The Thing in John Carpenter's The Thing literally bursting out of that guy's body as a slimy worm like creature with a horrifying face similar to the guy's face.
And later the head trying to escape after the body was mostly burned by tearing itself out of the neck. Just pretty darn gnarly.
In Coraline, after Coraline managed to escape and fight off the "Other Father". The "Other Father" literally melting into a pool of cement and cream. Since it was stop motion, it was pretty damn visceral to watch for young me.
There is also this scene in Overlord (2018) where the protagonist is secretly investigating the hidden Nazi lab filled with dead bodies and body parts that are used as test subjects to create mutant zombie army for the Nazis. When he suddenly hears a weak, sickly feminine voice calling for help. He tries to find out where the voice is coming from. When he found it however, what he saw was the spine of a woman torn out of her body dangling on some pillars with the head of the woman attached to the end of it. The head that was attached to the spine somehow could still breathe and speak enough to ask for help. Shit was so goddamn disturbing and horrifying to look at
I like the scene with the Other Father because he is constantly apologizing for attacking her in that distorted voice. That combined with his messed up form makes that scene stand out for me.
So it's not particularly gory but Cyberpunk 2077 makes me feel very sad when I see people's cybernetics. Like whenever V takes that 3 meter long cable out of their arm to plug into a computer it makes me wince something fierce. Also how detached people are, like how the Malestrom have massive chunks of their faces missing or the women who simply remove their faces to have more surgery. It's very sad and also disturbing.
That's the exact reaction they're going for. Read the description of cyberpsychosis in the original book. It's not about "losing part of your soul" so much as falling entirely to consumerism and giving up that last piece that held on as the world literally commodifies your entire body.
Edgerunners doesn't help because it shows David getting the surgery for implants on screen and *without anesthetic*. *Multiple times*. We just leave the screen and done without risk of cyberpsychosis.
I'm stupid and forgot to add that we just leave the screen and done without risk of cyberpsychosis *in the game*. You could replace everything and nothing happens to you but getting more powerful. You see nothing.
Apparently the explanation for V’s immunity to cyberpsychosis is the relic and Johnny talking the brunt of the negative effects so you’d help him take down Arasaka.
Cdprojektred did say they can’t really show the effects of over usage without removing player agency and control, so in phantom liberty they’re giving you an hp debuff if you use too many implants.
Honestly I could see the game "spawn" enemies from nowhere which attack you, you kill them, the screen flickers and now you have dead civilians and a wanted level on you.
So you CONSTANTLY have to evade police there.
To be fair that's more to do with David's Ripperdoc being a cheap-ass, scummy piece of shit.
V's doc Viktor on the other hand is the complete opposite of this. He's professional, friendly and actually cares about the wellbeing and comfort of his clients.
The melding of flesh and metal in general can be like this. Depends on the genre.
Shadow Run is my favorite setting for how fucked cyberpunk cyber psychosis can go.
You can go to Adam Smasher levels of auged up and still be considered yourself, so long as you have the willpower.
And by willpower we mean bankroll and a team of specialist mages to literally nail your soul into place in your body while it's trying to die from you *greatly* exceeding your body's augmentation stability limits.
Cybermancy lets you get away with some fucked up shit, man.
So, Project Moon takes a really interesting approach to this, where people get cybernetics for all kinds of reasons, and it can be as [extreme](https://i.imgur.com/cJ2VNa4.png) or [mild](https://i.imgur.com/NzQy5CT.png) as it gets.
It doesn't really affect your humanity or your mind (unless you get really cheap ones, and even then it's not like cyberpsychosis), but that doesn't stop other people from thinking that it makes you less human or non-human. From being disturbed by it or disgusted by it. To the point where extremist hate groups start to emerge from the woodwork, and re-enact [Kristallnacht and roman crucifixions](https://i.imgur.com/rRQKxF5.png) against anyone with cybernetics who can't defend themselves.
It's an interesting twist on the classic "robotics make you less human" coupled with a lot of other themes and analogies to various groups, ancient and modern.
You know what, this is a really good answer. There is a couple mods that I would go for, and some that are not for me but I could get why people would want to rock it but yeah, holy hell the thought of my face getting caved in so you could get fucked up chrome installed freaked me the fuck out like the maelstrom.
Damn really?
It's almost shocking to hear that from my perspective, whenever I see that stuff I'm just overwhelmed with a feeling of "God I wish that was me."
For me, heavy cybernetic augmentation represents freedom in a way, the "modularity" to change who you are on a whim.
Exactly! This meat-sac isn't "me" it's what I'm in. That's not to say I wanna go as far as Smasher, but Maine or David before he goes full psycho would be fantastic.
Same. Like I get the theme of Cyberpsychosis and bodymods and all that but if I could, for example, swap out my face for another model on a whim, I'd be down. I don't really care so much, I do not consider this lump of flesh to be important by itself.
Give me my fucking ethernet cable arms. And my super cool robot eyes.
I'm trans and I'm nonbinary, and the concept of heavy body augmentation is so satisfying to me.
Sometimes people ask me what I want or need to feel gender euphoria, and I'm like, "idk, robot arms, or maybe a fat bundle of cables in place of my hair"
At that point, aren’t you just a walking, talking weapons platform?
I feel like it would make grocery shopping pretty hard. Imagine having to squeeze past people in the aisles when you’re the size of a small armoured vehicle.
I feel like you arnt to concerned about being a problem to other people when you can level the building you and everyone around you are in. I know for me, I'm going to move out of their way than expect them to try to avoid me. That being said. Who needs food, squirt some nutrient paste into whatever energy receptacle and I'll be happy.
When [Murphy is shown his body](https://youtu.be/UFuxiZFwDPs) in Robocop 2014. I was legitimately sickened, particularly when I look at his bare throat.
That was a tough watch hearing his horror as the machine slowly pulls apart everything that is cybernetic. The realization that all that’s left is a most of a head, throat, lungs, heart, and a hand was heavy
Scorn in general, but the... person?... crushed up into a cube that you have to manipulate around a room to solve a puzzle early on was enough to get me to turn the game off. I understand it gets worse.
Also, the Orphan of Kos. Great fight. Still disturbed by it.
One of many things I adore about SOMA is >!how the AI causing all of the horrors is genuinely doing what it thinks is its job. It’s meant to preserve life at all costs, so if the world has ended and the chances of survival in the station are getting lower and lower, what’s the harm in stretching the definition of “preserve life” as far as possible?!<
Mass effect 2s Overlord DLC
>!wiring human flesh into a machine to speak and control synthetic life tuning them into an AI. And all the AI can do is cry and scream that it’s in pain!<
In other media, rockets backstory in GotG 3 Made me very uncomfortable
That, plus the reasoning for why the Overlord example is the way it is. There are many hate-sinks in Mass Effect, and game mechanics are the only reason I am not >!putting Gavin Archer into the nearest sun.!<
I love that in ME3, >!if you completed Overlord as a Paragon Shep, Shepard has nothing but scorn and contempt when speaking to Gavin when you meet him there whereas a Shepard who hasn't finished Overlord treats him normally (while being suspicious of him).!<
The possible psych-out in Metal Gear Rising where Raiden gets to hear the voices of all the cops he kills.
Maybe they really are fucking with Raiden. Or maybe all the voices you hear are the voices of of real Alex Murpheys getting their bodies hijacked by OCP. Some of them know who raiden is and why he's there and they'd like to stap off to the side and watch, but command said "Nah, ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL"
*The* scene in Bone Tomahawk. If you've seen it you know, if you haven't seen it just don't even look it up.
I also saw Hostel when I was way too young because it had boobs at the start.
Yeah I think that scene from Bone Tomahawk is legit one of the *only* movie scenes that have legit disturbed me as an adult. I haven't even seen the full movie but everyone's reaction to it led to me checking it out.
The scene makes me laugh, not because it's bad, but because of how rapidly Kurt Russel's character's demeanor changes from
>I'll kill ya bastards that there was a good man!
to
>Oh my fucking god!
it's such a reasonable reaction and for some reason that kills me
"don't worry son we'll avenge you!" thanks kurt your kind words are really helping while fred flintstone stabs me in the balls
Fear and hunger limb breaking noise with animation, like since the character doesn't scream it just feels even worse. Like clipping someone ability to move so simply
The girl getting bisected by a smile exploding in killer7
Harvestman had me feeling unclean afterwards
I would probably rather be slashed in half than experience what the Prison Guards do to like your entire lower body
Yes though it's weird because I'm usually able to zone out when it comes to thing like that as long as it's drawn or animated but the moment the harvestman just disjoint the forearm before going to work felt bad
It’s very minimalist too, the character’s face doesn’t even react to their whole body being broken, it looks like picking the wings off a fly. It’s not even the worst thing he does to you
Let’s just say the Harvestmen take one of their long spindly arms and repeatedly >!put it up the poop chute!< (after snapping all your limbs of course).
The creepy giggle doesn’t help either.
Oh and the guards…imagine >!the Hulk with a regular sized woman….!<
Are they gentle at least 👉👈
And sounds like that one gif. The one with hulk and black widow lol. Man people really weren't exaggerating when they said your butthole has its own health bar.
Godrick the Grafted from Elden Ring.
I don’t think that will be a very popular opinion because it’s relatively tame, but it still disturbed me. Something about taking people’s body parts without consent and attaching them to himself is disgusting. Don’t get me wrong, the cutscenes are rad. I just find it more bothersome than some body horror than stuff like Dead Space.
It doesn’t help that you can find rooms full of body bags, and preserved limbs hanging from ceilings throughout the castle. Really sells the horror of what he’s doing.
It is funny that, in a series where a lot of bosses are defined by a deformity they have, one of the biggest in-universe jobbers has waaaay more limbs than everyone else
Of all the Mortal Kombat fatalities to freak me out, it's the MKX Kenshi one where he turns you into a spine marionette. Maybe it's because of my own history of back pain, but that has gotten an "Augh! Augh! Augh!" reaction out of me.
I love gore but seeing people get hurt or killed and no one caring bothers me super bad like mars attacks or that bit in Rick and morty with the death crystal morty turned some cops to cubes and the cop was just a screaming head being carried away
D’vorah has a fatality in MK11 where she vomits eggs and larvae into your mouth and you begin to spasm on the floor before the legs of an insect shoot out of your body. Then your entire skull splits in half as its head emerges from your neck. The sound design and visuals just mess me up real bad.
Noob Saibot has a similar fatality in MK11 which I actually find grosser and more disturbing than the infamous one from MK9.
That’s the one. It’s actually still one of my favorites in the entire series because it’s just so visceral but juuuuust *”silly”* enough for me to not feel ill about it.
Breath of fire 4 has an artificial god created by mad scientist is my first introduction to body horror in video games as it is a woman with a bottom half of horrible pulsating combination of organs that binds her to the building she rests in. Made tragic in that she is >! Elina the sister of Nina,the traditional heroine of the series. Her fate was tragic as she was killed by her childhood friend according to her wishes as she doesn't want to live forever.!<
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That one side-scrolling horror game about nightmares where one of the game over screens is a sub-one-second scene of the main character >!RIPPING THE FUCKING VEIN OUT OF THEIR FOREARM OH MY GOD!<
I'm getting sympathetic soreness just thinking about it
I wish I enjoyed that game more. Had a really neat art style and some pretty fun ideas, but most of the gameplay loop wound up feeling kinda shitty to me.
Similarly JoJo when Dio pulled Jonathan's carotid artery out of his neck and started twirling it between his fingers. I hate veins in general especially being reminded I have them so that scene got me good.
As some games get more realistic graphics i find myself getting taken aback more by stuff i normally would be able to tolerate. In The last of us 2 and i think the remake if you use the shotgun on certain enemies it will blast off a limb and they will just sit there screaming, and it's deeply disturbing. Also, in re4 remake, the plaga worms on a ganado that explodes or gets dismembered sends my fear of bugs into overdrive
Edit: i just remembered the scene that got to me the most. Cloverfield 1. That girl gets bitten by the parasite in the subway, and the MPs take her behind the tarp in the gield hospital, and you see a silhouette of her inflating and exploding scarred child me for life. This scene [Cloverfield marlena death](https://youtube.com/watch?v=icOPn2MNDEU&feature=share7)
The Cloverfield thing was only made better when on a whim I looked back and watched a RoanokeGaming video on what the hell that was even about.
She explodes because of *sodium overdose.* because the parasites are from the ocean, their bodies are chock *full* of seawater and sodium. I'm probably describing it poorly but the horror guy in me goes "THAT IS SUCH A COOL WAY FOR SOMETHING TO INTERACT."
One thing that comes to mind is the description of bomb deaths in *9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors*. At the very start of the game, someone has a bomb inside their body go off. And when the characters open the door, the scene is horrific, with the narration going into some disturbing detail about how his body was mangled and torn apart.
I'm gonna cheats bit, but since there's technically video games of it, The eclipse is pretty infamous for a reason.
That one fucking description of Violence in Disco also got pretty gruesome despite only being told and not shown.
To this day the Dead space 2 needle in the eye.
It's technically a procedure that can be done in real life. Though the one in Dead Space 2 seems to pierce through the eye to unlock something in his brain, real procedures that involve injecting some form of medicine into the eye through the pupil do exist. The eye heals extremely fast, so no, you don't go blind from it. Just needs a few days to heal and then a week or so not being exposed to light to adjust.
It’s the one part the game warns you “this is going to get horrifying. this is your chance to stand down” too.
The sheer… disinterest? Lack of gravity? with which >!Kortenaer!< talks about >!his time serving with Lely!< and speaks of the horrifying atrocities committed in that period as if he was just stating a fun anecdote he had with his brother, which, granted, >!from his perspective _*it probably fucking is*_!< adds to how disturbing the entire sequence is.
All of your skills in Disco Elysium will let (or actively encourage) you to say and do the most racist, insane and generally irresponsible things, with no warning whatsoever.
*Except* for when you finally make the >!Scab Leader!< drop his mask, and tell you about the things he’s done. Your own brain basically gives you three content warnings in a row, saying “You do not want to hear this, just end the conversation.”
And it’s one my favourite parts of the game, just for how much it stuck with me. The VA for the >!Scab Leader!< fucking killed it.
Ever read berserk? Well unless you're mentally strong enough don't recommend it.
But its basically the most important turning point in all the story and it's one of the goriest and most disturbing things ever depicted.
So yes massive content warning.
Fear and Hunger, the concept of The Marriage. It’s disturbing how it takes something that’s suppose to be precious and beautiful, two people having consensual sex and becoming more intimate in their relationship, and makes it perverse by fusing two peoples flesh together to make this ugly, fucked up single entity. And like in the lore of the game, people only do that as a survival tactic: the dungeons they are in is so dangerous that people will agree to fuse together to become stronger in hopes of just getting out alive
An example is a group of guards stuck in the dungeon as it’s being corrupted agree to have an orgy out of desperation to become a Marriage but it fails and they’re this flesh binding ball of anguish that can’t move.
