Grand Guignol
noun
Grand Gui·gnol
ˌgräⁿ-gēn-ˈyȯl 
-ˈyōl
: dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible
Grand Guignol
adjective
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The Grand Guignol of horror, the slasher slowly gave rise in the 1960s before exploding in the late ’70s following the massive success of John Carpenter’s Halloween.
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Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Their performances in this gonzo sci-fi fest verge on camp, as does the movie's Grand Guignol sense of violence.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
For so long, the R.N. had been, as in a favorite Grand Guignol performance at the Luxembourg Gardens, the grand méchant loup who terrorized the trois petits cochons.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
And that goes for his already-historic, Grand Guignol kill with a view, too.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 31 May 2024
The stakes just keep getting higher in this Grand Guignol of bloodthirsty excess, as bereaved government agent Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) descends into shocking depravity in his pursuit of serial killer Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik).
—EW.com, 2 June 2024
The truth gets revealed, and Roth’s Grand Guignol set-pieces work as allegories for today’s paranoid sense of a country founded by pilgrims that now either can’t — or won’t — save itself.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
There have been brief bursts of Grand Guignol in England and elsewhere through the years, but not too many in the U.S. — though this is not the first time the Yale Cabaret has ventured into the form.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2023
The sheer irreverence of everything here, starting with a Grand Guignol shower of guts and ending on one hell of an existential question mark, is more than enough to cause serious giggling fits.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
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Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Their performances in this gonzo sci-fi fest verge on camp, as does the movie's Grand Guignol sense of violence.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
For so long, the R.N. had been, as in a favorite Grand Guignol performance at the Luxembourg Gardens, the grand méchant loup who terrorized the trois petits cochons.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
And that goes for his already-historic, Grand Guignol kill with a view, too.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 31 May 2024
The stakes just keep getting higher in this Grand Guignol of bloodthirsty excess, as bereaved government agent Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) descends into shocking depravity in his pursuit of serial killer Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik).
—EW.com, 2 June 2024
The truth gets revealed, and Roth’s Grand Guignol set-pieces work as allegories for today’s paranoid sense of a country founded by pilgrims that now either can’t — or won’t — save itself.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
There have been brief bursts of Grand Guignol in England and elsewhere through the years, but not too many in the U.S. — though this is not the first time the Yale Cabaret has ventured into the form.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2023
The sheer irreverence of everything here, starting with a Grand Guignol shower of guts and ending on one hell of an existential question mark, is more than enough to cause serious giggling fits.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
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