Sentences with phrase «guignol shocker»

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.