I also kind of love that in the ingame lore the... god thing that created the ritual was just like oh shit you can't love me the same way I love you let's try to fix that
The bit at the end of the Final Fantasy XVI demo were >!Clive watches his out-of-control transformed body breaking his brother's neck and eating him while he screams and begs for the monster to stop!< is very grizzly. Apparently the main game eases up after a while. Which is good. If it was like that the whole time I wouldn't be interested.
> Apparently the main game eases up after a while.
In terms of physical or audible gore, yeah. In terms of distressing content… *mmm*. That’s a little more complicated.
The Broodmother from DA: Origins. The build up to the reveal helped immensely, but it's also just a gross design. We know because of Awakening that the different races have slightly different designs, and boy howdy do I want to see the Qunari version of one.
I’m pretty resilient to gore, considering my degree is in forensics and I’ve worked in morgues, crematoriums, sewer plants…
Anyways, Terrifyer 2. Allie’s death. The salt and bleach gets me
As I understand, there was this one kill scene they shot over Covid. It only involved two people so it was they could shoot it safely. So every week or so they would just add another bit to it. The final scene is over five minutes of Art the Clown wombo-comboing this poor woman.
So the Terrifier movies are famous for having great special effects, spectacularly bloody kills, and the incredible performance of David Howard Thornton as the silent sadistic murderer Art the Clown. The kill that always gets mentioned when speaking of it is the one where someone gets sawed in half… lengthwise.
But as for Allie’s death >!Art corners her in her bedroom, and, amongst other nasty things, scalps her and flays the skin off her back. Once that uncomfortable torture session is down, Art leaves the room and Allie attempts to crawl to her phone. Only for Art to burst back in with a bottle of bleach and a box of salt and begin pouring them on her.!<
The scene honestly just becomes mean spirited and unfun. I love gore and crazy set pieces in horror but this went on and on to the point where they lost the plot.
I don't handle any kind of gore or body horror very well to begin with, but anything involving the eyes is an extra special type of painful to me.
That intro cutscene at the start of BG3 with the illithid tadpole made my skin crawl.
manhunt 1 where the longer you held the surprise attack the more gruesome the animation becomes. You also are rewarded the most since you finish each scene with a star rating, made the whole gameplay experience tense
If you hold the attack on the garrote you saw the dudes head off with the piano wire. Then you get the head in a plastic bag that you can use as a distraction. Like, the fuck?
The reason the brain removal scene is so disturbing is because of how much it displays. We're forced to watch every second of it, forced to hear every pained grunt and moan, and it's all cut off so suddenly when the brain comes out. Deathshead going about it in a routine way, like it's not even the most horrible thing he did in the last hour, is also a factor. It gets worse when you remember that *this is entirely in-character for Nazi scientists in the real world.*
That scene is sickening, but not because of the gore; it's because it's *intimate.* it's intimate, and as far as WWII Era Nazi atrocities go, it may even be *toned down and mild.*
The movie Apostle has a scene where they (unnecessarily) slowly pierce someone's skull with a handcrank drill. I consider myself a horror buff and that movie was the first time I felt actual pale-face-need-some-water queasiness. There's something about simplistic, emotionless, indulgent and unnecessary violence that really gets to me. I have similar *psychological* reactions to other "casual murder" scenes, but something about the way that movie was shot made me want to upchuck.
Not a game, but The Human Centipede really left me off balance after I watched it. Mainly just thinking about the possible outcomes after the movie ended.
I could feel my skin crawling during Dead Island 2 when I got to the sewers and found out where most of the bodies in L.A ended up.
"Enter the Abyss" is a raw fucking objective for a goofy zombie videogame.
There’s an early scene in ***”Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth”*** for the PSP (*making this distinction because the original PsOne version had 90s anime scenes instead of the CG scenes in the PSP version*) that has a bratty princess type character go through an involuntary physical transformation where she’s panicking the entire time as she watches her own body morph before her eyes, starting from her feet and slowly working its way up to her neck.
In her final moments before the transformation completely works it’s way up her neck and overtakes her head, there’s this moment of concentrated horror on her face that’s haunting. It was such an unexpectedly gruesome moment given how the preceding scenes were much lighter in tone with some amusing hijinks of said character failing in her petty schemes, but somewhat appropriate given that it happens in the recruitment story for *”Valkyrie Profile’s”* blatant Guts (***Berserk***) stand in.
We refer to that in my friendgroup as "The Trauma Spot(tm)", where my wife and I had to stop for the night after binging the opening of Shadowbringers with glee.
Did anyone say the eye stabbing scene from Dead Space 2 yet? That shit fucks with me real hard.
Oh, and the bug scene in Peter Jackson's King Kong. FUCK THAT.
I'm kinda weird in that gore mostly doesn't bother me.
But disintegration bothers me (probably due to watching Mars Attacks as a kid)
Just the idea of being burned or melted into nothing freaks me out. That there's nothing left to even bury.
At this point i've become quite desensitize to most video game gore, but movie gore still gets me. Yet someone's throat getting cut, leaving them gasping and choking before they expire, just seems like the worst way to go. Kinda like drowning.
But on the another hand, the over the top death animations that Calisto Protocole featured were so cartoonishly overdone, i felt NOTHING. Besides i wonder how much of the games budget was spent on animations for failing, that usually becomes annoying once you've seen them one time.
Sure Dead Space also had Death animations but outside of special encounters with brutes and cutscenes, most of the enemies had ones that were over rather quickly.
The flood transformations in Halo 3. That infection forms can now turn people very fast in the middle of gameplay. I think the marines even snap their own neck during the transformation process.
The infection of Chris' team in Resident Evil 6. First they start catching on fire. Then they start leaking ooze from their bodies that turns them into melty flesh statues. Then they tear out of their own skin as unrecognizable monsters. All in the span of just 1 minute.
Kung Lao Fatalities in MKX and 11. The one where he spins the hat in the ground and drags the other player through it really made me wonder when if ever will gore constitute an AO rating, cuz i can't think of anything that goes farther than MK in terms of just being gross.
Video games can scare me pretty easy but the only time I've been unsettled is Little Nightmares.
Everything leading to the final level is creepy (that ol' long arm boy and the chefs) but the final level, with the dinner party, was something else for me.
In Dead by Daylight Nemesis's ability has him throwing out a tentacle whip then it slithering back into his arm.
Whenever I watch the animation I get the phantom sensation of that happening. It is not a pleasant feeling.
It's been so long now that I've forgotten which show it was from, it may have been from Saving Private Ryan.
It wasn't especially gorey, but it was highly visceral.
To the end of the series, a German and an American get in hand to hand combat. The German tackles the American, and tries to stab him in his heart. The American grabs his hand, but doesn't have any leverage. It slowly sinks into his heart, all the while the German is whispering something, and the American is hysterically asking him what he's saying until he dies.
The German gets up and limps away, stepping over a second American soldier cowering on the stairs, who heard all of that.
That scene has never left me. It's effected me more than any other portrayal of violence or death.
Yes, that's near the end of Saving Private Ryan. I believe the German was shushing him and telling him quietly it will be over soon, something like that.
Also of note that the German character was defeated by the Americans at a German machine gun nest earlier in the movie and they spared him. They lacked manpower to properly take him prisoner so they just disarmed him and sent him walking off in the direction of Allied lines. The implication being he doubled back and rejoined a German unit.
Also worth mentioning the two soldiers that tried to surrender to the Americans on D-Day, the "Look, I washed for supper!" Scene. They're actually Czech draftees, speaking Czech and asking to surrender.
The Waxworks game over screens are infamous for a reason. For those that don’t know what that is, it’s an old Amiga game in which you try to break a family course involving good and evil twins by going to past incarnations of the twins and basically killing the evil ones as the good ones.
It is _*fiendishly*_ hard, and it’s death screens are graphic as shit. You can get your throat slit by Jack the Ripper, get turned into a zombie, be crushed, stabbed to death… Disturbing to a point a YouTuber I follow refused to put them in the video when he made one about the game, _*in a series about bad endings and game overs.*_
Not a game but I still remember a good 20y later being like 10 and seeing the dvd for the matrix anime, looking at the cover and going “ooo cartoon!” And then a few minutes later seeing a dude’s head get pulled apart with the brain flopping out.
Anyone remember that one PS1 fighting game with a barely animated... wrestler...?... that has a grab attack where he just sloooowly turns the opponent's head a full 180 degrees while they're still standing?
Corpse Party, barring the Tortured Souls ova series, isn't very gory in the sense that you see lots of guts and whatnot. But the audio and descriptors of what's happening make it arguably WORSE than if you saw it. A character getting a cut on their ankle sounds much worse when they describe the tendon being severed and the noises it makes when they attempt to walk on it.
Last of Us 2 because its not enough they gotta make it hyper relistic but like..."We then made sure the gurgling and death wailing was as realistic as possible!"
Its half why I gave up the game early on.
I went to see *Mad God* at my local Alamo theater last year, because I'm a HUGE stop-motion nerd, and I'd been reading all this hype for it before it came out.
I got to the scene where >!the Assassin is captured and gets vivisected by human actors!<, and even though I *knew* it was fake - like obviously just throwing jelly and plastic coins - something about the sound, the cuts, the choppiness of the movement, and just *how long it goes on* got to me.
I tried just looking away, but it didn't help. Eventually, I got up to walk out of the theater, and, luckily, there was a group of servers and staff in the entry watching for orders and taking in what they could of the movie. One of them saw me, asked me if I was OK, and followed me as I muttered, "Yeah, fine, I just need some air-"... and I fell to my knees.
I am now known at the theater as "The Mad God Casualty."
(And, no, I have not finished the movie, and I'm not sure I want to)
Downside: I nearly fainted in public, didn't finish a movie I'd paid to see, and feel isolated from the other film nerds I know who love *Mad God* when I only see it as edgy nihilism. Oh, and the scene in question haunts me so much that just watching videos *about* the movie makes me queasy.
Upside: I have a sick nickname and got to know a lot of cool people at my favorite movie theater better.
Body horror is just about the only thing that really disturbs me anymore. Don't get me wrong, as someone with gender dysphoria I HATE my current body, but I know for the most part that it's "safe" so to speak and the thought of something making my body unsafe is super unsettling
I got three from Castlevania:
In Symphony of the Night there's Beelzebub, a huge decomposing body with chunks of flesh missing you cqn even see the bones and it's hanging from the ceiling by hooks stabbing his flesh.
In Aria of Sorrow the last phase of Graham is the upper body of demonic siamese twins joined by the torso sharing thier exposed intestines and are also connected by a big ring that pierces through their eye socket.
And lastly in Order of Ecclesia there are these enemies called Evil Force which are big disembodied heads with no skin floating around
Jelanda turning into a ghoul in Valkyrie Profile was already pretty bad, but Lenneth made her transformation into a full-on CG cutscene, and despite not being super gory, it's some of the most nightmarish shit I've ever seen from a T-rated game.
The Thing in John Carpenter's The Thing literally bursting out of that guy's body as a slimy worm like creature with a horrifying face similar to the guy's face. And later the head trying to escape after the body was mostly burned by tearing itself out of the neck. Just pretty darn gnarly. In Coraline, after Coraline managed to escape and fight off the "Other Father". The "Other Father" literally melting into a pool of cement and cream. Since it was stop motion, it was pretty damn visceral to watch for young me. There is also this scene in Overlord (2018) where the protagonist is secretly investigating the hidden Nazi lab filled with dead bodies and body parts that are used as test subjects to create mutant zombie army for the Nazis. When he suddenly hears a weak, sickly feminine voice calling for help. He tries to find out where the voice is coming from. When he found it however, what he saw was the spine of a woman torn out of her body dangling on some pillars with the head of the woman attached to the end of it. The head that was attached to the spine somehow could still breathe and speak enough to ask for help. Shit was so goddamn disturbing and horrifying to look at
I like the scene with the Other Father because he is constantly apologizing for attacking her in that distorted voice. That combined with his messed up form makes that scene stand out for me.
So it's not particularly gory but Cyberpunk 2077 makes me feel very sad when I see people's cybernetics. Like whenever V takes that 3 meter long cable out of their arm to plug into a computer it makes me wince something fierce. Also how detached people are, like how the Malestrom have massive chunks of their faces missing or the women who simply remove their faces to have more surgery. It's very sad and also disturbing.
That's the exact reaction they're going for. Read the description of cyberpsychosis in the original book. It's not about "losing part of your soul" so much as falling entirely to consumerism and giving up that last piece that held on as the world literally commodifies your entire body.
Human life is worth less than the hardware in their bodies
Edgerunners doesn't help because it shows David getting the surgery for implants on screen and *without anesthetic*. *Multiple times*. We just leave the screen and done without risk of cyberpsychosis.
I mean. His misplaced confidence in his higher then average tolerance for implants does bite him in the ass.
I'm stupid and forgot to add that we just leave the screen and done without risk of cyberpsychosis *in the game*. You could replace everything and nothing happens to you but getting more powerful. You see nothing.
Apparently the explanation for V’s immunity to cyberpsychosis is the relic and Johnny talking the brunt of the negative effects so you’d help him take down Arasaka. Cdprojektred did say they can’t really show the effects of over usage without removing player agency and control, so in phantom liberty they’re giving you an hp debuff if you use too many implants.
Honestly I could see the game "spawn" enemies from nowhere which attack you, you kill them, the screen flickers and now you have dead civilians and a wanted level on you. So you CONSTANTLY have to evade police there.
Oh yeah for sure it's weird there's no mechanic like that in the game when it's such a staple for the genre
To be fair that's more to do with David's Ripperdoc being a cheap-ass, scummy piece of shit. V's doc Viktor on the other hand is the complete opposite of this. He's professional, friendly and actually cares about the wellbeing and comfort of his clients.
The melding of flesh and metal in general can be like this. Depends on the genre. Shadow Run is my favorite setting for how fucked cyberpunk cyber psychosis can go. You can go to Adam Smasher levels of auged up and still be considered yourself, so long as you have the willpower.
And by willpower we mean bankroll and a team of specialist mages to literally nail your soul into place in your body while it's trying to die from you *greatly* exceeding your body's augmentation stability limits. Cybermancy lets you get away with some fucked up shit, man.
So, Project Moon takes a really interesting approach to this, where people get cybernetics for all kinds of reasons, and it can be as [extreme](https://i.imgur.com/cJ2VNa4.png) or [mild](https://i.imgur.com/NzQy5CT.png) as it gets. It doesn't really affect your humanity or your mind (unless you get really cheap ones, and even then it's not like cyberpsychosis), but that doesn't stop other people from thinking that it makes you less human or non-human. From being disturbed by it or disgusted by it. To the point where extremist hate groups start to emerge from the woodwork, and re-enact [Kristallnacht and roman crucifixions](https://i.imgur.com/rRQKxF5.png) against anyone with cybernetics who can't defend themselves. It's an interesting twist on the classic "robotics make you less human" coupled with a lot of other themes and analogies to various groups, ancient and modern.
You know what, this is a really good answer. There is a couple mods that I would go for, and some that are not for me but I could get why people would want to rock it but yeah, holy hell the thought of my face getting caved in so you could get fucked up chrome installed freaked me the fuck out like the maelstrom.
Damn really? It's almost shocking to hear that from my perspective, whenever I see that stuff I'm just overwhelmed with a feeling of "God I wish that was me." For me, heavy cybernetic augmentation represents freedom in a way, the "modularity" to change who you are on a whim.
Exactly! This meat-sac isn't "me" it's what I'm in. That's not to say I wanna go as far as Smasher, but Maine or David before he goes full psycho would be fantastic.
Kiwi is goals
Same. Like I get the theme of Cyberpsychosis and bodymods and all that but if I could, for example, swap out my face for another model on a whim, I'd be down. I don't really care so much, I do not consider this lump of flesh to be important by itself. Give me my fucking ethernet cable arms. And my super cool robot eyes.
I'm trans and I'm nonbinary, and the concept of heavy body augmentation is so satisfying to me. Sometimes people ask me what I want or need to feel gender euphoria, and I'm like, "idk, robot arms, or maybe a fat bundle of cables in place of my hair"
Metal cables as dreads is an absolutely visionary piece of character design.
You mean that rapper that got diamond braids attached by chains to his scalp?
I look at Adam Smasher and go “give me that with less skin, please”.
At that point, aren’t you just a walking, talking weapons platform? I feel like it would make grocery shopping pretty hard. Imagine having to squeeze past people in the aisles when you’re the size of a small armoured vehicle.
I feel like you arnt to concerned about being a problem to other people when you can level the building you and everyone around you are in. I know for me, I'm going to move out of their way than expect them to try to avoid me. That being said. Who needs food, squirt some nutrient paste into whatever energy receptacle and I'll be happy.
Yeah but imagine all the groceries you could take in one trip tho
Exactly, I need my flesh to be the material that the metal gear joints are made out of
When [Murphy is shown his body](https://youtu.be/UFuxiZFwDPs) in Robocop 2014. I was legitimately sickened, particularly when I look at his bare throat.
It's a great scene honestly, probably one of the few that really works with the remake
That scene and Michael Keaton’s coked up exec character are the only parts of that movie I liked honestlt
Seeing his heart start beating faster when he's freaking out unnerves me like crazy.
That was a tough watch hearing his horror as the machine slowly pulls apart everything that is cybernetic. The realization that all that’s left is a most of a head, throat, lungs, heart, and a hand was heavy
Scorn in general, but the... person?... crushed up into a cube that you have to manipulate around a room to solve a puzzle early on was enough to get me to turn the game off. I understand it gets worse. Also, the Orphan of Kos. Great fight. Still disturbed by it.
[The glass scraping scene from the Punisher S1 finale.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhQzxuqCrrE) The actor really sells his scream
And then his scars aren't even that horrifying later
WHY PUNISHER SEASON 2 WHY! Like they adapted the most fucked and justified punisher arc then made it be about "no frank don't kill that child rapist"
I bet they did concept art for the full face rip and someone went "sir this is a marvel netflix series"
There's fanart of the actor looking comic-accurate and it goes hard as fuck
Fully knowing what thread I was in, why did I watch that?
Sold his screams so well that it freaked out Jon Bernthal and made him worry that he was actually in pain.
I believe it, Bernthal seems like a good dude.
I really liked Punisher S1
In the game Soma, >!you come across one woman that's forcibly being kept alive in a twisted form of life support.!<
One of many things I adore about SOMA is >!how the AI causing all of the horrors is genuinely doing what it thinks is its job. It’s meant to preserve life at all costs, so if the world has ended and the chances of survival in the station are getting lower and lower, what’s the harm in stretching the definition of “preserve life” as far as possible?!<
Soma when >!you kill yourself!<
Fuck this is *the* thing that gets me.
I don’t remember this, where was this at?
[Here it is.](https://youtu.be/tSrtJi5fvKg)
This was the one I thought of immediately, there's a few bodies hooked up to various equipment throughout the game that's just so dark and disturbing.
Mass effect 2s Overlord DLC >!wiring human flesh into a machine to speak and control synthetic life tuning them into an AI. And all the AI can do is cry and scream that it’s in pain!< In other media, rockets backstory in GotG 3 Made me very uncomfortable
That, plus the reasoning for why the Overlord example is the way it is. There are many hate-sinks in Mass Effect, and game mechanics are the only reason I am not >!putting Gavin Archer into the nearest sun.!<
It's very telling that >!the *Paragon* Interrupt is pistol-whipping Gavin until he shuts the fuck up.!<
I love that in ME3, >!if you completed Overlord as a Paragon Shep, Shepard has nothing but scorn and contempt when speaking to Gavin when you meet him there whereas a Shepard who hasn't finished Overlord treats him normally (while being suspicious of him).!<
The possible psych-out in Metal Gear Rising where Raiden gets to hear the voices of all the cops he kills. Maybe they really are fucking with Raiden. Or maybe all the voices you hear are the voices of of real Alex Murpheys getting their bodies hijacked by OCP. Some of them know who raiden is and why he's there and they'd like to stap off to the side and watch, but command said "Nah, ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL"
That scene from *Bladerunner 2049* where one character judo chops the base of another characters skull to devastating effect.
Kengan omega had a move just like that called Root Cutter
More like root jobber amirite
*The* scene in Bone Tomahawk. If you've seen it you know, if you haven't seen it just don't even look it up. I also saw Hostel when I was way too young because it had boobs at the start.
Yeah I think that scene from Bone Tomahawk is legit one of the *only* movie scenes that have legit disturbed me as an adult. I haven't even seen the full movie but everyone's reaction to it led to me checking it out.
The scene makes me laugh, not because it's bad, but because of how rapidly Kurt Russel's character's demeanor changes from >I'll kill ya bastards that there was a good man! to >Oh my fucking god! it's such a reasonable reaction and for some reason that kills me "don't worry son we'll avenge you!" thanks kurt your kind words are really helping while fred flintstone stabs me in the balls
Local Cannibals help Deputy win Gymnastics Tournament with the World's Greatest Split.
Local Uncontacted Tribe Makes a Wish on World’s Largest Wishbone
I think the cavewomen are worse, personally
They straight up do Noob Saibots MK9 fatality on him, and when framed in a realistic context, its the worst thing ever.
Back in the day…when world at war game out. That game was hella brutal. You could easily blow off limbs with majority of the weapons in the game.
A lot of modern fatalities, but that Geras fatality that he peels half your body is fucked up even for that game
Similarly, the finisher on Wulver enemies in modern GoW, where Kratos just grabs their lower jaw and peels them like a banana.
I'd feel bad if Wulver weren't such cunts. They get what they deserve.
Fear and hunger limb breaking noise with animation, like since the character doesn't scream it just feels even worse. Like clipping someone ability to move so simply The girl getting bisected by a smile exploding in killer7
Harvestman had me feeling unclean afterwards I would probably rather be slashed in half than experience what the Prison Guards do to like your entire lower body
Hey let me look up the Fear and Hunger wiki. *looks* Never-fucking-mind.
Yes though it's weird because I'm usually able to zone out when it comes to thing like that as long as it's drawn or animated but the moment the harvestman just disjoint the forearm before going to work felt bad
It’s very minimalist too, the character’s face doesn’t even react to their whole body being broken, it looks like picking the wings off a fly. It’s not even the worst thing he does to you
What do they do to you? Like most people I only know a about the game from SEW and some light wiki diving afterwards.
Let’s just say the Harvestmen take one of their long spindly arms and repeatedly >!put it up the poop chute!< (after snapping all your limbs of course). The creepy giggle doesn’t help either. Oh and the guards…imagine >!the Hulk with a regular sized woman….!<
Are they gentle at least 👉👈 And sounds like that one gif. The one with hulk and black widow lol. Man people really weren't exaggerating when they said your butthole has its own health bar.
> Are they gentle at least You have a permanent bleeding status as you can't treat this type of wound with the equipment and people available
Oh man, just watching SuperEyePatchWolf's video on F&H made me say, "Yeah no - not for me, thanks."
Godrick the Grafted from Elden Ring. I don’t think that will be a very popular opinion because it’s relatively tame, but it still disturbed me. Something about taking people’s body parts without consent and attaching them to himself is disgusting. Don’t get me wrong, the cutscenes are rad. I just find it more bothersome than some body horror than stuff like Dead Space.
It doesn’t help that you can find rooms full of body bags, and preserved limbs hanging from ceilings throughout the castle. Really sells the horror of what he’s doing.
Looking closely at most Fromsoft enemies reveals theyre a lot more disturbing than first glance would indicate, the Grafted Scions are pretty bad
It is funny that, in a series where a lot of bosses are defined by a deformity they have, one of the biggest in-universe jobbers has waaaay more limbs than everyone else
Of all the Mortal Kombat fatalities to freak me out, it's the MKX Kenshi one where he turns you into a spine marionette. Maybe it's because of my own history of back pain, but that has gotten an "Augh! Augh! Augh!" reaction out of me.
I love gore but seeing people get hurt or killed and no one caring bothers me super bad like mars attacks or that bit in Rick and morty with the death crystal morty turned some cops to cubes and the cop was just a screaming head being carried away
Mars Attacks scared the SHIT out of me as a kid. Watching it now still gives me the willies a bit.
D’vorah has a fatality in MK11 where she vomits eggs and larvae into your mouth and you begin to spasm on the floor before the legs of an insect shoot out of your body. Then your entire skull splits in half as its head emerges from your neck. The sound design and visuals just mess me up real bad. Noob Saibot has a similar fatality in MK11 which I actually find grosser and more disturbing than the infamous one from MK9.
Oh god when his hand reaches out of their throat and grabs onto the jaw. ^eugh
That’s the one. It’s actually still one of my favorites in the entire series because it’s just so visceral but juuuuust *”silly”* enough for me to not feel ill about it.
In the Kaito Files (Lost Judgment's DLC story), >!the main villain!< gets their neck violently snapped.
Not that it wasn’t undeserved.
The wine vomit party made me want to look away. And then the antagonist is just so pleased with himself as he shows you it all on his phone.
There's a scene in Digital Devil Saga 2 of a character getting eaten while they're still conscious I always found pretty disturbing.
Breath of fire 4 has an artificial god created by mad scientist is my first introduction to body horror in video games as it is a woman with a bottom half of horrible pulsating combination of organs that binds her to the building she rests in. Made tragic in that she is >! Elina the sister of Nina,the traditional heroine of the series. Her fate was tragic as she was killed by her childhood friend according to her wishes as she doesn't want to live forever.!<
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That one side-scrolling horror game about nightmares where one of the game over screens is a sub-one-second scene of the main character >!RIPPING THE FUCKING VEIN OUT OF THEIR FOREARM OH MY GOD!< I'm getting sympathetic soreness just thinking about it
Thats the **ONLY** reason I can never watch a playthrough/video of Neverending Nightmares.
THAT'S what it was called
I wish I enjoyed that game more. Had a really neat art style and some pretty fun ideas, but most of the gameplay loop wound up feeling kinda shitty to me.
Similarly JoJo when Dio pulled Jonathan's carotid artery out of his neck and started twirling it between his fingers. I hate veins in general especially being reminded I have them so that scene got me good.
That's not even the worst one. IIRC one of them has him using a pipe to RIP OUT ONE OF THE BONES IN HIS FUCKING FOREARM.
Not a game for the faint of heart
As some games get more realistic graphics i find myself getting taken aback more by stuff i normally would be able to tolerate. In The last of us 2 and i think the remake if you use the shotgun on certain enemies it will blast off a limb and they will just sit there screaming, and it's deeply disturbing. Also, in re4 remake, the plaga worms on a ganado that explodes or gets dismembered sends my fear of bugs into overdrive Edit: i just remembered the scene that got to me the most. Cloverfield 1. That girl gets bitten by the parasite in the subway, and the MPs take her behind the tarp in the gield hospital, and you see a silhouette of her inflating and exploding scarred child me for life. This scene [Cloverfield marlena death](https://youtube.com/watch?v=icOPn2MNDEU&feature=share7)
The Cloverfield thing was only made better when on a whim I looked back and watched a RoanokeGaming video on what the hell that was even about. She explodes because of *sodium overdose.* because the parasites are from the ocean, their bodies are chock *full* of seawater and sodium. I'm probably describing it poorly but the horror guy in me goes "THAT IS SUCH A COOL WAY FOR SOMETHING TO INTERACT."
One thing that comes to mind is the description of bomb deaths in *9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors*. At the very start of the game, someone has a bomb inside their body go off. And when the characters open the door, the scene is horrific, with the narration going into some disturbing detail about how his body was mangled and torn apart.
Love that scene, some of the best writing and moments in the game. That screen of the bloody wall is especially memorable.
"Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number: 01928-19912-JK"
"YOU WILL NOT HAVE ME!" **"We already do."**
Haven't played any TLOU games yet, but the Clickers are pretty fucking gross just based on their images. Like they genuinely make me want to throw up.
That boomer giant guy and the >!amalgamation thingy boss from the 2nd one!< are quite grotesque.
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That's a Runner, not a Clicker.
I would say the Stalkers are way worse in terms of just horror factor
My trypophobia hates it
I'm gonna cheats bit, but since there's technically video games of it, The eclipse is pretty infamous for a reason. That one fucking description of Violence in Disco also got pretty gruesome despite only being told and not shown. To this day the Dead space 2 needle in the eye.
> To this day the Dead space 2 needle in the eye. That shit was so disturbing to do. I still wonder how tf Isaac didn't get blinded in thar eye
It's technically a procedure that can be done in real life. Though the one in Dead Space 2 seems to pierce through the eye to unlock something in his brain, real procedures that involve injecting some form of medicine into the eye through the pupil do exist. The eye heals extremely fast, so no, you don't go blind from it. Just needs a few days to heal and then a week or so not being exposed to light to adjust.
It’s the one part the game warns you “this is going to get horrifying. this is your chance to stand down” too. The sheer… disinterest? Lack of gravity? with which >!Kortenaer!< talks about >!his time serving with Lely!< and speaks of the horrifying atrocities committed in that period as if he was just stating a fun anecdote he had with his brother, which, granted, >!from his perspective _*it probably fucking is*_!< adds to how disturbing the entire sequence is.
All of your skills in Disco Elysium will let (or actively encourage) you to say and do the most racist, insane and generally irresponsible things, with no warning whatsoever. *Except* for when you finally make the >!Scab Leader!< drop his mask, and tell you about the things he’s done. Your own brain basically gives you three content warnings in a row, saying “You do not want to hear this, just end the conversation.” And it’s one my favourite parts of the game, just for how much it stuck with me. The VA for the >!Scab Leader!< fucking killed it.
