Grand Guignol

The Sixth Doctor claimed that he never could resist the touch of the Grand Guignol. (TV: The Ultimate Foe) In an article on Wester Drumlins for the Into The Unknown blog, Rani Chandra described the house as having a "sense of Grande Guignol" surrounding it, and that even if it was ignored, it was a place of "death, mystery, and misfortune". (PROSE: The Very Real Mystery of Wester Drumlins) Henry Gordon Jago compared his imagining of George Litefoot's laboratory to the Grand Guignol, which the latter was unfamiliar. Referring to it's other name "the Theatre of Cruelty", Jago admitted it was not to his taste. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers)