The MOST VIOLENT movies you have EVER seen

[Irk]

Now I'm just wondering what the folks on the forum have for this.

A few things I'd rather not get into are 'torture porn,' like saw and the hostel.

In my opinion, violent films start with stuff like "alien", "kick ass", and maybe "reservoir dogs" to "kill bill", "sin city", and "machete" to the very highest tier of absolute carnage, that being films such as "cannibal holocaust" and "a serbian film."

Stuff that I would not consider violent:
Transformers-esque stuff (its just robots)
Movies that just have lots of gunfights but no real visible repercussion other than bodies on the ground.

I want the straight up most violently awesome films people have seen.

[Hida Reju]

Oldboy (Original)

The Blood of Heroes

Man on Fire

Conan the Barbarian (Original)

PS almost forgot 300

[Irk]

I'd agree with oldboy, but i dunno about conan, 300, or man on fire. They struck me as a bit tame. I haven't seen the other, so I unfortunately cannot comment.

EDIT: oops, unless you were putting them into those tiers, in which case, yeah that makes sense.

[Starwulf]

Can't remember much, but I seem to recall the Faces of Death movies being pretty freaking bloody/violent. Of course, I watched them when I was like 10, so my memory of them is very hazy.

[TroubleBrewing]

Zulu, Shoot 'em Up, Dead Man's Shoes, and Saving Private Ryan all come to mind.

[Brother Oni]

Hard Boiled and Bullet in the Head (not to be confused with the Stallone movie Bullet to the Head) are both fairly violent films.

If you're including A Serbian Movie in this list, then you'd probably want to look into the New French Extremity genre.

[pita]

As far as sheer brutality that made me wince, Inglourious Basterds and Watchmen were the two biggest offenders.
As far as blood per meter, Kill Bill or Django Unchained probably wins.

[Mauve Shirt]

Watchmen had so many slow motion blood spatter scenes and bone crunching sound effects I thought I was going to be sick.

[SympathyBot]

Hobo With A Shotgun has got to be up there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHEAOrAdCU <--trailer

[BlasTech]

Hot Shots 2. Its the bloodiest movie ever (https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=hot%20shots%202%20bloodiest%20movie%20ever&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1a0 L3Z1A-RM&ei=MYoPUp_0Ga-XiQfG0YCYBQ&usg=AFQjCNFrAL0wlo4nIpVfqs1Boy_ZsScOmA&bvm=bv.50768961,d.aGc). :smallbiggrin:

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Yeah, I basically top out at Kill Bill.

[Manga Shoggoth]

Battle Royale.

It's an odd choice, as I am sure that there are far more gory films out there. However, this affected me not because of the quantity of violence (the body count was quite small) but the type of violence, and how it was played out.

Oddly enough, while I was watching it I thought that I would have really enjoyed it if it were an anime, rather than a live-action film.

[Emmerask]

I would second Battle Royale, not because of quantity but quality, it somehow feels "real".

And then there is Men Behind the Sun... granted the effects do not really hold up nowadays... or may even be laughable to some... but seeing it as a kid... well :smallwink:
Though that one is firmly in the "torture porn" category with the difference that this (as far as I know) is based on real experiments that have been done during ww2.

[Tengu_temp]

Probably Sin City, the movie that made Rich Burlew walk out of the cinema. I thought it's decent.

[Fri]

Repo the Genetic Opera. Goriest movie I've ever seen. I really hate gore, but I winces it out for that movie since it's pretty cool.

[Olinser]

Shoot em' Up was hilarious.

He killed a man with a carrot.

TWICE.

[thorgrim29]

Dredd 3D probably, Shoot Em Up was also violent and hilarious

[Olinser]

Dredd 3D probably, Shoot Em Up was also violent and hilarious

I BELIEVE that Dredd actually de-throned Commando as the movie with the single highest individual character body count (mass army deaths that are CGI do not count).

