CNN started the new year by continuing its longstanding practice of purveying Gothic horror, publishing an article about a mysterious and gory death on a cruise liner. "Couple witnesses horrific cruise ship death" is the decently scary headline, but the URL verges on sublime lyricism: "carnival-ecstasy-cruise-ship-elevator-death".
Passengers aboard the Carnival Ecstasy witnessed part of the horrifying incident Sunday evening in which blood poured down the front of the elevator...
As the couple looked on aghast at the flowing blood, which they said sounded like a rainstorm, a crew member was trying to usher people back inside the restaurant.
There's even an explicit call-out to classic horror fiction:
"To look and see the elevator with just blood coming down like a sheet, and not stopping ... it was a real life scene of 'The Shining,'" Davis told CNN affiliate WFTX, referring to the 1980 horror movie.
More:
"A crew member or somebody was inside or behind that wall when the elevator came down, and I don't know what happened, but something terrifying happened," he told WFTX.
A spokesman for Carnival, Vance Gulliksen, told CNN that a crew member died Sunday on the ship while working on an elevator.
CNN: the 21st-century's penny dreadful.
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