Word: splatterer
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...popular culture transmit images of brutality without consequences. Children play video games in which they win points for killing the most people. They watch violence-packed cartoons. They listen to songs titled Be My Slave and Scumkill. Or they are baby-sat by vastly popular movie videotapes like Splatter University and I Spit on Your Grave. Says sociologist Gail Dines-Levy of Wheelock College in Boston: "What we are doing is training a whole generation of male kids to see sex and violence as inextricably linked...
European directors do not dare or care to compete with Hollywood in the splatter sweepstakes. When murder outs in a Continental art film, it is always with a twist. In Krzysztof Kieslowski's doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast...
...Jersey hotel. The camera pans 360 degrees around the room and back to the soldiers and the speaker, who is now revealed as a Chinese specialist in mind control. He orders Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) to shoot one of his men, and the victim's brains splatter across a poster of Stalin. What's going on here? And what is one to make of the right- wing firebrand, inspired by a bottle of ketchup (57 varieties) to invent the number of Communists lurking in the State Department? Or of the liberal Senator who, when shot in his kitchen, bleeds...
...times), that originally won Scarface the poisonous X rating from the Motion Picture Association's ratings board. It was a bum rap and was overruled on appeal. Scarface is no fouler of mouth than Richard Pryor on a good day, and less graphic than the last three dozen splatter movies. It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason. The only X this movie deserves is the one in explosive. -By Richard Corliss
...first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector. No part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of The King David Hotel...