A story can be as gory as it needs. Eye gouging, fingore, disembowelment, it doesn't bother me so long as it is in proper context. If a movie holds back no punches in how viscerally terrible war is, sure.
But if it's gore and violence for the sake of gore and violence, count me out. The visual never bothers me but the context definitely can.
Any gore is fine for me, but what makes it unsettling is the interaction with the gore.
If a frame is shot really well in a scene i could get squeamish, or if the characters mess with it i'll think "no please... don't."
But when it comes to a scene showing a guy dead or still illustrations of gore it's fine, nothing's happening.
the thing that always gets me is when people shave in movies
and when there's "Clone Gore"(which is when a character is falling apart, skin peeling, teeth poppin')
if it's a thing that could happen to me, no bueno.
Pretty high Limit really, I can handle mostly everything except for stuff like teeth, I relate too much to that. Just I cant anything mouth related, lips, teeth or anything else other wise. Strangely I had much higher tolerance to Gorey stuff as a kid never even flinching nor had this limit, only now I have the limit.
I have a relatively high tolerance. I don't enjoy horror movies or games, but the amount of gore usually isn't the "nope" factor, but more so the suspense and thriller elements lol. In anime I don't think I've seen anything too extreme, certainly not enough so to make me uncomfortable. Similarly the instances where I've come face to face with blood irl haven't been very often or copious, but were okay.
The one time that I was made super uncomfortable/nauseous at something gore-adjacent was this one documentary we watched in a class in university about this woman who had plastic surgery performed on every part of her face (and maybe body?) all in one sitting, but requested to be left conscious during the procedure so she could talk at the camera while being operated on. It was some commentary about how people should be satisfied with who they are and not be so eager and casual about using surgery to change parts of their appearance... but omg, something about all of those incisions being made and skin being pulled back and replaced on someone conscious like that made my stomach roll...
Me, I draw the line at organs, period. I just don't like seeing them, even when they're clean and neatly packaged at the store (bleck). I remember that B99 episode where they faked Pimento's death and used baked beans to represent his splattered brains (XD)...even that was pushing it for me, when I didn't know it was coming.
The only place I can stand organs is (oddly specifically) anatomical drawings, like for educational purposes. I guess maybe there's a feeling of detachment, seeing as (a) they're not really photorealistic, and (b) you don't have a sense of them 'belonging' to anyone. I dunno.
When it comes to blood, though...make it rain; I don't really care. ^^ It's the other aspects of violence (the screams, the fact that a character you care about is in danger) that make me upset; blood alone doesn't really do anything to me. Like if two competent characters (or characters I'm otherwise not worried about) are having a bloody battle to the death in a manga or something, I could read that for days. It's exciting~
For that reason, I always want to have blood or a blood analog in my more violent stories. In fact, I'm working on rewriting a story with a dead protagonist, and the fact that he probably won't be able to bleed is kinda making me sad...
Almooooost always, gore is ok with me. I mean, it still grosses me out, but usually in the good ways. Of like "wow, that's visceral and makes my stomach do flips, i wonder how they drew this/created this?"
Context does matter though.
I can't keep watching/reading if someone gets gored while in a sexual situation. Sex mixing with violence is never fun to read at all.
I get the feeling that anything by David Cronenberg or The Thing would get a nope nope ..... from you.
Because of work I've been exposed to a lot of blood and injuries to animals. I've cleaned and dressed wounds, taken stitches out, been there with them when their owners couldn't face being there if they had to be euthanized so that they had someone they knew with them when they passed. I can deal with just about anything in the moment since I have to, but I don't actively seek out anything gorey. I had to stop reading "Made in Abyss" because of where the story was going, so that's probably my limit I would think when it comes to art. For live action/documentaries, anything with 'soft kills' or torture bother me a lot and I either won't watch them or stop watching when it gets to that point.
I used to read junji ito as a kid, and am currently rereading frankenfran, so wherever that is on the spectrum.
