splatter movie

The so-called splatter movie has rarely been done better.

Could children weaned on television news and splatter movies ever grasp the concept of a life immune to fear?

Meanwhile, in one corner of the hospital, a group meets regularly to watch splatter movies and place bets on an ambulance-racing contest.

He found himself watching an Italian splatter movie called The Gates of Hell.

The carnage in front of the Omni kept playing and replaying in his head, like a bad splatter movie.

The first one was in a low-budget splatter movie entitled Blue Vengeance (shot in 1989, but not released until 1992).

Although the overture works in the gasping and screaming sounds common to splatter movies, "Prom" stays safely on the sunny side of the macabre.

Peter Jackson started his career in New Zealand by directing the splatter movies Bad Taste (1987) and Braindead (1992).

Roy Boulting's "Twisted Nerve" (1968) is a British splatter movie with a Bernard Hermann score.

Mr. Jackson, who cut his teeth on splatter movies like "Braindead," went on to tackle "The Lord of the Rings."

In 1984, Hurst won the lead role of David Blyth's Death Warmed Up, New Zealand's first splatter movie.

Time Out London wrote that "Diminishing returns hit splatter movies faster than most other genres, and this starts straining for effect and repeating itself within its first hour".

"The splatter movies helped," says the author John McCarty, referring to gore films of the 1970's like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Jackson's next release was the horror comedy Braindead (1992) (released in North America as Dead Alive), now seen as a landmark in splatter movies.

In splatter movies, mutilation is indeed the message ...." Rosenthal later directed the eighth film in the Halloween series, Halloween: Resurrection (2002).

Some critics might tend to demean his efforts as nothing more than visceral "splatter movies," for in his screenplays, aliens tend to devour any human with a penchant for screaming.

Ishii also penned the script for Ikeda's 1988 Evil Dead Trap, called Japan's first "splatter movie", and credited with being the first Japanese modern horror film.

Gurrath is also famous for his liking of artificial blood and splatter movies - but as a vegetarian he produced a video for the song "Animal Holocaust" which is dedicated against industrial livestock farming.

"Odermatt has looked around, and as an author has created a hybrid of Kroetzen's village tragedies with Ravenhill's beat-up Brit furore, then throws in Castorf's- savagery and splatter movie - an overloaded but polemical attempt.

Mr. Vanco is also looking into what he called "New York junkie vampire movies," like Michael Almereyda's "Nadja" (1994), splatter movies from almost any decade, and Asian genre pictures from directors like Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Miike.

He did not want to die like a character in a splatter movie, did not want to die quick and stupid or slow and mean, with a chunk of metal buried in his frontal lobes and syrupy blood gradually obscuring the dumb, startled expression frozen on his face for all eternity.