Most brutally violent film/s you've seen?

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

I don't know if it would really count, but early Peter Jackson stuff can not be beaten when it comes to over the top violence is concerned. Dead Alive (yes, I am American and that is what it is called here) can is the first to come to mind with the ever so classic lawnmower scene.

You do know the fact that Braindead/Dead Alive (depending on where you live) is a part of Guiness Book of World Records for the most blood ever used in a movie, 4000 liters (1000 gallons), used all in all throughout that movie...its kinda sickening yet strangely awesome.

I did not know that it was actually an official record. Pretty cool that it is though, that movie is just insane.

 

[Falseprophet]

If you haven't already also go watch Old Boy, a brilliant movie.

Definitely--even the implied off-screen violence is chilling. The next film, Lady Vengeance, doesn't have a consistent level of violence but the extended bloody violent act at the climax more than makes up for it. And perversely, it's really funny to watch the characters carry it out.

I also thought Punisher: War Zone was a great return to the unapologetic brutality of 80s action films, but with better effects. Great fun, even a little shocking (Jigsaw's wineglass move is almost as brutal as The Joker's disappearing pencil trick), but not really disturbing.

 

[Dentedgod]

Kill Bill 1 & 2. It's a bunch of bloody violence but still fun to watch.

Seriously, if you like the Kill Bills, you should see the Hatori Hanzo movie(s). It was a MAJOR influence on the Kill Bill movies. If you remember, the best Katanas in that movie are called "Hanzo swords". Hatori Hanzo is subtitled but just as much fun as the KBs.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Also, although Munich wasn't hugely violent, it felt fairly real at parts.

Spielberg is good at that. I would have to say that Saving Private Ryan and Shindler's List are a couple of the most violent and disturbing movies I've seen. Perhaps because it's based on real events; it disturbs me more than Oldboy, Torture-porn, or anything by Tarantino.

I agree completely, Spielberg is great at making violence that actually disturbs you, as opposed to slasher nonsense. I love films where the violence is realistic and actually has an impact because it always puts viewers off a bit in that they were expectly the fairly usual sanitized or over-the top stuff.

He's brilliant but I can't tell if I'm so affected by the way he shoots/edits or if it's because the stories are (based on) real events.

 

[messy]

Watchmen, the arm breaking especially.

and leg and the poor sap who gets both of his arms cut of just because he was in the way of the prison cell. Also rorschach does crushes a glass in someguys hand so he's crushing broken glass. Top film though

 

[waggmd]

The Passion of the Christ is pretty brutual with its violence.

 

[JenXXXJen]

Passion of the Christ for me, it was just like, 3 hours of Jesus getting whipped.

 

[Lyri]

Men behind the sun, Look it up.

 

[Weaver]

Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki

Sooooooooo good.

 

[DirgE Almighty]

Saw 1,2,3,4

 

[Weaver]

Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki

Sooooooooo good.

Honestly i find this movie just silly. Natural Born Killers anyone? That movie was a bit twisted, also some scenes from Even Horizon were pretty brutal.

Yeah riki was damned hilarious. I find movies are always better when they are awful.

 

[SharPhoe]

I don't watch many movies anymore, so the most violent one I've seen recently was Wanted. And before that was the awesomeness that is The Protector.

 

[Skeleon]

Hmm, I don't particularily watch brutal movies.

I guess Dawn of the Dead-Remake was kinda brutal.
As were the Saw movies (which sucked apart from the first one).
The Thing is awesome though the brutality is more in the transformations than in any specific act.

 

[Private Custard]

- "Hei tai yang 731" is a chinese film whose title is translated as "Men Behind the Sun"

Twisted as hell. What makes it worse is that it's all true.

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

Ichi the Killer is easily the single most violent film I've ever seen but the first Dead or Alive film (not based off the videogame, the strange Takashi Miike Actioners) is also pretty freaking violent.

Oh yeah, and can't forget Machine Girl, another Japanese one best described as super violent.

Mega kudos for knowing of The Machine Girl, I love that film so much but it's only really violent in a sort of live action itchy and scratchy way.

I really need to see some Takashi Miike movies, I've been after Dead Or Alive and Ichi the Killer for ages. For me the most violent film I've seen is probably Cannibal Holocaust, that's the only really ultraviolent film I've seen, although the bottling scene in Pans Labyrinth is brutal, particularly if you watch it right after the choreographed bloodshed of 300.

EDIT: looking at films other people have mentioned holy crap am I desensitized, I've seen Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Hellraiser, (the original) Hills Have Eyes, Planet Terror and A Clockwork Orange and didn't think they were that violent.

 

[Private Custard]

One that springs to mind for me is Tetsuo 2 : Body Hammer.

A couple of moments in particular are pretty horrid.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Cannibal Holocaust without any doubt.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

For the life of me I can't remember what it was called, but the premise was this classroom of Japanese high school students are taken to this island. There are outfitted with these collars that if activated blow holes in their neck. Each person is given a weapon, and they have 3 days to be the last one alive. If there is more than one person still alive at the end of 3 days then they activate the collars and everyone dies. It was brutal, and I believe it is actually banned in the U.S.

 

[Private Custard]

For the life of me I can't remember what it was called, but the premise was this classroom of Japanese high school students are taken to this island. There are outfitted with these collars that if activated blow holes in their neck. Each person is given a weapon, and they have 3 days to be the last one alive. If there is more than one person still alive at the end of 3 days then they activate the collars and everyone dies. It was brutal, and I believe it is actually banned in the U.S.

That'd be Battle Royale, one of the few films where I enjoyed watching Takeshi Kitano!

Avoid the shitpiece sequel, it just shouldn't have happened.