Sentences with word «guignol»

It's a complete transformation of her tactics in more ways than one — reptilian, truly terrifying, unruly and unhinged, just like this piece of grand Grand Guignol.

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

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.

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?

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.

The bulk of Killer Joe is built like a standard things - go - terribly - awry small - town crime thriller, but because it was written by a young, sensational - minded Tracy Letts (who here adapted his own script) and is directed by The Exorcist's William Friedkin, the NC - 17 rated action reaches the Grand Guignol by the end.

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.

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

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.

Long stretches in fact threaten to turn The Prestige into a Grand Guignol melodrama not unlike David Cronenberg's extraordinary version of The Fly.

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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.

Aside from The Shadow, Raimi's neo-Grand Guignol story takes a cue from The Phantom of the Opera, but the tongue never strays far from the cheek: Darkman is a bit like The Crow if it were fun - loving instead of oppressively emo.

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

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

There are plenty of old - fashioned and behind - the - times things I adore about France like merry - go - rounds in every park, the puppet shows featuring Guignol, which has been entertaining French children for two hundred years, the pony rides in the park.

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

Even most of the death scenes feel rushed, highlighting the PG - 13 rating that the film has secured, and one does miss the Grand Guignol extravagance of the Final Destination franchise.

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.

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.

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.

While the marketing party line says The Victim is grind - house, I beg to differ: it's «grind - house lite» because the script and acting are above par, there isn't any unintended humor, and certainly no grand guignol blood - soakings.

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.

For the second time after The Dark Knight, the great thing about the film is that it feels like it exists in the real world rather than that of a comic book, a crime procedural on a Grand Guignol scale with larger than life characters.

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.»

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.

Just when we think the tension in a Grand Guignol scene couldn't be more excruciating, Garland pays homage to Clavell's depiction of the Fly squealing, «Help me!»

Horrorshows like this prequel to 1973's genuinely scary The Exorcist have become ever more literal and physical, dominated by a Grand Guignol fascination with the myriad ways the human body can be mutilated.

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

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

The pastoral and familiar mise en scène grassland becomes a Grand Guignol chamber of horrors and, nimbly, comedy writ large.

«A Grand Guignol pop - up storybook, full of metaphorical dark woods and morality plays.»

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.

Raw could have been a grand guignol gross out endurance challenge, but although parts of Julia Ducournau's film will test your constitution, this is not a mere exercise in sensationalism.

In a barn, where a particular swine disease is a significant clue, a squabbling, soon - whittled - down quintet of victims play a Grand Guignol version of the Crystal Maze.

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.

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.

The intense and charismatic Moll, who played Esteban, remembers the director making Clint Howard cry for one scene by berating him on set, and describes Evilspeak as «avant - garde» at one point, invoking the Grand Guignol tradition.

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).

With its voices and rampaging dulcimer and finally hugely sinister orchestral statement, would you call «Cult» a Grand Guignol score?

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.

«A tense, absorbing pursuit Western that turns into a Grand Guignol gorefest, Bone Tomahawk is what you might get if you crossbred The Searchers with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, or maybe Cannibal Holocaust... There's an elegance to Bone Tomahawk that doesn't let up even when it veers into cult - movie territory.»

The film is a dud, chiefly because it forgets to pitch Kuklinski's Grand Guignol reign of terror as black comedy.

This is the macabre follow - up to 1962's Grand Guignol suspense classic «Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?»