Sentences with phrase «guignol blood»

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If the spirit of Busby Berkeley lives on in «Reefer Madness,» so does the Grand - Guignol style of George Romero, in the blood - spattered scenes of mayhem, the staggering zombies, the beheadings, the odd impaling and occasional taste of cannibalism.

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.

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.

As its Grand Guignol and penny dreadfulness unfold in the dockyards, back alleys, gin houses and opium dens of a corrupted capital baying for blood (and that enjoys a good show), the film's commitment to anatomising a marginalised demimonde oppressed either for its class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality might almost earn it the label of Marxist.

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.