History Main / SplatterHorror

* ''Film/{{Ravenous 1999}}'', being a borderline BlackComedy historical thriller about cannibalism, was not only so bloody that the production ''ran out of fake blood'' during the climactic battle, but also presents meat dishes with the same loving attention most films would give an eviscerated murder victim. In fact, one of the main themes is comparing human meat to animal meat, and considering the lead actor, the writer, and the director are all vegetarians, the honest disgust shown towards meat in general enhances horror of the cannibalism scenes nicely.

* Creator/JamesHerbert's ''Literature/TheRats'' was notorious at the time for bringing new levels of graphic descriptions of painful death and physical injury to horror novels.

* The ''Guinea Pig'' films are a series of six Japanese horror films from the 1980s and 1990s that gained global notoriety mainly for the first two films (''The Devil's Experiment'' and ''Flower of Flesh and Blood'', which led to the producer needing to prove that nobody was actually hurt or killed during the graphic torture and dismemberment sequences, as well as for the sixth film (''Devil Woman Doctor'') being found in the possession of Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki. In particular, ''Flower of Flesh and Blood'' scared Creator/CharlieSheen so badly that he called the FBI to report a snuff film.

* The ''Film/GuineaPig'' films are a series of six Japanese horror films from the 1980s and 1990s that gained global notoriety mainly for the first two films (''The Devil's Experiment'' and ''Flower of Flesh and Blood'', which led to the producer needing to prove that nobody was actually hurt or killed during the graphic torture and dismemberment sequences, as well as for the sixth film (''Devil Woman Doctor'') being found in the possession of Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki. In particular, ''Flower of Flesh and Blood'' scared Creator/CharlieSheen so badly that he called the FBI to report a snuff film.

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* Creator/EliRoth has stated that he wants to get back to the roots of horror from the 1970s and 1980s, especially the gore. As such, he was one of the forerunners of splatter horror's resurgence in the 2000s See ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' and ''Film/CabinFever'' below.

* ''Film/TheGreenInferno'' coming from the unholy union of Creator/EliRoth and the cannibal film, starts off relatively tame, but takes a hard left when the protagonists are captured by the cannibal tribe they were trying to same from deforestation, starting with the gruesome dismemberment of a still-living Jonah (starting with the village elder extracting and eating his eyes and tongue) and continuing from there with increasing physical and psychological brutality. Some of it is played for BlackComedy (as with the death of Lars, when he is swarmed by a tribe of stoned cannibals with the munchies), but most of it is just gleeful gore and violence, as befitting his love letter to the subgenre.

* ''Film/TheBelkoExperiment'' starts with the concept of a white-collar take on ''Film/BattleRoyale'' and runs with it to its bloody end, featuring exploding heads, bloody, over-the-top murders (including one character getting his face obliterated with a fire ax on-screen, and gruesome injuries even among those that aren't instantly killed. The film dances all over the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror, ultimately averaging out somewhere in the realm of a blood-splattered BlackComedy.

* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' centers around the laws of physics apparently BalancingDeathsBooks through deadly freak accidents. The first two movies were (relatively) realistic in the death scenes, while the third and fourth started to get rather cartoonish and over-the-top. The fifth movie dialed back the gore quite a bit after negative reactions to ''4''.

* ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' is a homage to classic SplatterHorror, featuring all of the classic tropes and cliches and a variety of very bloody and sometimes quite creative ways in which its main characters can [[FinalDeath meet their end]]. Interestingly, most deaths can be averted (only one death is hard-coded after the prologue), though doing so is [[GuideDangIt very unlikely in the first playthrough]].

Subgenre of {{Horror}} and SisterTrope to ExploitationFilm.

* Creator/EliRoth has stated that he wants to get back to the roots of horror from the 1970s and 1980s, especially the gore. As such, he was one of the forerunners of splatter horror's resurgence in the 2000s See ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' below.

* The first splatter film to popularize the genre was ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'', as Creator GeorgeARomero attempted to replicate the gore and atmosphere of ''Creator/ECComics'' on the big screen. Romero would later coin the term "splatter cinema" to describe his later film, ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''.

* UntilDawn is a homage to classic SplatterHorror, featuring all of the classic tropes and cliches and a variety of very bloody and sometimes quite creative ways in which its main characters can [[FinalDeath meet their end]]. Interestingly, most deaths can be averted (only one death is hard-coded after the prologue), though doing so is [[GuideDangIt very unlikely in the first playthrough]].

* {{Gorn}}: One of the main elements of this genre, though while gorn is used to excite the viewer, splatter horror uses similar themes to upset of horrify the viewer.
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