A nicely written, curiously selective Hollywood trend piece by Time‘s Rebecca Winters Keegan about the Splat Pack — the latest, hottest crop of English-speaking horror filmmakers: Leigh Whannell (screenwriter of Saw I, II and III; actor in I and II), James Wan (director of Saw, Death Sentence), Rob Zombie (The Devil’s Rejects, the new Halloween), Eli Roth (Hostel), Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, the forthcoming Mirrors), Neil Marshall (The Descent, the forthcoming Doomsday) and Saw III director Darren Lynn Bousman. I didn’t notice any mentions of Severance director Christopher Smith or Black Sheep helmer Jonathan King. And except for Wan, there’s no mention of any particular Asian horror-meisters.
