There is humor to the choreography of the fights ( which are never too gruesome ).

However, they are also sometimes used, with dark humor, to evoke more gruesome scenes.

John Anderson of the Los Angeles Times referred to the film as " giddy mix of gruesome horror and campy humor ", while most others dismissed the film with negative reviews.

Jewish survivors and authors accuse members of the LAF, especially in Kaunas but also in other towns, of indiscriminate and gruesome excesses against Jewish residents, often before the Nazis arrived to take control, most notably characterized by the Kaunas pogrom.

The heads were bundled together in a gruesome package and sent to the Abbasid caliph who was on pilgrimage at Mecca.

Vernon was nicknamed " Nub City " because its residents participated in a particularly gruesome form of insurance fraud in which they deliberately amputated a limb in order to collect the insurance money.

The largest siege of the war, and the arguably the roughest, most gruesome battle in history, was the Battle of Verdun.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said it was " as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises ", yet praised its acting and technical execution.

This sparked the gruesome violence in West and increased a pressure to Khan that he was unable to endure.

The operations never resulted in success and had ignited a gruesome insurgency that Khan was unable to tackle down with complete force.

It has been claimed that during the gruesome torture of Balthasar Gérard ( the assassin of William of Orange ) in 1584, the song was sung by the

Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful ( hence the term excruciating, literally " out of crucifying "), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal.

A. Pasqualini has argued that Saturn was related to Iuppiter Latiaris, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held on the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill in Rome involving a human sacrifice ad the aspersion of the statue of the god with the blood of the victim.

A. Pasqualini has argued that Veiovis seems related to Iuppiter Latiaris, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held on the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill ( the northernmost hilltop of the Quirinal ) in Rome, which involved a human sacrifice.

Emma Mason suspects that this could also serve as a punishment for Godwine, who had served as a chief supporter of Harold, and was now tasked with the gruesome task.

Although Marie Antoinette did not see the head of her friend as it was paraded outside her prison window, she fainted upon learning about the gruesome end that had befallen her faithful companion.

Traditional execution by decapitation by sword or axe were notably gruesome, and the aforementioned design was probably conceived in an attempt to improve the accuracy and effectiveness ; however, no reference to its actual use has been found.

But as a first novel by an unknown author, the book was initially greeted with a mixture of acclaim and controversy, due to its gruesome depiction of violence.

A similar process was used a year later in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to create Walter Donovan's gruesome demise.

Although Petruchio is not characterised as a violent man, he still embodies the subjugation and objectification of women during the 16th century as manifested in many stories of this nature ; " The object of the tale was simply to put the shrew to work, to restore her ( frequently through some gruesome form of punishment ) to her proper productive place within the household economy.

Both David Sweetman and John Richardson point to the Gauguin sculpture called Oviri ( literally meaning ' savage '), the gruesome phallic figure of the Tahitian goddess of life and death that was intended for Gauguin's grave, exhibited in the 1906 retrospective exhibition that even more directly led to Les Demoiselles.

The most disturbing of those ceramics ( one that Picasso might have already seen at Vollard's ) was the gruesome Oviri.

MacGruder ( who was killed by Taft by throwing him in the helicopter's propeller for killing Hugh and Silook ), Otto ( who was killed earlier at Hugh's cabin ) and Jennings ’ ruthlessly efficient female assistant Liles ( who crashed her truck on a gasoline tank ), are powerless to stop him and are all killed in various gruesome ways.

Much of the sequence of the freaks attacking Cleopatra, as she lay under a tree, was removed, as well as a gruesome sequence showing Hercules being castrated, a number of comedy sequences, and most of the film's original epilogue.

Though he continued to scheme and even still to consider himself the rightful King of France, he was essentially neutralized and impotent for the years that remained until his gruesome death.

The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man and concludes, despite Horace's pronouncement, that were one to see firsthand the reality of war, one might not repeat mendacious platitudes about the nature of war.

As a testament to its gruesome nature, Ypres is also considered the grounds upon which poison gas in the Great War ceased to be irregular.

The execution poles and gallows are still there, as is a gruesome SS torture chamber.

The cantata has a text by the author Iben Krogsdal based on the story of Saint Cecilia who died in a gruesome way for her Christian faith, and has been described as " moderate modernism " with a special " Danish tone " and a transparent chamber musical instrumentation.

Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus ' children.

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

* 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.

Upon completion of post-production, Image Ten found it difficult to secure a distributor willing to show the film with the gruesome scenes intact.

Beginning with Midway's Mortal Kombat released in 1992, the Mortal Kombat series introduced " fatalities " in which the victor kills a knocked-out opponent in a gruesome manner.

Coupled with a gruesome facial injury to Braydon Coburn in Game 2, Pittsburgh ran roughshod over the Flyers ' depleted defense and jumped out to a 3 – 0 series lead.

A raid later catches the outlaws off guard, mortally wounding Buck with a gruesome shot to his head and injuring Blanche.

These titles reveled in a gruesome joie de vivre, with grimly ironic fates meted out to many of the stories ' protagonists.

Prospero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land.

*" The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag ": A high-speed chase and a lost bag converge with a gruesome discovery.

" We are concerned about the flavour of this script, which, in its preoccupation with horror and gruesome detail, goes far beyond what we are accustomed to allow even for the ' X ' category.

Another more gruesome variation on this tale is that the tenth child simply stroked the kelpie's nose but, when his hand stuck to it, he took a knife from his pocket and cut his own hand off, cauterizing it with wood from a nearby fire.

* Horror novelist Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart ( 1986 ), is an extreme, gruesome study of sadomasochism, graphically illustrated with the brutal rituals of demonic antagonists.

The series, starring Max Beesley, Keith Allen and Patrick Baladi has developed a cult following with its gritty storylines and gruesome theatre scenes.

Previously, Stone had been in favor of opening diplomatic relations with Great Britain and not going to war, as he was not only a pacifist but a conservative reluctant to start a gruesome war.

Broadcast from Hollywood over ABC Radio, it starred Boris Karloff and was sponsored by Eversharp, whose company president canceled the series after the third episode, apparently unhappy with the gruesome subject matter.

The series of events that led to this gruesome discovery began with a marriage in St. Ann's Church, Rainhill.

In the Ultimate Six story arc, Kraven genetically tampers with his DNA, allowing him to become a gruesome werewolf-like monster ( similar to the werewolf depiction in The Wolf Man ) with large hands and feet, claw-like fingers, enlarged red veins, darker skin, fang-like teeth and berserk-like feral behavior.