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next and headless
Various people were to claim to witness a variety of puzzling incidents, such as a phantom coach driven by two headless horsemen, through the next four decades.
Other murders include: a drowning in a butt of wine, based on the murder of the Duke of Clarence in Richard III ; the wife of one critic, who was drugged to sleep soundly, awakens next to her husband's decapitated body, as Imogen awoke to find the headless body of Cloten in Cymbeline ; quasi-cannibalism — the effeminate Meredith Merridew is tricked into eating his " babies " ( his beloved poodles ) just as Queen Tamora was fed the flesh of her two sons, baked in a pie, in the climax of Titus Andronicus ; one critic is tricked into believing his wife has been unfaithful, driving him to smother her in a jealous rage ( i. e. Othello ) and spend the rest of his life in prison ; the sole female critic ( played by Coral Browne, shortly to become Price's third and last wife ) is electrocuted by hair curlers as Lionheart recites a passage in which Joan of Arc is burnt at the stake, " Spare for no fagots of sticks, let there be enough ..." ( from Henry VI, part 1 ).
It's said on that day that " He who doesn't eat taro would wake up the next day headless.
He is found the next day headless and gutted in the town park.

next and horror
Rabid was a breakthrough with international distributors and his next two horror features gained stronger support.
Von Trier's next feature film was a horror movie, Antichrist, about " a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage ; but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse ".
The episodic nature of television generally involves a resolution at the end of the episode, with characters surviving to the next episode ; over time, this lessens the extreme tension required in horror.
After the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gellar's next film was the 2004 horror film The Grudge, which was a success at the box office, grossing $ 187, 281, 115 worldwide.
After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.
She accepted her next role, in the Grand Guignol horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter.
He maintained a career at Universal horror movies over the next few years, replaying the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ( 1943 ), House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), House of Dracula ( 1945 ) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ); playing Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ); and playing Kharis the mummy in The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ) and The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ).
Aronofsky's next film was Black Swan, which had been in development since 2001, a psychological thriller horror film about a New York City ballerina.
" This is going to be scary, bloody fun, and we're going to create the next horror icon, a la Freddy, Jason and Chucky.
So Chet, when you ride away to the West to Montana on your new horse, I will have to admit to at least a mild envy, and when you're out there under clear skies and clean air, maybe once in a while you will think of those of us still here, fighting the traffic, the transportation breakdowns, stress, pollution, and wondering what is left that we can eat, drink, smoke or breathe that will not kill us, and wondering what horror will be visited upon us next.
The BBC ordered the series ' next producer, Graham Williams, to lighten the tone and reduce the violence and horror following Whitehouse's complaints.
The next morning, Helen wakes up with the crown on her head with most of her hair cut off to bits with " SOON " written in lipstick on her mirror she screams out in horror and smashes the mirror.
Survival horror games, like many action-adventure games, are structured around the boss encounter where the player must confront a formidable opponent in order to advance to the next area.
Tsukamoto's next film, Hiruko the Goblin, was a more conventional horror film, about demons being unleashed from the gates of hell.
Federico Curiel directed Mil's next two films in 1968, both of which feature American horror star John Carradine as a bad guy.
The next year, she received public recognition for her participation in the box office hit horror film The Ring.
Yudhishthira walks into the trap and to the horror of everybody present, puts Draupadi as a bet for the next round.
After the attack, Decker ordered his surviving crew to the surface of a nearby planet, but to his horror, the machine destroyed that world next.
Affleck's next few films, the underground movie Desert Blue ( 1998 ) with Kate Hudson, the black comedy Drowning Mona ( 1999 ) with Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Danny DeVito, and the 2001 horror movie Soul Survivors ( co-starring Luke Wilson ) were all critical as well as commercial failures.
Over the next few years at Charlton, Aparo drew stories in many genres — Westerns, science fiction, romance, horror, mystery, and suspense.
The next year, she played in the science fiction / horror film Event Horizon as Lieutenant Starck, executive officer of the research and rescue ship Lewis and Clark, sent to rescue crew of the long-lost experimental ship Event Horizon.

next and on
Then maybe next time he won't be so quick on the trigger ''.
Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.
She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??
The chaplain married them, on the next day.
`` Holy Mary, Mother of God, Star of the Sea, stay Thou with me on this next dive.
Leisurely he climbed on to the wagon next to Neal Brown.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
At the end of this period two pious Christians in Rome receive the revelation which leads them to seek the next Pope on the rock.
He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
Would he meet him in Baltimore in Drawing Room A, Car Three on the train leaving Washington at nine o'clock next morning??
If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.
From next New Year's Day let us keep careful account of each successive fatality on the highways, publicizing it on all media of communication.
Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.
There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.
Mickie sat over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little bar next to the funeral parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.
Up to this time and for the next eight years, the services provided disabled persons consisted mainly of training, counseling, and placement on a job.
If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

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