Splatter Cinema

   Splatter Cinema, splatter film or gore film is a sub-genre of horror film  ...Splatter cinema was made famous by the self-proclaimed "guru of gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis," re-invented the splatter film in 1963 with the release of Blood Feast. Blood Feast was made quickly and cheaply but differed from its genre contemporaries in that it featured the stalking and mutilation of beautiful women. Splatter cinema relies on heavy concentrations of gore and blood thru the use of extensive and creative special effects. The very term "splatter film" was first coined by George A. Romero to describe his film Dawn of the Dead. This genre also includes a few sub-genres like, Sexploitation films and Torture Porn. The combination of graphic violence and sexually suggestive imagery in some films has been labeled "torture porn" or "gorno". The Eli Roth film, Hostel (2005), was the first to be called "torture porn" by critic David Edelsteinin in 2006. Zombie films are also a sub-genre of splatter cinema but this genre has grown into such a massive sub-genre now its often listed as its on genre. These films were all most always ultra lo-budget films, However around 1972 Big-budget Hollywood had caught on to the thrills of splatter cinema and were now getting their meat hooks into the genre.