Splatterpunk

English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952)

2010 film directed by Srđan Spasojević

2005 film by Eli Roth

Outlast is a 2013 first-person psychological survival horror video game developed and published by the Canadian independent studio Red Barrels. The plot centres on Miles Upshur, a freelance investigative journalist who investigates Mount Massive Asylum, a remote psychiatric hospital located deep in the mountains of Lake County, Colorado, United States.

film series

2009 Dutch body horror film directed by Tom Six

2007 film directed by Eli Roth

1992 film by Peter Jackson

2008 film by Pascal Laugier

subgenre of horror film

2011 British-Dutch exploitation film directed by Tom Six

Halloween is an American slasher media franchise that consists of thirteen films, as well as novels, comic books, a video game and other merchandise. The films primarily focus on Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his sister, Judith Myers, in 1963. Fifteen years later, in 1978, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois. Michael's killings occur on the holiday of Halloween, on which all of the films primarily take place. Throughout the series various protagonists try to stop Myers including Laurie Strode and psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis. The original Halloween, released in 1978, was written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill—the film's director and producer respectively. The film, itself inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Bob Clark's Black Christmas, is known to have inspired a long line of slasher films.

1988 Hong Kong–Chinese historical horror film directed by Mou Tun-fei

American horror franchise

2015 body horror film directed by Tom Six

American horror writer (1946-2018)

American novelist, short story writer, martial arts instructor (born 1951)

actor, writer

American writer

American writer, screenwriter and musician

American writer

sticker trading cards

American writer (1947-2001)

Splatterpunk is a movement within horror fiction originating in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, countercultural alignment and "hyperintensive horror with no limits." The term was coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island. Splatterpunk is regarded as a revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror story". Splatterpunk has been defined as a "literary genre characterised by graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature."

horror franchise

American writer and screenwriter

American writer (born 1957)

horror film series

American author

2025 film directed by Robert Michael Ryan