Carnage Park(2016)
2016 · Mickey Keating · 81 min
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.
Action · Crime · Horror · Thriller
5.2135 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Carnage Park scares
There's a sun-scorched, sweaty desperation to this one, like being stuck out in blistering heat with no cover and no way to run. The pace lingers early on tension and dread before shifting into brutal, sudden bursts of violence once the hunt truly begins. It leans hard into a real-world, human threat with a rifle and no mercy, so the fear is mostly about bodies in danger rather than ghosts or monsters. Good for viewers who like grim, gritty survival horror with a grimy 1970s exploitation feel rather than a polished scare-machine.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Carnage Park rates psychological 3/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 95 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 70 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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Starts with a tense crime-gone-wrong energy before settling into a desert chase that keeps ratcheting up into a brutal, unrelenting final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5.
How scary is Carnage Park?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Carnage Park rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. 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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