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- s suggesting the horror of death and decay
- When Stuart Gordon, who directed the smartly ghoulish Re-Animator a couple decades ago, steps onstage to present his new film Stuck a melodrama about a young woman who crashes .
- Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called "ghoulish tinkering" with human and animal life.
- Thailand's grief over Sarit's death was in stark contrast to the ghoulish glee it provoked in neighboring Cambodia.