Sentences with phrase «guignol by»

The bulk of Killer Joe is built like a standard things - go - terribly - awry small - town crime thriller, but because it was written by a young, sensational - minded Tracy Letts (who here adapted his own script) and is directed by The Exorcist's William Friedkin, the NC - 17 rated action reaches the Grand Guignol by the end.

Not exact matches

Verging on Grand Guignol, Spielberg's gory, ironic vision of D - Day is saved by its awesome hellishness, the feeling that each new atrocity signals a new circle reached in some Dantesque inferno.

After a vision of the Grand Guignol, Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Dr. Frankenstein and Sembene explore an empty theater - only to be confronted by their worst nightmares.

Raimi's still very much up to his old tricks, retaining that deliriously over-the-top brand of Grand Guignol horror that he had abandoned by the mid -»90s in pursuit of other genres.

An unholy hybrid between a teen gang film and a «torture porn» horror movie, this film by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores (who work under the name «The Butcher Brothers») throws in plenty of Grand Guignol - style bloodletting to very little effect.

Here's a Halloween pick for you: a macabre musical about a sociopathic barber (Johnny Depp) with flashing razors and a demented cook (Helena Bonham Carter) who hides the evidence of his murders into meat pies, directed by Tim Burton, the dark fantastist of American cinema, as both threepenny opera and Grand Guignol.

Horrorshows like this prequel to 1973's genuinely scary The Exorcist have become ever more literal and physical, dominated by a Grand Guignol fascination with the myriad ways the human body can be mutilated.

Sewn into the story is the debauched Grand Guignol behind - the - scenes world of rock star excess, compete with promiscuous groupies assailed by roadies and moguls, and somewhere in there is the wide - eyed, and well - intentioned ingenue Phoenix (Jessica Harper, magnificent), the beauty to Winslow's beast.

Add a pair of hired thugs (Hans Christian Blech and Francois Simon), a mysterious «protector» (Bruno Cremer), plus our heroine's tendency to gouge out the eyes of any man who gets too close, and you've got yourself a truly unique exercise in Grand Guignol, even by the standards of an era in which Rampling became a star via Liliana Cavani's concentration - camp romp The Night Porter.

Yet for all that Pam Grier / Sarah Connor / Atomic Blonde machisma, there's also a surprisingly feminine energy to a movie spilling Grand Guignol buckets of blood, and with a sneer by Josh Brolin that could curdle whatever's left.

New Licenses: Gente ~ Ristorante no Hitobito ~ by Natsume Ono What's the Answer by Tondabayashi Grand Guignol Orchestra by Kaori Yuki Nice to Meet You, Kamisama by Julietta Suzuki... Read More...

New York Times 8/13/1999 Jeanne Silverthorne «The Studio Stripped Bare, Again» Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris Article by Holland Cotter In this funny Grand Guignol installation, black electrical cords are everywhere.