Documentary

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol

Released

2025-11-20

Runtime

87 min

Performance score

Not rated

In 1897, when Bram Stoker published Dracula, Oscar Méténier invented the Grand-Guignol. Live depictions of death, bloody melodramas, screams of the victims and the audience: here is the story of this Parisian theater of horrors that revolutionized the depiction of death in art.