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Grotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however...

In architecture, a grotesque (/ɡroʊˈtɛsk/) is a fantastic or mythical figure carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building. A chimera...

Grotesque was originally a style of ornament in art, and today also means strange, fantastic, ugly, or bizarre. Grotesque may also refer to: Grotesque...

sans-serif designs are usually divided into these major groups: § Grotesque, § Neo-grotesque, § Geometric, § Humanist, and § Other or mixed. Sans-serif typefaces...

The grotesque body is a concept, or literary trope, put forward by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of François Rabelais' work. The...

art movement 'Grotesque' and thus translates the themes and images of the grotesque art into theatrical practices. 'Theatre of the Grotesque' rejects naturalism...

Brandon Grotesque is a sans-serif typeface designed by Hannes von Döhren of HVD Fonts during 2009 and 2010. Spacing and kerning was done by Igino Marini...

Grotesque dance (French: danse grotesque; Italian: ballo grottesco or danza grottesca) is a category of theatrical dance that became more clearly differentiated...

Grotesque (Japanese: グロテスク, Hepburn: Gurotesuku) is a 2009 Japanese exploitation horror film written and directed by Kōji Shiraishi. It gained notoriety...

Grotesque is a 1988 American horror film by Joe Tornatore, and starring Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, and Donna Wilkes. Blair also served as associate producer...

decadence. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque. The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of...

The Golden Age of Grotesque is the fifth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on May 13, 2003, by Nothing and Interscope...

Grotesque was a Swedish death metal/black metal band. The band formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in September 1988 by former members of Conquest: Kristian...

The Grotesque (also known as Grave Indiscretion and Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets) is a 1995 British film by John-Paul Davidson, adapted from the 1989 novel...

The Darth Vader grotesque is a limestone grotesque by Jay Hall Carpenter. It is located at the Washington National Cathedral in Northwest, Washington,...

Grotesque is a 2003 crime novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino, most famous for her novel Out. It was published in English in 2007, translated by Rebecca...

by breaking the group into 4 subcategories: Grotesque, Neo-Grotesque, Geometric, and Humanist. Grotesque typefaces are sans-serif typefaces that originated...

Grotesque is a family of sans-serif typefaces released by the Monotype Corporation for its hot metal typesetting system. It belongs to the grotesque or...

Grotesque (After the Gramme) is the third studio album by the English band the Fall. Released on 17 November 1980, it was the band's first studio album...

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"Grotesque" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files and the show's 63rd episode overall. It...

In chess, a grotesque is a problem or endgame study which features a particularly unlikely or impossible initial position, especially one in which White...

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense is a 2007 book by historian Miriam Silverberg. It focuses on Japanese modern culture in the interwar period, specifically from...

"Underground Terrorism" tour. The tour was followed shortly thereafter by the Grotesque Impalement EP, which the band again released on their own Blunt Force...

Patineur Grotesque was a one-minute film of a comic roller-skater. It featured "a bearded man in street clothes, smoking an outsize cigar... rollerskating...

The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quinten Matsys around 1513. The painting...

The Stephenson Blake Grotesque fonts are a series of sans-serif typefaces created by the type foundry Stephenson Blake of Sheffield, England, mostly around...

are very often depicted as dangerous and aggressive, with a strange or grotesque appearance that causes terror and fear, often in humans. Monsters usually...

11-minute epic of entropy, which takes the form of a Fellini-esque parade of grotesques and oddities featuring a huge cast of celebrated characters". From September...

its combination of sloppy aesthetics, synthesized "Italian" voiceovers, grotesque or humorous visuals, abstractism, and nonsensical narrative. In October...

Creature Other appearances Variants Description Tyin Adult and larva 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) grotesque semi-intelligent humanoid predator that can spit acid....

1945; nevertheless, pornography flourished through the sale of "erotic, grotesque, nonsense" (ero-guro-nansensu) periodicals, particularly in the Taishō...

The Past is a Grotesque Animal is a 2014 documentary centered around the indie pop band of Montreal. It was directed by Jason Miller and features appearances...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. It was published...

The Grotesque is a 1989 gothic fiction novel by British author Patrick McGrath. It was adapted into a 1995 film starring Alan Bates, Lena Headey, Theresa...

happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance" was paraphrased as "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented"...

Impact is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or grotesque style designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965 and released by the Stephenson Blake foundry of...

typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. Helvetica is a neo-grotesque design, one influenced by the famous 19th-century (1890s) typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk...

in the style of John Kricfalusi's Ren & Stimpy. Each episodes feature grotesque caricatures of the series' protagonists that invert the original show's...

fine printing—and Grotesk, akin to grotesque, was a standard name for sans-serif typefaces at the time (grotesque in its original sense; bizarre, odd...

period. Lindberg started as a vocalist in the band Grotesque under the name Goatspell. When Grotesque fell apart he started melodic death metal band At...

"With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don't much like it." In...

criticism for following antisemitic caricatures – particularly for their grotesque "hook-nosed" portrayal in the films, an appearance associated with Jewish...

The lids can be separated into two artistic categories, the natural and grotesque, and the bodies are separated into type A, tapered from the shoulders...

San Francisco (also known as SF Pro) is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface made by Apple Inc. It was first released to developers on November 18, 2014...

through in the picture, and that he "artistically caught glimpses of the grotesque attitudes of death, the wolfishness of hungry men, as well as their bestiality...

27 February 2014, retrieved 1 November 2014. Kay Seok (15 May 2007). "Grotesque indifference". Human Rights Watch. Archived from the original on 29 September...

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque is a collection of 16 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published in 1994 by E. P. Dutton. The volume includes...

"Grotesque" is the eighth episode and mid-season premiere, and the 14th episode overall of the second season of the post-apocalyptic horror television...

immensely powerful yet mysterious player; and Nocturn: En Cette Nuit Grotesque (ノクターン～このグロテスクな夜に～, Nokutān: Kono Gurotesuku na Yoru ni), which focuses...

people, the cost of enforcing the will of the United Nations has been grotesque." General Schwarzkopf talked about "a very, very large number of dead...

specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle (/ˈɡɑːrɡɔɪl/) is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side...

strange phenomenon outside begins transforming those who observe it into grotesque monsters. The player controls a solitary man named Sam as he survives...

usually, however, it has become a mere collector's item because of its grotesque appearance for Western visual habits. Modern artisans still use indigenous...

1978 interview that the casting of Duvall was "an example of absolutely grotesque casting". Slim Pickens was offered the role of Dick Hallorann, but Pickens...

from August to October 2022. The film is noted for its use of satire and grotesque, hyperrealistic imagery, accomplished through prosthetic makeup and other...

which likewise feature "religious elements, banality, and violence with grotesque humor". Discussing "the connection between violence and redemption", Demory...

The Lincoln Imp is a grotesque on a wall inside Lincoln Cathedral, England, and it has become the symbol of the city of Lincoln. The carving is situated...

Aptos, originally named Bierstadt, is a sans-serif typeface in the neo-grotesque style developed by Steve Matteson. In 2023, it became the new default...

nansensu is a wasei-eigo word derived from the English words erotic, grotesque, and nonsense. Apt to its namesake, this period of time in Japan saw a...

Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes...

of Cage's family, Buckmaster said the actor "is clearly attracted to grotesque characters and is celebrated for his wild and unhinged approach to them...

July 2024. Cooney, Christy (15 October 2022). "Keir Starmer criticises 'grotesque chaos' under Liz Truss government". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 24...

Arial is a sans-serif typeface in the neo-grotesque style. Fonts from the Arial family are included with all versions of Microsoft Windows after Windows...

when he first conceived the plot, he called it "a very fine, new and grotesque idea". In the 21st century, the novel retains good standing among literary...

faces are a large family of sans-serif typefaces in the industrial or grotesque style developed in the early years of the 20th century by the type foundry...

are reminiscent of dying. Dark humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with...

appeared to Russian writers as a menacing and inhuman mechanism. The grotesque and often nightmarish image of the city is featured in Pushkin's last...

original on 29 March 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2007. Kay Seok (15 May 2007). "Grotesque indifference". Human Rights Watch. Archived from the original on 29 September...

collaborated on the coffee table book Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (1988). He produced an artist's book with designer Barbara Kruger, My...

was gutted when it took make-up artists only an hour to turn her into grotesque old granny Nanny McPhee for her latest movie". Glasgow Daily Record. Retrieved...

