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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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When Stacks gets murdered for forgetting to dispose of the getaway truck in the Lufthansa Heist. That line "You'll be late for your own fuckin' funeral" will forever be with me since it was immediately followed by a brain-splattering silenced gunshot.

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

Then in Casino:

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When Nicky and his brother Dominic are beaten to death with bats in the corn field. That scene seemed to go on forever and they even buried Nicky alive. When the start to cover him with dirt, you actually see him breathing it out, but he's beaten literally within an inch of death and can't move.

That shit was fucking amazing. :X

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

Spoiler:

The nipple slicing scene... Ugh. Awful.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Devo

I'd have to say Sin City when,

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Elijah Wood's character is making that chick watch him eat her arm/hand?

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.

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Originally Posted by sprouticus

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

Spoiler:

The nipple slicing scene... Ugh. Awful.

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

Spoiler:

There's a scene where a woman gets these sharp things pushed in the skin beneath her nails (fingers and toes). The camera stays locked in so you see it go in.

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.

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Originally Posted by Devo

No they showed part of it, I distinctly remember it as a flashback.

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.

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Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

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.

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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...

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Dizzy

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...

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...

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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"

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by LeHah

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

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.

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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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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!

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