Death is a grim subject to many, but Guttenberg artist Slaughter DK, is turning the macabre into spectacle with a new multi-media show, “Cirque Guignol,” featuring a selection of paintings, drawings, ...

Hidden in an old chapel in Paris, the Grand Guignol was the home to on-stage horror, with grisly, lo-fi special effects – plus sex – to tantalise the crowds. There is one reliable way for theatre to ...

Just off the Rue Pigalle in Paris, men with picks, shovels and wrecking equipment are preparing to demolish a tiny, 230-seat theater that has just folded after 65 bloodcurdling years. It is the Grand ...

In its half-century at the blind end of a cobbled alley in Montmartre, le Théâtre du Grand Guignol has become a synonym for blood-drenched horror on the stage. Until the war came along, its 293 seats ...

Montmartre’s Théâtre du Grand-Guignol rated its success by how many members of the audience fainted during performances that were likely to include severed limbs, copious quantities of fake blood and ...

More than a century ago, the blood flowed freely at Theatre du Grand Guignol, a Paris playhouse founded by Oscar Méténier. Onstage tales of horror, mutilation and torture inspired incredibly realistic ...

Guignol – A Tale of Escalating Horror creator Brett Schwaner writes for Bleeding Cool: October is the perfect time for horror. Naturally. Halloween, once a uniquely American phenomenon, has grown in ...