English Dictionary

horror show

名詞

広義 慣用表現

A horror movie or television show or other performance which depicts gruesome, horrible, or disgusting events, especially in a vividly visual manner.

日本語の意味

血なまぐさい、恐ろしく不気味なシーンを生々しく描写する、ホラー映画やテレビ番組などのエンターテインメント作品。 / 観客に恐怖や嫌悪感を与えることを目的とし、暴力的でグロテスクな描写を特徴とするパフォーマンス。

When the lights went out during the live performance, the stage became a real horror show that left the audience trembling.

生の公演中に照明が消えたとき、舞台は観客を震え上がらせるほど本当に凄惨なホラー作品になった。

意味（1）

A horror movie or television show or other performance which depicts gruesome, horrible, or disgusting events, especially in a vividly visual manner.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) A horrifying, appalling, or sickening experience, set of events, or visual spectacle.

Colleen Fallscheer, a cheerful 40-year-old mother of two from Waterford, Mich., is living proof that breast-cancer therapy is not the horror show it used to be.

horror shows （ plural ）