Grand guignol

Happy Halloween! A small collection of horror vintage photos capturing people dancing or posing with skeletons to wish you all a happy Halloween night.

Adrien Barrère was a prolific poster artist in late Belle Époque Paris, noted for having illustrated over 200 cinema posters for Pathé in the earliest decades of the 20th Century. His style was a bit more cartoonish than his more famous contemporaries like Toulouse-Lautrec and Chéret, due to his training as a caricaturist. And that respected artist made some marvelously ghastly posters for that notoriously gory and debauched theatre, the Grand Guignol. A huge influence on horror cinema, the…

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The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Weird, Weird World: EPIC.Hollywood has created its share of gore fests—from Friday the 13th (1980), to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), to Scream (1996). But all bloody, creepy slasher movies owe a large debt to the shock-theater pioneers in France, courtesy of turn-of-the-century Parisians who got their horror up close and personal at the Grand Guignol.ON SACRED GROUND The Théâtre du Grand Guignol (pronounced with a hard G, like ...

Happy Halloween! A small collection of horror vintage photos capturing people dancing or posing with skeletons to wish you all a happy Hallo...

Theater of Fear & Horror : Expanded Edition: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962 : Mel Gordon: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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The Century Guild Patronage Print collection features over 60 rare images, each captured from original antique posters in the museum archive. When you purchase prints from this collection you are directly supporting the research and preservation of these obscure and important posters!

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Adrien Barrère was a prolific poster artist in late Belle Époque Paris, noted for having illustrated over 200 cinema posters for Pathé in the earliest decades of the 20th Century. His style was a bit more cartoonish than his more famous contemporaries like Toulouse-Lautrec and Chéret, due to his training as a caricaturist. And that respected artist made some marvelously ghastly posters for that notoriously gory and debauched theatre, the Grand Guignol. A huge influence on horror cinema, the…