The Most Violent Scenes Ever (or Wow, That's Almost as Bad as Salo Part Deux)
 

Okay, the other thread's title was to unrevealing; hopefully this will catch more people's eyes.

Relate the goriest/most violent/most disgusting scenes you've run into, regardless of media: book, film, even music.

I have to say the hand slicing scene in Suicide Circle juxtaposed with the cheery kid music. There's just something about that scene that gets to me, even though I probably have seen worse.

Has anyone seen Kichiku? I've heard that one's pretty bad too.

Some of the scenes in A Clockwork Orange were particularly brutal, not because of the content, but because the camera never cut away the way it usually does, and because so little was implied versus being flat-out graphically shown.

If you want gore, you can't get any better than Dead Alive. The lawnmower scene is really something else. Mind you, it's not particularly disturbing or artistic gore. Just a good old fashioned splatterfest.

Violence is sometimes so over the top that it starts to lose its appeal to me. Even movies with mostly realistic violence like Saving Private Ryan are really just presenting their subject in a realistic light.

However, the movies that most perfectly portrayed violence with an over-the-top yet realistically grueling eye were Goodfellas and Casino. Two scenes in particular were...

In Goodfellas:

I was 13 the first time I watched that movie and that just left me shocked.

Then in Casino:

That shit was fucking amazing. :X

Ichi The Killer is the only movie that made me uncomfortable when watching. In particular...

A History of Violence had a couple of brutal scenes, particularly when Tom Stall punches the nose in on one of the goonies, and when he blows the face off one of the robbers.

Silent Hill had a particularly gory and violent scene where the pyramid head rips off the clothes and then the skin of a follower, only to throw the skin at the church doors. Lovely.

First to say it: Kill Bill Volume 1, the Crazy 88 fight scene, as well as the fight against the crazy-ass schoolgirl, Gogo.

On a related note, this movie is one of the most hilarious I have seen in forever.

That was just told, it wasn't shown.


For me, it's the uncut scene in ROBOCOP when Murphy is killed. They used a dummy with Peter Wellers' likeness and the way it was shot, in one sequence, makes it seem like Wellers actually got his brain splattered. Quite gruesome.

On a Miike note, has anyone seen Imprint (this is about the third time I've asked this between two threads)?



Pretty repulsive, but it's also the first Miike movie I was actually entertained by. In Ichi's defense though, Tadanobu Asano's a fantastic actor.

Lucille is in the prison with Marv and she starts talking how he cooks them, then she shows her arm and you notice that her hand has been cut off. You only see Kevin enjoying Lucille's scream during the scene, but never, even in the comics, you see Kevin eat or prepare food.

Concurred. Save the comic part, never read it.

Probably Irreverisble. The scene where one of the guys is hitting someone with the fire extinguisher is pretty brutal. You can see how his face gets disfigured and stuff...

With the disgusting part of this thread, would you count that incident that happens to Bellucci as one of them?

To me, the most brutal part of the movie wasn't that, but Alex's rape scene. That was seriously one of the most horrible things I've ever witnessed on screen, mainly because you're sitting there feeling fucking helpless and wanting someone to come and save her... and no one does... :(

First off - even though its animated, Ninja Scroll has got one of the best goddamned final fight sequences I've ever seen. Headbutting is the most awesome thing ever - and headbutting someone into the floor is orgasm inducing.

The original Dawn Of The Dead has got some good, disturbing gore in it. I have a problem seeing Tom Savani getting his intestines ripped out.

I think all of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is crazy disturbed. Sass thinks this is false but David Lynch does more with a kid in a plaster mask than entire horror movies can do.

Also: Blue Velvet. Dennis Hopper is the personification of evil. "OH MOMMY BABY WANTS TO FUCK"

In Saving Private Ryan, when that German and American are grappling in a knife fight, and the German gains the upper hand, the American knows it's over, as a last resort I think he pleads something like 'wait' in utter desperation, just before the knife is slowly and heartlessly pushed into his chest.

100 times more horrible to mull over than any outright gore.

Tae Guk Gi has also some disturbing scenes. There is one involving a soldier who is wounded in his stomach and all the guts are out. There were like 4 soldiers trying to hold him so the medic can heal him.

Good movie, better than Saving Private Ryan IMO.

Has anyone seen "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance"? There's a pretty fucked up scene involving kids being killed on camera. It's so well done and disturbing at the same time that made me turn around at some point. One of the most shocking moments in movie history. Watch it and you'll understand. No "Sympathy" for Oh Dae-su.

TECHNICALLY, they show Mr. Baek kicking the chair from under the kid, but they cut the moment before it slides from under her feet.

Passion of the Christ was pretty graphic. 2 hours of pure torture sequences. There was one in part in particular whenever a big chunk of flesh is ripped out of Jesus' side in the first flogging sequence that makes yah grit your teeth and squirm.

