238 – The Grand Guignol
A look at the brief but influential “life” of the Grand Guignol theater, a Paris stage venue that specialized in gore and terror. We interview Professor Richard Hand, who has co-authored four volumes about this amazing little production company that for a brief while made much of true-crime and visceral nightmarish plots to present gore, horror and terror to Paris audiences. With less than 300 seats but with thousands of performances, the screams that came from its stage still echo through the world of theater to this very day.
Links:
The theater today (International Visual Theater)
Mademoiselle Fifi (Guy de Maupassant)
Deconsecrated Churches as Entertainment Venues
William Castle (Director) who used many similar advertising tricks as Grand Guignol
Books:
By Richard Hand & Michael Wilson (Author’s Page)
Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (Exeter Performance Studies)
London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror (Exeter Performance Studies)
Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror (Exeter Performance Studies)
Also:
Theatre of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962 by Mel Gordon
EC Comics referencing Grand Guignol
Eyes without a Face(1960) – covered on sister show to MT: The Horror Podcast
Diabolique (1955)
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (Fictionalized film featuring Paula Maxa as a character)
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
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