Satan appears as Professor Woland. He is accompanied by Koroviev, a grotesquely dressed valet; Behemoth, a black cat; Azazello, a hitman; and Hella,...

parodied ... however, this fascination, verging on affection, for the grotesqueness of the individual occluded the singular plight of his nation. Seftel...

in the pathology lab. The focus was on the Shah's cancerous spleen, grotesquely swollen to 20 times normal. It was one-foot long, literally the size...

almost universally panned by critics. The Washington Post called it a "grotesquely pandering caper" and singled out Grant's performance, as a child psychiatrist...

presented in riddle form, beginning with a what question and concluded with a grotesque punch line answer. According to the folklorist scholar Alan Dundes, the...

consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque", serving as an introduction. Each of the stories shares a specific character's...

Grotesque Wedlock is a compilation of Dr. Shrinker's three studio demos. 1-12 are from Wedding The Grotesque Demo 1989 13-14 are from The Eponym Demo 1990...

influence of media on society. Created by Nocenti and Art Adams, Mojo's grotesque appearance and obsession with television ratings comment on the exploitative...

wrote, "... Watts, in a brilliant performance, a young, wide-eyed and grotesquely cheerful blonde, full of high hopes to make it big in Hollywood." The...

and the face of a just and honest man". The pleasant human face on this grotesque body evokes the insincere fraudster whose intentions "behind the face"...

from the film, said that Walter Hill wanted the film to be much more grotesque, strange, and disturbing, while MGM wanted to make it more of a hip, sexy...

perceptions were strengthened in 1888 when the series of vicious and grotesque murders attributed to "Jack the Ripper" received unprecedented coverage...

Helsing (2004), etc. After 1997, the show was titled The Gory, Gruesome and Grotesque Horror Make-Up Show, before ultimately changing to its current title....

hand-drawn hatching that greatly intensified darker areas. Tenniel's "grotesque" was one reason why Lewis Carroll wanted Tenniel as his illustrator for...

town after it is consumed by fog, while solving puzzles and fighting grotesque monsters to survive. Silent Hill f was released for PlayStation 5, Windows...

Inter is a free and open-source neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Rasmus Andersson. Released in 2017, Inter was created to improve on-screen...

released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. Classified as a neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteenth-century German typefaces...

spiritual value. Other names associated with African-American face jugs are grotesque jars, monkey jars, or face jars. Modern interpretations started appearing...

brief scholarly biography. Price, Roger (2002). "Napoleon III: 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity'?". In Cowling, Mark; Martin, James (eds.). Marx's 'Eighteenth...

many paintings, ink drawings and prints have as their theme an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model. Picasso was one...

episode, set on Mardi Gras, a dying man coerces his relatives into wearing grotesque masks that reflect their true personalities. Mr. Jason Foster, a tired...

[that] requires my humanness", concluding that "this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don't much like it." In...

environment as a violation of human rights and even war crimes is yet another grotesque inflation of the human rights doctrine." AfD wants a reinstatement of...

minor roles and cameos. In 2002, his first art show, The Golden Age of Grotesque, was held at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions center. In 2021...

sans-serifs of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Futura and Erbar, as well as "grotesque" and "humanist" sans-serifs. Elements related to the geometric model include...

naturalism: the 'testing of the idea' never avoids the degenerate or grotesque side of earthly existence. The man of the idea encounters "worldly evil...

Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of popular laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...

horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction that intentionally showcases grotesque or a visceral experience of the human body or of another creature. These...

23, 2022). "Criminal Minds: Evolution review: The faithful revival is grotesque and upsetting — and fans will love it". Entertainment Weekly. Dumaraog...

says: [I] appeared on The Virginia Graham Show, circa 1970. I looked grotesque. I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant...

sardonic Southern Gothic style. She relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. In her writing, an unsentimental...

novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South. Harry Crews was...

Bilge (March 8, 2019). "The Kid Is an Old West Adventure Refashioned As a Grotesque Nightmare". Vulture. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved...

collaborated with Disney to release a cookbook inspired by the show's grotesque food, titled Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar In Philadelphia: An It's Always...

life as a prostitute by night. Her other credits include the horror film Grotesque (1988), opposite Linda Blair and Tab Hunter, and guest-starring roles...

the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, which she co-edited with Lara Glenum. Greenberg was...

Kennedy was being perceived as a "Palm Beach boozer, lout and tabloid grotesque" while Newsweek said Kennedy was "the living symbol of the family flaws"...

black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic...

Haettenschweiler is a sans-serif typeface in the grotesque style that is very bold and condensed. It is intended for headlines and display text. Versions...

in size at the century's close. There are many helmets surviving with 'grotesque' visors. These are thought to have been used as part of a 'costume armour'...

a fan: "At that age I did not like her work [...] I found it ugly and grotesque. But something intrigued me, and the more I learned, the more I started...

September 2025). "Fashion campaigner Livia Giuggioli shreds MBE over Trump's 'grotesque' UK visit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 June 2026. "'Bridget...

seen as ideal. Large penises in Greek art are reserved for comically grotesque figures, such as satyrs, a class of hideous, horse-like woodland spirits...

The Keys to the Kingdom is a fantasy-adventure book series written by Garth Nix, comprising seven books published between 2003 and 2010. The series chronicles...

characters of a Mr. Rogers-esque children's TV host named Bray Wyatt and a grotesque monster resembling an evil clown called The Fiend (previously known as...

live dissection. Some visual elements (such as ahegao, feces, and other grotesque depictions) can be turned off in the settings. Additional features include...

his era, and the present, to follow from the graphic tradition of the grotesques of Jacques Callot. The Devil's Elixirs (referred to hereafter as Elixirs)...

practically impossible film to sit through ... [e]stablish[ing] a new low for grotesque special effects." Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice complained, "Friedkin's...

Yi". Life. pp. 78–86. Driscoll, Mark (2010). Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, The Dead, and The Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945...

to Ash Wednesday, and typically includes masked balls, fancy dress and grotesque mask competitions, lavish late-night parties, a colourful ticker-tape...

Mayall also played Toad). His comedic style, defined by the over-the-top, grotesque and deeply unsympathethic characters he portrayed, was described as energetic...

sans-serif. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" (in German, grotesk) or "Gothic" (although this often refers to blackletter...

deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted infection that causes grotesque mutations in teenagers. Burns has said that the mutations can be read...

Telegraph's, which declared: 'of course there can only be one answer to this grotesque challenge. Kruger has asked for war and war he must have!' Such views...

Advantage". BoxingScene.com. Retrieved 19 June 2021. "Callum Smith suffers grotesque detached bicep from Canelo onslaught". World Boxing News. 20 December...

alien species in the Star Wars franchise. They are rotund, voracious and grotesque-looking slug-like creatures with a predisposition to being leaders in...

"heroic officer" Stormy Monday (1988) – Finney, a nightclub owner The Grotesque (1995), a/k/a Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets and Grave Indiscretion – Fledge...

the montage and the close-up, which effectively combine the comic and grotesque with the dramatic and tragic. Lastly, through human comedy, the problems...

Spector once threatened him with a crossbow. Cohen thought the end result "grotesque", but also "semi-virtuous". Lissauer produced Cohen's next record, Various...

Wood. Only two years after the initial success of Lamia, Howell's Danse Grotesque was performed at Buckingham Palace in November 1921. She won the Cobbett...

reductions in the mobility of the travelator and candelabra, and fewer grotesques on the proscenium as had featured in the original production. It was additionally...

addition to clothing and makeup. Drag can be theatrical, comedic, or grotesque. Drag queens have been considered caricatures of women by second-wave...

in their details, but are a development derived from Greek and Roman grotesque designs, such as we find them in the remains of ancient palaces at Rome...

Journalist Tony Scherman wrote that, by early 1977, "Presley had become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self. Grossly overweight, his...

opposite D'arcy to impress Jay, and Max and his schoolmates perform a grotesque play about the town's famed 59 miners who died to save one. The next day...

cathedrals and other Gothic churches were also decorated with sculptures of grotesques or monsters. These included the gargoyle, the chimera, a mythical hybrid...

fresco depicting Priapus, the ancient god of sex and fertility, with his grotesquely enlarged penis, was covered with plaster. An older reproduction was locked...

(carnivalesque) which Bakhtin describes as a social institution, and the second is grotesque realism which is defined as a literary mode. Thus, in Rabelais and His...

exploits his stature as the crane-legged civil servant performing a grotesquely elaborate walk to his office. On the Silly Walks sketch, Ben Beaumont-Thomas...

(September 28, 2020). "QAnon Goes to Washington Twenty-four followers of the grotesque conspiracy theory are running for Congress in November. Where does this...

A hunky punk is a grotesque carving on the side of a building, especially Late Gothic churches. Such features are especially numerous in Somerset (in...

He also created the chalk drawing Five Grotesque Heads, in addition to Seven Caricatures and Two Grotesque Heads, all in similar style. There are many...

slow-witted, or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them. In Scandinavian folklore, trolls are sometimes...

An autofellating grotesque below a statue of Konrad von Hochstaden...

is a fantasy and horror monster inspired by the appearance of bestial grotesque statues in architecture – particularly those sculpted to decorate the...

actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup...

traditional horrors, where the source of the fear are material threats like grotesque monsters, serial killers, or aliens, as well as the splatter and slasher...

and accused the production of "profiting off" his uncle's life "in a grotesque way." He urged the show's creators to donate part of its proceeds to the...

16 August 2021. Mazumdar, Ranjani (2010). "Friction, Collision and the Grotesque: The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema". In Prakash, Gyan (ed.). Noir...

her interest in the naive art of various folk cultures; for example, "Grotesque Bull" (shown), a terra cotta sculpture which was included in Dorothy Miller's...

Godwin discovered the body of a pregnant woman who had drowned and, in a grotesque act of science, revived her by implanting the brain of her unborn fetus...

of Estonian folklore and mythology, deforming them into the absurd and grotesque. Estonian philosophy reflects a unique worldview and national identity...

wooded valley bottom beneath the castle of Orsini, it is populated by grotesque sculptures and small buildings located among the natural vegetation. The...

Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000) The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) Lest We Forget: The Best Of (2004, compilation album released after...

from an editor or publisher, and reflected that "it seemed so silly, so grotesque, that I failed to see that it was also important." In subsequent printings...

and the Secret Medicine Society performs rituals to cure diseases. The grotesque masks represent the faces of the spirits that the dancers are attempting...

confront him. Realizing too late that Mahito exploited him, Junpei is grotesquely transformed and dies begging Yuji for help, becoming one of the first...

Gothic, a 1908 grotesque design, has an oblique 'italic', like many designs of the period. Gothic Italic no. 124, an 1890s grotesque, has a crisp true...

1985), The Night Stalker, Cherry 2000 (both 1987), The Killing Game, and Grotesque (both 1988). Z'Dar's name became recognizable when he played Matt Cordell...

Rose Thorn Necklace track listing No. Title Length 1. "Grotesque Display" 1:56 2. "Rose Thorn Necklace" 4:14 3. "Well, I Tried Drowning" 4:22 4. "Thinly...

rooms: the Dining Room and the Play Room. The Dining Room is adorned with grotesques styled after ancient motifs, inspired by the originally antique statue...

returns to the cave and finds the missing couple fused together as a grotesque hybrid. Millie enters Jamie's house and finds a television playing a wedding...

Trouser Press commented on the improvement in production compared to Grotesque (After the Gramme), calling it "A solid record of greater potential appeal...

of "Grotesque Dwarves" were to inspire Derby porcelain and other companies to create pottery figures known as "Mansion House Dwarves" or "Grotesque Dwarves"...

2024, retrieved 5 October 2020 Cipa, Shawn (2008), Carving Gargoyles, Grotesques, and Other Creatures of Myth: History, Lore, and 12 Artistic Patterns...

its own world, combine but are not merged in the unity of the event." Grotesque body Dialogue (Bakhtin) Culture of popular laughter Bakhtin, Mikhail (1984)...

of the film's puppetry, praising "the fantastic, enigmatic tableaux of grotesque characters (some more or less human, some not at all, some impressively...

puppet. Journalist Frances Ryan criticised the play by calling it a "grotesque step backwards". The National Autistic Society, who initially decided...

his victims with "Joker venom," a toxin that left their faces smiling grotesquely. The character was intended to be killed in his second appearance in...

and religious imagery (nude and semi-nude figures, S&M paraphernalia, grotesque props and symbolic tableaux); television networks required extensive edits...

distortion effect is a visual illusion in which ordinary human faces appear grotesque and distorted when images flash in the periphery. The viewer specifically...

Kill a Mockingbird as both a Southern Gothic and a Bildungsroman. The grotesque and near-supernatural qualities of Boo Radley and his house, and the element...

A goblin is a diminutive, grotesque, and often malevolent humanoid creature prominent in European folklore, typically characterized by its mischievous...

discerning filmmaker, despite his affection for blockbuster action and grotesqueness. But too often he gets lost in his computer ... Why go to the movies...

the Duma. In two letters to his mother he let his bitterness flow: A grotesque deputation is coming from England to see liberal members of the Duma....

episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (1997), which follows a scientist's grotesque creature who idolizes Cher because of her role in Mask (1985), where her...

"beautifully shot, well-performed, suitably eerie, and appropriately grotesque." In 2025 Rakich announced he was in production on his sophomore feature...

University Press. ISBN 9780195173833. Kirkwood Jr., James (1992). American Grotesque: An Account of the Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison-Kennedy Assassination Trial...

called one story "compellingly gruesome" and wrote: "Bradshaw relishes the grotesque and improbable; his set-ups are outrageously inventive" but that "characters...

film and television industry except for a brief cameo in the 1988 film Grotesque. Patten died in 1996 from respiratory failure at Long Beach Memorial Hospital...

second film after watching assembly cuts, and thus Weta Workshop created grotesque new "über Orcs" as antagonists for the audience to focus on. Rivers redesigned...

he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy...

tales. Although usually frightening, it could also represent a humorous, grotesque-looking ogre or goblin. Ebu Gogo – Human-like creatures in Indonesian...

character actress (with) talent for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque." Tyrrell was born in San Francisco, California, to a British mother,...

two weeks, temporary blindness, convulsions and, in his final month, grotesque swelling of the extremities. During meetings and public addresses, Jones's...

creatures drag the head scientist into their world, returning him as a grotesque shape-shifting monster that preys upon the others at the laboratory. It’s...

Marshall. The film tells the story of a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque human–fly hybrid after a common house fly enters unseen into a molecular...

Retrieved November 27, 2011. VanDerWerff, Emily (August 1, 2010). "Syzygy"/"Grotesque"/"Piper Maru". The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 27, 2011. Ogle, Connie...

Novel Reporter, Brienza characterized the artwork as an exquisite erotic-grotesque fusion of Dungeons & Dragons-style high fantasy, noting its broad appeal...

short horror comedy novel by actor Tom Baker. The novel is subtitled, "A grotesque masterpiece", and is illustrated with line drawings by David Roberts....

Independent about its opening episode, stated that the series had become a "grotesque parody of the witty, faithful TV adaptation it once was", with O'Connor...

late 1980s, she worked in numerous low-budget horror films, including Grotesque (1988), opposite Tab Hunter, and the Italian production Witchery (1988)...

these include Universal chess, Grand Chess, Embassy chess, Trice's chess, Grotesque chess, Ladorean chess, Schoolbook chess, and Univers chess. The creators...

February 2025. Johnson, Ryan (2022). "Grimdark-ian Man: The Sublime and Grotesque in Warhammer 40,000". The Phoenix Papers. 5 (1): 172. Warhammer 40,000:...

and Jill Hampton's boyfriend. Grotesque Gail Simone Ardian Syaf Alitha Martinez Batgirl (vol. 4) #7 (May 2012) Grotesque is a masked man identified as...

