One horror sub-genre I’ve mostly stayed away from is the splatter film, more recently characterized as torture porn. These are movies that put the gore front and center and revel in the destruction of the human body.

I don’t need to watch that. And, perhaps more important, there just haven’t been many good ones. If the Citizen Kane of splatter films is out there, I’ll give it a shot. But these movies are more interested in pushing the envelope, risking censorship, and drumming up publicity.

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