# 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:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/41 "2003-12-30T18:12:43Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \*
> \*\*Trivia: The Story of Ricky used to be the background clip for “5 Questions” back when Kilborn hosted The Daily Show.
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Is _that_ where that clip’s from? I remember exactly which one you’re talking about. Always wondered if that was a real clip or not.
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### Author:  [@that.sound.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that.sound.again)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/42 "2003-12-30T20:37:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \*
> \*\*[…] 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. \*\*
Would those be [Tetsuo: The Iron Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/) and [Tetsuo II: Body Hammer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105569/)?
Haven’t seen the sequel myself but _Tetsuo_ certainly sounds like the second one you mention. Except the term ‘dismembering’ isn’t quite accurate; he has this obsession with stuffing metal into his own body and gradually becomes more and more of a machine. It’s a grainy 8 mm B/W film with special fx ranging from brilliant to crappy if I remember correctly.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/43 "2003-12-30T20:49:10Z")
House of 1,000 Corpses is the only movie that’s ever made me go, “Now that was FUCKED UP.” How I love thee, Rob Zombie. Not a lot of gore, but MESSED UP nonetheless. I’m still on my search for the full version (not the 88 minute scrap that was left from taking it from X - NC-17 - R).
`Course, I don’t watch a lot of gorey movies.
Allow me to ask my roomie:
Final Destination 2 has some wonderful death scenes. VERY vivid.
Seven in terms of “that shit could actually hapen.”
Yeeeah. We’re not well-versed in the ways of gore. But FD2 WAS fun.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/44 "2003-12-30T23:14:27Z")
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> \*Originally posted by bienville \*
> \*\*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.
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> **[2,000 Maniacs](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058694/)**
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That’s the second movie of Herschel Gordon Lewis’s [Blood Trilogy](http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews/bloodtrilogy.html)
A must for any gore hound.
For gore humor…let’s not forget [Redneck Zombies](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093833/)
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### Author:  [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/45 "2003-12-30T23:33:03Z")
I have not seen any of these, but from what I have read the [_Violent Shit_ trilogy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773593/) is about as bad as it gets. Oh those wacky Germans.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/46 "2003-12-31T00:46:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by gum \*
> \*\ ***John Mullets** I can send you a copy of ‘Deadline’ if you like. _free of charge, lest anyone should think the Dutch are frugal 😃_
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> I’ll mail you. \*\*
Wow, thank you very much for the offer, but I’m not sure if I would feel right taking it for free. I’ll E-mail you.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/47 "2003-12-31T00:58:55Z")
Faces of Death Volumes 1-2
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/48 "2003-12-31T04:43:47Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned _Caligula_ yet. Or is that just really violent sex without much blood?
(I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know)
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### Author:  [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-assist-me-in-my-search-for-the-goriest-films-ever/221589/49 "2003-12-31T09:26:32Z")
Did anyone suggest **Nekromantic** yet? Also, **Evil Dead Trap** , **Deadbeat at Dawn** and **Body Melt**.
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