Semi-bold, Bold) and true italics to complement them. IBM Plex Sans – A grotesque sans-serif typeface with a design that was inspired by Franklin Gothic...

reads: "The Front Room gets some mileage out of Kathryn Hunter's memorably grotesque turn as an in-law from hell, but the scatological scares in this family...

animals in the imperial menagerie, among other things. He specialized in grotesque symbolical compositions of fruits, animals, landscapes, or various inanimate...

Gothenburg was Grotesque, who formed in 1988 and were influenced by both early death metal and black metal. After the 1990 disbandment of Grotesque, the band's...

New York City: Harper & Brothers. Silverberg, Miriam (2006). Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. Berkeley, Los Angeles...

spiritual entities driven to harm humanity. These Curses often manifest as grotesque monsters, drawing on traditional Japanese folklore, such as onryō (vengeful...

Recordings) RAMsterdam (2009) RAMazing (2011) RAMplify (2012) RAMbition (2012) Grotesque (with Alex M.O.R.P.H.) (2012) RAMnesia (2013) Ramelia (Tribute To Amelia)...

short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat"...

2012. The duo's work is known for its distinctively surreal and often grotesque nature, typically featuring what The A.V. Club called "bad fashions, worse...

Bast referred to Dean as Rogers Brackett's "kept boy" and once found a grotesque depiction of a lizard with the head of Brackett in a sketchbook belonging...

school underwent a severe internal crisis subsequently known as the "Grotesque Internecine Struggle" or "GIS". The roots of the crisis involved a power...

FF DIN is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial, or grotesque, style. It was designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, based on DIN-Mittelschrift and DIN-Engschrift...

thrillers set in Florida. They feature casts of eccentric, sometimes grotesque characters and satirize aspects of American popular culture. Many of the...

and developing the Argentine version of grotesque literature known as Criollo Grotesque or Creole Grotesque, which is characterized by a mixture melodramatic...

beginning of 2018. In June 2020, the band announced an EP titled Fatal Grotesque Symbols – Darken Universe will be released on 7 August, and that a full-length...

arms in ballet Harris-Warrick, Rebecca; Brown, Bruce Alan (2005). The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage. University of Wisconsin Press...

Many other substyles such as sailor, country, hime (princess), guro (grotesque), qi and wa (based on traditional Chinese and Japanese dress, respectively)...

strong sexual content, use of racially/ethnically offensive language, and grotesque depictions in a comedic manner. Xavier (voiced by Vernon Chatman) is a...

deceitful weasel (or polecat), making her live in crannies and gave her a grotesque way of mating. She is mounted through the ears and gives birth by bringing...

that they are greedy, obsessed with eating, possibly cannibalistic, and grotesque. Fat Bastard had stolen Austin's mojo in 1969, as he is a guard in the...

experienced while vacationing on Kauai. The "long day of improbable and grotesque mischief" prompted him never to take vacations again in his lifetime....

human corpses during the last war for the manufacture of fat which was a grotesque lie"; likewise, The Christian Century commented that "The parallel between...

a doppelgänger. It also appeared in the 1840 collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and has been adapted several times. The story follows a...

grossed over $16 million worldwide. The film was criticized for being too "grotesque" and "violent", but has since garnered a cult following. Despite vastly...

fantastique, in English it is sometimes referred to as visionary art, grotesque art or mannerist art. It has had a deep and circular interaction with...

oblique designs instead of italic ones. This is especially true with grotesque designs like Helvetica, which have a spare, industrial aesthetic, and...

include a parade featuring the main attraction of Karnavalos, a rather grotesque figure with a large head and smiling face, leading a diverse procession...

Kinder-Märchen. It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's...

very close astern; the resulting geyser bent the flight deck upward "in grotesque configurations" and caused crucial rudder damage. Simultaneously, Yorktown's...

Solare is a grotesque sans serif typeface designed by Nikolas Wrobel, a graphic designer based in Cologne, Germany. The typeface was released in January...

certifications, from 1994 onwards: Marilyn Manson: The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003): gold. Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget (2004): gold. The ECHO Deutscher...

Gleason Publications and later Savage Dragon from Image Comics. He is "a grotesque sorceror bent on world conquest". Created by Jack Cole (who would later...

the blind Dea and Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine. The film is known for the grotesque grin on the character Gwynplaine's face, which often leads it to be classified...

kavakava are male carvings and the Moai Paepae are female carvings. These grotesque and highly detailed human figures, carved from Toromiro pine, represent...

popular genre in the early 20th century. It is characterized by using the grotesque in its work (i.e., the work uses people or animal forms that are distorted...

band, Conquest, aged eleven, the band later evolving into Grotesque. On leaving Grotesque, Shamaatae formed a technical death metal band called Disinterment...

senior investigator within the Sacramento Police Department as the "most grotesque slayings" he had ever investigated in the 28 years he served with law...

who become trapped in a hospital by a gathering of hooded cultists and grotesque creatures. The creature effects were crowdfunded on Indiegogo and raised...

in late October to early November 1978 while he was ill in his cabin, grotesque swelling of the extremities. In November 1978, Congressman Ryan led a...

Rail Alphabet is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for signage on the British Rail network. First used...

what the caller would like to do to Marion Crane. One letter was so "grotesque" that she passed it to the FBI. Two agents visited Leigh and told her...

reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction, it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic...

the way he filmed "natural, beautiful bod[ies]" and the "cheeky, sexy grotesqueness" of his work. The film was produced by Maria Ekerhovd of Mer Film [no]...

throughout. In November 1980, the Fall released their third full-length album Grotesque (After the Gramme). Preceded by a couple of acclaimed singles "How I Wrote...

Lowry (1996), p. 165. VanDerWerff, Emily (August 1, 2010). ""Syzygy"/"Grotesque"/"Piper Maru"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved December 25, 2011. Goodwin, R...

novels: "The author labors through three hundred pages of fantastic and grotesque narrative, now and then striking a spark of wit; but the sparks emit little...

anatomical, physiological, and pathological descriptions, such as on "Grotesque Macoparalent Disgorgement", to depictions of extreme violence against...

Performer Role Album Ref. 2001 "Tainted Love" Marilyn Manson Jake Wyler Not Another Teen Movie: Music from the Motion Picture and The Golden Age of Grotesque...

world, but from the Renaissance version, influenced by the Ancient Roman grotesque decorative style, of medieval ornament, especially that found in illuminated...

us a beautiful structure of the human body in a different way from the grotesque, with a cool look on her face." KOS-MOS's appearance in Xenoblade Chronicles...

the game's core gameplay has a "Koonsian quality of both innocent and grotesque". Alice O'Connor of Rock, Paper, Shotgun called the game "David Cronenberg's...

March 6, 2026. Moran, Lee (March 9, 2026). "Pete Hegseth Slammed For 'Grotesque' Line About Iranians". HuffPost. Retrieved March 9, 2026. Phillips, Morgan...

characteristic themes. Each vice, although ultimately depicted as ugly and grotesque, nevertheless offers alluring, seductive speeches that attempt to entice...

2026). "'The Boys' Season 5 Review: Superhero Series Thrives Through Its Grotesque Finale". TheWrap. Retrieved May 18, 2026. Shunyata, Kaiya (April 6, 2026)...

mundane appearances. Another episode with a serial killer antagonist, "Grotesque", revolves around the way that evil can change and influence people. "Oubliette"...

vampires as they are of the Soviet occupiers. They eventually encounter a grotesque, feral vampire and its maker, the weary and mysterious Daciana. Instead...

and second single from the band's fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque, following "mOBSCENE", and had the most success. The UK release includes...

the Vault Dweller must thwart the plans of a group of mutants, led by a grotesque entity named the Master. Fallout was originally intended to run under...

the guild register was embellished with grotesque initials which were signed by Cornelis. These grotesque motives, that were inspired by Italian contemporary...

seen. Access to the piano nobile is gained via a loggia frescoed with grotesques around 1570–1580. Inside, there are numerous rooms, all splendidly frescoed...

among the Scribes', signed E Lessore. Minton tin-glazed Majolica vase, 'grotesque' Renaissance style, 'MINTON' to the neck, mostly flat surfaces, opaque...

continuously defeats Spider-Man. In the end, Spider-Man defeats Mysterio. 14 The Grotesque Adventure of the Green Goblin Lee/Ditko Stan Lee July 1964 The first appearance...

been captured by the KDF, Al-Shabaab tweeted that the KDF "boys are a grotesque parody of an army! [Al-Shabaab] can outpace ur world-class runners by...

