Debate: Is gore really horror?

Yeah Cannibal Holocaust was one of the more memorable ones to be sure. Nastybutlerbob says it allwhen he says the forst time is the shocker and the secord and third viewings are where you can stomach it..
Another film to definitely turn your stomach is the Joe D'Amato classic Beyond The Darkness aka Buried Alive. The disemboweling scene, combined with the moistness of the organs, and the dull sound they made when thrown into the bucket gave me dry heaves for years to come. It was rumored that real corpses were used, but never proven, but you'd be hard to tell the difference...

🙁 i never got to see the ending of Cannibal Holocaust. i barely even saw the good parts 🙁

Irreversible is a new film, and is available at BestBuy, or many online retailers...I stand alone, is a bit more difficult to find, but I got mine at www.dvdplanet.com.

Keep in mind that neither of these are horror films, and hte gore scenes are very numerous or exagerated, they are very real and very very disturbing. Irreversible contains what I consider to be the most amazing rape scene in any movie, period.

Originally posted by h0ck3yh0rr0r
🙁 i never got to see the ending of Cannibal Holocaust. i barely even saw the good parts 🙁

Don't worry-after you see this film, you'll be familiar with parts of the body you never even knew you had.....

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Originally posted by HockeyFace
Ok I was wondering. Is gore really horror? Honestly gore isn't scary, it's disgusting. Also many horror movies can be scary without gore (ie: Halloween, Exorcist, etc.). Gore is ok in horror films, but sometimes it gets out of hand. What do you guys think? Please present a reasonable argument.

So it's a case of 'If the shoe fits'.

That would be the case, yeah

To Hockeyhorror and his statement about gore being funny-

I now believe that the saying "two great minds think alike" is absolutely true.

Gore is one of the things that "Makes or Breaks" a horror film.
Some horror films are notorious for there disturbing images and classy use of gore, but some films over do it, and the gore becomes more and more fake.

However, some films have very little, or no gore and are out standing films.

I.E - THE RING...(that would be the japanese original)

Originally posted by BackFire
Irreversible is a new film, and is available at BestBuy, or many online retailers...I stand alone, is a bit more difficult to find, but I got mine at www.dvdplanet.com.

Great! I have been looking for I Stand Alone. Thanks!

Irreversible is one of my favorite films. The rape scene is one of the most disturbing scenes I have seen.

Yes, there is another disturbing scene in I Stand Alone as well. I think you'll like it.

i have been looking for a good disturbing flict for a while now. i have yet to see a movie that i couldnt stomache. so if any of you could, list some more of these picks...

Gore is an offshoot of the horror genre, which discredits, serious and credible pyschological horror, . Gore films are dimwitted, unimaginative and usually end up being funny rather than scary.

The more gore there is, the less creepy the movie is. Not in all cases, but some. Exceptions: Hellraiser... what else...?

It seems like Gore in realistic movies tends to make it more disturbing. Does that make sense?

ok gore was meant to be overdone in a few movies like the Evil Dead series and also Canabli Holacaust and Hellraiser one. but Gore is just a classic part of slasher films not really horror that much i think.. Like Friday the 13th movies gore henc slasher movie. so i dont really put gore in the same catagory as horror. i like in TCm when they barely had gore and let ur imagination do the work. House of a thousand corpses was also very gory but really not scary at all but i dont catagorize that as horror either that is what i call a messed up movie

I just think that the entire point to horror films is to 'horrify' you.
Gore is horrific, so it works.

It doesn't work when it looks too over the top.

Well, there is flat out "campy" gore, like Dead Alive which is always mentioned.

I think Re-Animator sets a good precident for the amount of gore that should be in a horror movie to keep it somewhat credible.