Splatter film

A splatter film or gore film is a type of horror film that deliberately concentrates on portrayals of gore and violence. This emphasis on disgusting special effects and excessive blood and guts began in the 1960s with the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis, for example Blood Feast (1963).

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Horror film - Gore - Violence - Special effects - 1960s - Herschell Gordon Lewis - Blood Feast - 1963

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The term "splatter film" is often confused with "slasher film". While there is often a great deal of overlap, a slasher like Halloween (1978) cannot be termed a splatter film, as it does not contain sufficient on-screen gore.

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Slasher film - Halloween - 1978

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Sometimes the gore is so excessive it becomes a comedic device, e.g. Evil Dead II (1987). Splatstick is a phrase coined by Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell to describe those movies. It is defined as physical comedy (slapstick) that involves evisceration (making the sound "splat!"). Some further examples of splatstick would include Peter Jackson's Bad Taste (1987) and Dead Alive (1992).

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Evil Dead II - 1987 - Bruce Campbell - Slapstick - Peter Jackson - Bad Taste - Dead Alive - 1992

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Scenes of splatter can also appear in films of other genres, e.g. Michele Soavi's Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore, 1994) and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (2003).

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Michele Soavi - Dellamorte Dellamore - 1994 - Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill - 2003

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