Bell Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or grotesque style, designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1938 while heading the typographic development...

August 2, 2026. Shepherd, Charles (April 10, 2024). "DIR EN GREY drop grotesque "The Devil In Me' music video teaser". Electric Bloom. Retrieved August...

there is the horrifying suggestion that these characters may not be grotesque exceptions, but may in fact be part of the mainstream of humanity.......

Incubator, is currently exploring the relation between Afrofuturism and the grotesque through her visual and written work with weaves and collected hair. Recently...

restored, and follows a government henchman, an oprichnik, through a day of grotesque events. Sorokin in one of the later interviews confessed that he did not...

Detail from the Ghisi Shield in the Waddesdon Bequest; a grotesque head in the larger scale above Horatius at the bridge in the smaller...

after absorbing the souls of the six fallen humans, he evolves into a grotesque form known as "Omega Flowey", alternatively known as "Photoshop Flowey"...

movie with these words "its methodical pacing, relentless, brutality and grotesque atmosphere can be overwhelming". Scream Anarchy praised the special effects...

previously been described with terms such as "Japornimation", and "erotic grotesque", prior to being identified as hentai. 変態 (hentai; shinjitai; (listen))...

emigrated to the United States, where he became known for his surreal, grotesque and gory special effects. He collaborated with director and producer Brian...

set of anomalies and deformities to a living being, we would obtain a grotesque scarecrow". In 2011, Antonio Lombatti noted several of these visual impossibilities...

"elements of violence". Classmates believed "the plays were really morbid and grotesque." According to CBS News, "Cho Seung-Hui's violent writing [and] loner...

form of standstone. His first edition of the sculptural piece "Digital Grotesque" in 2013 was created using a sandstone printer. According to Wired, it...

The Last Days of Mankind (German: Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) is a grotesque drama by Karl Kraus. The play is a perceptive and bitter reckoning with...

characters from 1970s and '80s children's television made regular, often grotesquely altered, appearances on band flyers and newsletters, and were frequently...

[U.S.] Grotesque #2 by Sergio Ponchione [Italy] Interiorae #3 by Gabriella Giandelli [Italy] Sammy the Mouse #2 by Zak Sally [U.S.] Grotesque #3 by Sergio...

colony, the Congo Free State. Reports of outrageous exploitation and grotesque abuses led to widespread international outcry in the early 1900s, arguably...

(1929) by Andrei Platonov depicts the Revolution and the Civil War in a grotesque way in a form of a Modernist parable, as a struggle between the Utopia...

many members of the audience reacting negatively, finding the film too grotesque. In response to this, MGM executive Irving Thalberg, without consent of...

distinct color palette, emphasis on atmospheric elements, and focus on the grotesque. For example, in Revenge and The Substance (2024), Fargeat implements...

Halloween is meant to be a time of fun and celebration. I don't feel these grotesque displays are in that vein. This is simply part of a nasty culture growing...

body armor. As a child, Sarah was taken in by the Morlocks, a band of grotesque-looking mutants who hid in tunnels beneath New York City. As a young adult...

overprotective mother; in the animated sequence, they are depicted as grotesque caricatures. Pink's subconscious struggle for sanity is overseen by a...

augmentative—for example, grande means large, but grandote means extra large, with grotesque connotations. Following this example, Quixote would suggest 'The Great...

Touhou Igyoukyo, a Touhou Project fan-made series featuring horror and grotesque elements. They created the game using the RPG Maker VX Ace engine. Dark...

Addicted to Savary's mind-expanding drug, his creations suffer from grotesque disfigurements. The victims' only hope for an antidote lies in kidnapping...

Unbeknownst to Rel, Craven — who is constantly smoking — is soon killed by a grotesque apparition of himself that forcefully crushes his lungs. Later, the detained...

Bohr's letters, the play has been criticised by historians as being a "grotesque oversimplification and perversion of the actual moral balance" due to...

Mouse. Rat Fink is usually portrayed as either green or gray, comically grotesque and depraved-looking with bulging, bloodshot eyes, an oversized mouth...

Bell Centennial is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or grotesque style designed by Matthew Carter in the period 1975–1978. The typeface was commissioned...

NOW. Tubi released the film in May of 2026. The movie won "The Grand Grotesque" award at the Darkside New Jersey Film Festival in February 2026. In May...

lighter. News Gothic, like other Benton sans serif typefaces, follows the grotesque model, resembling serif text faces of the period, with a double-story...

American Type Founders staff OCR-B Designer: Adrian Frutiger Class: Neo-Grotesque Operator Mono Overpass Mono Oxygen Mono —N/a PragmataPro Prestige Elite...

the band their first number one album on the UK Independent Chart since Grotesque (After the Gramme) in 1980, and spent fourteen weeks on the chart. Perverted...

Confidential "celebrated or prolonged a culture that allowed the kind of grotesque behaviors we're hearing about all too frequently". Jordan, Tina (June...

classical musicians). (1) Burt Jordan and Rosa Crouch. "Sensational, grotesque and 'buck' dancers. A good act ..." (2) The White Tscherkess Trio. "A...

psycho-biddy horror subgenre, in which aging or elderly women portray grotesque, violent characters. Roscoe also notes that the film's primary theme revolves...

knowledge', and little knowledge is what it provides. It has proved to be grotesquely inadequate as an index, radically constricting the utility of the Macropædia...

He initially played in Oral from 1984 to 1989. He temporarily entered Grotesque and Liers in Wait before joining At the Gates in 1990. He was their guitarist...

free of Sandler’s usual schmaltz and lame romance, it’s pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that’s fascinating without ever...

Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520 and 1522. It shows a life-size, grotesque depiction of the stretched and unnaturally thin body of Jesus Christ lying...

humanity, while Dennis Deletant has described it as "[a]n experiment of a grotesque originality ... [which] employed techniques of psychiatric abuse which...

from The Guardian stated that the series is "clever, bleak, charming, grotesque and funny." Sean Mullins from Webster Journal called it a "wonderfully...

Posthumus was too realistically treated in contrition that he became "grotesque" like a character from the later scenes of King Lear. Warren questioned...

Tanizaki Prize for her novel Tokyo Island. So far, four of her novels (Out, Grotesque, Real World, and The Goddess Chronicle, the last of which was written...

rabbit. The siblings rescue their first friend Hood from Sniffer, a lanky, grotesque humanoid who can teleport by crawling in and out of corpses, and escape...

publications. The artworks are in a realistic style, which plays into the grotesque nature of a living superorganism being utilized as a national park. The...

breakdown that escalates into a fatal heart attack. A hooded figure with a grotesquely deformed face lingers outside the Maitlands' house, and Glory finds her...

deliberately passed off as “Goyas” imitating his later style, emphasizing his grotesque and phantasmagoric facet, and using a loose brushstroke and blurred figures...

'master' paintings to literally create grotesque female bodies of fetishized body parts. The use of the grotesque signifies the transgressing of boundaries...

(1959). Kubrick accepted the demand, later saying that "such crass and grotesque stipulations are the sine qua non of the motion-picture business." Sellers...

EUobserver. "New EU post to protect European Way of Life slammed as 'grotesque'". Reuters. 10 September 2019. Archived from the original on 11 September...

Sean Elliot (August 2012). "Lovecraft, Absurdity, and the Modernist Grotesque". Lovecraft Annual (6): 82–112. ISSN 1935-6102. JSTOR 26868452. Matthews...

passage The Critical Idiom: The Grotesque as a source of his inspiration: The characteristic impact of the grotesque, the shock which it causes, may be...

wilderness and human settlement. The image of Bhoma is a carved or formed as grotesque face in Balinese architecture which decorates certain parts of the Balinese...

The Visit (German: Der Besuch der alten Dame, English: The Visit of the Old Lady) is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The...