Okay I feel dumb because I'm not sure how I completely forgot to mention this in my last response but my main antagonist (interestingly enough, also the main love interest) is actually a cannibal lol. In their universe, foxes notoriously consume the remains of fallen enemies and passed loved ones because they think it is disrespectful to let them go to waste. In fact, her whole introductory scene is her blissfully chopping up a heart on a cutting board, which the reader is led on to believe is fruit until a closer shot reveals it. So yeah, there's lots of organs shown in my comic but not in the body cavity. Alise here often feeds on lovers who she finds distasteful or rude to women, much like a black widow.
I guess you could call her....
a man-eater
Bud-dum-pst 🥁
My limits are way more about context than gore.
All the Junji Ito in the world doesn't bother me, but the part in the food fight trailer where the spaghetti has spaghetti guts hanging out legitimately upset me. The framing just reminded me too much of real bombing.
So as long as it doesn't feel, like, emotionally realistic, anything's fine. But if it reminds me of like... news footage or personal fears, that's rough, I might still watch it, but I will be spooked
And if it touches actual experiences, the most goreless version would rattle me
Any actual real footage is well out and will haunt me for years
I don't do torture porn. So that crosses out the Saw Franchises, the Hostel movies, and that Terrifier franchise with "Art the Clown" (if you've seen the movies, you know which parts I'm talking about). Just...I dunno, for me, straight up gore isn't scary. It's just gross. It needs to have some flair and kinda leave a little room for creative?
Good examples would definitely be The Thing, and any of Itou Junji's works. Yeah, that's gore, but it's gore with style. It's creative and tries to scare you without getting too detailed. These works played with shadows, body horror, AND chose what you had to see, what was important.
There's always a why with good gore and an important part that needs to be focused on.
Torture porn seriously freaks me out 
I don't get how anybody can handle that, even if it's just a movie. So gross and not even that clever.
I hate it when horror movies just use cheap gore in place of good writing
See now I remember some years back I couldnt watch surgery shows coz there was just stuff in there that I was just like "this is some gross shit inside the human body"
Animated cartoon gore or movie gore doesnt really affect me nowdays. It's weird coz all that type stuff used to make me squeamish af when I was a kid. I've seen road kill and walked by busted open deer on the street(though the smell was bad; deer got hit by a car and the carcass was left on the side of the street about a week until the county came and removed it). I might get freaked out at MRSA infection videos or spiders laying eggs in people more than ordinary [violence type] gore.
My comic doesnt really go graphic into gore, so I won't have to worry about drawing/depicting it.
i cant look at anything with eye horror, fire and depictions of hanging but im pretty ok with everything else. like i'm down with most of junji ito's work and actually like it a lot but as soon as i see the three mentioned i get SO freaked out
irl stuff i cant handle at all though. no horror movies for me.
I've seen some really horrific irl videos on facebook when people would share it on their timeline a few years back, it made me stop using that website altogether. (Seeing a lady trying to pull her face skin back up is something I truly and honestly wish I could forget)
So the gore you see depicted in cinematic contexts don't really get to me unless it's eye/skin/nail/mouth torture. Or, when gruesome harm has been done but the person is still very much alive and aware.
Reminds me of the time I was casually scrolling through my facebook feed and a video clip of a live birth popped up. It was all up there in the woman's business and it played automatically.
Normally I wouldn't be bothered if I knew ahead of time that was going to play. But it just came on so suddenly between posts from people I actually knew.
I reported it 
Shit I mean I’ll watch/read anything Lol. I think watching obscure Japanese torture-porn like Guinea Pig or even Concrete makes you somewhat immune. I get uncomfortable if the content is sexually violent or disturbing, though, and don’t sit well with gore involving vomit or feces. Echhh gross.
OH and broken bones. I’ve never broke a bone and can hardly imagine the pain. It’s just so terribly unnatural-looking in all the wrong ways.
