# Most gruesome murder in a horror movie?

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**Created:** [September 18, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gruesome-murder-in-a-horror-movie/202327 "2003-09-18T06:33:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gruesome-murder-in-a-horror-movie/202327/41 "2003-09-20T10:14:32Z")

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The Japanese _Guinea Pig_ series of movies, particularly the first two, are exceptionally gruesome. The first one, _Flower of Flesh and Blood_, only has one death scene, but it’s 90% of the entire movie. A woman is kidnapped, given a drug to paralyze her and slow her heartbeat, and then methodically snipped, sawed and hacked into pieces for the next 45 minutes. It’s so realistically done that for a while it was believed to be an actual snuff film.

The later videos in the series are played more for laughs. The second film _The Man Who Couldn’t Die_, now that I think about it, shouldn’t even count, since nobody dies. A dejected loser decides to end it all, only to find that he just can’t die. He then spends the rest of the film ripping himself to shreds.

Also, the wheel of skin from _Jisatsu Saakuru (Suicide Circle)_ was more disturbing than many film deaths I’ve seen.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gruesome-murder-in-a-horror-movie/202327/42 "2003-09-20T13:48:15Z")

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Griffin Dunne getting chewed up by the werewolf in _An American Werewolf in London_ was pretty unnerving.

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**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gruesome-murder-in-a-horror-movie/202327/43 "2003-09-20T21:00:33Z")

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My grossest would be in some movie called The Surgeon, where a guy has his lips stitched together, and then a pump is stuck on him that pumps the blood out of his body and into a jug.

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**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gruesome-murder-in-a-horror-movie/202327/44 "2003-09-20T23:02:45Z")

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The first death in Cube.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gruesome-murder-in-a-horror-movie/202327/45 "2003-09-20T23:06:08Z")

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One that always stuck with me, from a film that I never caught the name of.

Young chap has chains tied to his wrists and ankles. The other end of both chains is tied to the back of a truck. There is a tree inbetween him and the truck. The driver floors it, the chains go taught, the victim’s spine is crushed against the tree until his arms and legs are ripped off.

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