Grand Guignol

Apr 06, 2008 16:53

Oh UNF, some nice Victorian debauchery and depravity:

The good old Grand Guignol, with all the associated blood and gore and guts. Man, if I had a time machine, I'd so go back and see that.

More stuff on this website.

It was Maurey who, from 1898 to 1914, turned the Theatre du Grand-Guignol into a house of horror. He measured the success of a ( Read more... )

gothic, victoriana, timecock, history geekage

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animagiblender April 6 2008, 21:53:28 UTC
I love when you link me to sites like this.

Do you remember the shadow-puppet one about the necrophiliac? That was when I realized I didn't have normal morals. The necrophilia didn't disgust me, the necro-beastiality didn't disgust me, but the fact that he KILLED that dog, rather than just finding a dead dog, that pissed me off.

I mean, come on, if you can't find a dead dog to fuck in Victorian England, you're just not trying hard enough...no need to be cruel to animals...

Damn, I wish they recreated this theatre and had like a really fucked-up Globe-esque tourist attraction there..

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snowgrouse April 7 2008, 05:37:58 UTC
They have recreated this theatre! At least the second site is run by an American troupe who specialise in translating and performing the plays...

And yeah, I thought of that shadow puppet necrophilia thing too!

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snowgrouse April 7 2008, 05:36:45 UTC
Dude. I've never been nitpicked about that before, but I suppose that's another thing to add to my long list of things to be nitpicky about:P...

I BET THE 20S THING DIED DOWN 'COS PEOPLE KEPT BEING DEDED BY EBIL TIEMLORDS.

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