Fire rose blossoming behind the blood. (Patreon)

1-Gustave Moreau - Study for Lady Macbeth (1851)

2-Brian De Palma - Carrie (1976)

Moreau was haunting, uncanny.

That single image in the De Palma movie (which can’t be caught in one still) was infinitely more beautiful and disturbing - the enormous fire rose blossoming behind the blood--soaked witch. It was a moment when his imagination, and that of the novelist, combined to create something beyond the esthetic limits of either of them.