The Nastiest, Bloodiest, Goriest Movie Endings, Ranked By Grossness

Years before Peter Jackson directed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he put together a zombie splatter film called Braindead, though it’s known as Dead Alive in the States. The film centers around Lionel (Timothy Balme), who lives with his incredibly strict mother. After he finds himself a nice girl, Paquita (Diana Peñalver), his mother is bitten by a rat-monkey creature and transforms into a zombie. She then goes on a rampage, infecting much of the city’s population, leading to a rather gruesome ending.

After tearing his way through much of the town, Lionel faces off against his mother, who’s mutated into a grotesque monster of epic proportions. He challenges her actions, and she responds as if she’s perfectly normal, but she isn’t. As Lionel cries, his girlfriend is nearly knocked off the roof, leading Lionel to threaten his monstrous mom, who opens her womb/belly to consume her son. She then turns to face Paquita, saying, “Such a good boy,” as her somewhat human face crumbles off her ratlike skull as Lionel bursts his way out, finally killing his mother in a bloody pool of gore.

The Evil Dead franchise has always enjoyed a healthy appetite for bloody viscera where it suits the scene, and the 2013 remake is no exception. The film is much like The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, though it’s based on the former. It follows a group of five in a remote cabin, where they’re surrounded and constantly attacked by Deadites. If you’ve seen the aforementioned films in the franchise, you know that things don’t go too well for the cabin’s inhabitants, especially when you arrive at the end.

It’s fair to say that the ending of this film probably used up most of the budget earmarked for corn syrup and red dye number five, as it’s insanely bloody. With the cabin burning, Mia (Jane Levy) looks on, somewhat relieved. Unfortunately for her, it’s not over yet as it begins to rain blood. Once she’s covered in the stuff, a body pulls itself out of the ground at her feet and crawls toward her. Mia runs to her car but is attacked and burned by the Deadite. She then tries to crawl away to a small, overgrown tunnel, where she’s chased further, finally returning to the storage shed, where she finds a chainsaw.

Hearkening back to Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) from the original trilogy, she gets the thing running as the Deadite slashes her knee with a machete. After breaking out through the wall, Mia crawls under her car and saws through the monster’s legs and has her hand crushed when the Deadite rolls the car over it, nearly severing the hand at the wrist. In pure Ash Williams style, she rips off her hand and wields the chainsaw, finally jamming the thing into the Deadite’s face, spreading gore all over the place as the Deadite’s remains seep back into the ground on its way back to Hell.

In Ready or Not, Grace (Samara Weaving) is brought to her new husband’s home to meet the family, but in reality, she’s there to play a game. The family plays Hide-and-Seek, but not for fun. It turns out that an ancestor made a deal with a supernatural benefactor named Le Bail, gaining great fortune, but requiring that at midnight on a family member’s wedding day, they must play a game that ends in a sacrifice or Le Bail will kill every member of the family. Throughout the film, Grace defies every attempt on her life.

When the sun rises, and nobody is killed by the spirit of Le Bail, all seems quiet. Perhaps the family curse isn’t literal? That belief is quickly dispelled when one woman bursts like a water balloon filled with blood. Each family member soon follows, blowing up in a more disgusting fashion as things progress to finally place Grace before her husband, Alex (Mark O’Brien). He tries to convince her that he’s not like his family, but when she throws her wedding ring at him, telling Alex she wants a divorce, he blows up as well, splattering her face with gore. A brief surge from the fireplace reveals the shimmering specter of Le Bail, leading Grace outside to laugh her troubles away while covered in blood.

Evil Dead Rise is the fifth installment in the Evil Dead franchise. In it, two sisters work to save their families from Deadites, and like the other entries in the franchise, there’s no shortage of blood and gore.

