# Please assist me in my search for the goriest films ever
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589
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**Created:** [December 29, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589 "2003-12-29T15:32:34Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/1 "2003-12-29T15:32:34Z")
Okay, so I recently saw a film called “The Story of Ricky” with my friend, which is currently the goriest film either of us had ever seen.
What I’m looking for is reccomendations for the out-and-out goriest films you people have ever seen. Please go for non-stop gore, not just a film with one very nasty scene.
Also, don’t nominate the usual choices those not very well-versed in splatter films would choose (Braindead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, etc. None of which are very gory), I’m looking for horror/splatter fans who can nominate me some extremely gory trash. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/2 "2003-12-29T15:37:20Z")
“Dead Alive,” directed by Peter Jackson, goes at the top of my list. There’s one particularly memorable scene with zombies and a lawnmower. It’s hard to believe that the same guy did this and “Lord of the Rings.”
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### Author:  [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/3 "2003-12-29T15:51:43Z")
Isn’t that “Braindead”? Maybe they translated the title inot another english title… they do that sometimes here… “Next of Kin” became “Dirty Fighting”. Ayway…
That and Bad Taste, also by Jackson, are very gory but they are both comedies. If you want gory/sick/horrible I would say that the two that come to mind are “Cannibal Holocaust” and “Men Behind The Sun”. Not so much buckets-of-blood but horrible disgusting effects (both have been accused of being ‘snuff’ movies). Cannibal Holocaust is a faked documentary set in the amazon forest, Men Behind the Sun takes place in a Japanese war camp in China.
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### Author:  [@HeatMiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeatMiser)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/4 "2003-12-29T15:57:29Z")
_Dead-Alive_ and _Braindead_ are indeed the same movie.
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) \<— note the disparity between the title of the page and the title on the box art picture.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/5 "2003-12-29T16:12:02Z")
MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY
some of the MONDO CANE videos are kinda disturbing if not particularly gory
what’s the name of the Japanese film- THE DEVIL’S EXPERIMENT (?) that shows a woman being slowly torture-killed? Charlie Sheen supposedly saw it & called the FBI (it was all just special effects tho)
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### Author:  [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/6 "2003-12-29T17:10:50Z")
**Guinea Pig:Flower of Flesh and Blood** is the movie that made Charlie call the FBI. Nothing but about an hour of very realistic torture of a woman. Sick, sick, sick (though I’ve only seen part of it).
There’s actually a whole series of Guinea Pig movies though, but I haven’t seen any others.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/7 "2003-12-29T17:50:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by HeatMiser \*
> \*\*_Dead-Alive_ and _Braindead_ are indeed the same movie.
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> [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) \<— note the disparity between the title of the page and the title on the box art picture. \*\*
Yes, but bear in mind that there’s a movie called **Brain Dead** , which probably isn’t nearly as gory as **Dead-Alive** :
[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0099173/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0099173/)
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### Author:  [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/8 "2003-12-29T19:57:52Z")
This probably isn’t as gory as the ones you guys are referring to, but House of 1000 Corpses was pretty gory. I thought it was VERY gory, actually.
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### Author:  [@Thorongil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thorongil)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/9 "2003-12-29T20:08:30Z")
**Day of the Dead**
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### Author:  [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/10 "2003-12-29T20:15:37Z")
Texas Chainsaw Massacre the new one 🙂
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### Author:  [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/11 "2003-12-29T20:29:43Z")
‘ **Deadline** ’ A short [27 min.?] Dutch movie. Very gruesome.
> **[Deadline (Short 2002) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287979/)**
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> Deadline: Directed by Jonathan Kray. With Cas Jansen, Anjali Taneja, Willem Weemhoff, Dorus van der Meer. TV news crew, looking for a 'scoop', discover a trashed office space, with only one survivor to tell them what happened. But are they alone...
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### Author:  [@raizok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raizok)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/12 "2003-12-29T21:54:09Z")
Heh soon as I saw the thread title I was about to post “Ricky-Oh The Story of Ricky” oh well.
I second **Dead Alive** for the gore level but I dont think its that great of a film.
A pretty gruesome movie would be **Ichi The Killer** which has just been released on DVD. Its about this mentally-ill guy who’s being exploited to kill people. Its in Japanese, excessively gory and there’s some serious state of the art visual fx in it. Reccomended.
Obviously you should see **Kill Bill** if you haven’t already.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/13 "2003-12-29T22:21:00Z")
[Pieces](http://imdb.com/title/tt0082748/)
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/14 "2003-12-29T22:26:19Z")
Not to mention Peter Jacksons first foray into movie make…[Bad Taste](http://imdb.com/title/tt0092610/)
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### Author:  [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/15 "2003-12-30T01:33:21Z")
Thanks for these films. Keep them coming.
For the record, yes, I’ve seen both Bad Taste (not gory enough, actually it’s quite tame) and Braindead (aka. Dead-Alive). Braindead had the title change because of the movie Brain Dead which dantheman brought up. I am searching for Itchi the Killer, but I’m trying to avoid paying an arm and a leg because it might be rubbish.
Pieces sounds awesomely offensive but more of a slasher than a buckets of blood flick, but it’ll warrent a check-out.
I have not seen Guinea Pig but it’d be interesting just for how good the special effects would have to be to fool someone (I’m into special effects).
Deadline looks to require all my snooping skills to attain a copy of.
I’ve heard of Cannibal whatchamacallit and Men Behind the Sun and I will have to see it, if just to better understand the history of trash and see some euro-horror.
And before anyone requests it, please don’t reccomend that piece of shit, Violent Shit. Even a gorehound has standards.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/16 "2003-12-30T01:37:50Z")
You know, Netflix has **Itchi the Killer** … I wonder if they have other ones you want. Of course, they’re in the business of _renting_, not selling.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/17 "2003-12-30T02:05:40Z")
Stephen King’s _Pet Sematary_. I will never, ever watch that again. Not only is it gory, but it’s very morbid and it scared the living shit out of me!
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### Author:  [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/18 "2003-12-30T02:06:16Z")
[Cutting Moments](http://www.glasseyepix.com/html/buck.html) is a disgusting short film by Douglas Buck.
Deodato’s **Cannibal Holocaust** , and Lenzi’s **Cannibal Ferox**.
Fulci’s **Zombie** , AKA Zombie 2, AKA Zombie Flesh Eaters.
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### Author:  [@Headcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headcoat)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/19 "2003-12-30T03:21:27Z")
The answer is [Salò](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
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### Author:  [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/20 "2003-12-30T03:27:25Z")
> [@](#):
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> The answer is Salò
That’s what I was going to say!
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