Best Splatter Film

Dead Alive is a 1998 New Zealand splatter film known for its extreme and inventive gore effects. Director Peter Jackson utilized practical makeup and stunts to create over-the-top violence within a darkly comedic narrative. The film gained notoriety for its unique approach to zombie horror appealing...

Cold Fish is a 2010 Japanese crime and psychological horror film directed by Sion Sono. Its story follows a timid tropical-fish shop owner who becomes entangled with a charismatic rival dealer and his wife, whose criminal activities draw him into murder, coercion, and the disposal of bodies. Loosely...

"Why Don't You Play in Hell?" is a 2013 Japanese action comedy horror film written and directed by Sion Sono. The movie follows the "Fuck Bombers," a group of passionate amateur filmmakers who have spent years trying to create a cinematic masterpiece. Their ambition unexpectedly collides with a brut...

"[REC]²" is a 2009 Spanish found-footage horror film co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, serving as the direct sequel to the 2007 film "[REC]." The story takes place immediately after the events of the first film, following a SWAT team and a medical officer as they enter the quarantined a...

Strange Circus is a 2005 Japanese psychological horror film written and directed by Sion Sono. Its shifting narrative concerns a novelist, her assistant, and a traumatic family history involving incest, abuse, murder, and contested identities. The film uses theatrical staging, unreliable perspective...

Imprint is a 2006 horror film directed by Takashi Miike as an episode of the anthology television series Masters of Horror. Set largely in a brothel on a remote Japanese island, it follows an American traveler questioning a disfigured woman about the fate of a missing former lover. Its depictions of...

Ghostland, also released as Incident in a Ghostland, is a 2018 psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier. It follows Pauline and her daughters, Beth and Vera, after a violent home invasion at their isolated house, then moves between the aftermath and the sisters' altered perce...

The Church, also known as La chiesa, is a 1989 Italian gothic horror film directed by Michele Soavi and produced by Dario Argento. Its story takes place in and around a medieval church built over the site of a mass killing, where the release of an ancient evil leads to supernatural violence and poss...

The Machine Girl is a 2008 Japanese splatter film directed by Noboru Iguchi. It follows Ami, a schoolgirl who seeks revenge against a yakuza-affiliated family after suffering a violent loss, and uses a machine-gun prosthetic arm in the process. The film is intended for viewers interested in extreme...

Cat in the Brain is a 1990 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci, who also plays a fictionalized version of himself. The film uses a self-referential structure in which Fulci becomes disturbed by images of extreme violence and begins to confuse staged scenes with reality. Much of its material...

Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel and produced as a reboot of the Friday the 13th series. The story combines elements from several earlier entries and follows a group of young people who encounter Jason Voorhees near Camp Crystal Lake. It retains the franchise...

Dead Sushi is a 2012 Japanese splatter comedy directed by Noboru Iguchi. The film follows a young woman trained in sushi preparation after a group of reanimated sushi products becomes a threat to the guests and workers at a rural inn. It is designed as an exaggerated genre exercise, combining martia...

Meatball Machine Kodoku is a 2017 Japanese science-fiction splatter film directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. It belongs to the Meatball Machine series and depicts grotesque transformations, alien organisms, and violent battles involving mechanically altered bodies. The film is aimed at viewers of extre...

ABCs of Death 2 is a 2014 horror anthology film made up of 26 short segments, each associated with a letter of the alphabet. The segments were directed by filmmakers from several countries and use different approaches to horror, including body horror, grotesque violence, dark comedy, and surreal ima...

Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III is a 1990 American slasher film and the third theatrical entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series. The story follows a couple traveling through rural Texas who encounter Leatherface and his cannibal family. The film introduced a new family group around the...

All Hallows' Eve is a 2013 American anthology horror film directed by Damien Leone. The film links several disturbing stories through a videotape found in a child's Halloween costume and is notable for introducing Art the Clown, a silent and sadistic killer who later became central to Leone's Terrif...

Touch of Death is an Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci and released in the late 1980s. It follows Lester Parson, a financially troubled man who murders wealthy women and attempts to conceal the crimes. The film is known for its grim atmosphere, grotesque imagery, and deliberately extreme p...

Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds is a 2008 American horror-comedy sequel directed by John Gulager. It continues the monster attack from Feast and follows survivors as the threat reaches a wider community, with the characters trying to escape creatures that attack without warning. The film belongs to the spla...

Feast 3: The Happy Finish is a 2009 American horror film directed by John Gulager and the third installment in the Feast series. It follows survivors facing attacks from monstrous creatures and continues the franchise's combination of creature-feature horror, dark comedy, and graphic splatter effect...

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat is a 2002 American splatter film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It revived the Blood Feast franchise roughly forty years after the earlier film, using camp presentation, excessive practical gore, and darkly comic violence as its defining stylistic elements. The sequ...

August Underground is a 2001 American found-footage horror film written and directed by Fred Vogel, who also appears as one of its killers. Styled as a degraded camcorder recording of serial killers at large, it simulates a snuff film with minimal plot and no conventional film trappings, which earne...

August Underground's Mordum is a 2003 American extreme horror film directed by Fred Vogel and the second entry in the August Underground series. Presented as degraded home-video footage, it follows violent criminals and uses simulated killings, sexual violence, and bodily mutilation as its central m...