nightmarish
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Two of Martel’s favorite movies set in L.A. are David Lynch’s nightmarish “Mulholland Drive” and Robert Aldrich’s psychodrama “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
The 31‑year‑old admitted she had begun having strange, nightmarish dreams ahead of her big moment at London Fashion Week on Sunday.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Harvey Pratt was a young police officer in Midwest City, Okla., during a string of nightmarish murders in the early 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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