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

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by joey561

Agreed, that scene was truly quite visceral. Also:

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At the end, when Alessa is tearing everyone to shreds...Disturbing. The SAW fillms are also rather grotesque. I don't know why this scene hits me so much, but when he is sawing through his own foot in his desperation to get free to save his wife and daughter; I seriously CRINGED.

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

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Rose was about to be ambushed by the long-haired motherfucker who looked like Lurch, and Alessa caught him at the last minute and turned him to soup.

There's nowhere I can't reach.