What's your limit on gore?

[spicy_sweets]

I used to read junji ito as a kid, and am currently rereading frankenfran, so wherever that is on the spectrum.

[Kiweevil]

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 🥁

[Swamp]

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

[Jenny-Toons]

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.

[Kiweevil]

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

[Shanny8]

I watch surgery shows all the time

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.

[spadesart]

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.

[buttersphere]

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.

[joannekwan]

I loved The Thing!! The effects were so good!

[joannekwan]

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

[dawgofdawgness]

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.

[Zyephen]

Limit? What is that?(sarcasm)

[burginlewis]

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.

[Kann]

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.

[LittleMissDevil]

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.

[Darth_Biomech]

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.

[Shanny8]

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.

[Lummy]

It depends
I don't really like gore so if the moment I open a comic/start watching a TV show there will be gore I will probably stop watching it because it is too hard for me
Buuut, If it is in the middle of the season and the shows is just too interesting I can tolerate the gore.
But again it depends, I couldn't watch the love action of attack on Titan because it was too gory and I even stopped halfway watching the anime because of the core and it took me months to pick it up again (even though it is an amazing anime)

But, if it is in a book I think I don't have limits

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I don't do a lot of horror movies, especially not torture porn. It's not really the gore that bothers me too much, because in action movies and war movies there's plenty of it. It's just the torture aspect and the overall shocking nature of it.
As far as comics go...Gantz was too far, but Attack On Titan is fine.

And then of course there's the Death Metal\Deathcore I listen to, once again, I don't listen to bands that embrace the whole torture porn concept. So bands like Cannibal Corpse, and Infant Annihilator are out.

Now, Thrash Metal has a lot of violence and bloody lyrics, but it's usually more along the lines of a war movie or action flick, or a thriller kind of movie, so bands like Exodus, Warbringer, and Slayer are the limit.

Video games I don't have an issue with really. But I don't play horror games.

Real life...um...I'm out if it involves torture, anything with fingernails, and eyes. I read plenty of scientific nature books as a kid, complete with pictures of shark attack victims and parasite infested kids. So my tolerance is a little bit high. But maggot infested wounds will make me nauseous xD

[racarter]

None. Love blood, violence, gore, sexual violence, eroguro, sexualized death, the works. Particularly in manga / animation. Less so with live action. In live action I don’t care for sexual violence in the same way like I do with drawings - it doesn’t bother me too much but it really just depends.

I deliberately seek out the most violent and gory manga I can find, at least the ones with good art and interesting story. Other times I like so bad it’s good stories like idk The Island Of Giant Insects and Pumpkin Night.

Of course some things make me squirm more because of how it’s portrayed. Like, Murciélago, for instance, makes me squirm sometimes. Then there’s TRASH. I love it because it’s like unrepentantly vile in showing horrible things - like I can’t describe it because it’s way too upsetting for most people. Also the art is amazing.

As for any actual limits tho: I guess I go NOPE whenever an animal is involved, even if it’s not real I just find it upsetting. If the rest is good enough I’ll just overlook it and move on tho.

Overall tho, it’s situational for me. Sometimes I’m a total gore whore. Other times, whatever I’m looking at just doesn’t do it for me.

But I generally like gore for the sake of gore and indulgent edgy violence.

Oh but like real life for real stuff? Mostly I can’t handle it. I made the mistake of looking at some images from a real life incident (a hostage or terrorist situation I think) that got leaked online. Let’s just say human cruelty knows no limits... you guys don’t even wanna know. Also I’ve seen irl pics of torture in the past. I can take it on some level but only because I’m great at compartmentalizing.

Saw a show about people who flay the skin from dead things (for like museums displays or for pelts, depending on what the client wants). I believe they mostly work with animal carcasses but the main guy had human bones in his personal collection. It’s like a legit job, a family business at that. Pretty sure he was on an episode of “Taboo” also.

See none of that bothered me. Stripping flesh from a dead lion? No problem! But seeing maggots on animal bones because someone screwed up and didn’t secure the vat they were boiling in properly?

I damn near threw up. So did the guys on the show too. I was eating a burger the whole time and was fine with the gore but when the maggots showed up I spat out my burger because I couldn’t eat while seeing that. Gross.