Most horrific / violent / shocking / gory films ever ?

I've just ordered Box Of The Banned (7 Discs) for £15.

I might invite a mate over some time and have a serious horror film watching thing.

Video Nasties....

For the first time ever 'together' six of the most shocking, depraved and corrupt movies which were banned under the Obscene Publication Act 1983/4 - Along with a feature length documentary 'Ban The Sadist Videos' which was a headline for the Daily Mail at the height of the frenzy.

Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979): There is something sinister about, the sailing-boat drifting slowly in Hudson Bay, upon boarding the coast-guard police, are confronted with a terrifying sight appearing out of the hatchway - a man covered in blood, walks towards them menacingly, only after being shot repeatedly, does he fall overboard and disappear amid the waves. This news causes a panic in America, as the sailing-boat belonged to a famous scientist who mysteriously disappeared in the Caribbean.

Ann, the scientist's daughter together with a famous journalist Peter West, set out to look for him, setting sail on a schooner belonging to Brian an American Ethnologist, and Susan an underwater photographer they head for the Caribbean. Meanwhile on Mutal Island in the Antilles professor Menard is conducting strange experiments.

What follows in the Caribbean and later in New York is truly terrifying - Zombie Flesh Eaters are here! (Dir. Lucio Fulci)

I Spit On Your Grave (1978): Jenny (Camille Keaton), a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel, is, one day, assaulted, raped and left for dead by four men. But she survives to take revenge. She seduces each of her rapists separately and personally performs their painful executions... (Dir. Meir Zarchi)

Driller Killer (1979): Reno is struggling artist close to breaking point. The loud punk band in the flat next door practices for 24 hours a day. His debts are mounting. He needs to sell his new painting to pay the overdue rent on the shabby New York apartment he shares with his girlfriend and her spaced-out lesbian lover. Despite the desperate need for cash, Reno will not admit that he has completed the painting. It becomes an obsession. In his troubled mind the picture triggers a violence he cannot contain... (Dir. Abel Ferrara)

The Last House On The Left (1972): The terrifying story of two teenage girls, Mari and Phyllis, heading up to the city to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday at concert by the band, Bloodlust. Prior to the show, the pair are drugged, beaten and kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts and taken into the woods where their horrific ordeal ends in rape and murder. When the criminals coincidentally, but unknowingly, take refuge at the nearby house of one of their victims, the girl's parents discover the gruesome fate of their daughter and seek to exact their revenge... (Dir. Wes Craven)

Nightmares In A Damaged Brain (1981): Escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida, a prowler stalks a babysitter - when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs... George begins a journey of brutal murder, death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life! (Dir. Romano Scavolini)

The Evil Dead (1982): In the literary tradition of Stephen King and the cinematic mode of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead), The Evil Dead is a visual and aural attack on the senses which requires a strong stomach and a healthy sense of humour!

Whilst holidaying in the Tennessee woodlands, five innocent teenagers unwittingly unleash the spirit of the evil dead. One by one the teenagers fall victim to the frenzied, flesh-eating monsters, amidst a tour-de-force display of stunning special effects. (Dir. Sam Raimi)
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When I was 8 years old (some 27 years ago now!) I was on holiday in Ireland visiting relatives. I can vaguely remember being in the kitchen of some random aunts house and there was some gorey film on in the kitchen (I remember my aunt shouting at my uncle for watching it when there was an 8 year old in the house!).

Anyway I don't know what it was called but I remember this scene with 2 characters - 1 was in a strait jacket, and manacled so he couldn't move, and the other was some sort of doctor who extracted the other fellows eyeballs for some reason.

Pretty gruesome stuff and funnily enough I've never forgotten it, but I'm curious to know the name.

Any ideas?

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Tommy B said:
I've just ordered Box Of The Banned (7 Discs) for £15.

I might invite a mate over some time and have a serious horror film watching thing.
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I have that box set... if you compare the films to more recent releases, the films look very mild in comparison. Worth watching still, but definately not shocking or anything like that.
 
Tommy B said:
I've just ordered Box Of The Banned (7 Discs) for £15.

I might invite a mate over some time and have a serious horror film watching thing.
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Ive had it for quite awhile, Diller Killer is terrible imo, Evil Dead and Zombie Flesh Eaters are brilliant. Im a big Evil Dead/Bruce Campbell fan though.

The goriest films ive seen are probably the few films Fred Vogel has made and stuff like Guinea Pig 2 - Flower Of Flesh And Blood.
 
The Passion of the Christ

Esp the bit where they beat Him with barbs!!! Flesh n blood flying everywhere! eww

When I saw it, there were two young guys with king size popcorn joking about wanting to see Jesus beat into a pulp - after a few mins of the beatings - they went very very silent - at end of film they just sat there saying nothing for ages - popcorn not eaten!
 
Irreversible had a lasting effect on me, and also Eraserhead for some reason - it's not gory, but somehow it got under my skin and made me very uncomfortable. I haven't seen any gory films that have affected me like those two have.
 
Not very gory, but as people are mentioning Canibl Holocaust, I thought i'd add Jungle Holocaust as well. Although its possibly one of the most disjointed and badly cut films ever, its not a bad watch.
 
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