I dunno if this isn’t gory enough for you, but Robocop is usually brought up when gore in movies is mentioned.
Howyadoin,
Troma’s classic Blood Sucking Freaks would top my list…
-Rav
Most of Fulci’s zombie movies are pretty disgusting.
url=http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081186/]Mother’s Day was pretty brutal.
Sorry, that should be Mother’s Day.
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/
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/
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.
I nominate a film called 555.
I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I have to ask what this means:
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?
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.)
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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.
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.
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.
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
Don’t forget Scanners, the ending is particularly gory, especially if you have a thing about eyes.
oh! Blood Diner! that’s ultra-gory!
also, The Wizard of Gore - directed by Herschel Gordon Lewis
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?
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.
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.
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.