Splatter/Gore flick picks, these are the movies with a noteworthy amount of gore and/or have some badass gore scenes.
by joseangeles@muchomail.com
Aftermath: Chas Balun got pissed off at this movie cause he said it was just "gore for gore sakes" but the director of this little arthouse flick contends this movie shouldn't be considered a "gore" movie to begin with. I agree kinda, cause the "gore" is basically just the kinda stuff you'd see in a surgery on Discovery Channel. It's in a medical context and doesn't have any violence attached to it. But it's still worth mentioning here because it's a film that appeals to all the gore freaks and nobody else. Basically the movie is about mundane work driving someone to necrophillia to live vicariously. The guy is seen jamming a knife up some corpse's twat, jerks off to the guts, and at one point gets on top of it and humps the shit out of the dead woman.. It has no dialogue and is a short film. Very pristine and stylish look and feel, I like the classy music too. The main theme of the movie I think was just that some people who appear normal and have a job could be sick sons of bitches. Also it was about how your body could go through weird things beyond life, so hopefully when you're dead, you're "dead", nothing more and nothing less.
Bad Taste: Peter Jackson's first movie. I wish the guy did more horror comedies like this instead of Lord of The Rings. This is a splatter masterpiece. Blood squirting, barf, brains, guts, guns, stabs, a chainsaw, chopped up people, aliens, fights, explosions... it has eveything! It's a basic to all gore collections, can't have one without it.
The Story of Ricky: Best kung-fu film as far as I'm concerned, ironically there isn't even any fancy kung-fu. Simple fights that result in ridiculous gore mayhem. I like the part where the fatass gets punched in the gut and his intestines pop out. So much comical gore in one movie, believe the hype!
Beyond the Darknes: A pretty sick Italian movie about some guy that keeps his wife's corpse in his house after she dies. There's some dissections, a woman getting butchered to pieces and then her pieces being thrown into a bathub filled with acid, a woman's fingernails getting ripped off, eyeballs leaving the socket...go see it, Goblin's music is an added bonus.
Day of the Dead: The goriest of Romero's zombie movies. So much gore near the end where a huge diverse group of zombies (there's a clown zombie and a football zombie!) just rip the shit out of anyone they could get their hands on. A liberal amount of guts too. They used rela animal guts according to the documentary extra, so this stuff looks real. Most impressive gore I've ever seen. The best work Tom Savini has ever done in his career.
Dead Alive aka Braindead: This is it folks. The one movie all gore movies are compared to. It's a well-written romantic-slapstick-dark-comedy and has the most on screen gore EVER. We see guts, body parts, ripped flesh, organs, and blood splatter everywhere. The lawnmower scene, where our hero literally mows down zombies with a lawnmower, is the greatest moment in the history of cinema. There are other noteworthy moments too like where one woman's head is ripped open by a zombie baby, a kung-fu priest in a bloody fight with punk zombies at a cemetery, and the one fat dude chopping and hacking at zombies coming at him like crazy! Both the quality and quantity of gore are amazing. Some people will bitch about how the gore is too cartoonish, well these movies aren't meant to be taken seriously, if you wanna see realistic gore, go watch a stomach surgery on TLC, man I can't stand morbid losers that don't have a sense of humor and are only satisfied with "realistic" gore.
The Deadly Spawn: Fuck yeah! Aliens with a shitload of teeth and all they do is multuply and munch on people...that's about it. There's one hilarious part where a woman's face is bitten off. An 80's cheese-gore classic.
Zombie Doom: The movie is shot-on-video, German with atrocious English dubbing, and has something to do with an island with people doing weird shit. I forget what exactly, but who cares? What ensues in about the second half of the movie is heaps of non-stop cheeserific gore. Holy shit, there's a bunch of ninjas and explosions! One guy gets his spinal cord pulled right from his ass (you read that right) and one guy holds a sword then a ninja dives right through it, his whole body then slices in half, you see everything. There's a lot more, you just have to see it for yourself. There's hardly any zombies in the movie though so don't expect a big invasion like in Day of the Dead.
Naked Blood: A drug that some kid slips into an experiment turns pain into pleasure and some chicks unwittingly take it. Guess what happens? If you said extreme sick gore, you got that right. The movie has legit merit though. It makes a statement about how indulgences and pleasures can be your downfall. That message speaks truth, especially for gluttons. I guess that's why the most gruseome death in the movie was with the chick obsessed with food. At one point of the movie she dips her hand in tempura batter, deepfries it, then bites her fingers off. Later she eats herself with a knife and fork literally. You'll see her cut off her own vaginal lips and nipples then munch on them like they were gummi worms. Then there's the part where she jams a fork right into her eye, rips the eye from its socket, then eats it. There were other deaths (like the girl who pierced herself to death, she represented the sin of vanity), but that gluttony one was the nastiest and bloodiest highlight. Although the story is fairly simple, the movie ends with what seems like a scene that came out of nowhere and wasn't expected at all. I had no idea what went on. All I know is, for the most part, Naked Blood was a solid movie with gratuitous gore and a sense of folk wisdom, it's worth checking out if you wanna see a ridiculously gory movie put effort into being something profound. I loved it.
