# Most violent movie/TV scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781 "2010-06-28T14:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/21 "2010-06-29T21:12:00Z")
Mr. Blonde cutting off the cop’s ear in _Reservoir Dogs_ with “Stuck in the Middle with You” playing on the radio is probably not one of the most violent scenes of all time, and maybe not even in Tarantino’s top 5, but it is very effective. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/22 "2010-06-29T21:47:37Z")
The abuse heaped on the poor girl in _The Girl Next Door_ (2007) was pretty horrific, though it wasn’t nearly as graphic as a lot of stuff these days. ---
**Author:** ![Waffle\_Decider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/23 "2010-06-29T22:00:30Z")
I’ll second the deep fat fryer scene from _Spooks/MI5_. The hobbling scene in _Misery_ was also rather disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/24 "2010-06-29T22:29:06Z")
Where Murphy was gunned down by Broderick and crew in Robocop. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/25 "2010-06-29T23:32:02Z")
It’s kind of comical, but in Miller’s Crossing, the scene where Caspar hits Eddie Dane on the head with a fireplace tool, then explains to Tom how you always put one in the brain. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/26 "2010-06-30T01:59:10Z")
Some really good examples; I can’t believe I forgot the curbing scene from American History X! I was actually going to add the beatings the girl endures in Martyrs. There’s one scene in particular where a big guy is beating on her and knocks her out, and he pulls her up, slaps her face to wake her and then viciously punches her out again; it’s very realistic and made me cringe when I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/27 "2010-06-30T02:09:26Z")
I agree with the rape scene from the Cape Fear remake. When he bit her cheek, I winced. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/28 "2010-06-30T02:59:01Z")
I haven’t seen _Deadwood_ yet (it’s on my to-do list). For me, one pretty brutal TV scene was when Chris Partlow killed Bug’s father (at Michael’s request) in Season 4 of _The Wire_. He just hit him and hit him until his face was a smashed mess of blood and cartilage. For movies, i agree that the curb-stomping scene from _American History X_ is a good candidate. It was quick, but i can’t even think about it without reflexively opening and closing my jaw in sympathy. The scene from _Misery_, referenced by **Waffle Decider** , is similarly cringe-inducing. I never really find myself affected very strongly by blood and gore; no matter how realistic it looks, it always seems somehow unreal or distant. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/29 "2010-06-30T04:00:04Z")
Most of the movies mentioned in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=559251)thread. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/30 "2010-06-30T05:34:53Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > There’s a scene in _American History X_ where Ed Norton’s character stops a couple of guys from breaking into his car at night. He shoots one in the leg (I think), and at gun point, makes him open his mouth and put his teeth on a curb. Then Norton stomps on the back of his head, killing him. It’s the slow motion scene and sound of the guy placing his teeth on the curb, and you can almost _feel_ the grit in your mouth that does it for me. It’s a very effective scene, but one I’ve only watched once and I’ve have closed my eyes for it ever since. This is the one I came in to nominate. We’ve all seen thousands of murders in movies and on TV, but this one has remained with me since I saw the movie the very first time. I still have trouble watching it. Another one that I did not see mentioned was the scene from Casino Royale, where James Bond is sitting naked on a chair without the seat, and his adversary was swinging a rope with a weight on the end. He would swing the rope so the weight would travel under the chair and nail Bond in the man region with a sound and speed that makes me wince every time I see it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/31 "2010-06-30T15:59:22Z")
How about the cornfield scene at the end of Casino? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/32 "2010-06-30T19:29:10Z")
Scarface. Tony Montana and friends in the bathroom with the guy with the chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/33 "2010-06-30T19:57:35Z")
The “Is this your pen” scene from Casino wasn’t long, but it lingers. “You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him…” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/34 "2010-06-30T20:47:04Z")
The whole Omaha Beach sequence in Saving Private Ryan. Pulp Fiction when Vincent accidently shoots Marvin in the face, mostly because it was so random. Silence of the Lambs when Lechtor beats the cop to death and steals his face. [Scanners exploding head.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA) ---
**Author:** ![ProfessorX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/35 "2010-07-01T00:10:21Z")
Beginning of SVP, the curb stomping in AHX and pretty much all of Hostel ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/36 "2010-07-01T00:17:31Z")
The fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David in [_They Live._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live) It’s not gory, it’s not shocking, it’s not edgy, there are no weapons, just two guys pounding on each other. What’s striking [snerk!] is that it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on some more, and the effect is fucking hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/37 "2010-07-01T00:21:54Z")
> [@ProfessorX](#): > > Beginning of SVP, the curb stomping in AHX and pretty much all of Hostel What is SVP? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/38 "2010-07-01T00:29:58Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > The street fight scene from _Deadwood_. No TV show ever came close. Dang right. A certain incident in that scene made my jump out of my chair. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/39 "2010-07-01T02:27:36Z")
There’s a pretty violent scene in [History Of Violence](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/) when a diner owner takes on two tough guys that come in to cause trouble. Good movie. Several very violent scenes as I recall. Yeah, not surprising given the title I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781/40 "2010-07-01T06:06:50Z")
Another Casino scene where Nicky beats the hell of some Irish guy for two days, and finally puts his head into a vice and you hear his cranium crack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-movie-tv-scenes/544781.md?page=1)