spine-chilling
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Unexpected Productions’ improv comedians will take inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe’s literary masterpieces and blend in audience ideas for “a spine-chilling experience” that combines comedy and dark themes.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023
The unlikely meshing of gospel and rap, spine-chilling lyrics and clever sampling of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” would eventually turn the single into a chart-topping hit and catapult the rapper’s decades-long musical career.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022
It is the most hauntingly and psychologically complex ghost story I’ve ever seen, presented with an ambiguous gentility that is literally spine-chilling.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2021
Extremely early-2010s-y show Game of Thrones is compared to: Deadwood What the review got right: “The series contains the kind of gorgeous vistas and spine-chilling moments you’d expect from a fantasy epic.”
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2019
When he saw me he gave a loud, clear wailing wraaaah—a spine-chilling call that is used to threaten a dangerous animal.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
