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...splatter film?s charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer?s soul. (?The Untold Story? manages this with the rape scene; ?Dr. Lamb? does it with Simon Yam?s obsessive sexual defiling of his latest corpse.) And the Cat III director?s game was to out-gross the competition, leaving the audience and his colleagues slack-jawed in flummoxed awe. That?s the only apt response to ?Red to Kill,? the masterpiece in the ITMFG collection - the killer vase among these grisly movie antiques. (The film is available in the U.S. on video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...faced with the task of informing an uptight store-owner that her thousand-dollar sample merchandise, entrusted to Vogue for the purposes of our seasonal fashion shoot, now featured an intriguing splatter-style motif. The rabbit had been whisked in at the last minute, after the stylist informed me in a stroke of artistic inspiration that the look she had envisaged for the story—“Harry Potter meets English private school meets upper-crust garden party”—necessitated the presence of something white and frolicky. It hadn’t been easy...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life In Vogue | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...part of an exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), she and Jim Cottington of MoMA, tried to recreate the drip-and-splatter technique that Pollock invented...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brushing Away Modern Art’s Stains | 5/24/2002 | See Source »

...eased my hold on Stith’s waist, unclenched my teeth and even permitted my head to pivot 30 or 40 degrees to either side to see what the world looks like from atop a speeding motorcycle. Apparently, the world looks like a splatter painting rushing by at 80 mph from atop a speeding motorcycle—I would have to content myself with the whirl of the engine and the rush of the wind...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Riding With The Queen | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

...head to the Tsukiji fish market--particularly if you're jet-lagged and wide-eyed at 5 a.m. By then, everything from sea urchins to whales to whole tunas the size of third-graders is being chopped and auctioned at the market. Expect to ruin your khakis as merchants splatter past through puddles of fish slop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Life: Tokyo Tempts | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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