Word: splatterings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Devil 2, from Thailand, is a horror movie so gruesome that two of the three DVD machines I tried to play it on rejected it; they simply refused to host this splatter-fest of mutilation. A fisherman catches a strange creature and gets a hook under his skin. Seeking medical help from a voodoo mistress, he screams in agony as fish hooks emerge from his body: his hands, chest, eyes! More elaborate mayhem ensues, involving a chic-looking teacher and her careless students. (What Cromartie High School does for boys, and Linda, Linda, Linda for girls, this one does...
...Brothers genre was, so that if he's going to pay homage to that particular film, there are certain things that you have to do. You have to have certain kinds of fights. You have to show things. And if you have the capability of not just having blood splatter, but squirting out of someone's neck the way it was in Shogun Assassin, then you do it. You give it to an audience because that's what they're paying their money...
...There was one girl last year who would strip down and splatter herself against the window and scare people…just for kicks,” reported Leverite Marissa C. Carrio, ’06. Not even a hard hat will protect you from that...
...primary piece for the gallery, Sigmar Polke’s “Untitled,” is an abstract painting with a variety of coats, some opaque, some translucent. Buried in these layers of the canvas are a collage of intentional marks, chaotic paint splatter, and textures both smooth and wrinkled. It confuses at first, but each new look brings out a new detail, or stratum...
...dateless 14-year-old boys, European films of the art-house variety are trying to be more adult by showing more sex. Not pretend sex, to mirror the spectacles of fake violence in summer action pictures, but genuine, clinical whoopee. The French led the way, with the sex-splatter epic Baise-moi and Catherine Breillat's Romance. Now comes the first film (actually, digital video) by a respected British director--Michael Winterbottom, whose works include Welcome to Sarajevo, Jude and 24 Hour Party People...