horror show

noun

1. a situation filled with or causing horror.

Example Sentences

Then, the horror show that was South Africa’s second try when Franco Mostert fumbled a close-range line-out ball to Du Toit, who thundered through the gap.

From BBC

The ’60s and ’70s looked, on balance, like an era of progress to many on the left, but the women’s rights movement, the post-Stonewall gay rights movement, Black Power, the Chicano movement, and the American Indian Movement looked very different to those on the far right, and they became nightmare fuel for a very different horror show.

From Slate

The film has a cast that includes Two Doors Down star Joy McAvoy and Matt McClure from American horror show Penny Dreadful.

From BBC

But the 2016 speech at least made sense and was delivered with an undeniable level of bombast that turned the audience into a rabid, foot-stomping horror show.

From Salon

Trump’s former attorney general, who has strongly denounced his former boss as an unhinged “horror show” whose return to power could sow “chaos,” and has warned of what a terrifying threat Trump is to the world and democracy—you know where this is going, don’t you?—has said he will vote for Donald Trump for president.

From Slate