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Released
1986 · FILM

Splatter: The Architects of Fear

A movie within a movie.

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Runtime
75 min
Documentary

Synopsis

Set in the aftermath of World War III, the film presents an apocalyptic battle to the death between beautiful amazons, twisted mutants, and deadly zombies. The narrative alternates between the action on the battlefield and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the special effects being created by a group of demented master craftsmen, some of whom appear to be losing their grip on reality. The film questions the boundary between reality and fiction, asking which side of the camera the viewer truly occupies. It promises an extreme level of graphic violence, perversion, mutilation, and slaughter, claiming to deliver more intense scenes per minute than any horror film previously made.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert BergmanScored by Allan Kane

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