Severed Screening

I am really freaked by the amount of dismemberment docs I've come across in my film fest screening duties this season? Have we reached some kind of need for extremes since so much gruesome stuff has already made it to film? Is it getting harder to shock the numbed audience? I don't know. But what I do know is that I now make it a habit to not eat anything prior to sitting down in front of any film screener...so gross....