In the depths of a sanitarium, a horribly disfigured man totters between
forgiveness and revenge. In a small hospital operating room, a stranger
asks the surgeon for a bloody favor. In a small New York theatre,
two eerie siblings lead their captive audience through a funhouse
of madness, chills, and blood.
This is The Final Kiss & The Kiss of Blood, an evening of Grand
Guignol Horror presented by "The Blood Brothers", a new
horror-centered division of Nosedive Productions. Through two one-act
plays, and three original vignettes, "The Blood Brothers"
present a rare peek into a style of theater that proliferated in the
early 1900's, and was eventually assimilated in the the late 1970's
and 1980's into the "splatter" genre of horror films. Blending
gripping suspense, stage magic, eroticism and farce, The Grand Guignol
was a powerful theatrical entertainment drawing an audience from every
echelon of Parisienne society -- anyone in search of a sexy, scary
thrill.
Between the revenge-obsessed terror of The Final Kiss, through the
fever-pitched rantings of The Kiss of Blood (both original Guignol
plays which premiered in Paris in 1912 and 1929 respectively), The
Blood Brothers plan on making this October one that New York won't
soon forget.
The Blood Brothers: bringing horror back home.
The Blood Brothers present: an evening of Grand Guignol Horror features
graphic violence and strong sexual situations and is recommended for
adults only.
