10 Outrageously Gory Horror Films You Need To See

Described as “the ultimate experience in gruelling terror”, The Evil Dead lives up to its billing and then some. You will not find a better synopsis than the one written by Joe Bob Briggs: “Five teenagers become spam-in-a-cabin when they head for the woods and start turning into flesh-eating zombies. Asks a lot of moral questions like: ‘If your girlfriend turns zombie on you, what do you do? Carve her into itty-bitty pieces or look the other way?’"

To the gratitude of aficionados everywhere, Bruce Campbell realizes the only way to kill zombies is through the act of bodily dismemberment, so the rest of the movie is the story of a man, an axe and his zombified friends. Having gotten their education at the Drive-in, where Campbell and Sam Raimi watched horror movies to see what went over best with audiences, the duo’s motto became “the gore the merrier.”

You can see it at work in the attack sequences, where limbs are lopped off and blood spurts in every direction, but that’s nothing compared to the finale, where the zombies disintegrate in the most disgusting way possible.