Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

His action was compared to a corkscrew ; writer Ray Robinson saying that " to coax turn from firm Australian pitches he twisted the ball almost hard enough to screw a doorknob off ".

According to Peter Robinson of NME this twisted epic is an acidic, filthy little song teeming with spite and retribution, with Timbaland ’ s pounding.

Giving an " A " rating, Robert Christgau calls the album " Brilliant, addictive ", observing meanwhile that "" The harmonies sound like the lead sheets are upside down and backwards, the guitar solos sound like screwball readymade pastiches, and the lyrics sound like love is strange [...] Can an album be catchy and twisted at the same time?

From exotically hallucinogenic visions of a lunar crucifixion to the claustrophobic realism of a bar-room brawl, via such twisted vignettes as Robert Loggia karaoking to Al Jolson and Moses Gunn in Superman drag, Blatty directs like a man with no understanding of, or interest in, the supposed limits of mainstream movie-making.

" actor Robert Trebor reincarnates Gottlieb in a 45-minute late-night solo performance that paints Brother Theodore ’ s belligerent reflections on a twisted life with broad yet powerful comedic strokes.

Creed also came to join the Upstarts, a group of wealthy and powerful individuals who had banded together by Selene and the enigmatic telepathic Gamesmaster with the sole purpose of killing mutants for points in a twisted game.

It's a tender story of a bored and broken man seeking redemption, pouring himself into a cause that he finds important that everyone else thinks is a laughable joke, and finding spiritual enlightenment in spite of his entire endeavor being twisted by corrupt politicians as an excuse to wage war.

Ten years after Alice was committed to Rutledge, she finds herself sucked back into a Wonderland that has been twisted by her own broken mind.

When Jill finds out Terry is recovering, she admits him to a hospice and tells all her friends that he has died, and stages a twisted funeral where she gets all the attention.

Christof eventually finds the Vampires responsible for the kidnapping of his love only to find the pure woman of God that he fell in love with is now a twisted, violated creature of the night who shuns him as an emotional weakling, serving to an Infernalist Tzimisce plotting to avert Gehenna by destroying all the Antediluvians.

The Doctor's companion Mel, hardened by many years of dark experience, eventually tracks him down with a view to assassinating the Valeyard after confirming that there is nothing of the Doctor left in him, but finds that he has become the victim of his own time meddling, having unintentionally twisted his own past so much-such as accidentally killing the Fourth Doctor, or planning to kill the First Doctor's companion Dodo Chaplet to stop the Doctor visiting a planet for a holiday at the same time as the Valeyard destroyed it-due to his lack of the Doctor's compassion and knowledge of when not to take certain actions, that he has trapped himself in the TARDIS, terrified even to move in case he makes things worse, the TARDIS having diverted all its power to keeping the Valeyard and Mel in stasis, only able to move enough to talk.

All is fun in her class as she learns from her idol George until she finds out a twisted secret about her husband.

Escaping from a gang of local bullies in a malfunctioning lift, Roland finds himself transported to a strange fantasy environment where people and places are twisted variations of those he sees in his real life.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

Despite having his mind and body twisted, Gambit retained a large portion of his former self, stating to Apocalypse, " I'm both Death and Gambit ", and he also remembered his love for Rogue as he could not bring himself to kill her.

Then he could not restrain himself and finally he broke out in a high-pitched laughter that very soon turned into a cry of pain, while the tears ran down his face, and his body twisted against his chains.

In 2007's Sandworms of Dune, Paul ultimately duels another Paul Atreides ghola — named Paolo — created by the Face Dancers and twisted by the sadistic ghola of Baron Harkonnen himself.

They either soon withered and died, burnt out by the load they carried, like the elfqueen Aloevan of Ardeepor, or they thrived but were twisted and corrupted by their power, like the mage Sammaster, who began to think of himself as a god and set about building himself a cult of worshippers ( which survives today as the Cult of the Dragon ).

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described the film as being " confused in its values " but awarded it 3 stars out of four and lauded the work of Oldman: " Gary Oldman's performance in the movie is the best thing about it ... What's best about State of Grace is what's unique to it-the twisted vision of the Oldman character, who lives in a world of evil and betrayal and has somehow thought himself around to the notion that he is doing the right thing.

Soon everyone in Kurouzu has been caught in the curse of the vortex — Kirie's dad, who takes a drill to his eye after obsessively creating spiral shaped ceramics ; the reporter who gives a special report on the horrors of the town and her crew, all of whom lose themselves in a tunnel only for their corpses to be found as snail-people ; Sekino, whose body has been devoured by the snake-like curls ; Kirie's stalker, who throws himself in front of Inspector Tamura's car and is twisted around the axle, the impact by Tamura's head leaving a spiral crack in the windshield ; a police officer, who while he was admiring the spiral rifling in the barrel of his gun, shot himself in the eye, leaving a spiral hole in his head ; and even Shuichi himself, whose body twists into a spiral and becomes possessed by it.

