gorn

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of gone.

   you know the govner and mater have gorn to Beerits and want us ther too

   1898 January 1, “A Bachelor Uncle’s Diary”, in Punch, page 303

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   “Don’t mind ’im, sir,” she advised. “’E’s more’n arf-gorn a’ready, a-’itting the jug every blessed stop.”

   1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows, page 209

   evry thing seemed to be all quiet and so to day we have gorn up the river again whar we was before

   1928, Arthur Schlesinger, quoting a sailor’s letter dated 1864, Memoranda and Documents: A Blue Bluejacket’s Letters Home, 1863-1864, page 561

plural gorns

1. uncountableusuallyA work that dwells upon graphic and realistic scenes of sadistic torture, mutilation, vivisection, cannibalism, etc. to the point of being pornographic.

   Discussing the ultra-gore torture porn or "gorn" subgenre, Brenda Cromb considers the audience's reaction to films like Saw.

   2012 September 26, Angela Ndalianis, “5. Payback's a Bitch!”, in The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses, illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 120

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   Well, someone should really make a Wikipedia entry coining the term "gore porn" (or better yet, "gorn"), which perfectly describes the movie version of Silent Hill.

   2006, The Official Xbox Magazine, Issues 62-65, numbers 62-65, Future Network USA, page 95

   Recent works of gorn include the several Saw and Hostel films and The Devil's Rejects (2005). The glorification of blood and gore is not new, but it has only recently entered the mainstream.

   2010 March 30, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 315

   Perhaps after the spate of Gorn (Gore and porn) and ‘found footage’ movies over the past ten years (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity), the film industry is starting to realise we might be getting desensitized.

   2012 June 22, Stephen Sclater, “The Innkeepers (DVD)”, in BigGayPictureShow.com, Big Gay Picture Show, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2024

   Perhaps the pro-life movement’s challenges in the future will be to sanctify society and save it from both traditional porn that demeans life-giving sexual love as well as newer “gorn” (gore porn) that turns death (including unjust deaths) into something that piques our curiosity rather than our sense of justice.

   2023 December 18, Trent Horn, “We’re Desensitized to Death”, in Catholic.com, Catholic Answers, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2024