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- noun Plural form of
splatterfest .
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Examples
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In '80s and' 90s splatterfests like Sam Raimi's Evil Dead sequels, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator series, and Peter Jackson's zombie farce Braindead (a.k.a. Dead Alive), the directors played Python-flavored grotesqueries for laughs, piling on the viscera until there was no response possible but to giggle.
A Bloody Good Show 2009
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I get a hash of forties cheapie Lash La Rue oaters; florid, wide-screen, Technicolor Douglas Sirk melodramas; lyrical Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns; homoerotic John Woo gangster shoot-'em-ups; and even George A Romero splatterfests.
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Let the Right One In ... ists? will tell you, they're still big business, spawning everything from splatterfests to romances.
Film.com Movie Blog 2009
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Let the Right One In ... ists? will tell you, they're still big business, spawning everything from splatterfests to romances.
Film.com Movie Blog 2009
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"Is it possible to evoke this movie without invoking two dozen others?" wonders George A Romero splatterfests.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Squirm quotient is about average, and much less than those of such '80s Hong Kong Category III shockers as "Men Behind the Sun"; gore is also mild compared with recent Asian splatterfests like the Thai "Meat Grinder" and Indonesian "Macabre."
Variety.com 2009
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I could list off dozens of crazy, demonic high school orgy splatterfests from Japan that deliver everything Eko Eko Azarak promises but doesn’t pull off.
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