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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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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

In horror, more is more — more gore, more jump scares, more shadowed silhouettes; all in service of scaring the viewer.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

But it’s also a vampire movie, full of fangs, gore and garlic, and it’s there where Mr. Coogler falters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

On this tour, it’s a really good mixture: Full of Hell’s grindcore, Fulci is guttural gore death metal, Municipal Waste is crossover, and we’re old-school death metal.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 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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