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splatter movie

(Film) slang a film in which the main feature is the graphic and gory murder of numerous victims

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Rattue wrote in the New Zealand Herald:"About the only thing that could be said in Ashworth's defence is that this rugby splatter movie occurred in an era when boot sprigs (studs) were not just regarded as implements for attaching a rugby player more firmly to the earth.

How violence inflicted on Welsh players has shaped a new list of all-time All Blacks 'thugs'; The best rugby playing nation on earth has also not been averse to the occasional act of skulduggery - and Welsh players have often been on the receiving end

Demented Are Go formed in around 1982 in the Welsh capital and were one of the first bands to mix punk rock with rockabilly, and they've toured the world ever since with their sonic equivalent of a gore-soaked splatter movie.

Cardiff band put the boot in

If every Premier League match is now a multi-million pound blockbuster, this was a good old-fashioned splatter movie. It would have been 2-0 had James Hanson been 6ft 6in tall, rather than 6ft 4in.

THE SERIAL GIANT KILLERS; BRADFORD CITY 2 SUNDERLAND 0 O'Shea 3 og, Stead 61 BANTAMS FA VALLEY PARADE CUP MIRACLE GOES ON; First Chelsea, now woeful Sunderland fall to brilliant Bradford on another day of FA Cup magic.. so, were you watching BBC?

"I'd managed to sneak a peek at Peter Jackson's low-budget splatter movie Bad Taste on late-night telly when I was about 13 and thought it was hilarious and scary at the same time," he said, recalling the gory riot of blood, brains and alien invaders.

WHO SCARES WINS; the sunday interview Film-maker Marc Price was the surprise hit of Cannes last month with his horror movie Colin, made on a budget of just pounds 45. NATHAN BEVAN discovers how the Welshman did it..

Jackson's splatter movie background does not blend well with Tolkien's fantasy ...

Through a dark lens: Jackson's Lord of the Rings as abject horror

But if you've seen one low-budget splatter movie, you've seen this.

STOCK HORROR; REEKER HORROR Cert: 15

THE spirit of Bad Taste and The Evil Dead rises from the ashes in this Australian splatter movie, in which alien invaders trigger an attack of resurrected zombies.

The Razz: Movie reviews: Gorefest is cheap but not cheerful; UNDEAD 15

In a somewhat different book, The Official Splatter Movie Guide, the following examples can be found: long-suffering, blood-splattering, must-see, Michigan-made, Brooklyn-accented, B-movie, devil-cult, brain-dead, throat-slashing, death-dealing, religion-crazed, long-dead, suspicious-looking, thumb-cutting, mid-eighties, splatter-punk, plague-infested, none-too-bright, ultra-gore-filled, half-man, half-fish, chainsaw-wielding, full-throttle, wacked-out, sex-crazed, 3-D, and gun-and-grenade-toting.

Like a hyphen between troubled words

Maybe they'll prove us all wrong tomorrow night, but following Welsh rugby for the past 20 years has been like watching Richard Burton turn up in a splatter movie.

RUGBY UNION: The only corners Wales have turned are the ones that go in circles!; As Steve Hansen's men prepare to face New Zealand today, we look at how leading Kiwi newspaper The Herald previewed the game

Milla Jovovich makes mincemeat of zombie army in a mindless, living-dead splatter movie.

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It also includes one of the same special effects people who worked on the 1974 splatter movie.

Peter all shock up over his first horror venture; Elvis festival organiser out to match Texas Chainsaw Massacre with first movie

Opening scenes appear to portend a standard-issue splatter movie. Vet Mexico City cop Ulises (Damian Alcazar) is forced to watch as two minions of a dreaded drug kingpin remove a hand and both eyes from the cop's bound partner.