| 单词 | shilling shocker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshilling shocker b. A novel, play, film, etc., which aims to shock; spec. (a) a novel written in a sensational or morbidly exciting style (in early use frequently in shilling shocker); (b) a horror film. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller sensation novel1856 penny dreadful1861 dime novel1864 curdler1872 dreadful1874 blood and thunder1876 penny awful1880 shilling dreadful1885 thrill1886 thriller1889 blood1892 terror novel1896 penny horrible1899 spine-thriller1912 roman noir1926 spine-chiller1940 scorcher1942 spine-tingler1942 spine-freezer1960 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > horror film horror film1936 Hammer horror1958 horror1958 giallo1965 schlocker1969 shlock horror movie1971 splatterpunk1988 shlock horror film1989 1885 Funny Folks 26 Dec. 411/1 The compositor who set up that shilling shocker ‘Hauled Down’, you know, which you lent me the other day. 1886 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 13 Apr. If the publisher is really being ruined by the ‘shockers’, and the public is really sick of them, it is evident that the publisher has the remedy in his own hands. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 July 6/2 Given plenty of sensational incident and a certain coherency of plot, and you have all that is necessary to make a ‘shilling shocker’. 1890 Athenæum 7 June 734/3 ‘For so Little’ has some of the qualities one looks for in the ‘shocker’; but the greatest of these is brevity, and that it has not got. 1946 Liberty 25 May 81/1 The Postman Always Rings Twice, adapted from James Cain's best-known novel.., ought to be a really good shocker. 1946 K. Tynan Lett. (1994) ii. 119 If I see any suitable shockers or bedroom farces in the Oxford bookshops, I will send them on to you. 2007 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 June 19/6 The R-rated shocker about disappearing backpackers in Europe. < as lemmas |
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