# 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
**Category:** Cafe Society
**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:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/21 "2003-12-30T03:54:42Z")
I dunno if this isn’t gory enough for you, but **Robocop** is usually brought up when gore in movies is mentioned.
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### Author:  [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/22 "2003-12-30T05:40:49Z")
Howyadoin,
Troma’s classic _Blood Sucking Freaks_ would top my list…
-Rav
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/23 "2003-12-30T05:51:14Z")
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> \*Originally posted by mrunlucky \*
> \*\*Fulci’s **Zombie** , AKA Zombie 2, AKA Zombie Flesh Eaters. \*\*
Most of Fulci’s zombie movies are pretty disgusting.
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### Author:  [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/24 "2003-12-30T05:59:07Z")
url=http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081186/]Mother’s Day was pretty brutal.
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### Author:  [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/25 "2003-12-30T06:00:39Z")
Sorry, that should be [Mother’s Day](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081186/).
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/26 "2003-12-30T06:18:38Z")
Wow from what you folks are talking about, what I was going to suggest might be “mainstream” in comparison.
**Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974)** [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071650/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071650/)
I’ve never seen it but you can read about it on IMDB. (The title should give you an idea it will be a Nazi gore-fest).
**The Flesh Eaters (1964)** [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058101/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058101/)
This is interesting if for no other reason than the fact that this “splatter film” was made WAY back when. I have only seen a censored version on UHF TV many years ago. Still, I’d say it scores high on the “Gore-Meter™”. Basically, the flesh-eaters are micro-organisms (rather than cannibals or large animals) and this makes it very gory. Flesh has a tendency to dissolve away, etc.
The “star” of this film is Martin Kosleck who _always_ played the archetypal Nazi in MANY films. (Okay he is NOT a Nazi in this film but instead he plays an American-born scientist whose parents were German. He gets sent to Post World War 2 Germany to study any valuable scientific secrets the Nazis may have discovered but he keeps _this_ one to himself).
Hey, let’s face it - this film _almost_ has a star in it AND that plot does make it somewhat interesting.
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/27 "2003-12-30T06:39:39Z")
I nominate a film called [555](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103600/).
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### Author:  [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/28 "2003-12-30T07:33:12Z")
I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I have to ask what this means:
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> \*Originally posted by John Mullets \*
> \*\*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. \*\*
Apparently I’m not very well-versed in splatter films, because I too was going to recommend Braindead/Dead Alive. How does it not meet the criteria? Are you claiming it’s not gory enough or not trashy enough?
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### Author:  [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/29 "2003-12-30T08:12:48Z")
[House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/) or [Strangeland (1998)](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0124102/)
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/30 "2003-12-30T09:14:05Z")
The actual gore may be considered tame by todays standards. But the purity and beauty of the sadism in this classic gore-flick has seldom been matched. It’s especially dear to my heart as a Northerner who transplanted himself to the South.
(read North and South as U.S.)
**[2,000 Maniacs](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058694/)**
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/31 "2003-12-30T09:17:34Z")
Second only to Dead Alive in the buckets o’ blood department is (IMO) _Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn_.
Other movies to check out would be _The Thing_ (John Carpenter version) and a couple of Japanese movies whose names escape me. One is about a guy that wears a samurai helmet and dismembers a teen girl over the course of the movie (might be Guinea Pig mentioned above), the other has a youngish guy dismembering himself in his own apartment. _Battle Royale_ gets an honorable mention.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/32 "2003-12-30T10:37:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \*
> \*\*Apparently I’m not very well-versed in splatter films, because I too was going to recommend Braindead/Dead Alive. How does it not meet the criteria? Are you claiming it’s not gory enough or not trashy enough? \*\*
I’m not claiming Braindead is a high-art, family-friendly flick, just that it simply seems to be a common choice for goriest film ever. I believe it only holds the title for most blood used and most blood in one scene. In terms of goriest flicks ever, it is way down the list.
This amount of responses really suprised me, so thanks for all the responses. I’m really going to have to save up my dosh for some of these films.
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/33 "2003-12-30T13:01:49Z")
**Ichi The Killer**. No question about it. No point anyone even suggesting an alternative. Seriously, by the far the most gruesomely violent and wildly entertaining gangster/horror movie ever. Just make sure the version you get is 128 minutes long and not one of the edited versions.
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/34 "2003-12-30T13:04:46Z")
Forgot to mention that **Audition, Gozu and Visitor Q** by the same director are not continuously gory and/or violent but all have a few sequences which may have you running to the bathroom
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### Author:  [@PsychoTrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsychoTrain)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/35 "2003-12-30T13:42:56Z")
Don’t forget Scanners, the ending is particularly gory, especially if you have a thing about eyes.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/36 "2003-12-30T14:48:33Z")
oh! Blood Diner! that’s ultra-gory!
also, The Wizard of Gore - directed by Herschel Gordon Lewis
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/37 "2003-12-30T15:35:29Z")
What, nobody’s mentioned The Many Faces of Death? It’s so bad it doesn’t get a mention on IMDB-- although TMFoD parts 2, 4, 5,6 and 8 do. I wonder what’s wrong with parts 1, 3 and 7?
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### Author:  [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/38 "2003-12-30T15:51:36Z")
**John Mullets** I can send you a copy of ‘Deadline’ if you like. _free of charge, lest anyone should think the Dutch are frugal 😃_
I’ll mail you.
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/39 "2003-12-30T16:36:23Z")
Trivia: The Story of Ricky used to be the background clip for “5 Questions” back when Kilborn hosted The Daily Show.
I’ll nominate Starship Troopers, and to a certain extent, Black Hawk Down.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/40 "2003-12-30T16:52:02Z")
I’ll second **Cannibal Holocaust** on the grounds that quite a lot of the blood and guts you’ll see in the movie are real. Well, not the _human_ blood and guts, but there’s some graphic film in there of animals being killed and butchered, and it’s not fake. The turtle-butchering scene comes immediately to mind; pretty darn gross.
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