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Bobby Gould in Hell Glenna Lincoln Center Theater, New York City 1990 Grotesque Love Songs Romy WPA Theatre, New York City 1990 Jake's Women Julie Old...

Teatro Grottesco (Italian for Theatre of the Grotesque) is a collection of short stories by American horror author Thomas Ligotti. This is his fifth collection...

eccentric dancer and character actor. He was best known for comedic and grotesque parts, which were accentuated by his hyperextended body. Azito was part...

Look up gargoyle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gargoyle is a grotesque statue. Gargoyle may also refer to: Gargoyle (monster), a type of fantasy...

as well as its constant secretion of blood and feces makes it a rather grotesque take on the concept of an animate statue. The bulbous form and curvature...

timeline is pure horror, all steadily increasing dread and glimpses of grotesque violence. It helps that the flashback cast is strong enough to carry an...

clubwoman, a tramp, and any other character that seemed to suit his fancy. No grotesque make-up, no funny clothes, just Red." He added that Skelton also "plays...

Whitney Category Sans-serif Classification Neo-grotesque humanist Designer Tobias Frere-Jones Commissioned by Whitney Museum Foundry Hoefler & Co. Date...

usatoday.com. Retrieved 2024-07-14. Jay Anderson (2023-07-13). "UFC Denver: Grotesque Cut Stops Drew Dober vs. Jean Silva In Third". cagesidepress.com. Retrieved...

Kaitakusha, 1930(?). The Spider's Web.--The Autumn.--The Nose. Tales Grotesque and Curious. Trans. Glenn W. Shaw. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1930. Tobacco...

Retrieved March 31, 2015. "Amnesty International—Iran: Death by stoning, a grotesque and unacceptable penalty". amnesty.org. January 15, 2008. Archived from...

chant about rape". Slate. Retrieved 31 January 2023. "U.N. Condemns 'Grotesque Rape Chants' By Burundi Youth Militia". NPR. Retrieved 26 January 2023...

of The Independent described it as "a gooey media meltdown, absolutely grotesque and instantly recognisable" and did not consider it a children's cartoon...

with the time in which he studied music. At the age of 17, Wåhlin formed Grotesque (as guitarist) with school friend Tomas Lindberg on vocals, Alf Svensson...

the architecture critic for The New York Times, calls the tower base a "grotesque attempt to disguise its underlying paranoia". There were also controversies...

Atkinson Hyperlegible is a freely available typeface built around a grotesque sans-serif core, intended to be optimally legible for readers who are partially...

young woman struggling with drug addiction is haunted by visions of a grotesque mouse-human hybrid, but as the hallucination consumes her life, people...

move to more aggressive songwriting", suggesting the song "feels like a grotesque (although probably unintentional) parody of progressive rock". The New...

Anwar and Dominic Anwar. Movies The Madness of King George (1994) The Grotesque (1995) The Crucible (1996) The Wings of the Dove (1997) The Object of...

Sabbath of the Sorcerers" Lévi's Baphomet may have been partly inspired by grotesque carvings on the Templar churches of Lanleff in Brittany and Saint-Merri...

parade of horribles can either refer to a type of parade where people wear grotesque costumes, or a rhetorical device where one argues against taking a certain...

and bullies like something out of a nightmare and then comes clean in a grotesque but utterly frank outburst of sentimentality in which he aspires to the...

relished the chance to play an unapologetically ball-busting shrew—a grotesquely exaggerated version of a stereotype she's been assigned many times over...

grotesk" [Musk recommends the AfD. The German cult of the entrepreneur is grotesque]. Süddeutsche (in German). Archived from the original on 29 December 2024...

"Secrets Between Twins" (ツインズシークレット, Tsuinzushīkuretto) 75. "Tales of the Grotesque: The Mummy Girl's Bandages" (怪奇! ミイラ女の巻, Kaiki! Mīra on'na no maki) 76...

is plain that Miss Dickinson possessed an extremely unconventional and grotesque fancy. She was deeply tinged by the mysticism of Blake, and strongly influenced...

2003 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance...

also decorated with sculptures of a variety of fabulous and frightening grotesques or monsters. These included the chimera, a mythical hybrid creature which...

characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival...

land were often criminalised as vagabonds and beggars, subjected to "grotesquely terroristic laws" that whipped, branded, and tortured them into accepting...

point, Broadway shows featuring women began to include cakewalks, and grotesque dances became very popular across the country. The fluid and graceful...

Arimo Category Sans serif Classification Neo-grotesque Designer Steve Matteson Foundry Ascender Corporation License Apache License 2.0 Variations Liberation...

tradition, though invisible to humans, shayāṭīn are imagined to be ugly and grotesque creatures created from the fires of hell. The Quran speaks of various...

draftsman noted for his portrait drawings. He was especially interested in grotesque physiognomies, which he drew in meticulous detail either from models or...

(2017). "Deconstruction and the Grotesque: Martin Margiela". Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body. London; New York: I.B...

emerges from his chest. The album was reportedly banned for being "too grotesque", and on the 1995 reissue, the artwork was replaced by a blurry black-and-white...

'50s—maybe the last innocent decade allowed to us—played back through a grotesquely distorting '70s consciousness." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post also...

literature, "scatological" is a term to denote the literary trope of the grotesque body. It is used to describe works that make particular reference to excretion...

February 20, 2026 and Troma Now on March 1, 2026. The film won the "Grand Grotesque" award at the Darkside New Jersey Film Festival in February 2026. In May...

skills to illustrate her character's greed and individualism at such a grotesque level." Judaai earned Sridevi her eighth Best Actress nomination at Filmfare...

Peters, Fletcher (March 9, 2024). "Cazzie David's Feature Debut Is a Grotesque Anti-Rom Com". The Daily Beast. Retrieved March 21, 2024. Tallerico, Brian...

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this grotesque; it was a truly novel typeface." Gürtler too wrote of feeling that the design was innovative: "this style didn't exist in grotesques at the...

Retrieved 5 June 2026. Ide, Wendy (4 June 2026). "Savage House is a grotesque satire of shameless social climbing". The Observer. Retrieved 10 June...

Retrieved 2024-02-05. "Review: Dolittle is muddled CGI chaos with a grotesque irony at its core". The Globe and Mail. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2024-02-05...

chamber, the player finds the boss of the chapter, the Abomination, a grotesque result of many failed imbuement experiments with the Will, embedded in...

demented past time". The transformation takes place during "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal", the 12-minute-long "turning point" of the album. In addition...

English release on September 20, 2016. The manga is well known for its grotesque material, and two scenes nearing the manga's end have become a popular...

Aesthetics". In Matthis, Michael (ed.). The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque: The Subjective Turn in Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present...

creature is called Bangungot. The batibat takes the form of an ancient, grotesquely obese, tree-dwelling female spirit. They usually come in contact with...

where children wrapped up in butcher paper are being sent. Here, the grotesque Twin Chefs are preparing a feast and Six escapes them. She makes her way...

Nicole Holofcener, Scott spins a medieval yarn that is by turns gruesome, grotesque, gorgeous and inconsistent." Ben Croll of IndieWire, who gave the film...

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of growth. Inequalities have increased and many of the new rich are grotesquely crass and cruel, but not all the Kremlin's vast revenues from oil and...

with India, a country that James Mill's historiography thought of as grotesquely primitive culture. While a great many British observers did not agree...

before Superhero comics). One comics historian says: "Simultaneously grotesque and goofy, horrific and hilarious, the strip truly defies description"...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cubism Deviance Flash mob Edgelord Grotesque Shock value Owning the libs Punk rock Roth. "Decadents & Æsthetes". English...

Flemish works—and is accompanied by a realism that often favored the grotesque. Matsys' firmness of outline, clear modelling and thorough finish of detail...

deprecated archival service (link) Leydon, Joe (September 25, 1995). "The Grotesque". Variety.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)...

to draw again on indigenous influences, notably in the Mexican baroque grotesque style known as Churrigueresque. Aboriginal peoples also adapted church...

promiscuity leads to venereal disease, comes complete with enormous, grotesque closeups of VD's physical effects. At the same time, the concept of fringe...

intervention in Yemen, highlighting that Saudi Arabia has "one of the most grotesque human rights records in the world". Chomsky called the Russian invasion...

with "distress". Common features of the art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, and extreme or absurd environments. It is traditionally...

how capitalism and class struggle created conditions which enabled "a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part". Marx describes the divisions and alliances...

