unnerving

And there, like an old friend, is Cronenberg’s regular composer Howard Shore with a synth moan to keep the mood unnerving.

I sat for a Bachardy portrait in 1983 — one of two he made that day is in the Huntington exhibition — and the experience was unnerving.

That’d be a jump scare as it is, but the images blowing up Violet’s phone quickly become unnervingly specific and personal.

The images are surreal: choked black skies, unnerving moon-like suns, a mangled foot that wraps around the corner of a hallway like it has no bones.

Maybe it’s inevitable that "Black Mirror," once upon a time a show of unnerving political and social prescience, would become not simply passé but past expiration.