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Feb 2020

Oof, yeah, no, I couldn't watch that at all. Just imagining that is squicking me out. XD

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 :scream:
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 :joy: :joy: :joy:

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.

I'm pretty squeamish. I'm fine with any amount of creepy, with off camera gore, and freaky unseen terrors. And I freely employ all. But I don't want a play by play of hack n slash or torture or flesh eaters or whatnot. I can't count the number of times my husband picked some warpocalypse movie and I sat beside him through it thinking "yadda yadda fight scene yadda yadda" or mentally writing lesson plans to tune it out.

I can handle a lot of blood in animation/movies. I've had blood drawn (the needle in a vein is more of a problem for me here) a lot of times and suffered a lot of nose bleeds as a teenager, so yeah, bloody scenes don't move that much. I've even drawn one scene like that for my comic.

I'm not a fan of stuff where's gore is for the sake of gore, like slashers or something. Seeing organs is not my favorite thing ever, but I guess I can handle it.

What I cannot handle is broken bones when it makes a limb bend weirdly or goes through the skin and anything that messes with the eyes gets a huge nope from me. Stay away from that poor eyeball. :tired_face:

Really really depends on the context for me. I am not too squeamish, I've got a lot of medical education and saw all kinds of horrific wounds and surgery during class. I nope out during certain things (parasites, anything done to teeth or fingernails) but overall blood is not what gets me. I like movies like The Fly or The Thing even. Princess Mononoke also made me uncomfortable but in a good way. Sometimes gore can be an amazing tool if it fits the context of the story. Being uncomfortable is not always a bad thing.

For me gratuitous gore annoys me a lot. I don't enjoy torture porn, I don't enjoy gore to be "edgy" (I just roll my eyes at that) and I do nope out with exploitation. Not anything that can be shown, should be shown. Any sexual violence in the context of gore is also a hard pass. I also find horror that is just gore to be boring and predictable. True horror comes from other things, some of my favourite horror movies don't really have gore at all.

It's mostly contextual. If it's on actual living people? I get icky if it's some torture porn clearly painful and done to cause suffering stuff, but stuff like blown away limbs and wounds? those do not bother me unless they're excessively detailed.

Pet animals gore? Absolutely unacceptable, the author immediately gets the zero-tolerance treatment.

If it's corpses or even singular organs though, I really don't care how mangled they are.

Third that on The Thing. I have most of Carpenter's earlier movies...I watch The Thing at least once a year, mostly during Halloween.