Beth (Lily Sullivan) grabs a chainsaw to face off against a Deadite made from the combined bodies of several victims. She slams it into one of the faces, pushing it back into a mulcher. As the monstrous Deadite succumbs to the machine, bloody gore sprays everywhere. Her “sister” pleads for help, but Beth isn’t buying it. She says, “Only my sister gets to call me that” before jamming the chainsaw into the Deadite’s skull, forcing her body through the mulcher. Ellie’s (Alyssa Sutherland) head remains, taunting Beth and earning a swift kick back into the mulcher.

The Kill Bill films are director Quentin Tarantino’s homage to 1970s exploitation and martial arts films centered around “The Bride” (Uma Thurman). In Kill Bill Vol. 1, he’s nearly killed by her lover/boss, Bill (David Carradine), and awakens four years later from a coma, having lost her baby. She then embarks on a killing spree, targeting each of the assassins who did her wrong. In the first film, The Bride manages to confront two of these assassins, culminating in the ending scene where she fights O-Ren Ishi’s (Lucy Liu) gang of elite fighters known as the Crazy 88.

The Bride faces off against dozens of sword-wielding maniacs who die gruesomely or lose various parts of their bodies. The scene is purposefully grotesque and over-the-top, as the movie is an homage to those kinds of films, and Tarantino doesn’t hold back in the slightest. When she’s finished killing and maiming the entire gang, she lets the living leave but tells them they must leave their missing limbs because they belong to her now. The floor is left covered in blood and body parts as she heads off to partially decapitate her next victim: O-Ren Ishi.

Raider of the Lost Ark is the introductory film for the inimitable Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), and it’s all about recovering the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis get their hands on it. This takes Jones on an adventure, traveling across the world in search of the ancient religious artifact. Indy does find the Ark, but it falls into the hands of the Nazis. This leads to the ending, which is not only the goriest part of the film but one of the best uses of practical effects of the 1980s.

As Jones and Marion (Karen Allen) are tied up, the Nazis open the Ark. Indy tells Marion to close her eyes and not open them no matter what. This is good advice because, before long, spirits emerge from the Ark and begin to assault the Nazis while avoiding the tied-up prisoners. As things progress, the Nazis and their compatriots’ faces literally melt off, revealing the grotesquely disturbing skulls as their skin falls to the ground. They’re then engulfed in flames as their heads explode. Energy and fire from the Ark consume all of the bodies before shutting, leaving the heroes alive.

Kingsman: The Secret Service isn’t a horror film, though much blood is spilled throughout. It’s a spy/action comedy that follows Eggsy (Taron Egerton) as he is recruited into the organization his father died serving. He makes his way through training as a sinister plot unfolds: Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) creates a means of mind-controlling the world so that it ends in violence, leaving behind only the people he selected to save. Each person is fitted with a micro-explosive device in the base of their neck that will detonate should they betray Valentine.

The film ends with a massive action sequence, where Eggsy breaks into Valentine’s mountain compound, stopping him. In doing so, the explosives inside the necks of world leaders, politicians, movie stars, and billionaires all explode. The explosions are timed to the music’s bass, making for a rather riotous display of colorful, head-popping violence.

If you think you know all about the goriest body horror movies ever made but haven’t seen Tokyo Gore Police, then you’re in for a surprise. This film takes the dial and blows right past 11 to around 55 — it’s one of the most visually disturbing movies ever put to celluloid. The film is set in a dystopian Japan in the future, where a young woman working in the privatized police finds her father’s killer, but before she does, she makes her way through an army of mutant rebels. This leads to the film’s climactic ending, and it’s a lot.

In the final scene, Ruka (Eihi Shiina) severs the legs of her quarry, leaving him shaking and bloodied on the floor. He refuses to give up and injects his bloody stumps, causing them to spurt blood — a LOT of blood as he’s propelled into the air. He attempts to take her out, spurting blood all the while, so Ruka snags him with a gory whip, slamming him into the wall. She regains her sword and decapitates him as his head falls to the ground and his body continues to spin in the air.

