children, and of Philomela, who serves up her sister Procne's son to his father as revenge for his raping her.
It correctly discerned that the people marauding the nation, scaring children with their ghoulish costumes and macabre makeup, are basically a smattering of very sad humans™ who are both starved of attention and embarrassingly susceptible to American marketing.
But the tactics and methods vary widely, occasionally to macabre effect: Last year, a Florida high school conducted an unannounced drill that caused some students to suffer asthma attacks and vomit from fear, while others texted their parents goodbye.
After 2006's macabre platformer Limbo proved to be one of the most enjoyable indie titles available for the Xbox 360, people wondered—OK, we wondered—if Danish studio Playdead could meet its own bar for the current generation.
Celebrated for short stories of filigree sentences and blood-freezing endings, Munro (1870-1916) is being reincarnated with suitably macabre elegance at the Fourth Street Theater, where Katherine Rundell's "Life According to Saki" begins previews on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
The King of Pop might have produced some perfectly crafted tunes in his lifetime, but let's face it: nobody wants to live in a house in which a macabre, disembodied mannequin of the late MJ occupies a whole room.
But, slipped between the macabre praise of Bundy's personality is his childhood friend Sandi Holt's take on who Ted really was: He didn't fit in, he couldn't do anything right, and at one point he was teased for a speech impediment.
Certainly he is recognized for artworks that obsess over death, capital, and all things macabre, as well as his predilection for pickling sharks and other creatures in aqua-tinted formaldehyde, but he is best known for being brash, crass, and profitable.
From the macabre genius of Sharon Needles to the anime-inspired fantasies of Kim Chi, Drag Race has showcased a host of avant-garde performers that are inspiring a whole new generation of future queens to think outside the box.
As the macabre matriarch, Ripa wore a long black-haired wig, a black long-sleeved dress, and held a rose in her left hand for the snap, while Consuelos sports a striped suit and bowtie along with Gómez's signature mustache.
The hook of the glossy new animated feature about the macabre family is that it returns to the look of those original Addams cartoons, capturing the tentacled train of Morticia's dress, Gomez's rotund figure, and Wednesday's oval face in perfect verisimilitude.
Audiences who have seen the strange and astute "Kate Plays Christine" will find it difficult to watch "Christine" afterwards without the lingering feeling that it is nothing more than theatre, a macabre puppet-show with no greater purpose than to entertain.
After class, I wandered into the studio of Joseph Watson, an artist influenced by cityscapes and urban life, peeked into a steampunk-inspired gallery called Hiptazmic, then wandered upstairs and took in wonderfully macabre exhibits by Rebecca Hood and Lisa Dittrich.
It is not the work of a mob whipped into a frenzy of racial violence, and an impeached Trump would not be a mutilated corpse photographed for souvenir postcards or to be divided, body parts sold off as macabre relics.
There's a bunch of radical queers in the book (cue Macaulay Culkin shaking his rump on MDMA in Party Monster) and not only because it was necessary to indulge in a little danse macabre with the zombifying reality of AIDS.
A successful playwright known for macabre plotting and on-stage violence (his most recent play, "Hangmen", revolved around the abolition of the death penalty in Britain), Mr McDonagh's quirky style works as well on film as it does on stage.
The reality stars posed for their announcement photo inside the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery, as Schroeder is a big fan of murder and the macabre — something which her beloved has helped her celebrate since they first started dating last year.
Investigators digging into the life of Todd Kohlhepp — the South Carolina man accused of murdering four people, kidnapping a woman and then killing her boyfriend — have found a long trail of macabre online activity they think might be linked to him.
The reality stars posed for their announcement photo inside the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetary as Schroeder is a big fan of murder and the macabre — something which her fiancé has helped her celebrate since they first started dating last year.
What sometimes gets lost to history is that the road, the mountain and the world-famous golf course are linked by the memory of a farmer and the macabre legend of his coldblooded murder on a wintry night in 1831.
Disclosing a property's macabre past may seem like the ethical thing to do, and buyers or renters are likely to discover it on their own anyway, but some argue that when marketing a home, brokers should keep certain things secret.
