shock-horror

shock-horror

adj
facetious (esp of newspaper headlines) sensationalistic: shock-horror stories about the British diet.
[C20: shock1 + horror]
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Translations

shock-horror

adj shock-horror story (Press, hum) → Horrorgeschichte f
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Is the world so lacking in news that they are worth front pages of shock-horror diatribes from vague relatives against a young woman whose only crime is marrying a Prince?
Saw III Channel 4, Thursday, 10.35pm The third installment of the shock-horror franchise offers fans more of the same.
ONCE again the Liverpool ECHO relishes blurting out in a shock-horror headline (pages 8 and 9, Monday Marchl9) how Liverpool cabbies are all rogues and conmen.
Much as we've warmed to Not So Little Jimmy Osmond and enjoyed hearing about Harry Kewell's stretch marks and peachy bum from his girlfriend Sheree, no one this year has come close to the shock-horror value provided by the likes of John Lydon, Paul Burrell, Natalie Appleton's tree-phobia or the Jordan and Peter love-in.
WHO'D have thought that you could breathe new life into a once popular shock-horror film series that had long grown stale.
So accustomed have we become to these drubbings we don't react in shock-horror fashion any more but simply shrug our shoulders and take it on the chin.
The American shock-horror band, who wear Halloween masks, were scheduled to play to 5,000 fans at the Cardiff International Arena this Friday.
For three hours, old-school coach Al Pacino locks horns with the team's new owner Cameron Diaz (shock-horror, a girl!) and hot-headed quarterback Willie Beamon (Jamie Foxx).
8 (5) Dog Soldiers (15) British Army versus giant werewolves in enjoyably grisly shock-horror.
THE shock-horror reaction of politicians I have heard interviewed in the wake of yesterday's Jo-gate revelation has left me with just a hint of a wry smile.
3(-) Dog Soldiers (15) British army versus werewolves in enjoyably grisly shock-horror.
FANS of cinema's longest-running stalk-and-slash series are in for a treat with this trick-packed slice of shock-horror, which picks up the story 20 years after teenage babysitter Laurie Strode last survived the white-faced boogeyman.