The Substance revolves around an aging actress named Elisabeth (Demi Moore), who takes a substance that creates a younger doppelganger (Margaret Qualley) that emerges from a slit along her spine. To work correctly, they must change places every seven days, where one is awake and the other remains unconscious. The younger version calls herself Sue and goes on to abuse the drug, ultimately pushing Elisabeth to try and kill Sue. The plan backfires, and Sue kills Elisabeth instead.

This leads to the ending, which takes place during a live broadcast at a theater, after Sue has morphed into an amalgamated horror of herself and Elisabeth called Monstro Elisasue. When the crowd sees this, they react much like the townspeople in Frankenstein, leading one man to decapitate the Elisasue only to watch her grotesque head mutate further and emerge from the stump of her neck. As this happens, she sprays gallons of blood upon the crowd, drenching them completely. Her body collapses into a pile of bloody guts, leaving Elisabeth’s original face to crawl away.

Saw III has easily the goriest ending in the franchise. That’s saying something because the series is built all around grotesque and macabre set pieces. In Saw III, the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) forces his victims to play his games to satisfy his psychotic desires, and the bloody terror slowly increases throughout the film until the inevitably disturbing ending.

Several of the “players” turn on one another, leading Amanda (Shawnee Smith) to shoot Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), which leads Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) to shoot Amanda. John (who is Jigsaw) tells Jeff he has one more test to see if he can forgive, and Jeff quickly slashes his throat. This activates the collar Lynn was wearing, gorily killing her by ripping her face apart as the room seals shut. Of course, it’s not over, as a recording reveals that John has one more test for Jeff involving his daughter.

As the name implies, Revenge is a revenge flick. The plot centers around a young woman named Jen (Matilda Lutz) who seduces a married man named Richard (Kevin Janssens). His friends arrive and go on a hunting trip, which doesn’t go according to plan. Jen is raped by one of the men, and she threatens to tell Richard’s wife about their relationship, leading to Jen nearly dying after being impaled by a tree. She survives and begins to pick off her attackers one by one. This leads to a final confrontation between Jen and Richard.

In the final scene, the two chase one another around the house, shooting shotguns at each other. This covers the floor and walls with blood. Finally, Richard catches up to Jen and begins to strangle her. She reaches into his exposed belly, getting him to stop just long enough so she can shoot him dead. In the end, Jen is surrounded by bloody gore, but she manages to walk away from the house as she hears the distant sound of helicopters.

Piranha 3D is a remake of a 1978 film and is somewhat exploitative via its gratuitous violence and rampant nudity. The film revolves around Spring Break on Lake Victoria, where a tremor releases prehistoric piranhas. They eat their way through the would-be partiers in an increasingly disturbing fashion, leading Officer Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) to work with a bunch of strangers to combat the deadly fish.

In the film’s conclusion, the group (well, most of them) manage to blow up some propane tanks, killing the fish. A terrified phone call from Carl Goodman (Christopher Lloyd) reveals that the piranhas were actually babies, leading Novak (Adam Scott) to question aloud, “Where are the parents?” as a giant piranha jumps out of the water and drags him below in a bloody cloud.

Society is a body horror comedy that revolves around a teenager named Bill (Billy Warlock). He lives a normal life with his folks in Beverly Hills, CA, but after a while, he realizes his parents are actually part of a cult populated entirely by society’s top-tier people. As Bill makes his way through the story, he runs into one suspicious death after another, implicating his parents in his mind without finding any confirmed evidence of their misdeeds. After confronting his family, he’s drugged and later returns home for the ending.

He finds a large party taking place, where his therapist tells him that his family and their wealthy friends are a different species from Bill. To demonstrate this, the party guests strip to their underwear and deform their bodies while melding into one another into a massive, monstrous mass. They function like a giant single organism that absorbs the nutrients from their victims, and they plan on doing this to Bill, but he escapes. He finds a similar mass and confronts his classmate by sticking his hand inside his body and pulling him inside out before he manages to escape.