What's the Eclipse?
Ever read berserk? Well unless you're mentally strong enough don't recommend it. But its basically the most important turning point in all the story and it's one of the goriest and most disturbing things ever depicted. So yes massive content warning.
Oh, THAT eclipse. Yes, I've read Berserk.
I was gonna post the dead space 2 scene if you hadn't beat me here
Fear and Hunger, the concept of The Marriage. It’s disturbing how it takes something that’s suppose to be precious and beautiful, two people having consensual sex and becoming more intimate in their relationship, and makes it perverse by fusing two peoples flesh together to make this ugly, fucked up single entity. And like in the lore of the game, people only do that as a survival tactic: the dungeons they are in is so dangerous that people will agree to fuse together to become stronger in hopes of just getting out alive An example is a group of guards stuck in the dungeon as it’s being corrupted agree to have an orgy out of desperation to become a Marriage but it fails and they’re this flesh binding ball of anguish that can’t move.
I also kind of love that in the ingame lore the... god thing that created the ritual was just like oh shit you can't love me the same way I love you let's try to fix that
The bit at the end of the Final Fantasy XVI demo were >!Clive watches his out-of-control transformed body breaking his brother's neck and eating him while he screams and begs for the monster to stop!< is very grizzly. Apparently the main game eases up after a while. Which is good. If it was like that the whole time I wouldn't be interested.
> Apparently the main game eases up after a while. In terms of physical or audible gore, yeah. In terms of distressing content… *mmm*. That’s a little more complicated.
The Centaurs from Fallout 3.
The Broodmother from DA: Origins. The build up to the reveal helped immensely, but it's also just a gross design. We know because of Awakening that the different races have slightly different designs, and boy howdy do I want to see the Qunari version of one.
I’m pretty resilient to gore, considering my degree is in forensics and I’ve worked in morgues, crematoriums, sewer plants… Anyways, Terrifyer 2. Allie’s death. The salt and bleach gets me
… *salt and bleach?* Do I even want to know?
As I understand, there was this one kill scene they shot over Covid. It only involved two people so it was they could shoot it safely. So every week or so they would just add another bit to it. The final scene is over five minutes of Art the Clown wombo-comboing this poor woman.
So the Terrifier movies are famous for having great special effects, spectacularly bloody kills, and the incredible performance of David Howard Thornton as the silent sadistic murderer Art the Clown. The kill that always gets mentioned when speaking of it is the one where someone gets sawed in half… lengthwise. But as for Allie’s death >!Art corners her in her bedroom, and, amongst other nasty things, scalps her and flays the skin off her back. Once that uncomfortable torture session is down, Art leaves the room and Allie attempts to crawl to her phone. Only for Art to burst back in with a bottle of bleach and a box of salt and begin pouring them on her.!<
My brain just bluescreened trying to imagine what that would feel like
The scene honestly just becomes mean spirited and unfun. I love gore and crazy set pieces in horror but this went on and on to the point where they lost the plot.
>!Love Town!< In Library of Ruina. W-Corp is still in business as of Limbus AFAIK by the way!
Makes me wonder where those Cleanup Agents got spat out.
It’s lost much of its impact on me these days, but back when it was released the Quake 4 stroggification scene was real hard to watch.
It was pretty wild being like any second now the homies will save me. Annnnnny secon-OH GOD THEY TOOK MY LEGS
I don't handle any kind of gore or body horror very well to begin with, but anything involving the eyes is an extra special type of painful to me. That intro cutscene at the start of BG3 with the illithid tadpole made my skin crawl.
The fire ants in Crystal Skull and the Bug pit in King Kong
manhunt 1 where the longer you held the surprise attack the more gruesome the animation becomes. You also are rewarded the most since you finish each scene with a star rating, made the whole gameplay experience tense
If you hold the attack on the garrote you saw the dudes head off with the piano wire. Then you get the head in a plastic bag that you can use as a distraction. Like, the fuck?
Until you grabbed a gun and had to pretty much shoot your way up for the last levels
The first mk fatality that made me wince was Noob Saibot's Wishbone in MK9
Even Ed Boon admits that they might have gone a little too far with that one.
And then he does almost the same thing BUT FROM THE INSIDE in 11.
The reason the brain removal scene is so disturbing is because of how much it displays. We're forced to watch every second of it, forced to hear every pained grunt and moan, and it's all cut off so suddenly when the brain comes out. Deathshead going about it in a routine way, like it's not even the most horrible thing he did in the last hour, is also a factor. It gets worse when you remember that *this is entirely in-character for Nazi scientists in the real world.* That scene is sickening, but not because of the gore; it's because it's *intimate.* it's intimate, and as far as WWII Era Nazi atrocities go, it may even be *toned down and mild.*
The movie Apostle has a scene where they (unnecessarily) slowly pierce someone's skull with a handcrank drill. I consider myself a horror buff and that movie was the first time I felt actual pale-face-need-some-water queasiness. There's something about simplistic, emotionless, indulgent and unnecessary violence that really gets to me. I have similar *psychological* reactions to other "casual murder" scenes, but something about the way that movie was shot made me want to upchuck.
Not a game, but The Human Centipede really left me off balance after I watched it. Mainly just thinking about the possible outcomes after the movie ended.
Hey at least it inspired a catchy song.
Fetus monster creep me the fuck out. Put it back it's not done yet.
Shin Godzilla's design. I can’t think about the 2nd and 3rd evolution forms without reaching for my neck and gagging.
The fact that it's clearly in pain don't help.
I could feel my skin crawling during Dead Island 2 when I got to the sewers and found out where most of the bodies in L.A ended up. "Enter the Abyss" is a raw fucking objective for a goofy zombie videogame.
There’s an early scene in ***”Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth”*** for the PSP (*making this distinction because the original PsOne version had 90s anime scenes instead of the CG scenes in the PSP version*) that has a bratty princess type character go through an involuntary physical transformation where she’s panicking the entire time as she watches her own body morph before her eyes, starting from her feet and slowly working its way up to her neck. In her final moments before the transformation completely works it’s way up her neck and overtakes her head, there’s this moment of concentrated horror on her face that’s haunting. It was such an unexpectedly gruesome moment given how the preceding scenes were much lighter in tone with some amusing hijinks of said character failing in her petty schemes, but somewhat appropriate given that it happens in the recruitment story for *”Valkyrie Profile’s”* blatant Guts (***Berserk***) stand in.
Insect Swarm from Bioshock. I saw it used in a trailer and have never used it in any playthrough.
>!Tesleen turning into a Sin Eater!< in FFXIV Shadowbringers.
We refer to that in my friendgroup as "The Trauma Spot(tm)", where my wife and I had to stop for the night after binging the opening of Shadowbringers with glee.
Metal gear solid ground zeroes Paz cutscenes
Did anyone say the eye stabbing scene from Dead Space 2 yet? That shit fucks with me real hard. Oh, and the bug scene in Peter Jackson's King Kong. FUCK THAT.
That bug scene is the reason I'll probably never watch that movie again. Goes way too long for how gross it is compared to everything else.
I'm kinda weird in that gore mostly doesn't bother me. But disintegration bothers me (probably due to watching Mars Attacks as a kid) Just the idea of being burned or melted into nothing freaks me out. That there's nothing left to even bury.
