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• Lovelace: A Rock Opera is no grand guignol parody of human cruelty, it's the genuine article, a saga of servitude and slavery set to pop music that slides into opera. —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
• So even before the grand guignol lunacy of the CPAC convention exposed their bankrupt ideas, conservatives were trying to lay the blame for their misfortune on the usual suspect, the Liberal (or is it Socialist now?) —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
• The days when Hollywood could take Patrick Hamilton's nuanced, psychologically fascinating Hangover Square and cheerfully turn it into a grand guignol shocker, which climaxed with the deranged protagonist playing a piano concerto on top of a bonfire incinerating the body of the woman he has murdered, are, thankfully, over. —  The Guardian World News
• There are several problems with Krauthammer's grand guignol of an idea, but let's focus for a moment on the fact that it's doomed to fail and fail utterly. —  CEI -
• Martyrs contains disturbing visuals, to be sure, but it marries those visuals to ideas that make the film far more corrosive and far more plausible than any of the grand guignol excess of your usual slasher or monster flick. —  Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

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