# What are the GORIEST horror movies, so far?
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**Created:** [February 11, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738 "2004-02-11T23:18:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/1 "2004-02-11T23:18:11Z")
Forget suspense for the moment. Forget nameless horrors that actually go unseen. Forget taut, edge of your seat thrills…we’re talking about pure blood’n’guts.
My picks?
•Day of the Dead. ('Natch.)
'Natch. Mostly because of the …final scenes at the end, with the horde of zombie feasting upon several hapless (living) humans. On screen. These zombies weren’t just munching on arms…they were tearing open abdomens, and ripping off still-screaming human heads. 🆒
•Dead Alive.
Peter Jackson’s zombie movie. Fun movie. …with so much blood shed in just one scene, that a character starts _slipping_ in it.
So…anyone else care to take a stab at this topic? Don’t leave me hanging.
Ranchoth
(I’m such a cut-up.)
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### Author:  [@ThatGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuy)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/2 "2004-02-11T23:24:53Z")
I second “Day of the Dead”…i was quite suprised by the mentioned scene. Especially since the previous installment “Dawn of the Dead” ,while a wonderfull zombie flick, was somewhat lacking on gore (the zombies just looked like humans covered in sickly green makeup!).
As far as mainstream movies I offer “Evil Dead”.
Also i’m told by a friend that a basically unknown movie “Gates of Hell” is the gorriest thing he had seen.
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### Author:  [@Clear\_Air\_Turbulence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clear_Air_Turbulence)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/3 "2004-02-11T23:49:49Z")
Though not exactly horror, ‘Ichi the Killer’ is one of the goriest movies I have ever seen. It also has plenty of violence that is disturbing in it’s brutality, if not exactly gory. It’s also pretty damn funny.
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### Author:  [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/4 "2004-02-11T23:53:01Z")
[Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165870/)
Although it was distributed by _Troma_, so I don’t know if this movie counts…
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### Author:  [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/5 "2004-02-12T00:33:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> _From Ranchoth:_
> •Dead Alive.
> Peter Jackson’s zombie movie. Fun movie.
A couple years ago they did a stage show of Dead Alive (aka Braindead) in Wellington. The first few seats were labelled as potential splash zones. I was completely gutted (sorry for the pun) when I missed the run. ☹
The remake of House on Haunted Hill is probably the goriest I’ve seen for a while.
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### Author:  [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/6 "2004-02-12T00:42:03Z")
Your friend was right, **ThatGuy** , [_The Gates of Hell_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0081318/) is pretty gory. I own it on DVD. It’s been mentioned several times here on the SDMB. In once scene, a character literally pukes her guts out. It was one of the only things I ever saw on film that actually made me gag (although I _was_ only ten at the time). It’s on sale now at Amazon under the title _City of the Living Dead_. Pretty much anything by that [director](http://imdb.com/name/nm0002086/) is going to be pretty nasty. [_Zombie_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305840024/qid=1076546088/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-9924303-9859333?v=glance&s=dvd) is another favorite of mine. Watch out for that splintered wood!
In threads of this sort, Peter Jackson’s [_Braindead_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) (released in the states as _Dead Alive_) always gets mentioned, especially concerning the climax involving a lawnmower. For me, though, the grossest thing in that movie was toward the beginning when Lionel’s newly zombified mother has a boil that bursts and the bloody pus it emits lands in another person’s soup, from which that person then eats a spoonful. The lawnmower climax is so over-the-top that it can’t be taken seriously as gore, at least by me.
There’s a scene toward the end of the David Cronenberg film [_The Brood_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0078908/) that I won’t even attempt to describe, but I will say that I think it actually rivals the gut-puking scene in _City of the Living Dead_. [David Cronenberg](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000343/) is another director whose movies are frequently very gory.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/7 "2004-02-12T01:36:53Z")
I hear the Japanese _Ginnipiggu_ (Guinea Pig) series of movies are disgustingly gory. The story is that one was so bad that Charlie Sheen had been watching it and he called the FBI, because he thought it was a real-life snuff film.
But I don’t like gore, so I’ve never seen them.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/8 "2004-02-12T04:43:35Z")
One of the worst I have seen myself is _From Dusk til Dawn._
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### Author:  [@raizok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raizok)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/9 "2004-02-12T05:54:03Z")
> [@Clear Air Turbulence](#):
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> Though not exactly horror, ‘Ichi the Killer’ is one of the goriest movies I have ever seen. It also has plenty of violence that is disturbing in it’s brutality, if not exactly gory. It’s also pretty damn funny.
I’ll second this one, and I’ve seen PLENTY of gory films in my day. Cannibal Holocast looks like after-school special compared to Ichi the Killer.
Its pretty damn brutal. I still get shudders thinking of the “nipples” scene.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/10 "2004-02-12T06:05:33Z")
The first two **Evil Dead** movies fit the bill quite nicely.
Though in the 2nd it gets a bit over the top with the sheer amount of colored blood. I really didn’t know the human body contained ten gallons of blood.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/11 "2004-02-12T12:22:18Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#):
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> I hear the Japanese _Ginnipiggu_ (Guinea Pig) series of movies are disgustingly gory. The story is that one was so bad that Charlie Sheen had been watching it and he called the FBI, because he thought it was a real-life snuff film.
I’ve seen them, and they are definitely among the goriest I’ve ever seen. The first one, _Flower of Flesh and Blood_ (probably the one Sheen saw), was done seriously, and was meant to look like an actual snuff film. A woman is kidnapped, drugged, and
slowly disembowelled as each of her limbs is sawed and pulled off, piece by piece
Only one person dies in the film, but it’s the entire hour-long film.
