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n. The property of being lurid.

n. unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

n. the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes

n. the quality of being ghastly

"Essentially a police procedural, the film prefigures the luridness of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972), but it's much closer in spirit to Otto Preminger's "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965)."

skin colour    complexion    skin color    journalese    frightfulness