Sentences with phrase «grand guignol»

After I finish devouring that dish, I'll be jumping on the new volume of Grand Guignol Orchestra.

Adapted from the autobiography of escapee Robert E. Burns, it skates about some specifics, never naming the state which claps the hero into grand guignol prison camps (the book was called I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintage.

Marvelous exercise in Grand Guignol, great sets, spooky atmosphere, fine screenplay by scenarist Charles Beaumont based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and a splendid two - tiered performance by Vincent Price.

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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.

She intelligently and incisively shapes Ackroyd's material to dramatize the roots of the theater of gruesome horror known as Grand Guignol.

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.

When it first appeared, our reviewer welcomed its preference for Grand Guignol intensity over «lazy splatter».

But we never stop to ask one critical question — after the bullets have stopped filling the air, after the high octane Grand Guignol shows, who makes sure that the murder scenes are spick and span?

The rest of the film plays out with inexorable Grand Guignol melodrama and irony — and the aforementioned humor.

It reminds me of what the final director of the actual Theatre du Grand Guignol told Time when he closed the venue in 1962: «We could never equal Buchenwald.»

Those who go with its splashy, Grand Guignol theater of death will have a vicious good time.

For sheer shock value, there is, again, one moment of nightmarish Grand Guignol carnage, which I suppose makes this required viewing for gore - hound completists.

she flirts with him, as they attend a werewolf - themed show at a local Grand Guignol theatre.

Blood and Black Lace (Arrow / MVD, Blu - ray + DVD), Mario Bava's 1964 landmark, is my pick for the birth of the giallo, and the mix of poetic, haunting beauty with Grand Guignol gore and a bent of sexual perversity is beautifully serves in this astounding 2K restoration from the original camera negative.

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.

There's 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.

In this funny Grand Guignol installation, black electrical cords are everywhere.

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.

It was also the year of the so - called Parking Violations Bureau case, easily the most Grand Guignol of recent New York City political - corruption scandals.

Hossein labored away as actor / director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the «legitimate» stage.

Six years after delivering the 1962 Grand Guignol camp classic «What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?»

Together with Billy Wilder's «Sunset Blvd.,» it's the cinematic definition of Hollywood Grand Guignol.

The movie is half Grand Guignol, half blood - splattered comedy, and completely cool.

Many people list Se7en as their favorite grand guignol murder thriller, so I'm not going to detail the plot.

Equal parts feminist empowerment manifesto and raging red Grand Guignol heart - stopper, Revenge is, in the end, a dish best served up with cold blue steel and righteous rivers of sauce au sang.

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.»

There are numerous reasons why we should take him at his word, but the best might be that Tetro fails as a family saga, rising to Grand Guignol heights of theatrical absurdity and melodramatic blood feuding before thudding to earth.

De Palma's victims have often been women, and his carousel of Grand Guignol style and campy tone, sometimes in the same scene, can still make for a queasy ride.

Too bad Grand Guignol is all he gets.

Maybe the gory Grand Guignol of Titus was a more suitable fit than the more introspective, meta - ish nature of The Tempest for her particular sort - of - a-stage-production-sort-of-a-film style.

The Cabin in the Woods ends with a deliriously apocalyptic Grand Guignol in which just about every ghoulie that's ever appeared in a horror movie is released from a subterranean prison to wreak bloody mayhem on their captors.

A bizarro Grand Guignol psychological thriller about a young business executive (Dane DeHaan) who is sent to a rehabilitation spa in the Swiss Alps from which no one ever leaves, «A Cure for Wellness» is a creepy, slow - burning exploration of the porous boundary between health and sickness, sanity and madness, packed with disturbing, visually striking images of slithering eels, torturous dentistry and eerily empty hallways.

For much of the film, Lizzie appears to be a determined, wide - eyed innocent, who discovers her flair for performance by working in a Victorian London theatre, modeled on the famous Grand Guignol.

Toby Jones anchors the work perfectly, though ultimately those who are seeking real Grand Guignol and others who would like a more conventional conclusion will be disappointed.

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.

The slightly unsteady handheld cinematography creates an atmosphere of Grand Guignol fused with documentary rawness: immersive yet detached.

It began with what should now be considered the show's house style, an elaborate slice of contemporary grand guignol

When Billy falls behind on her mortgage, she's begins work at a crazy underground sex - shockfest Grand Guignol - type club.

And fight she does, in The Babadook's Grand Guignol final half hour.

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.

Strained, shrieky and lacking likeable characters, it bizarrely forgoes any insight into parenting, gambling, or the cost of education for Grand Guignol limb - lopping.

There's no grand climax, no wicked revenge or Grand Guignol comeuppance, just a shot of a stretch of New York City highway, a faded sign, painted on a brick wall, visible if you squint: BIG APPLE BIG DREAMS.

The young cast — which also features Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, and Elizabeth Blackmore — fulfill their sanguinary obligations capably, but they are ultimately, and correctly, puppets in Alvarez's gruesome Grand Guignol.

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).

Taking his cue from Tobe Hooper and the more - crazed - than - scary «Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2,» Six this time around has fashioned a sun - baked Grand Guignol farce wherein the villains of the first two sequences the cadaverous Deter Laser and porcine Laurence R. Harvey are reunited to make history with «the first human prison centipede,» which features more than 500 links.