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Grand Gui·gnol [ˌgrɑ͂:gi:ˈnjɒl, Am -ˈnjoʊl] N modifier

Grand Guignol theatrical genre, play:

Grand Guignol

Grand-Guignol-

Grand Guignol

im Stil eines grotesken Schauerdramas

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The opportunity to create a memorable and fluid portrait of the composer has been sacrificed for a musical Grand Guignol. en.wikipedia.org

It becomes almost comic in a grand guignol manner. www.spectator.co.uk

The Grand Guignol building still exists. en.wikipedia.org

It was part of a Grand Guignol series of films. en.wikipedia.org

It may also be considered a thriller whose gruesome subject matter invites comparison to the Grand Guignol style of theatre. en.wikipedia.org

It is a serious memento mori, not a piece of grand guignol. www.telegraph.co.uk

Buried somewhere beneath this miasma of farce, Grand Guignol, pathos, queeny melodrama and comic irrelevance, a serious point struggles to be heard. www.telegraph.co.uk

Similar tendencies appeared in the theatrical melodramas of the period and, in an even more lurid and gruesome light, in the Grand Guignol at the end of the century. en.wikipedia.org

Barker piles on more subversive subtext than his story can bear it's a monster movie, after all but his daft, Grand Guignol vision has real power. en.wikipedia.org

Cooper's run was characterized by grisly stories spiked with dark, tongue-in-cheek humor, a sort of radio Grand Guignol. en.wikipedia.org

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