History Main / SplatterHorror

* Because fanfiction offers authors the freedom to explore themes that the source material can't or won't touch, GrimDark works frequently feature gory set pieces, played for horror or parody.
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* Creator/ECComics was a pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]] horror publisher that used the visual medium to its fullest in gory, often horrifying ways to punctuate its stories, which included themes like cannibalism, live burial, body horror, and gruesome deaths ([[FateWorseThanDeath or gruesome survivals]]). Ultimately this led to a backlash from the Moral Guardians in the 1950s, which sought to tone down a lot of the gore and ultimately led to the closure of the publisher.

Splatter horror is not just a film genre: certain authors of extreme horror novels have adopted the term splatterpunk to describe works that include gory depictions of violence.

* ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' depicts the torturous last days of Jesus leading up to and including His crucifixion with the sort of bloody brutality usually reserved for an Creator/EliRoth movie, from the scourging (laying open His back)to the affixing of the crown of thorns (ripping open His forehead) to nailing Him to the cross (...yeah) to His ultimate agonizing death, as all the while He apparently spills three times the amount of blood normally found in the human body.

* ''Film/CabinInTheWoods'' offers a moderate amount of bloodshed in the first half, as befits a Standard Slasher Film, but when Dana hits the "Purge" button and unleashes every single monster archetype into the complex... well, the sequence isn't called "The Carnage" for nothing.

*** ''Film/TheEvilDead'' starts the series with a splash, with its shoestring budget and grocery-store gore effects combining into a bloody mess that earned it the title of most violent film in 1979 and a comfortable spot on the VideoNasties list. From a simple pencil jabbed into the ankle, to the dismemberment of the demonically-possessed Deadites, to a finale featuring claymation demons melting like really gory candle wax, it's no wonder the crew struggled with the MPAA to not get an X rating, even with the multicolored Deadite blood.

* ''Film/{{Saw}}'' and its sequels emphasize the psychological aspect of splatter horror, as Jigsaw forces his victims to survive gruesome deathtraps or mutilate themselves or others in order to escape, though as the series progressed, the focus became less on psychological horror and more on the gory setpieces.

* BloodyHorror
* BodyHorror
* CrossesTheLineTwice

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' drops hapless engineer Isaac Clarke in the middle of the intersection between ''Film/EventHorizon'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', forcing him to face down the dead-ish crew of the ''Ishimura'' in the form of Necromorphs that can only be defeated by dismembering them with power tools or stomping on them--a process which is exactly as messy as it sounds.

* ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}'' describes itself as Dark Fantasy / Splatterpunk

* ''LightNovel/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen''. The title character is a {{Blood Magic}}ian who gained power by eating the heart of a demon and torturing every human in her demesne to death.

* ''Film/TheSadness'' is a Taiwanese splatter film about a disease that turns people into grinning, sadistic murderers with a particular love for rape and dismemberment, leading some to label it the SpiritualSuccessor of ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' (see above). Worth noting is that the "sadness" of the title refers to the BerserkerTears of the afflicted, which one character believes is due to the fact that said afflicted are aware of everything they are doing, but they ''can't stop themselves''.

* The most infamous of the MLP gore fics is ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'', featuring Pinkie Pie vivisecting Rainbow Dash alive to collect a "special ingredient" for her cupcakes (namely, pony flesh). RecursiveFanfiction continues exploring Pinkie Pie's apparent derangement in various directions; for example, the ''Muffins Saga'' adds additional accomplices for Pinkie Pie's harvesting and baking process, while exploring novel methods for torture and dismemberment.

* Waita Uziga is an infamous guro manga artist whose works tend to be not safe for work, sanity, or life, featuring plotlines surrounding rape, mutilation, and murder (not necessarily InThatOrder) to the point of absurdity.. He tends to write two basic characters: {{Complete Monster}}s and their victims.

* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' is a series that deconstructs the idea of a zombie apocalypse in the most horrifying way, by turning the infected into grinning, sadists that seem to take most of their ideas from [[Series/{{Firefly}} the Reavers]] as far as rape, murder, cannibalism, and [[InThatOrder how flexible one may be in the order one approaches these]]. Unlike in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', which keeps the gore off-screen and lets the viewer's imagination fill in the blanks, ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' puts everything on display in full color--mostly red. The deaths and mutilations are brutally gory, which is only made worse by the giggling, gibbering infected that, save for a cross-shaped rash on their faces, are completely human.

* Creator/ECComics is a pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]] horror publisher that used the visual medium to its fullest in gory, often horrifying ways to punctuate its stories, which included themes like cannibalism, live burial, body horror, and gruesome deaths ([[FateWorseThanDeath or gruesome survivals]]). Ultimately this led to a backlash from the Moral Guardians in the 1950s, which sought to tone down a lot of the gore and ultimately led to the closure of the publisher.

* ''Film/{{Deathgasm}}'' a dark comedy-horror about a group of teenage metalheads who accidentally kickstart a local apocalypse, features some of the squishiest in Kiwi gore since ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', starting with demonic zombies leaking and vomiting blood from every orifice, and continuing on with truly absurd combat scenes involving comically-huge sex toys, power tools, and in one case what can only be described as a [[AssShove chainsaw enema]].

** ''Splatter: Naked Blood'' starts with an experimental painkiller that turns pain into pleasure, given to three women during a trial of a new birth control. This leads two of the women to mutilate themselves in a blissful bloodbath: one of them [[{{Autocannibalism}} cutting off bits of herself (especially erogenous zones) and eating them]], and the other [[MalevolentMutilation piercing her flesh with anything pointy she can get her hands on until she looks like a Cenobite from a jewelry boutique]].
** The ''Guinea Pig'' films are a series of six Japanese horror films from the 1980s and 1990s that gained global notoriety mainly for the first two films (''The Devil's Experiment'' and ''Flower of Flesh and Blood''), which led to the producer needing to prove that nobody was actually hurt or killed during the graphic torture and dismemberment sequences, as well as for the sixth film (''Devil Woman Doctor'') being found in the possession of Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki. In particular, ''Flower of Flesh and Blood'' scared Creator/CharlieSheen so badly that he called the FBI to report a snuff film.