The Vilna Gaon, who was himself steeped in both Talmudic and Kabbalistic wisdom, analyzed the theological underpinnings of this new " Hasidism " and in his view, concluded that it was deeply flawed since it had elements of what may be roughly termed as panentheism and perhaps even outright pantheism, dangerous aspirations for bringing the Jewish Messiah that could easily be twisted in unpredictable directions for Jewry as had previously happened with the Zevi and Frank religious " revival " fiascos, and an array of complex rejections of their religious ideology.

One of them, the son of Mr. Heron, under-sheriff of Northumberland, had a rope twisted around his hand and could not disengage himself in time.

Realising that the only way to stop it was to return himself, Galvatron and Cyclonus to their original time, Scourge attempted to recover Cyclonus's body from Shockwave, only to be attacked by the deranged Decepticon, who had lost his mind due to the illogical nature of the situation, and had strung Cyclonus's remains up like a twisted trophy.

A black hole transports a small number of Autobots and Decepticons to a barren world where they are ravaged by Nemesis Prime, a twisted clone of Optimus, and have their power and armor enhanced by the Mini-Cons ( with Megatron renaming himself Galvatron in the US-version ).

He has tried every bizarre method imaginable to succeed in his aim from lowering a telescopic camera into the loch to catch the monster on film ( but ended up having the telescope twisted by the Nessies so that all he shot was a seagull in the air ) to pumping sherbet into the loch to try to bring out a monster in a bubble ( but ended up falling into his machine and being carried away in one himself ).

Then he could not restrain himself and finally he broke out in a high-pitched laughter that very soon turned into a cry of pain, while the tears ran down his face, and his body twisted against his chains.

While this is going on, Stan, Kyle and Kenny have gone with their robotic companion to Cartman's house to convince his mother to help them, but she goes off with Bill Cosby to have sex ; Cartman's Trapper Keeper, meanwhile, integrates itself into Cartman's computer and most of his belongings, and then absorbs Cartman himself, becoming a twisted bio-mechanical blob monster in a vaguely Cartman shape.

The two warriors are evenly matched in battle, and each sees a twisted mirror image of himself in the other ; Drizzt the drow with a human soul, and Entreri the human who should have been born a drow.

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But there is another: the Ilse Witch, a beautiful but twisted young woman who is as practiced in magic as Walker himself.

You follow the 6 characters of Agonistes, a transformer of flesh, an ancient entity that was possibly created by God ; The Scythe-Meister, an assassin that was transformed by Agonistes, built to bring the corrupt empire to its knees ; Lucidique, the daughter of a Senator who was killed by the Scythe-Meister, who brings him to Agonistes for transformation and who falls strangely in love with him ; Dr. Talisac, a twisted doctor, addicted to many of his own medications, who creates a womb for himself for his creation to grow, and attaches himself to a machine ; Venal Anatomica, a hulking assassin created by Dr. Talisac, he feels no fear or loyalty to his creator, only to the General that commands him ; The Mongroid, the creature that grew in Talisac ’ s womb, more bestial than human, he possesses a well formed head, and a gaping maw coming from his stomach.

The pile is generally either made from wool or a manmade fibre such as polypropylene, nylon or polyester and usually consists of twisted tufts which are often heat-treated to maintain their structure.

His sailors reported that the Taínos on the island of Cuba smoked a primitive form of cigar, with twisted, dried tobacco leaves rolled in other leaves such as palm or plantain.

There is also a connected floating island called " Lost Angles ", a twisted and corrupted area which plays as the lair for the virus Hexadecimal ; this island was revealed in the course of the first half of Season Four to have been Mainframe's sister city until an accident involving Dot and Enzo's father and the arrival of the virus Gigabyte, who immediately morphed into the twin viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal.

Each " island " is transformed into a different twisted world: Port of Entry into Port of Evil, Seuss Landing into Boo-Ville, The Lost Continent into Island of Evil Souls, Jurassic Park into JP Extinction, Toon Lagoon into Treaks and Foons and Marvel Super Hero Island into Island Under Siege.

Varieties of tteokguk include: saeng tteokguk ( 생떡국 ) or nal tteokguk ( 날떡국 ), a specialty of Chungcheong province, where a mixture of non-glutinous rice with glutinous rice is made into small balls or rolled into a garaetteok shape and then sliced into a boiling broth ; joraengi tteokguk ( 조랭이 떡국 ) from the Kaesong region with the tteok twisted in small cocoon shapes ; and gon tteokguk ( 곤떡국 ) from the island of Jeju, which uses sliced jeolpyeon tteok rather than the usual garaetteok.

His personal story ( a prince born in the poorest rione ( section of the city ) of Naples ), his unique twisted face, his special mimic expressions and his gestures, created an inimitable personage and made him one of the most beloved Italians of the 1960s.

Each section of the frieze is broken up by framing bands of plaited cloth or twisted cords ( which represent celestial phenomena ).

The section twisted will be a polygon ; the numerous required support creases include pleat folds radiating from its corners.

This idle period may have contributed to a break-down on 27 September 1984: after drilling to, a section of the drill string twisted off and was left in the hole.

If the rod is perfectly cylindrical, then the circular symmetry of the cross section makes it impossible to tell whether or not it is twisted.