The other night, for reasons that I will never be able to explain, I watched The Hills Have Eyes II. My God!
I like a good violent, “boys movie”* as much as the next guy, but this was beyond the pale. In fact, I’ll go out on a pretty strong limb and say that not only was it the most violent and goriest flick I’ve ever seen, but it also contained the single most stomach-turning, ultra-violent scene I’ve ever witnessed - the killing of: Hades in the last 10 minutes or so.
What a great movie!
In any case, what would you say is the most violent film you’ve ever seen? And how about the most violent scene? (which need not, and probably will not, come from your choice of most violent movie even though mine did).
*my wife’s rather charming way of describing movies which are violent, deal with revenge, revolve around adolescent-level sexual escapades and tales, or the humor of which focuses on fucking, tits, masturbation, farts . . . well, you get the idea.
If we’re not limiting it to actual graphic violence, the most violent scene of all time in my opinion was in The Hitcher when Jennifer Jason Leigh was tied hand and foot to a semi-trailer and a tractor and was torn apart. You never see anything, but the scene was absolutely ghoulish.
It’s not technically violence if it was done to Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Anyway, anyone here seen the French flick *À l’intérieur *(US title Inside)? That’s my current standard for violence in movies. Another recent French movie, Frontière(s), is a very close second.
Hot Shots Part Duex had a running body count in the final action sequence, announcing milestones along the way such as “Bloodier than The Terminator!” “Bloodier Than Apocalypse Now!” “BLOODIEST MOVIE EVER!” with a gameshow dinging sound, IIRC.
Not violent in the “crazy amounts of gore/people killed/maimed” sense, but violent in the “holy shit I want some brain bleach after watching that” is the curb scene in American History X.
Arguably, Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive…but 'twas all in good fun!
And, just to clarify…does “cartoony, over the top violence” count the same as “serious” violence? And what about quality vs quantity of the violence? I mean, if the only scene of violence in the movie is a five minute single-shot squence of someone getting devoured by shrews, is it more or less violent that a war movie where 500 people get machine gunned onscreen, but all the actors do is grab their chests and fall to the ground when “shot”?
Monica Bellusi getting brutally sodomized and beaten almost to death in irreversible was about the most violent scene i’ve ever witnessed were they actually show whats going on.
Oldboy is a beautiful, and unswervingly brutal film from beginning to end.
The claw hammer interrogation and the hallway fight scene are both up there, but the most brutal scene is probably the ending confrontation where Dae-su Oh swears he’ll never tell Woo-jin Lee’s secret. It involves scissors.
Wow, I’m seeing a lot of recent things. When I first saw this topic title, though, I immediately thought of movies like I Spit on Your Grave, Last House on the Left, Evil Dead, and the The Thing. The last being perhaps the most sickening movie I’ve ever witnessed (although a great, classic horror! ).
Those were pretty high on gore if you’re looking for that, and pretty violent too (especially I Spit On Your Grave).
Guess my mind just went naturally to more older, campy, cult horror than more mainstream movies.
Then, of course, there’s always the ones like Nailgun Massacre.
Since a few have mentioned fairly recent (Well, recent being, in the last decade or so) movies, I guess I’d nominate Pan’s Labryinth if you haven’t already seen it. It’s an incredibly great movie but is surprisingly very brutal, graphic, and violent in a lot of parts. Much more violent than I have seen an average movie be, at least (and certainly more violent than I expected it to be).
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