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Meaning of "splatter movie" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPLATTER MOVIE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPLATTER MOVIE

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Splatter movie is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SPLATTER MOVIE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Splatter film

A splatter film or gore film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. These films, through the use of special effects, tend to display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the theatricality of its mutilation. The term "splatter cinema" was coined by George A. Romero to describe his film Dawn of the Dead, though Dawn of the Dead is generally considered by critics to have higher aspirations, such as social commentary, than to be simply exploitative for its own sake. The combination of graphic violence and sexually suggestive imagery in some films has been labeled "torture porn" or "gorno". By contrast, films such as Braindead, and to some extent Dawn of the Dead, both of which feature over-the-top gore, can be construed as comedic, and fall into the category of splatstick.

Definition of splatter movie in the English dictionary

The definition of splatter movie in the dictionary is a film in which the main feature is the graphic and gory murder of numerous victims.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPLATTER MOVIE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SPLATTER MOVIE

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TV movie

Synonyms and antonyms of splatter movie in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «splatter movie» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPLATTER MOVIE

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The translations of splatter movie from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «splatter movie» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

飞溅的电影
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cine splatter
570 millions of speakers

English

splatter movie
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छींटे फिल्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فيلم بقع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

брызги фильм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

filme splatter
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Splatter সিনেমা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

film d´éclaboussure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Filem splatter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Splatter -Film
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スプラッター映画
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

튄 영화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Film splatter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phim splatter
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரகாசமான படம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छप्पर मूव्ही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sıçrama filmi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

film splatter
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bełkotać film
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бризки фільм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

film stropi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταινία splatter
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

splatter movie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

splatter film
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

splatter film
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of splatter movie

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPLATTER MOVIE»

The term «splatter movie» is used very little and occupies the 176.469 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPLATTER MOVIE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPLATTER MOVIE»

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The Official Splatter Movie Guide
This new book is a dream come true for splatter aficionados: a film-by-film guide to more than four hundred masterworks of blood and gore, arranged in a handy alphabetical format. 16 pages of photos.
John McCarty, 1989
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John McCarty's Official Splatter Movie Guide, Volume 2: ...
Provides plot summaries, cast, credits, and brief comments for horror films from "Alien Nation" to "Zombie Lake"
John McCarty, 1992
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... the other. Spend a few minutes playing with these settings and the Spray Brush until you understand how they control your results. Using Filters for Special Effects In the task, “Convert Text. Splatter Movie Clips with the Spray Brush Tool 273.
Phillip Kerman, Lynn Beighley
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Splatter Movie: the Director's Cut - the Illustrated Screenplay
Soon, the lines between what is realand what is part of the movie begin to blur -before disappearing altogether!This is the original screenplay for the independent horror film from Happy Cloud Pictures, annotated and illustrated with dozens ...
Watt Mike, Best Amy Lynn, 2009
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At a Theater Or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and ...
McCarty has also published two checklists of "splatter" films: The Official Splatter Movie Guide8 and Oflicial Splatter Movie Guide Volume 119. Teenagers & Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the Review of the Literature 15.
Randall Clark, 2013
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Writing the Horror Movie
The 'Godfather of Gore' and creator of the splatter movie was Herschall Gordon Lewis with Blood Feast (Lewis 1963), a wholly gratuitous and badly acted exercise in flinging gore at the screen. Italians Mario Bava and Dario Argento later took ...
Marc Blake, Sara Bailey, 2013
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Flowers from Hell
history of the Japanese splatter movie is just as colourful and perhaps a little longer than its western counterpart. While H.G. Lewis' Blood Feast (1963) is generally acknowledged to be the first splatter movie, there's a case for suggesting that ...
Jim Harper, 2008
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Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture
Employing a vocabulary of disgust familiar from the Puritan offensives against the Elizabethan playhouses, the authors of the scare publicly repudiated the most popular form of video entertainment - the splatter movie - in an attempt to promote  ...
Steve Beard, 2002
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American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography 1984-1988
Although director George A. Romero (The Night of the Living Dead) coined the phrase "splatter movie," its roots can be found in the Grand Guignol theater of late 19th-Century Paris. Tracing the evolution of the form in the works of Herschell ...
Jack Salzman, 1990
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Wes Craven: The Art of Horror
It boasts an interesting concept (the seamless interweaving of dream states and waking states) plus a number of truly spectacular splatter set pieces.— John McCarty, The Official Splatter Movie Guide (St. Martin's Press, 1989, page 95) CAST: ...
John Kenneth Muir, 2004

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPLATTER MOVIE»

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The first splatter movies were live on stage a hundred years ago …
Six nights a week and every Sunday afternoon, theater-goers in Paris were treated to an hour's-worth of gore, beheadings, torture and disembowelment. «io9, May 13»

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