He depicts a world
of grand guignol gothic Hollywood style horror with a larger than life overthe topness.
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.
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 demoralizing effect of imprisonment also features prominently in The Ordeal (Calvaire), a blackly comic slice
of Grand Guignol presented in the Critics» Week sidebar.
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.
The slightly unsteady handheld cinematography creates an atmosphere
of Grand Guignol fused with documentary rawness: immersive yet detached.
We would caution loyal Hannibal fans — the Fannibals among you — that this new taste
of the Grand Guignol show's third season gives a lot away about how the second season's life - or - death cliffhanger is resolved.
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.
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.
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.
After a vision
of the Grand Guignol, Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Dr. Frankenstein and Sembene explore an empty theater - only to be confronted by their worst nightmares.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 tim
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 tim
OF HORRORS, a
Grand Guignol shocker with a campy cruel streak that was far ahead
of its tim
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.»
She intelligently and incisively shapes Ackroyd's material to dramatize the roots
of the theater
of gruesome horror known as
Grand Guignol.
Here's a Halloween pick for you: a macabre musical about a sociopathic barber (Johnny Depp) with flashing razors and a demented cook (Helena Bonham Carter) who hides the evidence
of his murders into meat pies, directed by Tim Burton, the dark fantastist
of American cinema, as both threepenny opera and
Grand Guignol.
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!»
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.
Together with Billy Wilder's «Sunset Blvd.,» it's the cinematic definition
of Hollywood
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.
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.
When this movie violates its own case and crosses into the
Grand Guignol - for example, the close - ups
of the skin flying off a woman's back as she's whipped - the excess feels much more egregious than if a bad movie did the same.
It began with what should now be considered the show's house style, an elaborate slice
of contemporary
grand guignol
But wouldn't it be a real trip if, underneath its winks and its outrageous
Grand Guignol carnage, Deadpool 2 were also sort
of playing it straight, passing off themes as running gags, all the way to that meta coda?
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.
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.
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.
They defined and refined Italian horror
of the sixties and seventies with a mix
of poetic, haunting beauty,
grand guignol gore, and a bent
of sexual perversity.
Miike's 100th film full
of humour,
grand guignol and spectacle.
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 DR
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 DR
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
Grand Guignol aspects
of
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.
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.
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.
The film is a dud, chiefly because it forgets to pitch Kuklinski's
Grand Guignol reign
of terror as black comedy.
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 Gui
grand Grand Gui
Grand Guignol.
A lot
of that stuff came from doing research on The
Grand Guignol.
The rest
of the film plays out with inexorable
Grand Guignol melodrama and irony — and the aforementioned humor.
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.