What films are graphically the most violent ever made.

[Randlewand]

I've seen them all, and I have incredibly good taste in movies.

 

[HenryFlower]

 

[laz0001]

Lucky number Slevin sauna scene always makes me cringe...

 

[grey poupon]

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

 

[Drain Bamage]

Running Sacred

 

[Calhoun]

Ricky-Oh the Story of Ricky....


Super cheesy but insanely Gorey....has a guy get his entire body garborated (blended)....lol

Also...let us not forget Peter Jackson's Brain Dead/Dead Alive...if not only for the lawnmower scene

 

[JOE QUEEF]

For sheer violence that was ahead of its time, 1965’s The Wild Bunch is hard to beat.

 

[Drain Bamage]

For sheer violence that was ahead of its time, 1965’s The Wild Bunch is hard to beat.

1969

Bonnie & Clyde in 1967 was a milestone in voilence as well

 

[HARRISON_3]

Also the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

By a country mile.

 

[legatoblues]

For extreme splattergore from a comedic perspective, there's none better than Re-animator.

 

[jimbob27]

While films like A SERBIAN FILM & CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST are nothing without their gore.

I don't think it's really fair to say that about Cannibal Holocaust. I think the gore (mostly the real animal killings) detracts from the fact that film had some really good ideas. It created the found footage genre and had a pretty unique viral marketing campaign where they pretended it was all real, long before Blair Witch did the same. There was also some really creative use of off-beat music contrasting what was happening on screen; something that's been copied many times by directors like Tarantino.

I watched Serbian film when it came out but think I've pretty much erased it from my memory. I don't really remember much gore - just being grossed out by all the philia. I'd put it in the same catagory as Salo: 120 of Sodom.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Saw series yet. Obviously we all know they're pretty stupid and gratuitous, but they're absolutely top of the pile from a technical special effects perspective.

By around the third film the killings get even more extravagant, and the quality of the special effects is absolutely top notch. I remember a scene where they're doing improptu brain surgery on the villain and it looked the same as those real surgery programs they show on TV.

On a personal level prefer the stupid gore films like Braindead and Reanimator, but the Saw series definitely deserves a mention.

 

[Cole train]

have to give a mention to 127 hours for this scene because it really happened

 

[legatoblues]

I don't think it's really fair to say that about Cannibal Holocaust. I think the gore (mostly the real animal killings) detracts from the fact that film had some really good ideas. It created the found footage genre and had a pretty unique viral marketing campaign where they pretended it was all real, long before Blair Witch did the same. There was also some really creative use of off-beat music contrasting what was happening on screen; something that's been copied many times by directors like Tarantino.

I watched Serbian film when it came out but think I've pretty much erased it from my memory. I don't really remember much gore - just being grossed out by all the philia. I'd put it in the same catagory as Salo: 120 of Sodom.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Saw series yet. Obviously we all know they're pretty stupid and gratuitous, but they're absolutely top of the pile from a technical special effects perspective.

By around the third film the killings get even more extravagant, and the quality of the special effects is absolutely top notch. I remember a scene where they're doing improptu brain surgery on the villain and it looked the same as those real surgery programs they show on TV.

On a personal level prefer the stupid gore films like Braindead and Reanimator, but the Saw series definitely deserves a mention.

Agree on Cannibal Holocaust, underneath the shock factor there actually was an interesting contrast.

On the other hand, A Serbian Film just has.....nothing. Yes it's disgusting and offensive, but I found it so ineffective in those areas because it was so over the top and unbelievable, but played completely straight. That just doesn't work. You need some semblance of reality to ground the viewer and tie them to the film, otherwise it has no real horror. No effect, no point. And if you choose to go that route, then you need to embrace the absurdity of your concept and play that angle up, like the previously mentioned Re-animator. Even the classless Troma films understand this (Toxic Avenger anyone?)

I agree with your mention of the Saw series. Ridiculous and excessive yes, but with just enough reality to connect the viewer. Exactly where A Serbian Film falls over.

It's been a long time since I've watched a Saw movie, but from memory the first film is actually pretty damn good. Perhaps even unfairly let down by the shallow torture porn reputation of the later films.

 

[JustAkidFrom209]

Reservoirs dogs (especially the ear scene)
Inglorious Basterds
And pretty much any Tarantino film is incredibly violent.

 

[Lovestorm]

Day Of The Dead where the dude gets his head pulled off and the more his vocal chords stretch the higher pitched his screams become. Details like that trump regular blood & guts.

 

[MuayThaiSteve79]

Kill Bill would've got an NC-17 rating of they didn't make the major fight scene in black amd white.


Robocop was originally made to be so violent and over the top that it would be almost comedic. A lot of the violence got cut out so it could get an R rating. Turns out toning down the violence actually made it more realistic and the director felt it made the movie actually more gruesome.

There's a lot of very violent anime out there. Movies like Ninja Scroll and Fist of the North Star actually got me into anime. Now when I watch it I find the violence kind of off putting. Not sure what chamged considering how many violent movies I have seen

FOTNS was one of my favourites growing up! I used to find Akira very unsettling too for some reason...

 

[TheNinja]

a bunch of try-hard movies

Agreed. It's like if they can't make a movie that's good enough on its own they just add a bunch of gore or some weird type of torture to get attention. It's weak.

 

[Travis Alexander]

Evil Dead remake was ridiculously gory and my #1 favorite movie scary movie...

Also, great premise since it started with an intervention to get the sister clean from Heroin.
Anyone who kicked opiates before knows how terrible it is, mix in the demon possession and you’ve just set up one of the most fucked situations imaginable.

 

[B0l0joe]

Probably that ive seen, 'Men Behind the Sun' about Unit 731, the secret Japanese human experimentation project during ww2. Supposedly uses footage of some real images of death.

I live in Harbin and have been to the unit 731 museum. In the movie there is an autopsy on which a real body was used. The cat killed by rats was also real.

 

[4daLuLZ]

For me, personally, nothing is more terrifying than the unmitigated horror that is...