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Genre: Splatter

Horror that leads with the gore and asks questions later. Splatter film reviews for strong stomachs and viewers who know why they came.

Timothy Balme stands amid gore and dismembered bodies in a basement scene from the 1992 horror comedy Dead Alive.Comedy

Dead Alive / Braindead (1992) Review

Dead Alive (1992) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peter Jackson made the bloodiest film ever produced, reportedly using around three hundred litres of fake blood in the last twenty minutes alone, and underneath the lawnmower it…

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Saw (2004)

Two men wake chained in a filthy bathroom and discover they are pawns in a sadistic puzzle designed by the Jigsaw killer. Saw is James Wan's 2004 American horror film depicting two men who wake chained in a filthy bathroom…

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The Evil Dead (1981) film posterHorror

The Evil Dead (1981)

Five college students vacationing at a Tennessee cabin awaken demonic spirits through a Sumerian text, in Sam Raimi's debut. Bruce Campbell plays Ash Williams.

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Evil Dead II (1987) film posterComedy

Evil Dead II (1987)

Sam Raimi's part-remake, part-sequel where Ash returns to the cabin and battles increasingly absurd demonic forces. Evil Dead II is Sam Raimi's 1987 American horror-comedy film operating as part remake and part sequel to his 1981 The Evil Dead, depicting…

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Re-Animator (1985) film posterBody Horror

Re-Animator (1985)

Lovecraft's 'Herbert West, Re-Animator' serial about a Miskatonic University medical student who develops a serum that revives the recently deceased with violent and unpredictable results. Re-Animator is one of the most successful Lovecraft adaptations ever produced and one of the…

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) film posterHorror

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Survivors of the zombie apocalypse take refuge in a suburban shopping mall, in George Romero's social satire sequel. Dario Argento financed the Italian co-production and supervised the European cut that runs approximately fifteen minutes shorter than Romero's preferred American version.

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