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The Goriest Horror Movies
Every film here scores 4 or 5 out of 5 for gore on our scale — 25 max it out. Ties break on dread, which is the honest way to separate the merely wet from the genuinely disturbing: splatter you laugh at, dread you take home.
Bedevilled rates 1.4 higher on Douban than IMDb — Chinese audiences consistently read this kind of horror differently, and the gap is often the most interesting signal on the page. 12 are currently streaming on Tubi.
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Martyrs 2008
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread10 6.8/10
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The Fly 1986
Jumps6 Gore10 Dread8 8.2/10
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Cold Fish 2010
Jumps4 Gore10 Dread8 7.4/10
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Inside 2007
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread8 7.3/10
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The Beyond 1981
Jumps6 Gore10 Dread8 7.2/10
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Dawn of the Dead 1978
Jumps6 Gore10 Dread6 8.3/10
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The Ugly Stepsister 2025
Jumps4 Gore10 Dread6 8.1/10
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The Evil Dead 1981
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread6 7.8/10
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Day of the Dead 1985
Jumps6 Gore10 Dread6 6.9/10
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Re-Animator 1985
Jumps4 Gore10 Dread4 7.9/10
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Revenge 2017
Jumps4 Gore10 Dread4 6.9/10
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Braindead 1992
Jumps4 Gore10 Dread2 8.2/10
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Angst 1983
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread10 8.1/10
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Bring Her Back 2025
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread10 7.6/10
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The Mist 2007
Jumps8 Gore8 Dread10 7.3/10
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Santa Sangre 1989
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread8 8.4/10
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28 Days Later 2002
Jumps8 Gore8 Dread8 8.0/10
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 2026
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 8.0/10
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Bedevilled 2010
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 7.9/10
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 7.4/10
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Three... Extremes 2004
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 7.0/10
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Kill List 2011
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 6.7/10
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Double Vision 2002
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 6.1/10
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Sinners 2025
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread6 8.6/10
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Alien: Romulus 2024
Jumps8 Gore8 Dread6 7.7/10
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Titane 2021
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread6 7.6/10
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Thirst 2009
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread6 7.5/10
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Cemetery Man 1994
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread6 7.2/10
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Ravenous 1999
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread6 6.7/10
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Evil Dead II 1987
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread4 8.1/10
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The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion 2018
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread4 8.1/10
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An American Werewolf in London 1981
Jumps8 Gore8 Dread4 7.8/10
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Opera 1987
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread4 7.7/10
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Tenebrae 1982
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread4 7.5/10
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Dawn of the Dead 2004
Jumps8 Gore8 Dread4 7.5/10
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A Bay of Blood 1971
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread4 6.8/10
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Ready or Not 2019
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread2 7.9/10
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The Cabin in the Woods 2011
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread2 7.8/10
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From Dusk Till Dawn 1996
Jumps4 Gore8 Dread2 7.2/10
How these are scored
Every film carries three separate 1–5 ratings — jump scares, gore and dread — because they measure different things. A film can be a 5 for dread and a 1 for gore. Scores are editorial, not aggregated from other platforms, which is the point: review aggregates tell you whether a film is good, not what it will do to you.
What is the goriest horror movie?
25 films in our catalog score a full 5 of 5 for gore. Ranked by how disturbing they are on top of the gore, Audition (1999) leads — it pairs maximum gore with maximum dread.
What is the difference between gory and disturbing?
Gore measures what is shown on screen; dread measures how long the film stays with you. We rate them separately because they rarely travel together — most splatter films score low for dread, and several of the most disturbing films on this site barely show anything.
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