Sentences with phrase «on grand guignol»

A lot of that stuff came from doing research on The 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.

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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.

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.

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

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 DRgrand 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 DRGrand 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.

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-?!).