Hidden in an old chapel in Paris, the Grand Guignol was the home to on-stage horror, with grisly, lo-fi special effects – plus sex – to tantalise the crowds. There is one reliable way for ...

Not a haunted house, per se, but a serious theatrical enterprise that put on gruesome, faux-blood-splattered shows year-round for decades, the Grand Guignol featured staged killings, mutilations ...

After all, he’s a blockhead himself. Barely a foot and a half tall, with a body made of cloth and a head carved from linden wood, Guignol has long been a political force in France – though ...

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol has since given its name to all ornate violence in plastic or celluloid, but most of all in the real event where bloodshed mixes with winedark nostalgia for the ...

On most days, I resembled Jack Torrance at the end of The Shining. In French theater, a "guignol" is a play in which everyone dies. GUIGNOL – A Tale of Escalating Horror is the story of an ...

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Roofies, prostitutes, steak knives, electro funk and the vigorous use of knitting needles to gouge out the eyes of the mentally impaired are what apparently constitute a typical night at the Grand ...

There's a label that occasionally gets slapped on works like these. I'm sure you've heard it before: "This book," reads the label's inevitably bold lettering, "is not for the faint of heart.

Hidden in an old chapel in Paris, the Grand Guignol was the home to on-stage horror, with grisly, lo-fi special effects – plus sex – to tantalise the crowds. There is one reliable way for ...