Sentences with phrase «real grand guignol»

Toby Jones anchors the work perfectly, though ultimately those who are seeking real Grand Guignol and others who would like a more conventional conclusion will be disappointed.

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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?

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.