The old-fashioned grisliness of Gordon and Lola's murder museum is something to see.
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The rampant grisliness reportedly sent people at the Cannes Film Festival storming out the theater.
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For New Yorkers, the grisliness of the natural world is often just a subway stop away.
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In this respect the movie manages to be pretty funny; and the grisliness of the action, while in a sense entirely deplorable, adds to the kicks.
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I'm not big on most contemporary horror pictures; their ultra-cynical use of supernatural conventions and their by-the-numbers "can you top this?" grisliness wears on me.
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Mexico is NOT the deadliest country in the Americas The grisliness of some of the drug cartel violence in Mexico -- beheadings, mass killings, torture -- gets a lot of attention.
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Its reference point, colonial assassination, is shocking, but Mr. Mallet's decision to run the scene backward and film it from a low angle makes the specific grisliness easier to miss.
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In the Oresteia, after Clytemnestra has slaughtered her husband and his concubine, she exults over the bodies in a speech notorious for its unhinged grisliness (among other things, she compares the blood in which she's drenched to a nourishing rain).
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There is a visceral element to Hackett's use of red, which sits uneasily on the spectrum between violet and pink, hinting at the color of flayed muscle — not to the point of grisliness, but toward a feeling that her otherwise whimsical shapes are linked to living reality.
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The unapologetic grisliness of a Klopfer, or a Kermit Gosnell before him, haunts a Buttigiegian abortion politics more than it does a "safe, legal, rare" triangulation, because it establishes the most visceral of contrasts — between the mysticism required to believe that the right to life begins at birth and the cold and obvious reality that what our laws call a nonperson can still become a corpse.
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From Europe, they have F. W. Murnau's silent 21941 "Nosferatu," the first great vampire movie; Benjamin Christensen's "Haxan," a fascinating 1929 quasi-documentary, both presented in beautifully tinted prints; Carl Dreyer's ineffable 1932 "Vampyr," a film whose influence is still felt today in the atmospheric work of directors like David Lynch; and Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face" (1962), a French plastic-surgery thriller that strikes an unforgettable balance of grisliness and lyricism.
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" Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film a positive review, writing "There are some wildly funny scenes, a few leaden ones and others that are scattershot, with humorous satire undercut by over-the-top grisliness. Still, when it's funny, it's really funny." A review in Variety by Todd McCarthy was critical: "Apart from startling, out-there comic turns by Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise, however, the antics here are pretty thin, redundant and one-note." Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail gave the film a negative review, calling it "... an assault in the guise of a comedy—watching it is like getting mugged by a clown.
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Although it's perhaps a deliberate, affectionate nod to the old let's-get-going-so-we-can-get-to-the-good-parts kind of storytelling that was such a staple of 1950s monster movies, it's still cheesy. [...] No matter how feeble the premise, though, or how shallow the characterizations, I wouldn't dream of talking anybody out of reading the novel. For clarity, terror, and sheer grisliness, the action far surpasses anything in the original book; even better, the suspense is masterfully stretched out, then released all of a sudden — just when you least expect it." De Haven concluded that its predecessor "has earned a secure place for itself in the history of popular American literature.
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Other versions follow the same basic story, but the antagonist has many different names, among them "Long Lonkin", "Balankin", "Lambert Linkin", "Rankin", "Long Lankyn", and "Lammikin". Later versions lose the opening of the story, which explains that Lamkin is a mason who has not been paid; in these, Lamkin becomes a sort of a bogeyman who dwells in the wild places; the lord, before leaving, warns against him: :Says milord to milady as he mounted his horse, :"Beware of Long Lankin that lives in the moss." :Says milord to milady as he went on his way, :"Beware of Long Lankin that lives in the hay." These versions add peculiar incidents that add to the grisliness of the crime.
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