[Bhu]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788391/

[Krazzman]

The Punisher... no not that lame ass one where he fight waldo... not not Warzone... apparently the one with Dolph Lundgren... If you get a copy of this movie send me a Link please. I want to watch that one but can't buy it here in germany... stupid youth protection...

Edit:
Adding Ichi the Killer and Braindead.

Adding Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 to this list too.

[dps]

Stuff that I would not consider violent:

Movies that just have lots of gunfights but no real visible repercussion other than bodies on the ground.



Hmm. That might leave The Wild Bunch out of contention. Been a long time since I watched it, so I don't remember if there was much actual blood and gore in it or not. But what's impressive about its violence is the casual attitude it has toward mayhem and the randomness of a lot of the violence in it.

[Loki_42]

For me, it's almost never quantity of violence, it's definitely quality, or rather, visceral impact at the time. Violence, not gore, which I think are different. Not that that means movies on my list would necessarily lack a lot of gore, it's just not what gets them on my list.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy (but not Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, it went more for the repercussions of past actions and had very few on-screen deaths, in comparison)

Drive

You said to keep away from torture porn, which precludes a lot of horror, and so does my personal rule about violence instead of gore, but I want to include this one, just because it really did have a lot of visceral violence, and not just gore:

V/H/S

There's more out there that I've seen, and I'd like to include some reasons for the ones I mentioned above, but I'm running low on time. I'll edit in explanations later, and go into some other movies that feature the old ultraviolence.

[Lurkmoar]

Braindead

Bad Taste

Ichi the Killer

Suspiria

Riki-O, the story of Ricky

Audition deserves a special mention. That movie scared me off the dating scene for a straight month. I have also changed so I do my best to avoid direct lies to the opposite gender.

[Empedocles]

The movie with the most brutal, visceral, "real" violence that I've seen would actually have to be Super. Only a few people die in the finale...but damn, it's intense to watch.

Dredd had a ton of deaths, obviously, as well as Kill Bill, but those are both obvious.

[t209]

Starship Troopers
The Zulu (It's less gory by modern standards, but it's kinda shocking without stab noise)
The Punisher
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy At The Gates

[Irk]

I love Super, I think it totally deserves more attention.

[ArlEammon]

Uh, is The Hills Have Eyes okay?

[Ravian]

Djangho Unchained, Robocop, and, while I only saw like the first few scenes of it, Hobo with a shotgun (still seemed to have more than enough to qualify)

[Antonok]

Gamer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/) has to top my list. Think real life CoD.

[TheDarkDM]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Robocop yet. Verhoeven is always good for a spot of the old ultraviolence.

*edit*
And swordsaged.

[Knaight]

I'm not generally a fan of violent movies, but I have seen a few, some of which I do like (generally for other reasons). Stuff that has yet to be listed:
In Bruges
Seven Psychopaths
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Other than Seven Psychopaths, these are good movies - though they are far from flawless.

[Makensha]

The Man From Nowhere

It isn't perhaps the most violent movie I have ever seen, but it certainly is the movie whose violence got to me the most. It is on Netflix too.

[Kawaii Soldier]

Sin City and the recent Dredd film have to rank pretty high up there.

[ArlEammon]

Real quick, what the hell was so violent about V For Vendetta?

[Agrippa]

How about Crank and Crank: High Voltage (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Crank?from=Main.Crank)? Seems to me they're both more violent than Sin City.

[Grey Watcher]

I've probably seen worse, but the one that springs to mind most readily is Inglorious Basterds. Also of note is Pan's Labrynth which makes up for in severity what it lacks in quantity.

[Logic]

Super comes to mind. It stars Rainn Wilson (most famous for Dwight of the American Office) as Frank/Crimson Bolt.

It's good, but surprisingly violent. Especially as an indie film.

[Empedocles]

Glad to see Super struck some other people as well. Great movie, largely under appreciated.

[Irk]

I totally agree. I LOVED it.

[Logic]

I'd say Super is most comparable to Kickass. Both are rooted in their creator's and the protagonist's (Bolty in Super) love of comics books, both are about a man simply trying to make a difference, and both are surprisingly violent.

