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Splatter film
Splatter film (gore film, splatter movie): a horror subgenre concentrating on explicit gore and graphic violence rather than suspense. Originated with Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast (1963); term coined by George Romero for Dawn of the Dead (1978).
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is Elia Kazan's drama from William Inge's Oscar-winning original screenplay, starring Natalie Wood and a debuting Warren Beatty as 1920s Kansas teens destroyed by sexual repression.
Splice (film)
Splice (Nouvelle espèce) is a 2009 sci-fi horror film by Vincenzo Natali starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, and Delphine Chanéac as Dren, a human-animal hybrid; Sundance premiere 2010, Warner Bros. release, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Splinter (2008 film)
Splinter (2008) is an American horror film, Toby Wilkins's feature debut, starring Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, and Paulo Costanzo. Parasite creature feature set at an Oklahoma gas station; 82 minutes, Magnet Releasing, six Screamfest 2008 awards, $522,497 worldwide gross.
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is a 2025 Netflix adult animated series, the first adaptation of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell games, created by Derek Kolstad, starring Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, renewed for season 2.
Split (2016 American film)
Split (2016) is M. Night Shyamalan's psychological horror thriller starring James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a kidnapper with 23 DID personalities, and Anya Taylor-Joy. A stealth sequel to Unbreakable, it grossed $278.5 million on a small budget and drew criticism for stigmatizing dissociative identity disorder.
Split screen effect
Split screen effect: a film technique showing two or more complete images simultaneously in separate frame sections; also called split-screen shot or split frame; used since early silent cinema, notably Vertov, Gance's Polyvision, and 1960s films like The Thomas Crown Affair.
Split Second
Split Second (1992) is a British-American sci-fi horror film directed by Tony Maylam, starring Rutger Hauer as a detective hunting a heart-ripping killer in a flooded 2008 London; released 1 May 1992, distinct from the 2010 racing game Split/Second.
Splitsville (film)
Splitsville (2025 film), also known simply as Splitsville, is a screwball comedy by Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona about open marriage; Cannes 2025, Neon release August 22, 2025.
Splitting Up Together
Splitting Up Together is an American ABC sitcom (2018–2019), adapted by Emily Kapnek from the Danish series Bedre skilt end aldrig, in which divorced parents Lena (Jenna Fischer) and Martin (Oliver Hudson) bird-nest, alternating weeks between house and garage apartment, across 26 episodes in two seasons.
Spock
Spock, often called Mr Spock, is a fictional Star Trek character, the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer and first officer of the starship Enterprise, played by Leonard Nimoy.
Spoiler (media)
A spoiler is information that prematurely reveals the outcome or key plot points of a fictional work, a term traced to a 1971 National Lampoon piece by Doug Kenney.
Spoiler Alert (film)
Spoiler Alert is a 2022 American romantic dramedy directed by Michael Showalter, starring Jim Parsons as journalist Michael Ausiello and Ben Aldridge as his husband, photographer Kit Cowan.
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon, is an American animated series that premiered July 17, 1999, set in Bikini Bottom; it has run 17+ seasons, 339+ episodes, four films, and $16 billion in retail sales.
SpongeBob SquarePants (character)
SpongeBob SquarePants is the title sea sponge of Nickelodeon's 1999 animated series, voiced by Tom Kenny, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg from his 1989 comic character Bob the Sponge, living in a Bikini Bottom pineapple and frying Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab.
SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)
SpongeBob SquarePants film series: four theatrical movies based on the Nickelodeon series (2004, 2015, 2020, 2025), from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie to Search for SquarePants.
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone, also called The Tidal Zone, is Nickelodeon's first SpongeBob Universe crossover special, a Twilight Zone-style anthology premiering January 13, 2023, linking SpongeBob SquarePants, Kamp Koral, and The Patrick Star Show through GrandPat's dimension-hopping frame story.
SpongeBob SquarePants season 15
SpongeBob SquarePants season 15, the Nickelodeon series' fifteenth season announced September 29, 2023, aired July 24, 2024 to June 20, 2025 in 13 half-hour episodes after being cut from 26, premiering with "Sammy Suckerfish" and ending with "Captain Quasar: The Next Iteration".
SpongeBob SquarePants season 17
SpongeBob SquarePants season 17 is the 2026 Nickelodeon season of the animated series: 26 eleven-minute episodes from June 12 to November 20, 2026, executive producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller, streaming on Paramount+.
SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is a 2019 Nickelodeon live-action and animated special made for the twentieth anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants, with the voice cast playing live-action versions of their characters.
Spontaneous (film)
Spontaneous (2020) is a science fiction romantic black comedy, Brian Duffield's directorial debut, adapted from Aaron Starmer's 2016 YA novel, starring Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer as seniors whose classmates explode; released by Paramount October 2020.
Spooks (TV series)
Spooks (MI-5 in the US) is a BBC One spy drama about MI5's Counter-Terrorism section, created by David Wolstencroft, produced by Kudos, 2002–2011, 10 series, 86 episodes, Bafta-winning, famous for killing lead characters.
Spooks: The Greater Good
Spooks: The Greater Good (MI-5 in the US) is a 2015 British spy film directed by Bharat Nalluri, a spin-off of the BBC series Spooks, starring Peter Firth as Harry Pearce and Kit Harington as Will Holloway.
Spooky Encounters
Spooky Encounters (鬼打鬼, Gui da gui), aka Encounter of the Spooky Kind, is Sammo Hung's 1980 Hong Kong kung fu horror-comedy about a cuckolded cart driver fighting black magic, and the film that launched the jiangshi hopping-vampire genre.
Spooky in Love
Spooky in Love (오싹한 연애, Ossakhan Yeonae, also Chilling Romance) is a 2026 tvN Korean horror-romantic-comedy series, a remake of the 2011 film Spellbound, starring Park Eun-bin and Yang Se-jong, 12 episodes, streamed on Netflix and TVING.
Spooky Pictures
Spooky Pictures is the American horror production company founded March 2, 2020 by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider under Vertigo Entertainment, backed by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, known for Watcher, Late Night with the Devil, Strange Darling, and Hokum. Distinct from Jason Stutter's New Zealand company of the same name.
Sportacus
Sportacus (Íþróttaálfurinn, the Athletic Elf) is the health-hero of the Icelandic children's show LazyTown, created and played by Magnús Scheving from the 1995 book Áfram Latibær through the 2004–2014 TV series, with real stunts, the number 10, and a sugar allergy.
Sports Night
Sports Night is Aaron Sorkin's American half-hour comedy-drama about producers of a nightly cable sports newscast modeled on ESPN's SportsCenter; it ran two seasons on ABC (1998-2000), 45 episodes, won 3 Emmys, and was canceled for low ratings.
Sportsnet
Sportsnet is Rogers' Canadian sports media brand, launched in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. It holds Canadian NHL national rights ($11 billion deal through 2037-38), Blue Jays broadcasts, and the Sportsnet+ streaming service.
SporTV
SporTV (sportv) is Grupo Globo's Brazilian pay-TV sports channel, launched as Top Sport in November 1991 and renamed SporTV in the mid-1990s. It leads Brazilian pay-TV sports audiences, runs channels SporTV through SporTV 5 plus 4K, and carries Brasileirão, Copa do Brasil and national team football.