Carnography (also carno[1]) refers to excessive or extended scenes of carnage, violence, and gore in media such as film, literature, and images.
[2][3] The term carnography—a portmanteau of the words carnage and pornography[3]—was used as early as 1972 in Time magazine's review of David Morrell's book First Blood, upon which the Rambo film series is based.
[5] The term refers to an obsession with the human body that "suggests a connection between horror and pornography", often relating to hardcore horror films.
[6] It has been described as "nastily impure work",[7] "splatter-obsessed hard core horror",[8] and "watching flesh fly".
[9] Pornography and carnography share the feature of close, intimate physical contact, whether it be to caress or to attack.