Poster art for 1963 , considered to be the first splatter film A splatter film is a subgenre of that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of and | Though Splatter is associated with fairly extreme Horror Films, and such works form the main focus of the book, a relatively diverse range of titles dating mainly from the 1960s to late 1970s are also included, for example ' , , the 1973 sequel to , 's , and 's |
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There is also an emphasis on visuals, style and technique, including hyperactive camerawork.
During the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries, the use of graphic violence in cinema has been labeled " torture porn" or " gorno" a of "gore" and "porno" | This became evident with the release of many crime thrillers, particularly the 2007 film starring , and the 2008 film , starring and |
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The first appearance of gore—the realistic mutilation of the human body—in cinema can be traced to 's 1916 , which features numerous Guignol-esque touches, including two onscreen decapitations, and a scene in which a spear is slowly driven through a soldier's naked abdomen as blood wells from the wound | The British film , starring and , and its US counterpart , starring and , continued to facilitate this hybrid form of torture porn, which was also, to a lesser degree, evident in films such as 2007 starring , 2009 , and 2010 starring |
In the 2000s — particularly 2003—2009 — a body of films was produced that combined elements of the splatter and genres.
A difference between this group of films and earlier splatter films is that they are often mainstream Hollywood films that receive a , and have comparatively high production values | Arnzen argues that "the spectacle of violence replaces any pretensions to narrative structure, because gore is the only part of the film that is reliably consistent |
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Like their splatter forerunners, torture porn films reputedly emphasize depictions of , gore, , , and | Retrieved on June 11, 2007 |