as in haunting
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
the spookish interior of a Victorian mansion that had seen better days
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Brody — still mostly unknown in Hollywood — got sick at the beginning of production, lost 30 pounds and poured himself into the haunting role of the virtuoso.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
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Some of the most powerful images created as part of the mural initiative reside on a haunting, decayed block of Edison Concept Houses, constructed in 1913 by a subsidiary of U.S. Steel from inventor Thomas Edison’s patent for single-pour concrete homes.—
Patricia Leigh Brown,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan. 2025
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Fred Rogers was beaten with a hammer, and his wife Edwina was killed with a single gunshot to the head Comments The gruesome murders of a Houston couple 60 years ago remain one of the most eerie unsolved cases in the city’s history.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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But Lynch, who died last week, at seventy-eight, made films in which every cheerful surface seemed to obscure an eerie reality.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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In The Life with Zac Posen Celebrities The 73 Best Answers in 73 Questions The predatory aspects of 21st-century fandom get a brilliant treatment in Lurker, a creepy, gripping debut from filmmaker Alex Russell, a writer on Dave, The Bear, and Beef.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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One of the clips, which showed everything that hangs from the ceiling swaying, noises which sound like footsteps and the creepy attic, went viral, with more than 3.6 million views and 351,600 likes on TikTok in a matter of days.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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