The subsequent Guinea Pig movies are even bloodier, but it’s played for laughs. In one, a hopeless mook of a salesman decides to commit suicide, only to discover that he cant die. He spends the entire movie hacking, slicing, chopping, stabbing and breaking himself until by the end of the film he’s just a head sitting on the table wondering how he’s going to get to work.
Another one that’s up there is _Cannibal Holocaust_, about a group of documentary makers who go into the Amazon to film a mythical cannibal tribe. The group vanishes without a trace, but their film is found several years later (sound familiar?). According to the IMDb, it was so realistic that the director ended up having to prove in court (in Italy) that the human death scenes were faked (the animal death scenes, AFAIK, are real). Very gruesome.
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/12 "2004-02-12T15:16:34Z")
I don’t know - it may be tame by today’s standards, but I thought David Cronenberg’s remake of _The Fly_ was incredibly stomach-turning (and I mean that in a good way!). I’m not that squeamish, but there were several scenes where I had to cover my eyes for a second!
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### Author:  [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/13 "2004-02-12T15:21:15Z")
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned **Kill Bill** yet.
The entire sequence at the House of the Blue Leaves is one of the goriest things I’ve ever seen.
Didn’t stop a few of my fellow moviegoers from bringing their children, however. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/14 "2004-02-12T16:01:29Z")
I saw a 1980s horror comedy BLOOD DINER that I think was a parody remake of a
1960s HG Lewis film. Damn fine gore!
Also, while not unremittingly gory, REANIMATOR and BRIDE OF both have some excellent money shots. Cue line for each one “Stand back, Dan- OVERDOSE!!!” and “Make a note of it, Dan- TISSUE REJECTION!”
Ah, Jeffrey Combs!
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### Author:  [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/15 "2004-02-12T16:43:31Z")
I’ll third **Gates of Hell** ; I saw it when I was thirteen or so, and spent about a week resisting the gag reflex, based on the puking scene and the drill scene.
I’ll also agree with Midnight Radio regarding Dead Alive; I think I was expecting more; the grand finale didn’t do much for me.
And I’ll second **Zombie** as well, for the shower scene. Ouch!
On review, I guess I agree with everything MidnightRadio said.
I can’t comment on **Guinea Pig** and **Ichi the Killer** , but I know people who’ve seen both and I’m pretty certain I won’t be subjecting myself to them.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/16 "2004-02-12T16:54:17Z")
[Xtro](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086610/combined).
Particularly for the “birth” scene. Ew.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/17 "2004-02-12T17:07:04Z")
I know it’s not considered a classic or anything, but I’m very fond of the _Jason X_ frozen head bit. And pretty much anything Troma ever produced. I enjoy the splatter.
Sometimes it’s the less gory things that really make me cringe, though. The broken leg in the dumwaiter in _H20_ gets me every time, as does the boiling pot of corn in _Sleepaway Camp_.
But I think my all-time favorite gore is the first ten minutes of _Ghost Ship_. I went to see it on a lark, just for something to do, and that two minutes of flopping limbs was entirely worth the price.
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### Author:  [@pcarney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pcarney)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/18 "2004-02-12T18:52:47Z")
Ravenous, a smaller film made a few years ago with Guy Pierce, was pretty gory. It was also alot of fun- about a bunch of stranded soldiers just after the Civil War who realize that if they eat each other, they get more powerful.
I saw a German zombie movie that was pretty damn gory and disturbing. I say a good half hour of the movie was closeups of German zombies eating people. They went into so much detail I wonder if it was some sort of strange erotic thing for them. (and no, I wasn’t turned on, that much).
Perhaps the most disturbing scene I’ve ever…err…seen, was in a low budget film a friend of mine was working on. At one point a lesbian vampire goes down on a lesbian nun -yes, that’s right-, and begins to literally eat her. They used roast beef with ketchup, I think. I sat there watching this thing with the director of the film. After, I didn’t know whether to puke on him or take him outside and give him the beating he deserved.
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### Author:  [@pcarney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pcarney)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/19 "2004-02-12T18:58:57Z")
Ravenous was pretty gory, and very amusing. It involved stranded soldiers (around the time of the Civil War) who found out that eating someone else gave you their strength. It was a good movie, actually, with Guy Pierce and that English guy from The Full Monty.
The most disgusting scene I’ve watched so far (and I’ve seen many of the movies mentioned above), was in a low budget horror movie which a friend worked on. In it, a lesbian vampire goes down on a lesbian nun (yes, that’s what I wrote). During they course of this, she starts literally eating her. I think they used roast beef and ketchup for it. And I know they hired hookers to act it out. The director was in the same room when I watched this mess. After, I didn’t know whether to walk over and puke on him, or pull him outside and giving him a richly deserved beating. I did neither, but I know he was amused because I kept laughing at his stupid, ugly little movie.
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-goriest-horror-movies-so-far/228738/20 "2004-02-12T19:19:01Z")
The goriest movie ever? Hard to say. Context means a lot—there are some sights in the Evil Dead films that should be stomach-churning, but they’re played for laughs, and if you can get on the movies’ wavelength it’s more fun than gross, kinda like what the Three Stooges would’ve been like if they’d had Tom Savini working for them.
Given that, the movies that struck me as the goriest were probably the [Nekromantik](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093608/combined) films. It takes more than blood and guts to get me queasy … like, for example, people getting intimate with putrefying flesh. Yep, I think that’ll about do it for me.
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