Sentences with phrase «comic grand guignol»

Once the final enemy in a particular area had been defeated, in a moment of comic Grand Guignol, you could take a moment to survey your «work,» in the form of piles of severed limbs and twitching torsos.

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And like an Altman film, though truthfully his influence must be nominal at best, the vignettes herein take some blackly comic byways, occasionally giving in to cynicism (a disastrous hourlong odyssey into town results in a mugging, hardcore drug use and sex trafficking in a crackhouse in one of the most ludicrous Grand Guignol montages ever assembled).

The demoralizing effect of imprisonment also features prominently in The Ordeal (Calvaire), a blackly comic slice of Grand Guignol presented in the Critics» Week sidebar.