Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Laymon’s Terms: Examining the Untapped Cinema Potential of Richard Laymon


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While slashers dominated the screen in the 1980’s, splatterpunk dominated the page. The movement was about going as far as possible, going to extremes to unnerve and shock the reader. Naturally, this brought a lot of backlash, but it also introduced a lot of new voices—and readers, for that matter—into the genre. Folks like Clive Barker and Jack Ketchum, both of whom emerged during the splatterpunk heyday, saw their work [...]

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