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Grand Guignol

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Grand Gui·gnol  (grä g-nyôl)
n.
Drama that emphasizes the horrifying or the macabre.
[After Le Grand Guignol, a theater in Paris.]
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Noun1.Grand Guignol - a play of a macabre or horrific nature
drama, dramatic play, play - a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
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But, too often, "Huff" plays as though it's been written by someone huffing paint thinner, as the lives of Huff and those around him play out as some Grand Guignol parody of a social satire.
TIGHTER SHRINK RAP, FRESHER `HUFF' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Starting in 1897, the torture theater of France's Grand Guignol brought simulated violence to new extremes.
Blood, guts, and entertainment: a sanguine take on sanguinary ... by Peters, Justin / Reason
Most would say that the age of religious war belongs to the latter sixteenth century, and of course the grand guignol of the Thirty Years' War in the following century.
Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536 by Schmidt, Victor / Renaissance Quarterly
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