Splatter (web series)

Splatter is a 2009 interactive short horror web series directed by Joe Dante produced by Roger Corman and starring Corey Feldman. It was created for Netflix.

The film aired over 3 parts on October 29, November 6 and 13, and was subsequently combined into a single 29 minute segment. In October 2019, the film website Trailers from Hell released all ten variations of the series, giving the viewer the option of whom to kill next. This is the first time every filmed episode of the series has ever been released to the public.

After committing suicide, a washed-up rocker returns from the grave to torment the five people who betrayed him in life.

Audiences would get to vote which character lived and died.

Netflix approached Roger Corman with the project.

They called me and said ‘Here’s what we’d like to do: three 10-to-15-minute segments of a horror story in which somebody is killed in the first segment and the audience votes on who they want to kill in the second. The second segment must be written, made, edited, and on the air one week later. Then the audience will vote again!’ I took the idea just because I thought it would be fun, that this is something new and an incredible challenge to do everything not in seven days but six, as we had to wait a day for the votes to come in on who was going to be killed.

Corman tried to hire Richard Matheson to write the script but he was busy and recommended his son, Richard Christian Matheson. The director was Joe Dante, with whom Corman had worked in the 1970s.

The series was shot over eight days at a mansion in the Hollywood Hills.