Autopsy(2008)
2008 · Adam Gierasch · 84 min
Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.
Horror · Thriller
4.9220 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
5/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Autopsy scares
Autopsy leans hard into gross-out, body-horror territory rather than jump scares, building a sick, clammy dread as its trapped characters realize something is very wrong with the place they've ended up. The scares come from watching helpless people get cut into and experimented on, not from loud shocks or things jumping out of the dark. It's gory and hard to watch in places, but it also has a trashy, over-the-top exploitation streak that keeps it feeling more like a wild ride than a heavy gut-punch. Good for fans of splattery, practical-effects horror who don't mind a mean streak and don't need much of a mystery to stay hooked.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Autopsy rates psychological 2/5, visceral 4/5, gore 5/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 5 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 35 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 90 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 65 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, unsettling drive-and-crash setup gives way to a mid-film jolt into escalating, gory chaos that stays cranked up through most of the back half before a slightly calmer final push.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3.
How scary is Autopsy?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Autopsy rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It attacks the body more than the mind — physical, in-your-face horror. Expect it to be heavy on gore and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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