as it fell out of Dicken’s pen and onto the paper, is far scarier than most modern versions, and Volner’s interpretation expresses that eeriness perfectly.
The eeriness of places left behind. You can sense it when you move out of a house, noticing just how empty a place can feel. Walking through a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on the weekend, or fairgrounds out of season. [Such places] are usually bustling wit...
Burberry has built a brand that turns over a quarter of a billion pounds a year on the reliability and versatility of its check-lined trench coat, a hardy item that was first manufactured for the military by company founder Thomas Burberry back in 1879, but has been through countless iteratio...
On the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, we explore the past, present and future of Chernobyl's architecture, and its underlying narrative.
However, once we dug deeper (literally – underground), you start to feel the eeriness of how many people lost their lives on this very soil. The network of Cu Chi stretched from the South Vietnamese capital to the Cambodian border. At least twelve thousand Vietnamese guerrillas and ...
As a mom of three in grade school I've seen it a few times and loved it for its breathtaking evocation of the grand scale and abundant decoration of Ancient Egyptian architecture. Needless to say, as with virtually all films, and especially animated ones, innocent minds may need to be ...
—“Cat People,” producer Val Lewton’s first triumph with Jacques Tourneur, finds incredible ways of conveying eeriness on a shoestring budget. It’s a studio film with the scrappiness we’d later call an indie ethos. A scene where Irena menaces Alice (Jane Randolph), because Irena thinks...
Pyongyang is presented to us as cold and empty, perpetuating the narrative of eeriness that existed long before we laid eyes on this visual “proof.” These stark, barren scenes do make beautiful images—an understandable goal for photographers—but when images are shaped and sculpte...
Yet, the purple eeriness is pitch perfect. 31. Want to come in to this pumpkin house? Seems inhabited by skeletons. As one gets out of their coffin. 32. Didn’t really remember Hoth being an orange planet. Okay, this is a takeoff of Luke Skywalker squaring against the Wampa from The...
but I remember reading about it at the time. It was like my own lived history becoming a re-enactment. Even though I wasn’t there it was something that I’d known had happened. There was a sense of this eeriness of retro that I wanted to get to grips with. It was all very perpl...