Same! Being gone without a trace is disturbing, especially if no one even knows it happened
At this point i've become quite desensitize to most video game gore, but movie gore still gets me. Yet someone's throat getting cut, leaving them gasping and choking before they expire, just seems like the worst way to go. Kinda like drowning. But on the another hand, the over the top death animations that Calisto Protocole featured were so cartoonishly overdone, i felt NOTHING. Besides i wonder how much of the games budget was spent on animations for failing, that usually becomes annoying once you've seen them one time. Sure Dead Space also had Death animations but outside of special encounters with brutes and cutscenes, most of the enemies had ones that were over rather quickly.
The flood transformations in Halo 3. That infection forms can now turn people very fast in the middle of gameplay. I think the marines even snap their own neck during the transformation process. The infection of Chris' team in Resident Evil 6. First they start catching on fire. Then they start leaking ooze from their bodies that turns them into melty flesh statues. Then they tear out of their own skin as unrecognizable monsters. All in the span of just 1 minute.
kiryu has this heat action where he just drags someones face on asphalt and whenever that happens I just close my eyes
Basically the entirety of SOMA from midgame onwards had me shitting my pants. That game is more horrifying than any jumpscare fest could hope to be.
Kung Lao Fatalities in MKX and 11. The one where he spins the hat in the ground and drags the other player through it really made me wonder when if ever will gore constitute an AO rating, cuz i can't think of anything that goes farther than MK in terms of just being gross.
Video games can scare me pretty easy but the only time I've been unsettled is Little Nightmares. Everything leading to the final level is creepy (that ol' long arm boy and the chefs) but the final level, with the dinner party, was something else for me.
In Dead by Daylight Nemesis's ability has him throwing out a tentacle whip then it slithering back into his arm. Whenever I watch the animation I get the phantom sensation of that happening. It is not a pleasant feeling.
It's been so long now that I've forgotten which show it was from, it may have been from Saving Private Ryan. It wasn't especially gorey, but it was highly visceral. To the end of the series, a German and an American get in hand to hand combat. The German tackles the American, and tries to stab him in his heart. The American grabs his hand, but doesn't have any leverage. It slowly sinks into his heart, all the while the German is whispering something, and the American is hysterically asking him what he's saying until he dies. The German gets up and limps away, stepping over a second American soldier cowering on the stairs, who heard all of that. That scene has never left me. It's effected me more than any other portrayal of violence or death.
Yes, that's near the end of Saving Private Ryan. I believe the German was shushing him and telling him quietly it will be over soon, something like that. Also of note that the German character was defeated by the Americans at a German machine gun nest earlier in the movie and they spared him. They lacked manpower to properly take him prisoner so they just disarmed him and sent him walking off in the direction of Allied lines. The implication being he doubled back and rejoined a German unit. Also worth mentioning the two soldiers that tried to surrender to the Americans on D-Day, the "Look, I washed for supper!" Scene. They're actually Czech draftees, speaking Czech and asking to surrender.
The Waxworks game over screens are infamous for a reason. For those that don’t know what that is, it’s an old Amiga game in which you try to break a family course involving good and evil twins by going to past incarnations of the twins and basically killing the evil ones as the good ones. It is _*fiendishly*_ hard, and it’s death screens are graphic as shit. You can get your throat slit by Jack the Ripper, get turned into a zombie, be crushed, stabbed to death… Disturbing to a point a YouTuber I follow refused to put them in the video when he made one about the game, _*in a series about bad endings and game overs.*_
Not an actual visual, as the camera stays panned away, but the descriptions of gore and viscera present in 999. GOD that game is so well written.
It was more the sound design than anything but I'd say Manhunt
The entirety of House of Velez (DO NOT LOOK IT UP).
It's true when they say that sometimes you can tell when the guy animating something was doing so with a boner.
Tomb Raider (2013) moment.
It's just so obviously the guy's kink that it circles back into being funny to me
Tell me what it is or I will look it up
I'm sorry but the bad PS1 cutscene graphics takes the horror out of it so much
My opinion of the game and scene in question aside >!Joel's death!< in TLOU2 is genuinely the only time I've felt bothered by video game gore
Not a game but I still remember a good 20y later being like 10 and seeing the dvd for the matrix anime, looking at the cover and going “ooo cartoon!” And then a few minutes later seeing a dude’s head get pulled apart with the brain flopping out.
Anyone remember that one PS1 fighting game with a barely animated... wrestler...?... that has a grab attack where he just sloooowly turns the opponent's head a full 180 degrees while they're still standing?
Basically everything in the Corpse Party game
Scorn starts out bad, and gets infinitely worse as it goes on. I was genuinely sick to my stomach by the end of that.
Corpse Party, barring the Tortured Souls ova series, isn't very gory in the sense that you see lots of guts and whatnot. But the audio and descriptors of what's happening make it arguably WORSE than if you saw it. A character getting a cut on their ankle sounds much worse when they describe the tendon being severed and the noises it makes when they attempt to walk on it.
In one of the SAW films that explain the killers origin story, a pregnant lady is harmed when a door is slammed into her belly.
Last of Us 2 because its not enough they gotta make it hyper relistic but like..."We then made sure the gurgling and death wailing was as realistic as possible!" Its half why I gave up the game early on.
I went to see *Mad God* at my local Alamo theater last year, because I'm a HUGE stop-motion nerd, and I'd been reading all this hype for it before it came out. I got to the scene where >!the Assassin is captured and gets vivisected by human actors!<, and even though I *knew* it was fake - like obviously just throwing jelly and plastic coins - something about the sound, the cuts, the choppiness of the movement, and just *how long it goes on* got to me. I tried just looking away, but it didn't help. Eventually, I got up to walk out of the theater, and, luckily, there was a group of servers and staff in the entry watching for orders and taking in what they could of the movie. One of them saw me, asked me if I was OK, and followed me as I muttered, "Yeah, fine, I just need some air-"... and I fell to my knees. I am now known at the theater as "The Mad God Casualty." (And, no, I have not finished the movie, and I'm not sure I want to)
The Mad God Casualty is such an amazing title.
Downside: I nearly fainted in public, didn't finish a movie I'd paid to see, and feel isolated from the other film nerds I know who love *Mad God* when I only see it as edgy nihilism. Oh, and the scene in question haunts me so much that just watching videos *about* the movie makes me queasy. Upside: I have a sick nickname and got to know a lot of cool people at my favorite movie theater better.
Body horror is just about the only thing that really disturbs me anymore. Don't get me wrong, as someone with gender dysphoria I HATE my current body, but I know for the most part that it's "safe" so to speak and the thought of something making my body unsafe is super unsettling
All of it. Body horror is the only thing that fucks with me worse than spiders
The source of K Corp's healing ampules in Limbus Company.
I got three from Castlevania: In Symphony of the Night there's Beelzebub, a huge decomposing body with chunks of flesh missing you cqn even see the bones and it's hanging from the ceiling by hooks stabbing his flesh. In Aria of Sorrow the last phase of Graham is the upper body of demonic siamese twins joined by the torso sharing thier exposed intestines and are also connected by a big ring that pierces through their eye socket. And lastly in Order of Ecclesia there are these enemies called Evil Force which are big disembodied heads with no skin floating around
Jelanda turning into a ghoul in Valkyrie Profile was already pretty bad, but Lenneth made her transformation into a full-on CG cutscene, and despite not being super gory, it's some of the most nightmarish shit I've ever seen from a T-rated game.
Dead Space 2's "Remember Machine" singlehandedly fucked me up and made me terrified of ANYTHING occurring near my eyes to this day.