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- noun informal A
film ,video game , etc. containingviolent andgory scenes.
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Examples
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There's lots of excruciating black comedy but no relief in this ever more graphic splatterfest, which works best as a cautionary tale about bullying and the risks caused by poorly fathered schoolgirls.
Down Darkened Roads Steve Dollar 2011
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Countryside terror is also to the fore in offerings such as Robin Hardy's Wicker Man follow-up, The Wicker Tree, and deranged Yorkshire splatterfest Inbred.
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They take a family hostage to cross into Mexico, and then abruptly it turns into a B-movie horror splatterfest.
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Koushun Takami's powerful novel - a hyped-up Lord of the Flies with added grenades and machine guns - would seem essentially filmic, but the potential for the film adaptation missing the point and turning into just a violent splatterfest was quite high.
The All-For-Noughts: Films of the Decade Adam Whitehead 2010
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Koushun Takami's powerful novel - a hyped-up Lord of the Flies with added grenades and machine guns - would seem essentially filmic, but the potential for the film adaptation missing the point and turning into just a violent splatterfest was quite high.
Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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Most of the humor found floating helplessly in this genre-bending bog is of a dialogue-driven nature, leaving those thirsting for a thought-provoking Romero-inspired splatterfest with nothing to do but twiddle their malfunctioning opposable thumbs.
The Mad (2007) 2010
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As soon as they came into play the film threw away it's smart sci-fi premise and turned into a mindnumbing splatterfest.
Awesome: Buy Life-Size Replicas of the District 9 Weapons! « FirstShowing.net 2010
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The title tells you that this is a splatterfest and a very disturbing, horrific and shocking one at that.
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Dead Snow is a crowd-pleasing zombie flick that is a perfect mix of slapstick and splatterfest!
Dead Snow (2009) 2009
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But when he is kidnapped by a mysterious couple, Matool must rely on an entirely different weapon in his arsenal to survive … Written & directed by Scott Phillips (screenwriter of DRIVE), THE STINK OF FLESH is a no-holds-barred splatterfest featuring non-stop action and buckets of gore.
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