gore
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Writer-director Jacob Chase, who previously made the 2020 horror film “Come Play,” downplays gore in favor of jump scares and mildly diverting set pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
I don’t think it’s entirely unfair to say that a large portion of the effusive response to “Obsession” has been from younger viewers getting their first taste of topical horror gore shocks.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
But Ali rejects the notion that audiences only want blood and gore.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
About the feet of the Hornrock it wound, and flowed then in a gully through the midst of a wide green gore, sloping gently down from Helm’s Gate to Helm’s Dike.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Five of the 57 injured are foreign nationals: two Britons, an Australian, an American and a German who was gored in his left arm.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
A 47-year-old woman was gored by a bison in 2023 when she turned to walk away from it in Yellowstone National Park, officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Last July, a 47-year-old woman sustained significant injuries after being charged and gored by a bison.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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The goring happened late Sunday at the Oland Animal and Entertainment Park on the southwestern island of Oland.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
The Park Service said Monday’s attack was the second case in the past month “of a visitor getting too close to the animal and the bison responding to the perceived threat by goring the individual.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022
In his new essay, he recounts the goring:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2014
Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2014
"To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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