More movies added to the Splattercast Snippets Archive, including At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, Cannibal Holocaust, and the famous Friday 13th debate.

Any suggestions for more movies you want snipped out?

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This week, the Dead Lantern Triumvirate (Matius Caesar, Pompeius Jeffus, and Deejus Crassus) tackle the inherent contradictions of the “Found Footage” subgenre of horror. Do the contradictions inherent within the subgenre itself change how we look at them and “judge” them?

Oh, and as an added bonus, the audio quality seems to be back to normal. Hurray!

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Put on your overpriced 3D glasses, because Splattercast #191 is up.

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Download #190

This week, we’ve got nothing. Again. We chat a bit about Captivity, Expendables, and the Montana Fishburne Sex Tape. And special guest Jackie reports in on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Oh hey, submit a headshot. We might pick you to be the representative of the Splattercast for a zombie cookie! Send your photo to splattercast@deadlantern.com

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Does this woman look  like a “lollipop” to you?

This week, we cull 30 minutes of wasted formspring questions out of the finished show. Step up your games, people; trimming it down to a manageable hour long episode.

We chat about the new Christina Ricci flick After.Life, Clash of the Titans, Moon, and Pickman’s Muse.

Download it.

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Splattercast #188 is up.

Non-structured episode this week as we chat about Galaxy of Terror, Encounters of the Spooky Kind and a little more on A Serbian Film. (warning: Serbian spoilers within)

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Splattercast #187 is up, wherein we try to come to terms with A Serbian Film. Please read Mat’s latest post, I’m pretty much in line with everything he’s said there. I also like this review from Cinematical. To quote their conclusion:

I cannot recommend Serbian Film to anyone. It is a movie that hard-core horror fans will be daring each other to endure for years to come. On an intellectual level, I think I can see and appreciate what it’s trying to do. But if I could unsee it, I would.

I have so much I could say; I was thinking about my little girl (she’s 4) and this picture she just drew for me. It’s me, and her and her little sister-to-be (my wife is due in about 2 months). In the picture, we’re all smiling and it’s just a cute little thing, you know? Typical thing a little kid would draw. She draws little cats and bunnies and fairies, etc. I’ve had this thought often: I love that this is what’s in her little head. Her mind is full of good things. Of course, you can’t shelter a kid forever; she’ll learn that sometimes some people are cruel and sometimes bad things happen and all that jazz. But mostly, it’s just bunnies and fairies right now. And that’s wonderful.

Now we, as adults, have a lot of control over what we put into our heads. I’m not saying horror movies are going to influence your behavior, like you’ll head over to the nearest summer camp and start chasing teens with a machete – I don’t really buy that at all. I am saying, though, that it just can’t be very good for your heart, mind or soul to watch some certain things. I mean, how can it be a net positive, in any way, to elect to put this into your head?

I’m not swearing off horror, of course not. However, I may spend the next few weeks reviewing my daughter’s Hello Kitty DVDs on the Splattercast, instead of whatever genre stuff we had on the docket.

I know it’s pretty lame to quote song lyrics on the internet, but the Bad Religion song, Marked, came to my mind:

if I’m a monster,
I am a willing one,
this roller coaster ride is an enticing one,
on the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike
through disorder carry me like a vessel to water

everything you see leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you feel leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you make leaves a mark on your soul

if I can touch it,
I can destroy it,
if it’s imaginable to some degree,
I can become it,
like a hungry turning vortex that just flickers to existence,
consuming bits and pieces until I’m finally extinguished

everyone you see leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you bare leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you love leaves a mark on your soul

everything you take leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you give leaves a mark on your soul,
and all the fear and loneliness that’s impossible to control,
and every tear you cry leaves a mark on your soul

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Splattercast #187 is up.

We have high praise for Inception, and then take on what is quite possibly the single most transgressive and challenging genre film ever made.

(NOTE: hey folks, here’s Mat’s companion piece commentary about A Serbian Film)

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