3:25 7. "Deep Cover" 3:03 8. "Pyramids" 3:54 9. "Sparks" 3:34 10. "Paul's Grotesque" 3:50 11. "Fangs" 5:37 12. "Curtains" 1:03 13. "Born Tight" 3:43...

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Bat (1926), about guests in a remote mansion menaced by a killer in a grotesque mask. Its success led to a series of "old dark house" films including...

Jones guides Ofelia to the fantasy world. As the Pale Man, he plays a grotesque monster with an appetite for children. Jones had previously worked with...

geometric sans-serifs based on simple squares and circles, like Futura, or grotesque or "industrial" designs influenced by nineteenth-century lettering styles...

appeared in media and subcultural representation. One example is Guro-Loli (“grotesque Lolita”), which combines Lolita dress with horror-inspired elements such...

metalworker, and craftsman noted for his modernist bronze animal figurines and grotesques. Walter Bosse, born November 13, 1904, in Vienna, was the son of artists...

collective embrace, draining him of all his life energy and leaving him in a grotesque, catatonic state. The townspeople then rise, now possessed by Matteo....

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Darth Vader grotesque on the northwest tower of the Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal Church) in Washington, D.C....

works. His music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; he was also heavily influenced by neoclassicism...

screenplay and the science fiction elements, but criticized for the grotesque nature. Set in an otherworldly human existence, scientist Sterling Pierce...

sources, the aging emperor was treated as a slave and subjected to a grotesque array of humiliations. Reliefs and inscriptions located at the sacred...

vision of evil and the occult sciences; a certain tendency towards the grotesque and the sensational, and a taste for the morbid and perverse; a rejection...

the d'Urbervilles (1891), Thomas Hardy portrays Alec d'Urberville as "a grotesque parody of Pluto/Dis" exemplifying the late-Victorian culture of male domination...

Russia has officially declared the poisoning to be a fabrication and a "grotesque provocation rudely staged by the British and U.S. intelligence agencies"...

1567) was an Italian engraver. Vico was born in Parma. He specialized in grotesque engravings based on antique paintings. Vico made engravings for Cosimo...

solitary men into isolated or hazardous environments prior to revealing a grotesque true form, commonly represented as a fleshless skull or the head of a...

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Southern Gothic genre that combines some Gothic sensibilities, such as the grotesque, with the setting and style of the Southern United States. Examples include...

Gods of Chaos, with which Fulgrim is slowly and unwittingly drawn into grotesque communion. Primarch Ferrus Manus and his "Iron Hands" Space Marines (the...

own farewell to his art. Bose, Siddhartha (2015). Back and Forth: The Grotesque in the Play of Romantic Irony. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-7581-3...

Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here...

his performance in the film Lenny, described the awards as "ugly" and "grotesque" and likened the ceremony to a beauty pageant, causing host Hope to remark...

Benny, formerly a brilliant and handsome scientist made to resemble a grotesque simian with an organ fit for a horse. Having lost his sanity, Benny frequently...

Kaan (April 20, 2023). "Grim action-platformer Blasphemous 2 unveils its grotesque world". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved August 19, 2023. Brown, Andy (June...

Doyle described Low as "savage and desperate", and a man of "amazing and grotesque brutality." The New York Times called him a torturer, whose methods would...

South Korean production groups and actors, but had been told it was too grotesque and unrealistic. Hwang put this script aside and over the next ten years...

Leveller (1991) Dark Is the Season (1992) Transcend the Rubicon (1993) The Grotesque-Ashen Epitath (1994) The Dreams You Dread (1995) Grind Bastard (1998)...

cults of the Soviet Union, and has also been referred to as "the most grotesque state-sponsored cult of personality outside North Korea". According to...

discussed shortly, below. Whereas Foster (1998), pp. 15–16 writes of "grotesque and malicious creature of [genuine] folklore", so that his position here...

(for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award), The Fool (1990), The Grotesque (1995), Fierce Creatures (1997), Jinnah (1998) and Asylum (2005). In 1984...

Grotesque caricatures in the exhibition at the Deutsches Museum, Munich...

in: "It is not an actor pretending to be Reagan or Thatcher, it is, in grotesque form, the person themself." — Ian Hislop (1984), Fowler's The Canadian...

Blythe of Lamb of God) 3:23 4. "Pain & Panic" 3:29 5. "Hunter" 4:05 6. "Grotesque" 2:55 7. "Salai" 2:35 8. "A Rush & Siege" 3:56 9. "I Give In" 2:40 10...

in 1926) sitting in a green armchair. Her neck is elongated in almost grotesque fashion, so as to raise the petite woman's head well above her seat. Jacqueline's...

noted his "singularly musical voice" which "quite took away anything grotesque in the very strong Scotch accent" and "gave it a softening or charm"....

Expressionisten group of artists. Ernst's work often had ironic juxtapositions of grotesque elements with cubist and expressionist motifs. He had a fascination with...

Japanese visual kei experimental rock band formed with the concept erotic grotesque. Cali Gari was founded in 1993 and named after the horror film The Cabinet...

functions of thought, speech, and the soul by translating them into the grotesque body, which serves to renew society and the world, as a release for impulses...

The Green, US (2011) Green Plaid Shirt, US (1997) Grief, US (1993) The Grotesque, UK (1995) Groucho, Spain (2007) Group Therapy, US (2004) The Guest House...

shoe with a larger, more feminine heel, but sometimes black shoes too. Grotesque dance "Vaganova Academy". Archived from the original on 2020-09-27. Retrieved...

2002 remake of the original Resident Evil game. She is portrayed as a grotesque or monstrous form, wearing a sewed mask of different faces. She is largely...

Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics as a master of what...

Mair has commented that "[p]ig-human hybrids represent descent and the grotesque, a capitulation to the basest appetites" rather than "self-improvement"...

Addams are an eccentric old-money clan who delight in the macabre and the grotesque and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre...

(1982) - Simon Tomassian Whiz Kids (1983) - Episode "Airwave Anarchy" Grotesque (1988) - Orville Kruger Santa Sangre (1989) - Orgo Vallance, Tom (February...

important subtexts: carnival, which he describes as a social institution, and grotesque realism, which he defines as a literary mode. Rabelais and His World examines...

filmed near Lake Arrowhead, depicted the band (excluding Johnston) wearing grotesque horror masks while playing Old Maid. Asher recalled that neither he nor...

September 2008 "New EU post to protect European Way of Life slammed as 'grotesque'". Reuters. 10 September 2019. Archived from the original on 11 September...

out of 10, and the consensus: "Its dark but novel premise may be too grotesque for some, but Dexter is a compelling, elegantly crafted horror-drama.";...

Jeremy (August 1, 2024). "10 Movies That Are Equal Parts Beautiful and Grotesque, Ranked". Collider. Retrieved August 12, 2026. Animation is rarely as...

lettering on a 1960s lounge record, which in turn is an altered version of grotesque sans-serif typefaces, with each letter rotated a small, random number...

largely unmodulated tone continue even as the events become increasingly grotesque. The recurring eye–egg–testicle sequence consequently functions both as...

"brazenly colorful, queer-inclusive and fast-paced mishmash" with "outlandish grotesque scenes and copious potty mouths", along with "a Broadway pop score". Christine...

drama with the same name by Victorien Sardou, reinterpreted in an ironic-grotesque style. Rome, 14 June 1800. Napoleon's army threatens to conquer Italy...

eccentric production design, quirky characters, fast-paced dialogue and grotesque situations. The series often uses wordplay, metaphor and double entendre...

Ankoku-Butoh (暗黒舞踏, ankoku butō) movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally...

The manuscript contains images of beggars and street performers and grotesques, all symbolizing the chaos and anarchy that was present in mediaeval society...

releases since its first album, Soulside Journey. It was designed by Tassilo Förg, Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, and Tomas Lindberg of Grotesque/At the Gates....

Due to a commitment to produce Marilyn Manson's album The Golden Age of Grotesque, Skold was unable to join KMFDM's 2002 Sturm & Drang tour; he did, however...

Rob Bowman Chris Carter January 26, 1996 (1996-01-26) 3X13 16.04 63 14 "Grotesque" Kim Manners Howard Gordon February 2, 1996 (1996-02-02) 3X14 18.32 64...

Yhwach's unstable energy erupts across the Soul Society, manifesting as grotesque infant-like eyed parasites that rain down and overwhelm the Soul Reapers...

and TBTA chair Robert Moses called the proposed merger "absurd" and "grotesque" for its unwieldiness. In June 1966, Rockefeller announced his plans to...

massive worldwide success. Their fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003), was a modest commercial success in their native US, debuting at...

books published by Marvel Comics. He is an evil sorcerer, possessing a grotesque appearance and various mystical powers. Mister Jip has almost exclusively...

Sakas are typically represented with side-whiskers, and more or less grotesque facial expressions. The Chinese first referred to these people as the...

other hand by folly, outlandishness, and fallacy. He also points to the grotesque and tragicomical, silent film-like elements. Fernando Bermejo-Rubio (2012)...

history." Goude saw Jones as his muse, declaring she was "beautiful and grotesque at the same time," and dated her from 1977 to 1984. He "[designed her]...

is interrupted by a hallucinatory march to the scaffold, leading to a grotesque satanic dance (Witches' Sabbath). Within each episode, the artist's passion...

(born 1944) is an American guerrilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted...

Tierra y Libertad, a syndicalist journal in Barcelona, calling it a "grotesque mentality". The Dutch newspaper De Arbeid criticized nationalism, because...

with Tomelty. Boys from Brazil (1993) Moving the Mountain (1994) The Grotesque (1995) a.k.a. Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (USA) a.k.a. Grave Indiscretion...

that Sullivan's score "is, in many places, of too high a class for the grotesquely absurd plot to which it is wedded." Nonetheless, it proved highly successful...

are different both technically and aesthetically, to the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning. As seen above in the gallery Woman...

feature an underlying warm sentiment, they are often juxtaposed with grotesque, darkly comic and sometimes harshly violent scenarios. The Witches, George's...

as "virtually English" and perceived "something unreasonable or even grotesque in the control of a small body of persons whom they deemed in every way...

develop a theory of a ballet in action. In the early 18th century, the grotesque dance was influential in that it inspired two very different outcomes:...

row: the president's office called the accusation "completely absurd and grotesque", while the Socialist Party mocked his fastidious preparation. Sarkozy...

seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory. Some have a grotesque form; the name derives from the Barbary ape, also known as "magot". "Magot"...

virus that attacks human cells and machine implants to pervert them into grotesque combinations. The third strand focuses on Ana Khouri, an assassin living...

project that became Cry-Baby. It has been posited that Malnorowski, a grotesque, loud-mouthed member of the teenage delinquent gang headed by Johnny Depp's...

bisexuality. Rajeev Masand opined that he "plays the part with the sort of grotesque flamboyance that makes it hard to look at anyone or anything else when...

that Jews must wear a dark blue garb, with very large sleeves and a grotesquely oversized hat; his son altered the colour to yellow, a change that may...

Mexico. McCarthy's Judge was added to his manuscript in the late 1970s, a "grotesque patchwork of up-river Kurtz and Milton's Satan" and Chamberlain's account...

Monsters led by Lord Bludd, the Zombies, the Mummies, the Ghouls, and the Grotesques. Superman was able to destroy the doomsday device and cut a deal with...

to cover a fiery face, which in God of War III is revealed to be very grotesque but more human-like than the original design from the first game. Hermes...

Surrounding each one was the dim outline of a small human figure, black and grotesque, more like a little image carved out of black shining wood, than anything...

mixing, as Cohen had previously done. Cohen remarked that the result is "grotesque", but also "semi-virtuous"—for many years, he included a reworked version...

pseudoepigraphical work called the Testament of Solomon with its elaborate and grotesque demonology. As with most biblical personages in the middle era of Israelite...

nearby, lodging itself in his corncob pipe, transforming Popeye into a grotesque, superhuman killer. As the teens settle in the forest, Popeye kills a...

Informer commented, "Thanks to all of its flaws, Umbrella Corps feels like a grotesque online oddity that everyone should just ignore—which everyone is already...

now a lieutenant and the Spectre changed, with his vengeful acts more grotesque and harsh.As Jim invested the murder of a wealthy businessman, he met...

Rodman (1840) Collections Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) Play Politian (1835) Other The Conchologist's First...

which psychological horror arises as much as the body horror from the grotesque enemies, macabre buildings, decaying corpses, and heads impaled on sticks...

large paintings were used, and the surfaces were mostly covered with grotesque designs on a white background, with paintings imitating sculptures in...

"Don't Panic", "Peter Tripp" Released: 2008 Label: Nominal Records / Grotesque Modern Tracks: "Graceland" Nu Sensae, "Don't Panic" Nu Sensae, "Peter...

Benton around the beginning of the twentieth century in the industrial or grotesque style. It was a reworked version of Benton Gothic developed for various...

which expand on Junkie's themes of drug addiction and control. The book's grotesque descriptions and hallucinatory imagery are also seen as precursors to...

included stories have been described as strange, surreal, humorous, and grotesque. In 2022, an English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori was published...

rejected the approach of most previous sans-serif designs (now often called grotesques), which were based on the models of sign painting, condensed lettering...

comedies, with some common traits like satire of manners, farcical and grotesque overtones, a strong focus on "spicy" social issues of the period (like...

artwork satirizes Spanish society, specifically targeting the clergy with grotesque figures, and explores themes of superstition, greed, and violence.[citation...

Japanese butoh dance troupe Sankai Juku, who were known for blending grotesque imagery with a transgressive dance style. Merhige was fascinated by the...

Tortuga's severed head mounted on top of a tortoise. Sickened by the grotesque display, Hank moves away from the tortoise. As the agents laugh, the tortoise...

bad films I have ever encountered", adding: "For sheer mesmerising grotesqueness, there's almost nothing I can name that beats it, and no fan of bad...

status by allowing them to do so at their local town hall as "completely grotesque," and his former prime minister Élisabeth Borne decried the alliance as...

not just for shock, but was a form of stylization. The Japanese film, Grotesque (2009), quickly became notorious due to its graphic violence, leading...

earliest works to survive in full are from these student days: Sérénade grotesque, for piano, and "Ballade de la Reine morte d'aimer", a mélodie setting...

dominion over fire, lightning, the dead and the resurrected, dogs, games, grotesque or ugly beings, and twins (as he is the twin of Quetzalcōātl). Some sources...

elements of dystopia, alternative history and science fiction, and the grotesque. One of Sorokin's recognisable literary techniques is stylistic mimicry...

between interior and exterior, surface and structure, the beautiful and grotesque, figurative representation and abstraction. Born in 1974, in Montreal...

Vulture, highlighted "the brilliance" of Gong's performance and "how feral, grotesque, and undeserving of happiness they really are [Recruiter's emotions] [...

rectilinear extreme wide-angle lenses is that the resulting image looks grotesque and unsettling, while not looking as unrealistic as curvilinear fisheye...

and Carral grow closer. Reviews of Paradise Rot describe the novel as "grotesque", "surreal", and "downright nasty". Pitchfork's Niina Pollari wrote, "The...

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large deer, a horse with a hanging tongue, a naked woman, or beings with grotesque shapes, whose attributes range from long arms and legs, small heads, oversized...

generalized "King Ptolemy", and a naked Aphrodite. Pottery figurines included grotesques and fashionable ladies of the Tanagra figurine style. Erotic groups featured...

David (February 18, 2026). "'Absolute Batman' #17 is daring, tragic, and grotesque". AIPT. Retrieved March 14, 2026. Ausiello, Michael (June 13, 2016). "Gotham...

few one-liners delivered by the two daughter characters, is ludicrously grotesque, the serious sequences are engrossing and nuanced." "'Philip's' Teaser:Mukesh...