Netflix is collaborating with renowned horror filmmaker Roger Corman (“Little Shop of Horrors,” “Pit and the Pendulum”) on a series of Internet Webisodes scheduled to debut two days before Halloween.
Anyone in America can instantly watch the Webisodes at Netflix, if you are outside the united states, get yourself a vpn account. The VPN account will also get you all access to US online programming.
Each webisode will be played on specific days (google all Netflix free calendar html ical xml)
- Thursday, October 29th
- Friday, November 6th
- Friday November 13th
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“Splatter” is the haunting tale of rock-and-roll legend Johnny Splatter, a musical genius who accumulated as many hit records as he did enemies on his climb up the fame ladder. His sudden death, ruled a suicide, brings a small circle of professional parasites and hangers-on to his Hollywood Hills mansion for the reading of his last will and testament. But as his “frenemies” come to pick the bones clean, Johnny has returned for a deadly encore long after what they thought was his final curtain.
Behind the scenes include videos from:
- Roger Corman
- Joe Dante
- “Splatter” behind the scenes.
Things to know about “Splatter“:
- Viewers will be able to vote on the fate of the characters in each of the three “Splatter“ stories.
- The episodes will be free for everyone to watch on their computers; no Netflix membership is required (but you have to at least try, here is a free tria to Netflix).
- Filmmaker Joe Dante (“Gremlins,” “Twilight Zone: The Move”) applied his directing talents to each Webisode,
- Corey Feldman (“The Goonies,” “The Lost Boys”) plays the lead role of Johnny Splatter.
Other characters are typical to this movie genres included a medial personnel, blonde with ponytails, a dark haired vixen, one cool dude and one idiot friend.
While anyone in America can instantly watch “Splatter” online on a computer starting on October 29, Netflix members on an unlimited plan will be able to instantly watch “Splatter” on their TVs via a range of Netflix ready devices at the conclusion of the series. Those devices include Netflix ready Blu-ray disc players and new Internet TVs from LG Electronics; Blu-ray disc players from Samsung; the Roku digital video player; Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console; and TiVo digital video recorders.
