Sentences with phrase «in grand guignol»

Sweeney Todd allows the actor to belt out some classic Stephen Sondheim numbers while reveling in the Grand Guignol story of the throat - slashing / meat pie - serving «Demon Barber of Fleet Street» Sweeney Todd.

Add a pair of hired thugs (Hans Christian Blech and Francois Simon), a mysterious «protector» (Bruno Cremer), plus our heroine's tendency to gouge out the eyes of any man who gets too close, and you've got yourself a truly unique exercise in Grand Guignol, even by the standards of an era in which Rampling became a star via Liliana Cavani's concentration - camp romp The Night Porter.

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!»

[Robbie] transforms what could easily have been just another grotesquerie in a grand guignol into a fully rounded, albeit unsympathetic, character.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.»

An unholy hybrid between a teen gang film and a «torture porn» horror movie, this film by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores (who work under the name «The Butcher Brothers») throws in plenty of Grand Guignol - style bloodletting to very little effect.

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.

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.

, but that's a Grand Guignol horror movie being released in mid-September.

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 only things keeping Dawn of the Dead from soaring are a quartet of characters (the doomed dad, the slut, the slack - jawed yokel, the cross-dressing émigré) who function as distracting padding — and the sort of squeamishness in regards to hardcore gore that our culture of creeping sanctimony has made par for the course since the grand guignol of the original.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 imperious maestro (an uproarious Vincent Cassel) asks his latest marionette; Aronofsky, Grand Guignol camera in hand, is sure ready to film it.

There's always something jutting or crashing into the frame as the camera follows our beset heroine through the violent maze her house has become; it's all rigorously disorienting, leading to a Grand Guignol climax of liturgical bloodletting and beastliness that constitutes the most unapologetic turn away from the real in a studio film since the frogs fell in Magnolia.

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 Guigrand Grand GuiGrand Guignol.

There's one scene in particular, in which Bosworth dons a fur coat and carries an electronic hacksaw, that takes the Grand Guignol approach the whole piece needed.

Eventually, the realistic nature of Sweeney's horror and the ironic humor that is coupled with it gets tied in with the traditions of the Grand Guignol.

Speaking of gore — the film's few delights come when Kitamura's Grand Guignol instincts kick in, and he gets to revel in the squishy, snappy body horror that made his previous movies perfect horror fare.

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.

They take «Get Out» seriously, because Peele, having laid the groundwork for the movie in multiple sketches on Comedy Central's «Key & Peele» that pulled humor out of racism, leaned into the horror classics that brought Grand Guignol wit to their dark themes: «Rosemary's Baby,» «The Stepford Wives,» and «Scream.»

Going to Pieces goes over the slasher genre's roots in the Theater of the Grand Guignol and moves on to the respective geneses of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Prom Night -LRB-?!).

The paranormal is the least disturbing of the elements here, played with a gleefully operatic excess, and more than a whiff of the disturbing exoticism of Grand Guignol at work in the passions unleashed.

Park Chan - wook would have wrung the Grand Guignol hell out of this premise, but Bong is less interested in shocks than in the synergy between vast Korean fields and the equally mysterious inner landscape of the dazed matriarch making her way across them.

Suda 51's most infamous character makes his glorious Grand Guignol return next year in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes.

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.

A tight - knit crowd packed in for a night of experimental animation called «The Magic Floot,» part of an ongoing screening series dubbed «Thurb's Grand Guignol,» after the 1900s Parisian theater that specialized in productions full of questionable taste and high entertainment value, all videos projected from Thurber's laptop to a gallery wall.

A profound misogynist, Conner has created here a gruesome odalisque starring in her own Thea ^ tre du Grand Guignol.