What do you feel while watching gore?

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I wish I was sensitized to anything still. I'm not sure if there's any level of gore or brutality that could shock me.

I can watch surgeries and war movies without any problem. It's the thrillers and mass murder movies that are overdone that make my stomach boil.

I tend to view it in a detached clinical way. If it's special effects gore, then I just view it as special effects.

I watched a full autopsy once and the only thing that kinda bugged me about it was how a once living breathing person was now like completely useless and could be unceremoniously chopped up without a second thought.

Gore in video games is pretty good, I like it, gore in movies can be a bit overwhelming but I do like violent moves, just not when I am not expecting it. I have to be in the mood or a certain frame of mind to watch horror movies or intense movies.

Violent video games do not bother me at all, no, I have lost feeling to it, even to the extreme.

Movies are a little different.

I used to love watching gore when I was younger, nowadays I prefer medical videos. I think I first liked watching it because it created new ways to visualize the human body under stress, nowadays I watch for a more medical purpose. My sister would often show me videos of operations on humans or animals and its more interesting than satisfying. I don't think its a perversion as much a curiosity by form. One must wonder how does thy body twist and contort with the heart still beating?

I dislike gore. Unfortunately I had an experience not too long ago where a movie all of a sudden decided to spring an intensely horrible graphic scene on me, and I left the cinema in shock, I was disturbed for several days.

Kept thinking "No, they won't go there, maybe they'll turn it around and escape, please escape", but they didn't. I can't believe that film was only a 15, what kind of person shows a 15 year old that? After all, I struggled to get over it, can't imagine what I would've been like at 15 trying to deal with what I saw.

The film was a sequel, and the first film was indeed violent but it was so in a cartoonish manner, so when I went to see the sequel I expected a goofy spy movie, but instead what I got was downright horrific. Those scenes were unnecessary and ruined the movie for me.

Personally, I found it difficult to follow the plot after that because my mind was just replaying that scene in shock really. It was quite odd because they went from a horribly gory scene, to following the main character and cracking jokes as if nothing had happened. Simply jarring. Others in the cinema laughed at the jokes, but I couldn't bring myself to because I was still trying to process what just happened.

Then, they repeated the scene with a different character. Were they trying to mentally scar people for life?

How can people enjoy this film? Were the original screenwriters all fired or something? The sequel was nothing like the original, it could've easily been from a completely different franchise. Why would they write something like this? Also, how on Earth was it the same age rating to the original? What, is "15" the new "18" rating now?

Do you really want a 15 year old seeing graphic cannibalism, and multiple people being torn to pieces? How is that OK to show to children?

All I wanted was a comedic spy movie, not to witness well... that.

Depends on the type
But I've been around slaughtered animals so sometimes I feel like I can smell the flesh or blood and it's just disgusting

But if the plot is really good I have no choice and I just grimace. I've only just started to watch slightly scary stuff again to be fair

I find it very disturbing. I don't get why anyone would want to watch that kind of thing for entertainment.

But then again, human beings seem to be naturally drawn to such things. Like the chariot races in ancient Rome where the audience loved to see the drivers get in terrible crashes and killed. Nothing has changed.