I discovered this term while reading about Neil Marshall on IMDb.This team of helmers is called "The Splat Pack," a term recently coined by critic Alan Jones in Total Film, for their dedication to the genre, which they say has been hijacked by watered down PG-13 fare. Two of the most successful of these raw horror franchises, Lionsgate's "Saw" and "Hostel," revolve around people doing unspeakable things to themselves and others, like burning a face off with a blowtorch and then clipping off the dangling eye with a scissors. (Screen Gems is partner on the "Hostel" pics.)
The other filmmakers in the group are Alexandre Aja ("The Hills Have Eyes"), Darren Lynn Bousman ("Saw II" and "Saw III") Neil Marshall ("The Descent") and James Wan ("Saw"). There's also scribe Leigh Whannell, who came up with the idea for "Saw" with Wan and penned all three of those pics. Serving as something of mentors are subversive looking rocker-director Rob Zombie ("The Devil's Rejects"), Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro.
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