found: Work cat.: Splatter movies : breaking the last taboo of the screen, 1984:t.p.; p. 1 ("splatter movies, offshoots of the horror film genre, aim not to scare their audiences necessarily ... but to mortify them with scences of explicit gore")
found: Horror fiction, 2005:p. 220 (splatter horror, scences of gore, mess, uncontrollable destruction; originated with Romero film "Night of the living dead"; spatter/splatter films now commonplace, include "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and its sequels; compared to slasher films, splatter films don't pretend to restore social, cultural order in their plots)
found: Wikipedia, Oct. 25, 2008(splatter film: splatter film or gore film, type of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence; impetus for fear in splatter film comes from physical destruction of the body. Splatter came into its own as distinct cinema genre in early 60s with films of Herschell Gordon Lewis--his "Blood Feast" (1963), widely considered first splatter film. so-called "torture porn" sub-genre has proven to be very profitable. Term splatter film often confused with slasher film; though there is often overlap, many slasher movies, like Halloween (1978), not considered splatter films because they don't have enough on-screen gore)
