Sentences with phrase «shockfest grand guignol»

Many people list Se7en as their favorite grand guignol murder thriller, so I'm not going to detail the plot.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.»

It plays like an overture for Grand Guignol to come, but Life primly avoids further gross - outs, declining to explore territory where Carpenter or Cronenberg — heck, even Collet - Serra or Natali — might have ventured.

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.

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.

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.

When it first appeared, our reviewer welcomed its preference for Grand Guignol intensity over «lazy splatter».

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.»

She intelligently and incisively shapes Ackroyd's material to dramatize the roots of the theater of gruesome horror known as Grand Guignol.

Six years after delivering the 1962 Grand Guignol camp classic «What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?»

Too bad Grand Guignol is all he gets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Horrorshows like this prequel to 1973's genuinely scary The Exorcist have become ever more literal and physical, dominated by a Grand Guignol fascination with the myriad ways the human body can be mutilated.

, 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.

The slightly unsteady handheld cinematography creates an atmosphere of Grand Guignol fused with documentary rawness: immersive yet detached.

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

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

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.

Notwithstanding this descent into Grand Guignol — which to me felt less confrontational than just over-stressed — Goodnight Mommy is a genuinely strange and unsettling film.

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 DREAMS.

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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).