grotesque

By the time Coralie Fargeat’s 2024 “The Substance” reaches its gloriously grotesque climax, Demi Moore’s Elisabeth Sparkle and Margaret Qualley’s Sue have effectively fused into the spectacularly deformed creature known as Monstro Elisasue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Competitors are judged on their ability to pull the ugliest or most grotesque face.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Mukbangers, content creators who eat grotesque amounts of food on camera, frequently feature fried chicken.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Once the viewer understands where Refn is headed, they can submit themselves to his grotesque neon visions.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Oily black scales bristling with barbed spikes covered its grotesque body.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

More amusingly, among the gargoyles and grotesques that dot the various towers are one in the form of a corrupt politician and another representing Darth Vader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Whether any of the nephews shared Yezzan’s fondness for cripples, freaks, and grotesques was far less certain.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin