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I'm going to see a horror film.
Some people derive pleasure from watching horror movies.
I get goose bumps when I see a horror movie.
My hair stood on end with horror when I saw the scene.
I couldn't bring myself to see the horror movie again.
Carol often watches horror movies.
My brother likes horror movies.
Words cannot describe the horror I felt.
I have a horror of snakes.
To my horror, the man took a gun out of his pocket.
Isn't my boyfriend terrible? He always takes me to see horror movies, even though he knows I don't like them. I hate it.
She takes pleasure in seeing horror films.
She turned away in horror at the sight of so much blood.
She screamed with horror as someone took hold of her arm.
Just picture to yourself the horror with which I saw the scene.
Words cannot describe the horror I experienced.
This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.
A scary horror movie is only a movie. Once you turn off the screen it's all over, but life.you're stuck in it.
Movie subtitles
One viewed with horror the mysterious workings of nature.
With horror, Sotis realizes Ramphis has stolen the Greek girl from King Samlak.
Miss Mina, I promise you that after tonight. she will remain at rest, her soul released from this horror.
But this horror, he wills it.
If you do one thing that I don't approve of while I'm gone. the least little thing, mind you. I'll show you what horror means.
It was through you this horror came into existence.
It was that idea and the horror of it that killed my father.
Exposure to catastrophes such as explosions, earthquakes and railway accidents - in short, exposure to fright and horror often triggers insanity.
Apparently it was the horror of that experience that overpowered this phenomenal mind, which for so long had straddled the fine line between genius and madness, and literally deranged it.
So it came from over there, the unknown horror, the thing that caused his mind to snap.
This mind would have destroyed mankind, which itself knows only destruction and extermination and which could only have been saved in its final hour through terror and horror.
When humanity, subjugated by the terror of crime, has been driven insane by fear and horror, and when chaos has become supreme law, then the time will have come for the empire of crime.
He has an intense and all-consuming horror of cats.
Whatever your purpose was, I take great relish in savouring each separate horror.
If he came to the festivities, as you demand, he would spoil them. and instead of lust horror would pave its way.
An agonizing confession escaped from her lips, fear and horror.
Jean thought he had become an object of horror to his family.
Miss Mina, I promise you that after tonight she will remain at rest, her soul released from this horror.
No, the music you are hearing is not Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which was used under the main title for four Universal horror films, beginning with Dracula in 1931, but this is an original score by Heinz Roemheld.
In marketing, Universal decided to emphasise the novelty aspect of the film, rather than sell it as a horror film.
It's a perfect night for mystery and horror.
There's nothing ahead for me but. But horror!
However, if you wish to enshrine this joyful day let the whole world know about our leader and great commander, about our glorious hero who went among the lepers to fight the horror and the disease.
Amy, if you knew the horror of that place.
Turn me sick with horror to see it struggling and the sound of its screams.
We extract pleasure from horror. Only the mob, sire.
I'll show you what horror means.
My brother's still out there, dying by inches, starvation, disease and horror.
Mr. Ounce has looked with horror on the rotten branches of his family tree if I might use the term.
But if I come too near, if they feel the presence of my shadow, a horror comes upon their minds.
She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.
Flames, horror, and black clothes.
Shall I commit Louise Gordon to a life of unspeakable horror?
That house comes into my dreams sometimes. a house of horror.
Plain, old-Fashioned lunatic asylum, Not that creepy horror!
The horror and terror you feel my dear, comes from being alive.
The dragon will excite horror in every prior's heart.
Only six minutes of horror.
Horror, horror, horror!
News and current affairs
Trying to help resolve the situation peacefully, I was persuaded to negotiate at the Central Jakarta Police Station, but found to my horror that the mob leaders controlled the station.
This may or may not bring shudders of horror, but will certainly not occur outside the law or in some shadowy offshore location.
I was certain that when Americans knew what was being done in their name, they would react with horror and outrage.
Similarly, Keynes watched in horror as economic policymakers blundered repeatedly in the years following WWI, through the upheavals of the 1920s, and into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In fact, Clinton was deeply moved by Jibril's testimony, riveted by the horror of the regime's tanks grinding toward Benghazi at that very moment.
They watched in horror as Amazon, en route to becoming the world's largest online retailer, pushed the bookstore chain Borders into bankruptcy, and have wondered if they will be next.
That horror is what makes parasites such a great device for science fiction movies such as Alien.
Horror stories of all types have emerged in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
If the Israelis, or the Palestinians, are like Nazis, then the horror of what the real Nazis did has been greatly diminished.
But the real horror for Bulgarians is of Kosovo repeating itself in Macedonia, with another tide of refugees bringing the war and its suffering onto Bulgarian soil itself.
Even more unsettling, we recognize that America or another country may well be attacked by surprise once again, and are left wondering if such an event will match or exceed the horror of last year.
Adapting to the latest horror, we conclude - repeatedly, and despite all evidence to the contrary - that we have at last seen all that there is to see.
To his horror, the robot Francine arose.
Of course, in times of horror such as the Holocaust and Ukraine's Holodomyr, isolated and powerless individuals may swaddle themselves in indifference simply to retain some shred of sanity.
Germany is an exception, though hardly a geostrategic heavyweight; and though Japan knows the horror of nuclear war, important domestic voices there are calling for a change of its non-nuclear status.
Faced with the horror of what the Nazis had done, most people found it psychologically easier to think of what had happened as the behavior of mentally unhinged individuals, or the result of some sort of collective fugue.
NEW YORK - The horror has become almost routine.
Despite the horror and anger we feel at the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, we must all hold fast to that principle, because to limit freedom of expression would be to weaken our own societies.
For them, past horror is abstract; only the present horror can be felt.
Instead of simply watching in horror, as it did at the start of the Bosnian war, NATO decided to intervene before Milosevic's forces could again devastate one of the constituent ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.
But censorship cannot completely hide the horror.
Nor would I seek to downplay the full horror of what has happened.
The world watched in horror when Taliban forces destroyed the monumental Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan in 2001.
Two decades after the Rwandan genocide, we continue to bear witness to human cruelty and horror - in Syria, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic, for example.
And the transformation of the central bank into a quasi-fiscal agent (because if Greek debt is restructured, the ECB will record losses) is regarded with horror, as it violates the separation between money and public finances.
That is far from a foregone conclusion in Azerbaijan, where the last stint in power by some of the opposition leaders in 1992-1993 still evokes bitter memories of a time of war and crisis that few can recall without horror.
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