, but that's a Grand
Guignol horror movie being released in mid-September.
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.
Not exact matches
While some debate as to whether Sunset Blvd. or Baby J incited Grande Dame
Guignol cinema (or, more fondly known as hag
horror), audiences should enjoy seeing glamorous actresses of yesteryear get down - and - dirty with Mean Girls - level spiteful digs that feel uncomfortably horrific and humorous.
The confinement drama, though perhaps predictable to attentive
horror veterans, pays off with some prime living - room Grand
Guignol, and the deceptively lucid imagery is, as the credits proudly proclaim, «filmed in glorious 35 mm.»
Before H.G. Lewis was bathing in cheap stage blood and flipping stomachs at drive - ins everywhere and the same year that Alfred Hitchcock ran chocolate sauce down the drain while a sort - of nude Janet Leigh screamed, there was director Sidney (BURN WITCH BURN) Hayers» wonderfully pulpy and surprisingly sadistic CIRCUS OF
HORRORS, a Grand
Guignol shocker with a campy cruel streak that was far ahead of its time.
She intelligently and incisively shapes Ackroyd's material to dramatize the roots of the theater of gruesome
horror known as Grand
Guignol.
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.
They defined and refined Italian
horror of the sixties and seventies with a mix of poetic, haunting beauty, grand
guignol gore, and a bent of sexual perversity.
Eventually, the realistic nature of Sweeney's
horror and the ironic humor that is coupled with it gets tied in with the traditions of the Grand
Guignol.
Speaking of gore — the film's few delights come when Kitamura's Grand
Guignol instincts kick in, and he gets to revel in the squishy, snappy body
horror that made his previous movies perfect
horror fare.
They take «Get Out» seriously, because Peele, having laid the groundwork for the movie in multiple sketches on Comedy Central's «Key & Peele» that pulled humor out of racism, leaned into the
horror classics that brought Grand
Guignol wit to their dark themes: «Rosemary's Baby,» «The Stepford Wives,» and «Scream.»
He depicts a world of grand
guignol gothic Hollywood style
horror with a larger than life overthe topness.