Really looking forward to his remake of Thirteen Assassins too.

The Thing - dogs scene, scene where Norris' chest caves in and bites Cooper's arms and the rest of the gory effects that follows.

Zombi 2 - splinter in the eye!!!

Saw 3 - bloke on a crucifix device, and it's slowly twisting causing his arms, and legs to break.

Hellraiser II - from start to finish it's non stop gore.

Day of the Dead (80s original) - by far the goriest out of the franchise.

I picked the above as the most effective in the term of gore, rather than the usual gore for gore sake which you see in French and Japanese movies.

It is! It is a truly funny film if you can appreciate necrophilia, lactation, rape, murder and incest as a source of humor. Only Miike could pull off a film like that and he does. It's not perfect, but it's very good nevertheless.

Have to say I watched Hellraiser 2 the other night and I was really let down by it! It really didn't hold up at all and I found it pretty dire if i'm being honest. The first Hellraiser is great and no doubt a cult film, hellraiser 2 on the other hand I felt was really poor. I will the say tho the scene where the patient sacrifices himself with the razor is really disturbing and gory! I watched the pointless remake of 'I spit on your grave' tonight and that has some choice moments of gore if nothing else.

top 5 goriest movies

1. Dead Alive
2. Zombie Holocaust
3. Bad Taste
4. Evil Dead 2
5. House of 1,000 Corpses

Nobody mentioned Saving Private Ryan, but when the US infantry arrived via boats at Normandy beach to a spray of machine gun fire exploding scores of heads in an instant, it was more bloody, more realistic, and more shocking than anything in DOTD. However, it was by no means a gore-for-gore's sake movie like DOTD, Cannibal Holocaust, or many of the other above candidates.

Don't get me wrong, I was enawed of DOTD when I was a laddie buck in the mid-1980s, but it's fairly dated now, and many of the effects don't seem convincing. I guess we were more gullible back in the day.

For my money, I always thought Fulci did a much more convincing zombie, and the creatures in Zombie Flesh Eaters and The Beyond still look good today (although they were too slow to be a real threat).

HG Lewis's outings like Wizard of Gore and The Gore-Gore Girls were perhaps the most unabashedly gratuitous gore flicks I've seen, but the FX were so amateurish they were hard to take seriously.

So there's your five:
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Zombie Flesh Eaters
3. The Beyond
4. The Wizard of Gore
5. The Gore-Gore Girls

Although on second thought, maybe I'll take out The Beyond and replace it with Maniac (Joe Spinell), because the effects are so good and the film has a real gritty, dark vibe going on.

I've still never got round to see Saving Private Ryan. Bit of a blip on my cinematic landscape, but I recall my step dad watching it when it came out on video and he couldn't make it through the aforementioned scene.

A bit of an overstatement aint it? I remember the scene having tremendous intensity, copied by every subsequent film that required a big battle sequence, but not exactly gory. For historical battle gore (check my sensitivity!), my money would be on Braveheart . . .

... and talking of Mel Gibson, not one mention yet of The Passion of the Christ Mel loves his gore as much as he hates his Jews . . .

He can't hate Jews that much, after all he worships one.

But yeh, Passion of the Christ is definitely up there in the gore stakes.

Upon its release, The Passion of the Christ was often cited by critics as one of the goriest movies in film history, but it didn't upset me that much because Jim Cavaziel is so completely resigned to the suffering he has to endure and is armed with the knowledge of how it will end that it was hard for me to be moved or upset by the blood and cruelty.

Has anyone heard of or seen 'August Underground: Mordum'? I'm not saying it's the goriest film around but it's defo a hard watch. It's very, very messed up! I can't really recommend watching it either as it's just nasty to the core. If like me tho you want to be a completist with all things nasty then watch it!

Yeah, i've seen Mordum. With films like that, i tend to be more disgusted with myself for watching them, than with the actual films' content. A nasty piece of work.
The last gore film i watched was Tokyo gore police. Very entertaining, and definately one of the bloodiest films i've ever seen.

You hit the nail on the head there, I tend to feel more disgusted with myself as well! I've actually watched the August Underground trilogy, I must be a glutton for punishment

The older I get, the easier I find it to say no to movies that push the cruelty factor too far. I don't mind seeing people ripped apart in a campy, non-serious manner, but I derive no pleasure from seeing people abused and mistreated.