Top Ten Gore Fests of the Decade.

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If there is one thing I've learned about the internet it's that people like: Pictures of cats doing people things, Videos of people who are in pain after doing something stupid and top ten lists.

So I've decided to compile a list of some of the best films that contain a massive amount of gore. Now a few of these films will hail from foreign countries, so if you haven't heard of them that's why.


10. Hostel - This is writer and director Eli Roth's love letter to gore. It's not exactly a great film, but seems like a pretty good starting point for this list.

9. District 9 - Now you maybe asking yourself; Why is District 9 on this list. Well if you've seen the film you might have a pretty good idea of just how much gore is in this film. I never knew that the human body had the same consistence as a water balloon.

8. Ichi the Killer - A film that has become a massive underground success and the primary inspiration for the number 10 spot. While it isn't a good film it's a fitting mediation on the violence and debauchery in film today.

7. Saw - Easily the best of the series and actually the only one I would watch a second time. I know it's not the goriest of the Saw films, but it's pretty much the one that cemented the Torture porn sub-genre. Also it's nice to see Danny Glover out side of Lethal Weapon.

6. Fronti?re(s) - From the director of the terrible Hitman adaptaions comes our first French film on the list...and actually the only one to hit the [NC-17] rating.

5. Audition - While technically made in 1999 it didn't get a real release until 2000. I love this one mostly for it dramatic shift from a romance film into really messed up over the course of the film.

4. Martyrs - Our 2nd French film of the list. To exemplify the content of this film I'll quote one of my friends: "You know how that Hostel film was fun to watch because it's kind of stupid...yeah...well this one it's...just down right depressing and disturbing."

3. Philosophy Of A Knife - This is the goriest film ever made and that is not a hyperbole. Coming in at 5 freakin hours, this film conducts graphic reenactments of torture throughout history...and that's the entire film. It's the only film on the list that I have not seen and have no desire to see.

2. Antichrist - A film coming from the self-proclaimed "Greatest Director EVAR!!!!" is pretty disturbing. It hits the number two spot for one scene in particular that for obvious reasons I will not share here.

1. Inside - Here we are, number one. Inside is pretty much as dark, bloody, and disturbing as one can get. I have a strong stomach for this crap and I still cringed on most of the stuff portrayed here.


Honorable Mention:

Braindead - Peter Jackson needs to come back to horror.


So yeah, that's my list. Feel free to comment on what I got right or wrong.
 
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Hm, I think Smokin' Aces deserves an honorable mention but then again it may be less bloody than I remember.
 
Hm, I think Smokin' Aces deserves an honorable mention but then again it may be less bloody than I remember.

Yeah, that one did have a good deal of gore...but there was just something about that one that left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe I was expecting way to much from that film.
 
Personally i think saving private ryan deserves an honorable mention as well

Well I added Braindead which came out in 1992 mostly because: A. I love that movie. B. I has enough gore for two decades.

Saving Private Ryan is a violent film, but it's not the type of violence that I was going for with this list. That and it came out in 1998
 
Great list but I do believe Cannibal Holocaust deserves a mention up there. Even tho I will never watch(have yet to finish) the movie. It was just over the top gore story.
 
What about a guy throwing a chainsaw onto someone... lol America Psycho wasn't too gory but a good horror with just enough.

I would put american psycho at least honorable mention as well, the guy christian bale played was truly deranged.
 
I'm so glad you have "Inside" and "Martyrs"! I like this list.. did you consider "The descent , 28 days later/weeks later,Dawn of the Dead, grindhouse?

And i agree with foxhound on american psycho^^
 
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Great list but I do believe Cannibal Holocaust deserves a mention up there. Even tho I will never watch(have yet to finish) the movie. It was just over the top gore story.

Yep, Cannibal Holocaust is indeed gory. Though yet again it is pretty much for films between 2000-2009. That and it's not exactly a good movie.


I'm so glad you have "Inside" and "Martyrs"! I like this list.. did you consider "The descent , 28 days later/weeks later,Dawn of the Dead, grindhouse?

And i agree with foxhound on american psycho^^

I did consider those, but I only had 10 spaces. Also I sort of ran out of time for a proper honorable mentions list which would have had like twenty more films.

On a side note, how can you have a gore list and not have Inside or Martyrs.
 
Guinea Pig films
Orozco The Embalmer
The Machine Girl
Tokyo Gore Police
Meatball Machine
Battle Royale
Suicide Club
 
Also I think philosophy of a knife should be the number one film on the list...
 
Guinea Pig films
Orozco The Embalmer
The Machine Girl
Tokyo Gore Police
Meatball Machine
Battle Royale
Suicide Club

An all around pretty good list there. I was think of putting up Suicide Club, but went for Saw instead.

Also I think philosophy of a knife should be the number one film on the list...

I was tempted to put that at number one.
 
It is made all the more disturbing when you realize everything in that movie really happened.

True, though like I said I haven't actually seen that one. I just added it for the films description and judging by what I saw in the directors earlier work Visions of Suffering...I would imagine the gore was pull off well.
 
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