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She co-writes, directs and stars in this highly stylized, wonderfully DIY handmade project, beautifully designed with gruesomely gothic sets by production designer Becca Morrin and art director Ashley Devereux.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

A scenario that gruesomely echoes The Handmaid's Tale.

From Salon • May 3, 2024

By the fall of 1942, German troops had actually broken into Stalingrad, but their progress thereafter was gruesomely slow and difficult.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

If you're young enough not to remember that time there were months of widespread walkouts bringing misery in freezing temperatures, rubbish in the streets and gruesomely, even a gravediggers' strike.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022

She hadn’t moved, but the shadows across her face made it look like she was smiling gruesomely.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan