Sentences with phrase «guignol elements»

Eschewing the Grand Guignol elements of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, music video director Romanek opts for the ticking - time - bomb, antiseptic, wide - angle creepiness of mid-career Kubrick.

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The paranormal is the least disturbing of the elements here, played with a gleefully operatic excess, and more than a whiff of the disturbing exoticism of Grand Guignol at work in the passions unleashed.
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