I Spit on Your Grave
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (which i think a few have mentioned)
the top of the tops I think is August Underground Mordum, but I don’t know if we can consider it a movie or not just a stupid, sadistic bullshit…
however, I remember an insanic atmosphere in The Last House on Dead End Street, wich is a more serious film about the snuff movies urban legend. A couple of scenes in it are really really strong, but it’s the overall mood that is quite malevolent.
And I must say that Combat Shock by Buddy Giovinazzo is a really nightmare violence masterpiece.
By today’s standards, with all its gore, blood, decapitations, and huge CGI violent scenes, my choice is somewhat idiosyncratic: SEVEN SINNERS, a Tay Garnet film with John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Broderick Crawford, and a host of character actors. There’s a barroom brawl scene in the film that seems to go on forever.
If it stays true to the book, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian will undoubtedly be the most violent.
I don’t know if its the most violent movie I’ve ever seen, but Watchmen is the most violent I’ve seen recently. Even if you’ve read the book first (which I had), the violence in that will not prepare you for the violence in the movie. In particular I mean (minor spoilers) the scenes including blood drenched skeletons courtesy Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach with a meat cleaver (and a child killer’s head), the prisoner who gets tied to Rorschach’s cell door, and the Taxi Driver reference during the assassination attempt on Adrian Veidt.
H.G. Lewis’ 1,000 Maniacs
Ricky-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Salo: or The 120 Days of Sodom
The Marquis de Sade’s Justine
Vampiros Lesbos
Scanners
Grotesque is up there, but it’s a bloody terrible film.
Inglorious Basterds is almost too violent!
I guess I’ve seen other movies where the violence was overpowering but Apocalypto sticks in my mind as on where the violence was unrelenting.
I liked the film but it was something else.
Same thing with Titus, actually.
In relation to something I’ve seen recently, I’d have to say “Ninja Assassin”. Just the first few minutes are so over-the-top violent, I could hardly believe it.
And yes, I admit…I actually went to see “Ninja Assassin”. And the whole movie, though pretty bad, was an incredible collection of violent scenes. Too much CGI, though.
dead alive
dead alive
Any Charlie Brown films.
passion of the christ
Irreversible may not be the most violent film from start to finish but the bludgeoning and rape scenes are the most jarring, unsettling bits of violence I’ve ever seen committed to film. Both haunted me for days on end.
As far as mainstream goes, most films have a long way to go before catching up to the wall to wall violence that was Scarface . Asia still has the market cornered for violent flicks though. Has Oldboy been mentioned yet?
I still haven’t seen the August Underground series yet and I’m not so sure I want to. I’ll probably succumb one of these days just to see what the fuss is all about. It’s probably one of those films I know I’ll regret watching afterwards (not always a bad thing, mind). Last House On Dead End Street was depraved and gory in spots and I enjoyed it. It was like a weird grindhouse movie masquerading as an art-house film. Or vice-versa. Strange little oddity, that one is.
the most violent film i’ve ever seen is murder set pieces,i’ve only been able to watch it once.Also a film I could view again is Eastern Promises the throat cutting scenes,ughh.
Definitely August Underground’s Mordum for me. Actually, I skipped through parts because I became so nauseated, haha.
My vote goes to Marian Dora’s “Cannibal” (based on a true story, I DARE YOU to watch the whole thing…)
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http://www.flixster.com/movie-list/truly-disturbing-cinema
Any title mentioned here will certainly change the way of watch movies, in one way or another. (please note that there’s no specific order on the list).
Someone mentioned above that violence is different from gore. I think the most shockingly violent film I can remember is one where there isn’t much gore — that is, if you saw any given still of one of the violent scenes, it wouldn’t seem all that bad, but the effect of the editing, direction, and acting was overwhelming. The first time I saw it, I left the screening literally, physically trembling. I can’t think of another film that affected me like that.
I’m talking about Kobayashi’s Seppuku.
probably Cannibal Holocaust.
Caligula
The Suicide Club (Japan)
Back in the day (1969), THE WILD BUNCH was considered one of the most violent mainstream movies made up until that point. The story going around was that when it was going to be shown on network television for the first time that the network brass decided that there should be NO scenes of violence in the film.
The edited version ran 22 minutes! :-)
Needless to say, since then the world has seen real-life wars and other violence in our living rooms, so screen violence has had to get bigger, more spectacular and bloody, to get an emotional rise out of the (desensitized) global audience.
To me, the violent movie I’ve ever seen was Schindler’s list. The execution of the young woman in the beginning still gets to me.
A clockwork orange is probably one of the most psychologically violent and jolting films in my opinion.
I also really agree with Apocalypto, and Ninja Assassin both being extremely violent throughout each. I actually enjoyed Ninja Assassin, but more along the same lines that I enjoy a good plate of scrambled eggs in the morning. Not on the same intellectual level as enjoying, say, a fine wine. lol
One of the following:
Ricky-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Ichi the killer
irreversible
Cannibal ferox
Starts with an I, ends with an E.
I vote for Guinea Pig 2 and Salo.
Jaspar Lamar Crabb
most cartoon like violence:
Natural Born Killers
Night Breed
most exhilarating violence (does that even make sense?):
The Road Warrior
Jaws
most jarring:
the parthenon scene from Nashville
Jenny Field’s last speech in The World According to Garp
the Normandy landing in Saving Private Ryan
The last 15 minutes of Straw Dogs