A type of Tone Shift and the violent twin of Darker and Edgier. It's a work that is made more bloody and gory than it used to be, or than its source material is. Heck, a lot of attempts to be darker and edgier end up being this instead.
When the Hays Office was disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror [...] [tvtropes.org]