Some of the stuff in Bret Easton Ellis books is outrageously gory.

And I'll 2nd Lehah's post about Ninja Scroll. That shit was so badass. I loved it when the rock skinned guy pops that dude's arms off and drinks the blood from his severed arms.

Ever since I saw that movie, Hopper just freaks me out now. I can't see him w/o thinking about his character is Blue Velvet.

Well this year, I saw Running Scared and it had a lot of brutal scenes. I really liked the movie, I wasn't bother at all by the violence. Kill Bill vol.1 also had a lot of violent scenes.

The Fly II.

This one soldier gets a face-full of acid from the creature, which the previous movie proved can burn through flesh instantly. The soldier screams in pain, and attempts to pull the acid from his face. He instead ends up tearing off his entire face, so we get a shot of his exposed skull, followed by more screams while smoke escapes from his melted eyes and mouth.

That scene still disturbs the shit out of me. Even typing it up makes my spine chill. :tpg:

What about the arm-wrestling scene in The Fly? That's real arm strength.

That actually freaked me out the least. At least he could have that repaired. They don't even show if the soldier died or not. He's just laying there breathing heavily under his melted face (who'd want to live after that, though).

It was also disturbing when Brundlefly puked acid on that one guy's hand and leg. It was especially freaky when the poor guy is screaming his brains out, while Brundle gleefully tells him "shh."

Cronenburg's a fucking madman. I wouldn't want to meet him in person.

Another scene from recent memory is High Tension, when the killer shoves his chainsaw through that guy's car window, and starts chopping him up in the stomach. The extended screams from the woman and the music really made it difficult to watch, and the blood flew EVERYWHERE.

I'd have to say for most gruesome/violent is the scene in Hostel when that guy was blow-torching Kana's face. I don't think anything I've seen has ever made me sick to my stomach before that. Both visually and conceptually. I still feel sick when I think about it.

I third the Ninja Scroll mention and second the Dawn of the Dead mention. Day of the Dead has a pretty sick scene where that one soldier gets his guts ripped out from him while the zombies just feast on him.

The Preacher has some pretty grisly scenes strewn all throughout the comic. One in particular is when Tulip tries to kill a senator, but misses and blows off the jaw of some poor sap sitting next to him. Now the jaw never fully comes off, it is still hanging by pieces of skin, while teeth have fallen out and the tongue came dislodged.

Another particularly brutal scene is when an Adephi, Pilo, is forced to summon the Saint of Killers. When he awakens him, the Saint instinctively shoots a bullet from his revolver, hitting the Adephi right through the eyeball, blowing out the back part of his head clear off. Though the Adephi has time to give the Saint the information needed before he dies. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon rock!

Got one more. Timecop, when the past and present version of the main villain touch (in which according to the laws of this movie, causes the person to be wiped from existence). The scene isn't violent in any way, but watching the two guys fuse together into a whirlwind of flesh, then melting into the floor was just freaky, as well as unexpected. What a way to go. :tpg:

In that movie The Cube when:

Is that in the unrated? Cause the theatrical Hostel was crap that couldn't stir me any which way; nothing about that movie was disturbing, except how bad it was. And that, I assure you, was not supposed to be a laugh-inducing jab nor a sarcastic comment meant to make others think it was clever, but merely an indication of just how horrible it really was, that movie. DAMN YOU, ELI ROTH.

Saw it last night, and it was the first thing that popped into my head. I had never seen anything like that before in a movie. Even my girlfriend turned to me and went "cooooool". Also, nothing like the reaction of Rose and the cop, they just kinda close their eyes and get splattered with the chunky flesh bits as the pyramid head guy chucks the flesh as them. Jesus was that scene just truly fucked up.

Agreed, that scene was truly quite visceral. Also:

I second the dead Alive, Chainsaw scene.. DA aka Braindead, I really can't think of a movie that had disturbing scenes.. well that disturbed me... stuff more like the plot to Fatal Frame 2 acctually creep me out.

That part of Saw I didn't find too bad. The parts that really made me squirm were the attachment traps that Amanda and the guy in the beginning of Saw 2 had. Saw 2 more because of the eye thing.

As for the scene in SH that you mentioned, I giggled like a schoolgirl during that whole part. That is to say, giddily. Really speaks for Gans' prowess as a director that he can generate sympathy and enthusiasm from the audience for a character whose actions are morally ambiguous at best. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for a good revenge story. Either way, that was beautiful, especially when

Cube: Zero had a gross part in the beginning where a guy gets sprayed with water, and thinking it was water he rubs it all over himself (and I think he even drank some), then it turns out the water was really acid. His skin starts falling off in big chunks. The guy held up his hand while staring at it and screaming as the skin fell off in big slimy chunks and hit the floor, before he melted into a big pile of goo.

Has anyone seen the Guinea Pig series? That's supposed to be pretty bad.