splatter film

We've shot multiple films there to connect it.

Before Michael passed, and I just want to say this briefly, talking about doing a reboot to Gore.

Now Gore is like a feature film that I did like one of my first films and we were in real talks to go back to it as the next project to do a Gore film and the Samantha Romero character was part of that and all that and unfortunately passed and we didn't get to finish it but I'm just so happy Norm took over the role of Gore and at least gave him one more time with it because Michael always talked to me about really loving the role of William Sanders and the whole gore mythology because he was like the Dr. Loomis type character and it was just an amazing thing for him to experience.

He actually played it like five or six times in various films that we've done.

So this is not his first time playing this character, but it was really cool to kind of give him that werewolf moment that he wanted.

Hmm.

Splatstick.

Have you heard of splatstick?

I have now.

It's splatter.

Yeah.

Splatstick.

Yeah.

I know that much.

If you're a Splatter fan, then...

Tom Waits is in this shit.

I didn't remember Tom

So basically, that was kind of the starting point.

There are s- several horror movies set in theaters, so we have some of those, like The Wizard of Gore, both versions of The Wizard of Gore, Theatre of Death with Christopher Lee.

But the other thing is, is that around that time in Paris, one of the things that I concentrate on in the film is that the, the decadent style, uh, that was in cabarets and theater and art in Paris at the time is very much like something that carried over into what we now know as the horror genre.

And so we've done a ton of extra mini documentaries to surround and support the reasons why we have certain films in, in the box.

Cat Byers, and she gives the whole history of the morgue in Paris and how it was a tourist attraction, and that is an extra on Strangler's Morgue starring Tod Slaughter.

So you see what I mean? It kind of just opens the, the, the gates to just the amount of stuff that really is connected to this time in Paris and the kind of entertainment that was, the pinnacle of which was the Grand Guignol.

I just wanna mention real quick, and then I'll let somebody else talk, but you mentioned that fascination you get as a kid, and you mentioned you have The Wizard of Gore on there, and I smiled because it was The Wizard of Gore and an article that I read about it when I was 13 that introduced me to the concept of the Grand Guignol and made me...

I've had a lifelong interest because I loved The Wizard of Gore the first time I saw it, and I always tell people, like, if you don't know what the Grand Guignol is, The Wizard of Gore isn't a bad place to start exploring it.

Yeah.

Splatstick, I think the term is.

Ah.

Yeah, I'll take that.

It came out almost simultaneously with Evil Dead 2.

And they both kind of rewrote the book on what eventually became Splatstick.

And this movie was not given the respect it should have, in my opinion, as being such a forefather to that genre.

But both those movies hit at the same time.