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There is much glorious, gleefully depraved gore in this Peter Jackson-directed film, the keystone of splatstick horror.
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Before he made Lord of the Rings he made this low-budget splatstick comedy.
Peter Jackson's first movie: Bad Taste Kevin Maher 2008
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Before he made Lord of the Rings he made this low-budget splatstick comedy.
Archive 2008-02-01 Kevin Maher 2008
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As far as I could tell, the scene contained little if any actual gore, but its tone was absolutely identical to the splatstick of Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy.
Evil Dead 4: Dead by Doc Ock shunn 2004
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As far as I could tell, the scene contained little if any actual gore, but its tone was absolutely identical to the splatstick of Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy.
Evil Dead 4: Dead by Doc Ock shunn 2004
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Jackson, who was born on Halloween in 1961, had been lauded internationally for his films Heavenly Creatures and his splatstick movies a genre he invented Bad Taste and Braindead.
Ready for the Rings - The Hobbit Film News and Information 1999
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A horror comedy much closer to the actor-riffing drollery of Edgar Wright and Christopher Guest than "Scary Movie" - style splatstick, "Rosencrantz
Variety.com 2010
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- Modern zombie comedies wouldn't exist with this cream-pie spot of splatstick (
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2010
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- Modern zombie comedies wouldn't exist with this cream-pie spot of splatstick (
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2010
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A horror comedy much closer to the actor-riffing drollery of Edgar Wright and Christopher Guest than "Scary Movie" - style splatstick, "Rosencrantz
Variety.com 2010
tankexmortis commented on the word splatstick
Coined by Sam Raimi and company, I think. Refers to the merging of the splatter-horror and slapstick film genres.
January 17, 2007