Why do people have such a morbid facination with this? It's disgusting and tragic.
—Stephan, Jagged Alliance 2
”I’m pretty sure I can see right through the holes in your body.”
—Yoshikage Kira, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable
When Beyond Birthday committed his third murder, he attempted an experiment. Namely, to see if it were possible for a human being to die of internal hemorrhaging without rupturing any organs. Specifically, he drugged his victim so they fell unconscious, tied them up, and proceeded to beat their left arm thoroughly, being careful not to break the skin. He was hoping to bring about enough hemorrhaging to cause death from loss of blood, but this attempt ended, sadly, in failure. Blood congested in the arm and it turned purplish red beneath the skin, but the victim did not die. They simply shook, convulsed, and remained alive. He had been convinced the blood loss incurred was enough to kill someone, but apparently he had underestimated the matter. As far as Beyond Birthday was concerned, the actual method of murder rated fairly low on the amusement scale, and it was never more than an interesting experiment. It did not particularly matter to him whether it succeeded or not. Beyond Birthday simply shrugged, and took out a knife...
—Death Note, Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, page 9 (Leaping over the Moral Event Horizon in the first paragraph)
The way the camera zooms in and shows the victim's bones as they splinter like dry twigs is exactly the same way one would film a cum shot. ... Not that I can't handle a bit of gore, but it gives me the same feeling I get from watching midget-on-giraffe porn; a sense of "I'm certainly not getting off to this, but I know someone in the world is and that's what makes me uncomfortable.
—Zero Punctuation reviewing Mortal Kombat 9
Here's another way to describe if: imagine 5 gallons of blood being pumped a second and, this of this, movie theaters supplied barf bags. You ever heard of Lord of the Rings? Well this is Lord of Gore.
—James Rolfe on BrainDead
The old man climbed out of his seat in the sixth row and went shuffling up the aisle, asking people what time it was. 'Do you have the time?' be kept asking. 'The time? What time is it?'
A woman sitting across the aisle advised him to shut up and get lost. 'I paid my money and I want to see the movie,' she said. She gobbled her buttered popcorn and stared at the screen, where a stripper was biting off a snake's head.
'Ooo-eee,' somebody said in the darkness.
'What time is it?' the man asked. He was back again.
I think it was when the stripper bit off the snake's head that I first began to ask myself what I was doing in the theater.
Are they just poor slobs who got suckered in by the ads? Or are they geeks enjoying a busman's holiday? Should I rate the movie with stars, or vomit bags? Why did the old man want to know what time it was? Had he missed the feeding at the zoo? Why wouldn't anyone tell him? Didn't they know? Didn't they care that it was late... very late?
Ooo-eee.
A woman sitting across the aisle advised him to shut up and get lost. 'I paid my money and I want to see the movie,' she said. She gobbled her buttered popcorn and stared at the screen, where a stripper was biting off a snake's head.
'Ooo-eee,' somebody said in the darkness.
'What time is it?' the man asked. He was back again.
I think it was when the stripper bit off the snake's head that I first began to ask myself what I was doing in the theater.
Are they just poor slobs who got suckered in by the ads? Or are they geeks enjoying a busman's holiday? Should I rate the movie with stars, or vomit bags? Why did the old man want to know what time it was? Had he missed the feeding at the zoo? Why wouldn't anyone tell him? Didn't they know? Didn't they care that it was late... very late?
Ooo-eee.
— Roger Ebert losing his mind, Stanley (1972)
Dawn of the Dead. 300. Sucker Punch. These are all absurdly gritty, bloody festivals of slow-mo violence which often double as masturbation fodder for the criminally insane.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Drake Show! Tonight's special episode is going to be filled with trills and chills, and - my own personal favorite - lots and lots of that red shit that flows inside all our bodies!"
—The Drake, Hobo with a Shotgun
"Strap yourselves in because things are about to get very, very bloody and very, very strange."
—Tagline for Tokyo Gore Police
"Be sure to make their deaths as graphic as possible to sate the bloodthirst of not the slasher, but the audience who is watching this movie to revel in the death of their fellow man."
— Terrible Writing Advice, SLASHER FILMS
MANKIND IS DEAD
BLOOD IS FUEL
Get ready for more gratuitous violence as Kyril turns Ansur's criminal underworld upside down in search of Michelle Pantielle and other Black Dog supporters who need to die.
— The Night Unfurls, Chapter 9, Author's Note
