{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.gore-film","code":"thing-q1538137","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1538137/","name":"gore film","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A gore film, commonly called a splatter film, is a film usually associated with horror that makes explicit depictions of bodily injury, bloodshed and bodily destruction a central aesthetic or sensational attraction.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise a gore film, describe how explicit bodily damage functions within it, and assess which version is suitable for a proposed viewing or use.","scope":{"in":["Evidence for classifying a film as gore, including competing uses of gore film and splatter film","The explicitness, frequency and prominence of depicted bodily damage","The narrative, tonal and aesthetic functions of gore","How practical effects, digital effects and editing construct the depiction","Differences between cuts and their implications for audience access and presentation"],"out":["General film metadata, authorship and ownership managed by a film-work model","Horror conventions that do not depend on explicit bodily damage","Real-world injury diagnosis or treatment","Instructions for inflicting bodily harm","Production-wide labour and stunt safety management","Recordings of actual violence whose primary status is documentary evidence"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Ask whether explicit bodily damage is a sustained attraction or organising device; an isolated graphic scene is insufficient evidence by itself.","Distinguish visible bodily damage from violence conveyed mainly through threat, off-screen action or aftermath without graphic detail.","Assess gore independently of horror tone: comic, absurd or emotionally distancing presentation does not by itself exclude the classification.","Distinguish gore emphasis from body horror centred on transformation or bodily identity; record overlap only where both have supporting evidence.","Classify the identified cut rather than assuming every release of the same film contains equivalent gore."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"gore-identity-and-boundaries","name":"Gore identity and boundaries","description":"Establishes why a film should be treated as a gore film and where that classification remains disputed.","layers":[{"id":"classification-evidence","name":"Classification evidence","description":"Connects labels to attributed usage and observable features of the assessed cut.","findings":[{"id":"centrality-of-gore","name":"Centrality of gore","description":"Records the evidence that explicit bodily damage is central enough to support classification.","questions":[{"text":"What working definition of gore film is being applied, and does it require centrality, repetition, explicitness or a combination?","id":"centrality-of-gore-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which viewed sequences and attributed critical or distributor descriptions support or challenge this classification?","id":"centrality-of-gore-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"neighbouring-forms","name":"Neighbouring forms","description":"Separates gore emphasis from overlapping horror, exploitation and violent-film categories.","findings":[{"id":"overlap-without-equivalence","name":"Overlap without equivalence","description":"Records where labels overlap without assuming they name the same category.","questions":[{"text":"In the sources used for this film, are gore film and splatter film equivalent, overlapping or explicitly distinguished?","id":"overlap-without-equivalence-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What evidence distinguishes this film's gore emphasis from slasher plotting, body transformation or occasional graphic action?","id":"overlap-without-equivalence-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"graphic-exposure-profile","name":"Graphic exposure profile","description":"Describes what bodily damage is made visible and how exposure unfolds over time.","layers":[{"id":"visibility-and-detail","name":"Visibility and detail","description":"Assesses the presentation of bodily damage using a reproducible observation rubric.","findings":[{"id":"explicitness-of-depiction","name":"Explicitness of depiction","description":"Records visibility, framing and obscuration separately from the implied severity of an event.","questions":[{"text":"Which observable cues separate implied harm, obscured damage and clearly visible anatomical detail in this assessment?","id":"explicitness-of-depiction-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"How do shot distance, lighting, occlusion and shot duration affect the explicitness recorded for each sequence?","id":"explicitness-of-depiction-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"duration-and-distribution","name":"Duration and distribution","description":"Tracks how graphic material accumulates, clusters and recurs within the cut.","findings":[{"id":"exposure-pattern","name":"Exposure pattern","description":"Records qualifying intervals and their spacing without reducing intensity to runtime alone.","questions":[{"text":"Under the declared inclusion rule, how many seconds and what percentage of this cut contain visible gore?","id":"exposure-pattern-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Is exposure isolated, concentrated in set pieces or recurrent, and where are the longest intervals without graphic material?","id":"exposure-pattern-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"gore-function-and-construction","name":"Gore function and construction","description":"Examines how graphic depiction produces meaning and how its audiovisual construction shapes interpretation.","layers":[{"id":"narrative-and-tone","name":"Narrative and tone","description":"Relates bodily spectacle to character stakes, pacing and tonal framing.","findings":[{"id":"function-of-bodily-spectacle","name":"Function of bodily spectacle","description":"Separates proposed artistic functions from documented audience responses.","questions":[{"text":"Which sequences frame gore as frightening, comic, spectacular, distressing or critical, and what supports those interpretations?","id":"function-of-bodily-spectacle-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which claims about intended or experienced effects come from filmmakers, critics or audience research rather than the assessor's inference?","id":"function-of-bodily-spectacle-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"effects-and-presentation","name":"Effects and presentation","description":"Records how effects, editing and sound construct the apparent bodily event.","findings":[{"id":"constructed-damage","name":"Constructed damage","description":"Documents supported production techniques and their visible presentation without providing harmful procedures.","questions":[{"text":"What production evidence supports identifying the depicted damage as practical, digital or combined effects?","id":"constructed-damage-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How do editing and sound intensify or soften the sequence relative to what its images alone show?","id":"constructed-damage-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"cuts-and-viewing-decisions","name":"Cuts and viewing decisions","description":"Connects gore assessment to identifiable versions, content notices and proposed uses.","layers":[{"id":"version-differences","name":"Version differences","description":"Identifies the assessed cut and establishes meaningful differences in graphic content.","findings":[{"id":"gore-edit-history","name":"Gore edit history","description":"Records verified removals, restorations and alterations alongside unresolved version claims.","questions":[{"text":"Which release identifiers and viewing evidence establish the exact cut assessed?","id":"gore-edit-history-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which graphic intervals differ between available cuts, and were those differences directly compared or reported by a source?","id":"gore-edit-history-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"contextual-presentation","name":"Contextual presentation","description":"Supports decisions about viewing and presentation without treating genre membership as an audience suitability verdict.","findings":[{"id":"version-specific-guidance","name":"Version-specific guidance","description":"Combines content observations, assessment coverage and applicable classification records for a stated context.","questions":[{"text":"What concise content notice is supported by the reviewed cut, and which unreviewed portions limit its completeness?","id":"version-specific-guidance-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Given the audience's stated preferences, venue and applicable classification record, which cut can the agent recommend or flag for review?","id":"version-specific-guidance-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of gore film this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of gore film this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of gore film this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of gore film this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled 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