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  • Dead Silence's [site] "playfully self-aware touches (like a grand old theater named the Guignol) distract from its leaden pacing, three too many final twists and various behavioral idiocies."

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/19. 2007

  • And there was this theater, it was called the Guignol, and it was opulent.

    Dead Silence 2007

  • Anyway, so we saw Guignol, which is Franz Nicolay's band.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • A writer who calls him or herself "Guignol" wrote a letter to me telling me I'm a self-righteous liberal ass who is "out of touch with the life of the average person who's not splitting his time between his country home and his urban home."

    7/17/03 Columbia County, NY (23 2003

  • A writer who calls him or herself "Guignol" wrote a letter to me telling me I'm a self-righteous liberal ass who is "out of touch with the life of the average person who's not splitting his time between his country home and his urban home."

    7/31/03 Columbia County, NY (9 2003

  • Blood, cum and the vile fluid are spurting over the stage – a Guignol bukkake spread red, white and blue.

    2010 May « The Graveyard 2010

  • Some of the poets focus their skills on atrocities of their own devising, in verse that shocks and innovates: Tony Barnstone weds classic sonnet forms with modern Grand Guignol for poems including "The Chop Shop," which is too ghoulish for quoting.

    The ABCBs Of Murder Tom Nolan 2011

  • He was truly shiversome, and I would have given him a more dignified death than the writhing, Grand Guignol one he got, but then I'm not really a very good ironist.

    The Duchess of Malfi deliasherman 2010

  • Rock opera meets Grand Guignol, with no punches pulled.

    Deceit, Blood, and Opera greygirlbeast 2009

  • Blood, cum and the vile fluid are spurting over the stage – a Guignol bukkake spread red, white and blue.

    The Aristocrats « The Graveyard 2010

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