Stores like Target have decided to stop selling scary clown masks (their clown costumes for kids and happy clown outfits are still available), while others, like Halloween Express, have reported a huge bump in demand for the outfits of macabre Bozos.
"The Pumpkin Pie Show: Stump Speeches," the delightfully perverse, political-themed installment of the annual macabre merriment led by the writer and performer Clay McLeod Chapman, provides strong evidence that the bloody tools of Lovecraftian horror are effective this political season.
On Saturday, the airport was still closed, a huge and macabre crime scene instead of a global crossroads and the main entry point to the "capital of Europe," a city that houses the headquarters of the European Union and NATO.
Here, atmospheric, ambitious melodic black metal meets thoughtful, midnight-tinted doom, stately neocrust, and ghostly vintage goth in a perfect danse macabre; I've honestly never heard anything else like it, and a big part of that lies in Von Spain's vocals.
The final room is given over to "Mengele-Totentanz" (1986), a late installation piece that Tinguely described as a danse macabre of scrap metal machines made from materials salvaged from a farm in his neighborhood after it was struck by lightning.
As in all of Fast's videos, we don't know if any of it really happened, but the soldier's unaffected, macabre narrative and jokes about the Afghanis' naivety casts innocent people who are seen as the enemy in a pathetic light.
Over time, though, he replaced the heads of some of these figures with heads he crafted and painted himself, adding demonic figures of his own creation to his groupings of statues and infusing his site with a sinister, macabre ambiance.
My meeting with Mr. Pul was uneventful, but the macabre approach to his home said a lot about the colorfully odd marriage of convenience between the tribal cultures of this mountainous frontier and the political economy of the Indian republic.
According to their Aunt Gertie, Papa Kwirk's will instructs the family to find his cremated ashes, a condition that turns into a macabre scavenger hunt involving mounds of ice cream, perilous tree climbing and a dangerous confrontation at a local museum.
"South Tower" is the single horrifying entry, but even it focuses less on the loss of life and property than on the macabre beauty of the paper blizzard that covered Lower Manhattan the day the World Trade Center buildings went down.
Not all his colleagues in the director Simon Evans's all-British ensemble are able to rein themselves in as the play moves toward its macabre conclusion, but Mr. Bloom connects to the part of Killer Joe Cooper without any condescension.
Ms. Gill has worked for years with many of the same collaborators, and the depth of those connections showed, in the seamless meeting of Jon Moniaci's macabre score, Thomas Dunn's otherworldly lighting and the dancers' careful manipulation of tension and weight.
JERUSALEM — A macabre tug of war over the body of a Palestinian militant on the Gaza-Israel border, captured Sunday on video in broad daylight, prompted a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza met by retaliatory Israeli airstrikes late Sunday.
After our last visit, in November 2018, while I was in town on an extended layover en route to Morocco for another Playboy story, she gave me a graphite-colored silk dress by the British label Ghost, which now feels macabre.
That he proves utterly inept at dognapping doesn't obscure his horrific efforts to silence every small pup that comes to his attention, nor does it prevent the janitor from contributing in his own macabre way to the missing-dog epidemic.
The pair gained notoriety for being part of a British-accented group of ISIS fighters, fronted by Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, who for a time regularly appeared in macabre videos from Syria showing him beheading several Western hostages.
" On Friday he tweeted: "The humanitarian aid is a show to humiliate us and is intended to justify military aggression; a macabre plan which does not hide the robbery of more than $10 billion from our nation by the United States.
A cousin of mine sent me a photo that was making the rounds of a tall, heavyset woman at the airport with a vague resemblance to García, which was enough to feed the macabre speculation that his suicide was a hoax.
But that's the way it goes with Lars Kepler, a pseudonym for the husband and wife team of Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, who have a taste for the macabre and a surefire recipe for the lurid serial-killer thriller.
"Folk horror postulates, celebrates, and explores all the distinctly seamy, dreadful, and macabre elements of the folk phenomenon," explained John Revill, a folk horror fan who was introduced to the subgenre while studying film history at Manchester University in England.

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