Possible Clues:

• Bizarre and nightmarish
• Nightmarish (like a Bohemian author's work)
• Like a Czech novelist's vision of our isolated existence in a dehumanised world
• Use a fake King and Queen to move like Castle?
• Bizarre and alienating
• Maddeningly surreal
• Nightmarishly illogical, in a way
• Nightmarish quake initially knocking safe crooked
• Menacingly complex, as a bureaucracy
• Nightmarish extremes of funk in terrible sea-quake