The biggest difference, in my opinion, is the way the heroes are presented. Making The Crimson Bolt a 30 or 40 something that is probably just a little off fundamentally alters how the audience perceives him and the world around him, and thus makes the movie you experience just a little different from the likes of Kickass.

[SowZ]

Old Boy is violent, but not in an over the top sorta way. There is one big fight scene but it certainly doesn't reach the level of Kill Bill and isn't even about killing. If we are going that angle, why not say Sympathy for Lady Vengeance instead?

[smellie_hippie]

The Blood of Heroes


You are my hero! I have yet to encounter another soul who has seen this film that I did not introduce it to them.

This is a pretty violent film, but tastefully done.
I would also echo the following:
300
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Django
Sin City

As for goriest film of all time..... Dead Alive by Peter Jackson

[Renegade Paladin]

The Boondock Saints is up there on my list. The movies certainly don't have the highest bodycount of films I've watched (Star Wars is really up there on that, if you think about it), but it's certainly one of the more explicitly violent I've actually watched and enjoyed.

[Knaight]

Now that I think about it:
The Curse of the Golden Flower

It's wuxia, but it's way, way over on the extremely bloody and brutal end of things. I wouldn't call it that great of a work, partially because the violence gets taken to such extremes, partially because the spectacle overtakes the story, and partially because the story really isn't as developed as it could be. Still, if you're looking for violence, this has it. In spades.

[Brother Oni]

Now that I think about it:
The Curse of the Golden Flower

The violence isn't all of the basic bodycount kind either.


The amount of controlling domestic abuse the King puts the Queen under is enough to make anybody shiver once you think about it and Chow Yuen Fat mentioned in an interview that he found the scene where the King beats his youngest son to death with his belt, very hard to film.

Note that this is Mr Heroic Bloodshed himself and has racked up an onscreen body count on par with any 80s action movie Hollywood A-lister.

[Velaryon]

I agree with Saving Private Ryan and Shoot Em Up for sure. I don't know how it compares in terms of actual body count, but the original Terminator is pretty violent. The police station scene alone has at least a dozen murders if I remember correctly.

Would movies like Tokyo Gore Police count? You never said the had to be any good...

[Irk]

I guess the movie quality overall doesn't have to matter that much, so yeah that works fine.

[xkaliburr]

Dead Alive and Re-Animator are the most violent Horror movies I have ever seen, and no, they are not torture porn, so I feel they count.

Total Recall with Schwarzenegger is also pretty over the top violent.

However, the most violent movie I have ever seen, it actually keeps track of the body count for you Hot Shots: Part Deux!

P.S. "Hobo with a Shotgun" is Glorious!

[Bhu]

Hard Boiled

[dehro]

Starship Troopers
Kill Bill
Saving Private Ryan
Soldier Blue

[Yora]

I usually don't take violence too well. However, there comes a point when the violence is so high it just becomes cartoon violence that doesn't seem to have any connection to reality left anymore, and then it gets rather entertaining and hilarious. :smallbiggrin:

I think the most violent thing I've seen was Forklift Driver Klaus. As a break during a first aid class attended entirely by a group of young men around 20. :smallbiggrin:
300 probably ranks at a similar level.

[Tebryn]

Now that I think about it:
The Curse of the Golden Flower

It's wuxia, but it's way, way over on the extremely bloody and brutal end of things. I wouldn't call it that great of a work, partially because the violence gets taken to such extremes, partially because the spectacle overtakes the story, and partially because the story really isn't as developed as it could be. Still, if you're looking for violence, this has it. In spades.

I couldn't disagree with you more strongly if there were two of me. There were some brutal moments but for the most part the entire film is based on tense dialogue and political maneuvering. The only scenes I can even recall being rather brutal is the already mentioned belt scene. The final battle (like...in the last 30 minutes of the movie) is pretty tame compared to a lot of other works in wuxia. The ninja scene wasn't all that bad either. I also felt it was a great movie.


