stygian

A subtle reference to Serra’s father, a pipe fitter at a shipyard near San Francisco, it also puts us in mind of Charon’s ferry, shuttling souls across Stygian waters.

Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.

He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.

Framed in Stygian iron, the magical portal was a set of elevator doors—two panels of silver and black etched with art deco designs.

The actors are shot in separate gloomy interiors, and from stationary positions, so as to appear in Stygian Zoom-like frames as if at a virtual meeting of hobbits.