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
In fact the former reality TV star will be front and center throughout the gore and glitz, as he always is.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 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
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
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
How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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
Yet it happened every summer, and every summer some nitwit tourist got gored.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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
Monday’s incident is the second goring by a bison in the park in the last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
This would require a holistic overhaul of the educational system and the goring of many sacred cows.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 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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