grotesque

Tom Rhys Harries plays a brutally disfigured actor who undergoes an experimental treatment to restore his face in director James Watkins’s enjoyably grotesque genre exercise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In his eyes, beauty takes all forms, morphing into the grotesque and outrageous before transforming again into a light, airy meringue, generously portioned atop life’s dense realities.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

"It looks to me designed to be a grotesque spectacle," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

She physically twists Odysseus’ men into pigs in a grotesque sequence of body horror, with no romance, yearlong idyll or magical help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The light tortured him and Ben turned his head toward the lit-up back wall where he saw the grotesque silhouette of his head.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Part of this is in the rich tradition of European reporters sojourning in the United States who find casual grotesques about Americans far more lucrative and less taxing than actually trying to meet the natives.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

But he had his own quirky, even obsessive interests—in all things ancient and Roman, in architecture, and especially in the hybrid ornamental figures known as grotesques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

The Watergate grotesques form a small portion of the weird and sometimes wacky, but always carefully curated, world of Ellison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin