History Main / SplatterHorror

** ''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 Deaite blood.

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** ''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 fearing 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 Deaite blood.

* ''Film/EvilDead2'', in line with the increasingly comedic tone of the series, featured gallons of stage blood of various colors and visual gags involving zombie parts as it essentially parodied its own (more straightfaced) prequel.
* ''Film/EvilDead2013'', which is bloodier by far than the original series and features graphic dismemberings and mutilations (some self-inflicted), including a more brutal version of the original's tree-rape scene.

* ''Film/StreetTrash'' is a splatstick exploitation film centered around a liquor store owner who starts selling bottles of Tenafly Viper from the 1920s to the homeless for a dollar a pop... with the minor drawback that anyone who drinks the booze soon melts into a puddle of steaming day-glo ooze while screaming in horror. Of course, since the creators state that they wanted to offend as many people as possible, this only provides a loose framework for other gags like implied necrophilia,a cop deliberately vomiting on a mafia boss he just fought, and a game of keep-away involving a character's town-off manhood.

** ''Film/SplatterNakedBlood'' 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 cutting off bits of herself (especially erogenous zones) and eating them, and the other 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.

* ''Film/IchiTheKiller'' is an insane fever-dream of a yakuza film whose title character is capable of sexually-charged berserker rages that tend to leave his enemies as little more than a fresh coat of paint on the walls. Add to this a sadomasochistic dandy with a pierced GlasgowGrin named Kakihara who is willing to hang people up by hooks as a ''prelude'' to torturing them, and who is equally eager to cut off the tip of his own tongue in penance (shown in gory technicolor), and it's hard to know who to root for amid the bloodbath... but at least fans of Japanese splatter will have a blast.

* The ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' series first made its mark on video game history by adding blood and gore to the versus fighting genre, to the point where MoralGuardians immediately decried its potential harm to any children that might stumble across it. From showers of blood knocked off combatants with every punch or kick to over-the-top fatalities frequently send blood, limbs, organs and several skeletons' worth of bones in all directions. It really says something when guest fighters like [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] and [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] look restrained by comparison.

* ''Film/{{Ravenous|1999}}'', being a borderline BlackComedy historical thriller about cannibalism, was not only so bloody that the production ''ran out of fake blood'' during the climactic battle, but also presents meat dishes with the same loving attention most films would give an eviscerated murder victim. In fact, one of the main themes is comparing human meat to animal meat, and considering the lead actor, the writer, and the director are all vegetarians, the honest disgust shown towards meat in general [[TropesAreNotBad enhances horror of the cannibalism scenes nicely]].

* The ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' series first made its mark on video game history by adding blood and gore to the versus fighting genre, to the point where MoralGuardians immediately decried its potential harm to any children that might stumble across it. From showers of blood knocked off combatants with every punch or kick to over-the-top fatalities frequently send blood, limbs, organs and several skeletons' worth of bones in all directions. It really says something when guest fighters like [[Franchise/FridayTheThirteenth Jason Voorhees]] and [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] look restrained by comparison.

* The ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' series first made its mark on video game history by adding blood and gore to the versus fighting genre, to the point where MoralGuardians immediately decried its potential harm to any children that might stumble across it. From showers of blood knocked off combatants with every punch or kick to over-the-top fatalities frequently send blood, limbs, organs and several skeletons' worth of bones in all directions. It really says something when guest fighters like [[Film/FridayTheThirteenth Jason Voorhees]] and [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] look restrained by comparison.

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* ''Film/{{Ravenous 1999}}'', being a borderline BlackComedy historical thriller about cannibalism, was not only so bloody that the production ''ran out of fake blood'' during the climactic battle, but also presents meat dishes with the same loving attention most films would give an eviscerated murder victim. In fact, one of the main themes is comparing human meat to animal meat, and considering the lead actor, the writer, and the director are all vegetarians, the honest disgust shown towards meat in general [[TropesAreNotBad enhances horror of the cannibalism scenes nicely]].

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* The Italian supernatural revenge film ''Adam Chaplin'' centers around the title character's quest for revenge against the mob boss who had his wife murdered via immolation. He enlists the assistance of a demon who sits just behind his shoulder, and who gives him super-speed and super-strength, allowing him to rip off limbs, impale victims, and beat people to a literal pulp with his bare hands, resulting in frequent deluges of blood. Bear in mind, Adam is the ''protagonist''.

* ''Film/{{Braindead}}'' is one of the more infamous "splatstick" films, with grotesque special effects mainly surrounding the slow decomposition of Lionel's mother Vera and her victims, culminating in a climax that involves a chest-mounted lawnmower, a basement full of zombies, and the most stage blood that had ever been used in any film at that time.

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** Then there's [[Film/EvilDead2013 the 2013 remake]], which is bloodier by far than the original series and features graphic dismemberments and mutilations (some self-inflicted), including a more brutal version of the original's tree-rape scene.

* ''Film/BloodFeast'', directed by Creator/HerschellGordonLewis, is considered the first splatter film, notable for its depictions of onscreen gore. As such, it is the oldest film to be included on the VideoNasty list.