Nightmare City: You got radiation infected people running around with knives and other weapons killing people. It's like a zombie invasion but with Olympic runners trained to kill. The best part of the movie was when these radiation people storm into a television studio where there's some aerobics program running. I was filled with joy when they slaughtered all those spandex wearing lameasses. When one radation dude was hacking off some aerobic woman's boob, I knew right then and there that this was one of the most important movies in my life. That was only around the beginning too! So much more non-stop splatter action madness ensued right to the very end. I remember a bunch of people's heads being blasted and gushing blood, greatness.
Demons: This one had an interesting concept. Some movie people are watching in a theater becomes reality. Everyone was then locked in the theater with Demons chasing them. People were able to turn into demosn too if bitten. Basically this played out like a zombie movie, only the Demons run faster and look more vicious. Some great gore scenes. No guts but a good amount of flesh being ripped and blood splattering.
Gore Gore Girls: My favorite HG Lewis film. The man has tons of movies but this one is where he combines humor with ridiculous, primative, silly gore. Funniest part is where one stripper has her ass hammered with a meat tenderizer into a bloody pulp (although it's so obvious they just put some red mushy stuff on her ass). I think one chick's boob got cut and shot milk and another's head got shoved into boiling oil. This is schlock, remarkable schlock, name of the movie sums up this thing. As for the story, something about a detective trying to find out who is killing all these strippers.
Men Behind the Sun: A guy shits out his guts in some air pressure room, a woman's skin is frozen then ripped off to reveal skeleton, some kid gets dissected, a cat is thrown into a sea of rats and eaten alive...it was for real..ouch, I don't really like when films have to throw away a life that easily just for the sake of a movie rather than food, I'm not a Vegan hippie either, anyways, people should stop fighting this movie, sure it sucks, but it's not going to bring the cat back to life, it's history, just enjoy the movie for what it is; a well done drama documenting the horrors that Chinese and Russians went through at the hand of Japan's science experiments during WWII. There's other sick shit too but the main point of the movie is how people can dehumanize others and how you should fight injustice even if you're in the minoritiy. The Japanese called the Chinese and Russians, "Maruta", which transaltes to simply "material", material to experiment on. Interesting film that indeed has the gore, but the gore is used to illustrate the story, not just to be gratuitous mindlessness to please some braindead gore junkie.
Night of the Demon: No, not "Night of the Demons" with an S or the old black and white Night of the Demon. This is the Night of the Demon with bigfoot killing some college assholes trying to research some place where there happens to be some demon cult and a girl raped by bigfoot who has an abusive Christian father. Total trash cinema! Get this on DVD off ebay for a couple bucks (with the same DVD cover pictured above), that version is UNCUT! Key highlights of the movie are Bigfoot throwing a guy on a chainsaw then ripping his guts out from the cut it leaves on the guy's belly and then twirling the guts around; bigfoot ripping a biker's dick off when he tries to take a piss in the bushes; Bigfoot spinning some guy in a sleeping bag then throwing him on a really sharp tree branch that impales him, there's a couple more, go watch it yourself you lamewads.
The Beyond: Little girl's head blasted by a gun, guy's face eaten by plastic spiders, chemicals melting some corpse, blind woman's throat ripped by a dog, which results in her neck pouring cranberry juice by the liters, eyeballs being popped, and some other stuff. Fulci's best and goriest! Story is a bit talky at parts, but if you could sit through the movie, appreciate Fulci's atmospheres, and keep note of the gore scenes, you'll enjoy it for what it is.
Organ: Yeah there's gore, an above average amount. Not as disturbing as everyone says though. Story was kinda slow and hard to follow, something about a black market organ trade, cops, the mafia, and science experiments (hence there being mutated gore on some people). Whatever, all I know is I saw some bizzare shit. The best part in the movie is where some chick is looking at some guy's weird mutations or whatever on his stomach and then they start fucking a couple seconds later.
Premutos: I didn't really care much for the story, too riddled in trivial details not worth giving a damn about. There's like a near 30 minutes zombie battle at the end I watch whenever I want to give my brain a rest and see some mindless non-stop action. It's ridiculous how much gore there is. You got guys and gals with chainsaws, guns, and knives, etc. fighting off hordes of zombies that keep coming to rip them apart (some zombies suceed at that). Guts and blood galore. A couple head explosions too. This is almost as gory as Peter Jackson's Braindead!
Redneck Zombies: Not just b-grade, Z-Grade! Tons of guts and people getting ripped and eaten by zombies. This movie is terrible though on so many levels! Goddamn it's a beautiful retarded 80's gorefest mess! Redneck zombies, what a concept.
Bone Sickness: This movie plays like a Showtime softcore porno and has that digital camera movie look. I was able to sit through it and follow the silly soap opera drama thing (depends on your threshold for talky parts and bad acting). The gore is here though. Lots of blood and guts in a battle with zombies near the end. I think this is the goriest movie in recent years. There was something about demons being thrown into the story that was lame and made me cringe. You gotta love the use of Jell-O for some gore sequences and how dry corpses spray blood like a garden hose though!
Zombie Cult Massacre: Cheap shot on video movie about a religious cult and zombies, bah whatever, kinda retarded with bad acting, anyways it does deliver the gore, cheap schlocky gore (one scene has some chick with huge boobs get her spone looking boobs ripped). The dude from Deadbeat At Dawn did the special effects. Deadbeat at Dawn is a far superior movie of coure and is actually one of my favorites. This one was all right but if you take out the gore, this movie would be completely worthless and have no appeal (that's true with a lot of movies really, but especially with this one).