The movie is an absolute piece of shit and one of my most hated films, but the gore effects by Tom Savini are legendary. Very, very bloody.
9. "The Evil Dead" (Sam Raimi, 1979)
I saw "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" before I saw this one, and I thought that was probably the goriest movie I'd seen at the time. I was extremely surprised at how incredibly violent and graphic this movie is - "Dead By Dawn" is certainly bloodier, but most of the violence in that film is off-screen; the opposite can be said for this movie. (By the way, the film was actually filmed in 1979 and released in 1981)
8. "Zombi 2" (Lucio Fulci, 1979)
This truly is one of the most laughably bad horror movies ever released, and some of the gore effects are extremely bad, but it is nevertheless as gruesome as you would ever expect. In the film's most notable and infamous scene, a woman is slowly pulled towards a huge sharp spike by a zombie and it graphically impales her eye.
7. "Cradle of Fear" (Alex Chandon, 2001)
The only reason I watched this movie is because it has Dani Filth in it, the lead singer of Cradle of Filth (one of my favourite bands). I was not expecting it to be this ridiculously violent. Clearly drew heavy influence from Peter Jackson's "Braindead". Notable scenes: a man's throat is ripped out; Dani Filth's character sticks the claws on his hands into the top of a guys head, rips his head apart, throws it on the ground and squishes it in to the ground; a woman notices there's something crawling around inside her so she grabs some scissors, stabs herself about ten times in the stomach before the creature rips through her flesh; Dani Filth's character guts a cat and swallows its organs.
6. "Cannibal Ferox" (Umberto Lenzi, 1981)
"Cannibal Ferox", while being both a complete rip-off of the masterpiece "Cannibal Holocaust" and being also nowhere near as disturbing as that film, is much, much more violent. In terms of sheer violence alone (excluding blood and guts), it could very well be the most violent ever made. A man is violently scalped, has his balls and penis cut off and eaten on screen, and a woman has both her breasts impaled with iron hooks and is then hung from them. Awful movie, but the gore effects are incredible.
5. "Hostel" and "Hostel Part II" (Eli Roth, 2005)
"Hostel" had so much potential to be a great film and it does succeed at some things; the build up of tension is superb, it's really quite terrifying and there's a real atmosphere - but the film just takes itself way, way, WAY too seriously and comes off extremely cruel and vile; just goes too far with the violence. Roth said the violence was crucial to the story, but how the fuck is showing a girl's eye being blowtorched and then cut off as orange pus oozes out crucial to the story? There are some great moments, and the revenge scenes are excellent, but the film is not much more than horny torture pornography for stoners.
"Hostel Part II" is equally as violent, even if the first film featured a bit more blood and guts. It's much better than the first film and focuses more on the characters than the graphic violence, although it's definitely there. Lorna's death scene is possibly the most graphic and sickening ever committed to film.
4. "Hatchet" (Adam Green, 2006)
"Hatchet", despite being incredibly awful, is the most insanely gory film since "Braindead" thirteen years later. Notable kill: the killer inserts his hands in a woman's mouth and pulls her head apart:
3. "Braindead" (Peter Jackson, 1993)
There isn't an overly huge amount of violence in this film, or rather, it's simply far too comical and over-the-top to be even the slightest bit disturbing, but it is easily the bloodiest and goriest movie ever created. Absolutely brilliant and words cannot describe how hilarious it is.
2. "Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood" (Hideshi Hino, 1985)
This isn't a film, just a collection of unbelievably cruel, nasty and sickening scenes. There's no plot, it's just a guy carving up a girl with lots of tools; cuts off her limbs while she's still alive, saws through her bones...etc. Not a horror movie, a "gore" movie. I will give it credit for having absolutely remarkable gore effects to its time (1985) - it actually looks real and feels like a snuff film.
1. "Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat" (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 2002)
Notable scenes: a woman's hand is forced through a meat grinder; a woman is scalped, has her faced pulled off as she's screaming (she's still screaming after her face has been ripped off), then her brain is removed; a woman's eye is scooped out with a spoon; a woman has her organs removed - basically a whole lot of scenes of dismemberment, disembowelment and mutilation. I've never ever seen gorier stuff. It's actually a great movie though, believe it or not. It's hilarious, genuinely witty and completely comical, silly and stupid, and never ever takes itself or any of the violence seriously, so I wouldn't call it torture porn. Also features a cameo appearance by the dazzling John Waters (!) and also Daniel Franzese (Damien from "Mean Girls", and also appeared in Larry Clark's "Bully".
