# Most violent movie and scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555 "2008-08-11T01:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/1 "2008-08-11T01:59:35Z")
The other night, for reasons that I will never be able to explain, I watched [The Hills Have Eyes II](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0800069/). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/2 "2008-08-11T02:09:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/3 "2008-08-11T02:20:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/4 "2008-08-11T02:42:31Z")
A Clockwork Orange Re-Animator & Bride of Re-Animator ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/5 "2008-08-11T03:08:38Z")
The opening scene of **Saving Private Ryan** deserves special mention. Also, **Taxi Driver.** Braveheart. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/6 "2008-08-11T03:19:08Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/7 "2008-08-11T03:42:56Z")
**Passion Of The Christ**. If you’re not a Christian, it’s just a disgusting gore-fest. Yech. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/8 "2008-08-11T04:06:06Z")
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.** ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/9 "2008-08-11T04:19:02Z")
As always, I’ll vote for the rape scene in [Man Bites Dog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_%28film%29). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/10 "2008-08-11T04:21:35Z")
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”? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/11 "2008-08-11T04:24:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/12 "2008-08-11T04:28:27Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] **Passion Of The Christ**. If you’re not a Christian, it’s just a disgusting gore-fest. Yech. [/QUOTE] Agreed. We shelve it in Horror. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/13 "2008-08-11T05:48:09Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Also, **Taxi Driver.** [/QUOTE] Taxi Driver isn’t really that violent by today’s standards, even for mainstream movies. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/14 "2008-08-11T06:12:49Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/15 "2008-08-11T06:43:26Z")
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**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/16 "2008-08-11T06:43:53Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] 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.** [/QUOTE] Absolutely freaked me out, blew me away. Good call! Joe ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/17 "2008-08-11T07:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] 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. [/QUOTE] Unquestionably horrific, and certainly the most extended. It’s what popped into my mind. But don’t forget the rest of the movie… the guy in the club getting his head bashed to pulp was pretty stomach-turningly vivid and realistic as well. Just an all-around fun time for the whole family. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/18 "2008-08-11T07:09:50Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/19 "2008-08-11T08:36:57Z")
This thread wouldn’t be complete without the [bodycount](http://www.bockscar.de/blog/index.php?/archives/794-John-Rambo-Bodycount.html) in the latest Rambo. Over a hundred killed in the end battle alone. ---
**Author:** ![MrBelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MrBelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBelding)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555/20 "2008-08-11T14:08:24Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] This thread wouldn’t be complete without the [bodycount](http://www.bockscar.de/blog/index.php?/archives/794-John-Rambo-Bodycount.html) in the latest Rambo. Over a hundred killed in the end battle alone. [/QUOTE] Not to mention the way that they are killed is especially bad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-and-scene/459555.md?page=2)