Not to mention the way that they are killed is especially bad. They were either blown to bits or just decapitated from the gun Rambo was firing.
I have yet to see a movie with a body count comparable to Hard Boiled. Three hundred killings, in two hours. That averages out to five deaths every two minutes. Rambo, which I haven’t seen yet, has 236 according to IMDb, but it’s only an hour and a half long, so the ratio’s almost exactly the same. Of course, technically there were about 1,500 deaths on the Titanic, so maybe some more factors need to be considered…
So what’s the OP looking for, mass slaughter? One on one brutality? Infliction of pain? Gore? If you’re asking what movie will test a viewer’s endurance to the utmost extreme, the worst I’ve found so far is called August Underground’s Mordum. It’s made in “simulated snuff” style, simulating a group of psychotic serial killers videotaping themselves on their nightly exploits. The producers, Toe Tag Pictures, are very very good at blood and gore effects. This is not a movie you can watch with your good friends; they’ll never look at you the same way. It crosses lines. I had made a spoiler box with some of the really bad stuff, but I thought better of it; you’ll just have to search the web for reviews.
I guess if I were to vote for a few movies, I’d go with the following:
**Reservoir Dogs ** - In particular the “ear” scene or just Mr. Orange’s overall condition througout the film. I don’t think anyone ever looks at the song “Stuck in the Middle With You” the same after seeing this flick.
**Starship Troopers ** - Seemed to be 2 hours of gratuitous scenes of Mobile Infantry being torn apart by giant bugs.
Robocop - Another Paul Voorhoven classic. Also gratuitously violent.
Day of the Dead - Assholes being torn apart by zombies who then proceed to eat their innerds is always a crowd-pleaser.
How about the torture scene (of Oliver Reed!) in The Devils
By that standard, you’ve got to include Star Wars. They blew up a planet. How many billions of people were living there when the Death Star got it? Spread out across a two hour movie, that’s got to be a at least fifteen million deaths per minute.
Yeah. I think it was the sound more than anything. The sound of teeth on concrete.
::shudder::
Certainly not the goriest, but definitely disturbing.
Joe Pesci getting beaten to death with a baseball bat…That one was pretty damn disturbing.
Yeah–I was thinking Dr. Strangelove.
Are there any movies in which the universe is destroyed?
Daniel
I’d have to go with Wolfs Creek. A friend who’s into horror rented it because it was supposed to be based on actual events. It’s about a psycho in the Australian Outback kidnapping and torturing tourists. I regret ever watching and remembering this movie.
Can’t think of any movies, but there is a Futurama episode where they have to destroy an entire nebula in order to prevent chronitons from causing time to skip.
Yep…you heard me.
Absolutely. The Devils would have been a serious contender for ‘most violent movie’ if there had been just a few more killings, scenes of torture, etc. No shame, though. It would surely be high on my list of ‘most disturbing’ movies, and maybe even number 1.
(Hey, has that be done before . . . ‘most disturbing movie’? . . . Maybe I should start a thread on it.)
Oh crap, yes, hearty second–that movie freaked me right the fuck out and I’m known for my strong stomach for gross movies. It’s an atmospheric thing rather than an outright gorefest thing, the whole movie is creepy and scary as hell.
“Hostel” was pretty bad, in a soul deadening way, after a while it was just meat which is horrifying in another way entirely.
Yup. I will never ever get over that scene and shudder when I think about it.
Okay, for real…
I can’t even read this thread for Og’s sake!
That scene in American History X will hanut me forever…
Except that it’s only violent in an abstract, impersonal videogame/movie sense. All you see is a planet vaporize. You aren’t witness the pain, suffering or horror of a billion voices crying out and then suddenly silent (unless you are Obi-Wan). The various close-ups of Rebel pilots screaming as their X-wings catch fire and break apart is far more violent.
If you want to go that route, I recommend the **Terminator ** films. Lots of close up and personal robot on human violence, billions perishing in nuclear fire, more robot on human action, etc.
The final sequence of Bonnie and Clyde is up there.
Another vote for American History X’s curb scene. I have broken my teeth on concrete before, so it’s especially unnerving. Sounds that conduct through your head are bad enough, but that one…
Most disturbing move? Requiem for a Dream. Best movie I never want to watch again. Other movies show the nasty things we really do to others. That one shows pretty well what we do to ourselves.
Well, every subsequent maker of violent films used it as a starting point, so in that sense it may seem a little tame. But the scene where Travis Bickle shoots the john’s fingers off before killing him had more impact than all the gunshot wounds in Sin City and Mr. and Mrs. Smith combined. A lot of “violent” movies show gunshot wounds to be about as consequential as a bee sting.
Few movies before or since have shown just how devastating a bullet can be. Taxi Driver really brought it home.
One of the alternate cuts of Supernova has this happening.
(Arguably) The Quiet Earth.
CMC +fnord!