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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

And now, just shy of his 40th birthday, Coogler is an Oscar winner, for best original screenplay for horror period piece "Sinners," an unlikely mash-up of racial segregation, Southern blues and vampire-fueled gore.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

“Don’t Talk About Joe Mac” is much more than a true-crime gore fest that reveals where the bodies are buried.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

If you can’t stomach the gore and anxiety in a typical Halloween show or movie, you will enjoy a lighter ride with an upbeat baking show.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025

I took my head off his shoulder for a moment to get a break from the gore and watched Augustus watch the movie.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green




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