A movie that is more violent than most would expect? Pan's Labyrinths.

[Brother Oni]

I couldn't disagree with you more strongly if there were two of me. There were some brutal moments but for the most part the entire film is based on tense dialogue and political maneuvering. The only scenes I can even recall being rather brutal is the already mentioned belt scene. The final battle (like...in the last 30 minutes of the movie) is pretty tame compared to a lot of other works in wuxia. The ninja scene wasn't all that bad either. I also felt it was a great movie.

I enjoyed it as well, although I'm in two minds about the costuming anachronisms. While they're not accurate for what woman of that social standing would wear, they're very... eyecatching (http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01177/arts-graphics-2007_1177466a.jpg) *cough*. :smalltongue:



A movie that is more violent than most would expect? Pan's Labyrinths.

It's on par with the old style of fairy tales, but it's not very clear from the promotional materials.
As an example of the old style, take Little Red Riding Hood - one version has the wolf tricking Red into eating and drinking the flesh and blood of her slaughtered grandmother before devouring Red itself.

[Tebryn]

I enjoyed it as well, although I'm in two minds about the costuming anachronisms. While they're not accurate for what woman of that social standing would wear, they're very... eyecatching (http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01177/arts-graphics-2007_1177466a.jpg) *cough*. :smalltongue:

Ya...not my bag but the whole presentation was beautiful. Went to it in theaters when it hit the states and kind of felt lukewarm about it. Having watched it a few more times I've grown fond of it. It was billed as an action heavy film and it really isn't.


It's on par with the old style of fairy tales, but it's not very clear from the promotional materials.
As an example of the old style, take Little Red Riding Hood - one version has the wolf tricking Red into eating and drinking the flesh and blood of her slaughtered grandmother before devouring Red itself.

Oh certainly on both counts really. It was shown to be a "kid friendly" film though the R rating probably should have given more people pause. The most shocking violent act in it is when a man's face is beaten in with a wine bottle. It was a rather graphic scene and everyone I went with left the theater over it. I enjoyed the rest of the movie in blissful silence.

[Partysan]

One I didn't see mentioned yet is Irréversible. Not high in quantity of violence but damn, that movie is hard to watch...

[xkaliburr]

One I didn't see mentioned yet is Irréversible. Not high in quantity of violence but damn, that movie is hard to watch...

Was that the one that was played in reverse, and had a truly disturbing scene in a subway tunnel?

[Kalmageddon]

How about Riki Oh: Story of Riki? Surprised no one has mentioned it!:smalltongue:

[Partysan]

Was that the one that was played in reverse, and had a truly disturbing scene in a subway tunnel?

Yes. Character Limits are stupid.

[Clyner]

I Robot has always been incredibly and disturbingly violent to me, especially the scene where Will Smith is shooting robots in the warehouse.

Also, Kill Bill for obvious reasons

[Surfing HalfOrc]

Although it wasn't a splatterfest like some of the others listed, The Road Warrior was pretty violent, especially for its day.

One thing I was never quite sure of was the deaths of two of the captives. Two people were tied to the front of a car, and on the night before the big chase, the horde was getting themselves psyched up. Besides burning up a big chunk of the fuel they had, they apparently set the two captives on fire.

But later the two men are seen alive or at least unburned ramming into the back of the truck.

[Ranxerox]

Of movies not already listed here, the most violent one that I can recall was Natural Born Killers. I remember leaving the theater asking myself, 'is this the future of entertainment?' Fortunately, for the most part the answer has been no.

[ThirdEmperor]

Hobo With A Shotgun.

A man's head getting torn off by a barbwire noose attached to a truck. Somebody's hands being fed into a circle saw. It's... Disturbing. Very very disturbing. Definitely the goriest thing I've seen by a longshot.

[Irk]

Just saw Hobo with a shotgun, I really liked it! I know as far as movies go it wasn't amazing, but it was great for what it was.

[Bhu]

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