Most brutally violent film/s you've seen?

[speedcoreXdandy]

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 which is indeed a pretty brutal film but it's still somewhere in my all time top 10. As far as I know it isn't acctualy banned in America though.

EDIT: Ninja'd, dammnit!

 

[Jharry5]

Evil Dead 2 - but it was so over the top you couldn't help but laugh.
Kill Bill 1 - didn't think the second was anywhere near as brutal.

The Punisher War Zone had a few scenes of noteworthy brutality. Just a shame that the film as a whole wasn't that good...

 

[goodchild]

I see that no one is mentioning films by the Cohen Brothers ...
Something about their filmmaking that makes the violence contained within more horrific than in almost anything else I've ever seen. You could repsond to this with HOSTEL, or with SAW, or something of the such - but how shocking are those films? When you buy the ticket, you know what you're getting into.
Look instead to some of the movies by the Cohen Brothers. In FARGO, a movie about a kidnapping, with some violence throughout, even with Steve Buscemi getting shot through the face - but nothing prepares you for when the camera comes around the house, and Buscemi is being shoved into the wood chipper, with blood and guts flying out all over. When you first see it, you don't know what it is ... and by the time you figure it out, you just cant believe it and its utterly shocking.
Even in some of their comedies - Look at the more recent BURN AFTER READING. Billed as a comedy, I didn't expect any ultra-violence. Then there's the scene when you finally get Clooney and Pitt on screen together, which immediately becomes one of their heads being blown apart all over a wall. And when we see Malkovich, from across the street, take a hatchet to a guys head, the blood spurting out? I wasn't expecting either, and was floored by those scenes.

 

[dmase]

The Hills Have Eyes...by god that film was just terrible. For the first hour, nothing. Then all of a sudden:
Crucified man screaming in agony as he burns to death
Two girls crying as they're raped
Mother shot as she comes to help the girls

God damn, that was a horrible film. I'd be lying if I said it was particularly scary too.

Hardy har har. You thought that was bad just look at the sequel. needless gore in that as well. Rape, because every horror movie has to have it these days. It was a lot worse because there wasn't any character development, at least in the first one the freaks seemed to have a backstory and you fealt really bad about the girl(the daughter), in this one i just left the room because i just don't care and don't want to see that.

I'm not going to say that The Hills Have Eyes was my favorite movie in the whole world, because it's not, and I'll assume that you're talking about the remake, because most people haven't even done the research to realize that the 2006 movie was a remake of the 1977 movie. That said, what you also probably haven't done the research to realize is that The Hills Have Eyes is one of Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left" era films, a film which Stephen Hantke uses the term "ultraviolence" to describe. The reason these films use excessive amounts of violence is specifically to comment on violence. It's easy to chalk these films up to using violence for spectacle, but the fact is that they aren't supposed to scare you, they're supposed to distrub you. The Last House on the Left specifically was a Vietnam War commentary, and though I haven't done as much research on The Hills Have Eyes it is not unrealistic to assert that it is not just a commentary on war, but a commentary on the aftermath of war; this evidenced by the fact that the "monsters" are the afteraffect of bomb testing, which is, of course, part of war.

That said, the most brutally violent film award would probably have to go to Hostel, mostly because Eli Roth works very hard to test the waters between the R and NC-17 ratings, and even though its violence is excessive, it always tries very hard to be realistic. Again, not my favorite film, but still pretty violent.

For a film I really like with considerably excessive violence, I would be forced to pick between one of Rob Zombie's three films; House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel The Devil's Rejects, or the remake of Halloween which I still contend is one of the few good remakes. Although Zombie tends to say a lot of things with his films, one recurring theme you can see in all three films is the family as a source of violence. Consider that in House and in Rejects it is the Firefly Family that plays the roll of "monster," although Zombie does play with the formula a little by actually making the Firefly Family the protagonist in The Devil's Rejects, really quite a feat considering the attrocities attributed to them, and in this way it can be seen as making some of the same commentary as Last House. Halloween is a little bit more explicit about the family as a source of violence considering that Zombie added an entire opening subplot that was not in the original Halloween, detailing Michael Myer's descent into madness as his family pushes him over the edge. With House of 1000 Corpses specifically, and Halloween and Rejects to a lesser degree, admitedly Zombie's violence, while excessive, is probably not quite as realistic as Roth's or Craven's.

Nope haven't seen the original... the 70s hits the point were i don't consider movies watchable just because i can't stand all of the movie cliches.... that were original at the time the movie was made but now its just like here is were the guy pops out the closest and cuts off her head... yawn... the only one horror movie from the 70s i liked was the exorcist. I mean i don't know if you've watched mad max the original, if your australian i'm sure you have, but that movie was terrible to me comparred with mad max 2 even if it did tell you how he ended up the position he was in... kind of.(not a horror movie but making an example)

 

[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.

That'd be Battle Royale which is indeed a pretty brutal film but it's still somewhere in my all time top 10. As far as I know it isn't acctualy banned in America though.

EDIT: Ninja'd, dammnit!

Not sure if it actually is or not, I think I remember someone saying it might have been. Then again maybe not.

 

[George Palmer]

Gotta go with the Japanese Guinea Pig film series. That shit was messed up. Seriously don't watch it. I wish I had never seen it.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Though its a very good movie, Saving Private Ryan its pretty brutal at some points. It really adds to the effect.

 

[Spacelord]

Spoiler: Probably this :P

Holy Christ!

Please make Japan stop... T_T

 

[Susan Arendt]

I think the scene in Reservoir Dogs when Mr. Blonde tortures the police officer was one of the more affecting scenes of violence I've seen in a while.

Oh, Jesus...that is very, very hard to watch. The Devils Rejects also bothered me a great deal for a while. One scene in particular masterfully used suggestion and sound effects to depict something genuinely awful. Most of the movies mentioned are just silly to me, though. Yeah, they're violent, but it's so cartoony or shlocky that it's not really unsettling. Or maybe I'm just jaded from years and years of watching horror movies.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

For the film overall? Eh, probably Hostel or The Devil's Rejects. But straight up violence doesn't really affect me as much as is should...usually.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Squedee]

Zombie Movies

 

[PEAKSSS]

Green street hooligans. not far out gory. but alot of the fights are pretty realistic, and not spoiling anything but one of the final moments in the last scene was cringe worthy. if you havent already, watch it

 

[IronDuke]

Cannibal Holocaust tops it, banned in 53 countries for things like killing animals in the footage. Plus it's creepy.

 

[traceur_]

Watchmen, the cutting arms off with a massive grinder.

 

[new_age_reject]

ichi the killer, my god its incredible the amount of violence in that film

Such an insanely good film though!
Of a similar note, Old Boy had a fair amount, but it did it somewhat tastefully

 

[new_age_reject]

- "Hei tai yang 731" is a chinese film whose title is translated as "Men Behind the Sun"
- cannibal holocaust.
- Cannibal ferox

You sir have magnificent taste.

I've seen just about every gruesome film out there. All the Faces of Death (real/fake death footage), all the Traces of Death (real death video edited to death metal), stuff like the Guinea Pig, August Underground, and Snuff 102 films (all of them fake snuff films).

Violence has no meaning to me anymore.

You sir have a brilliantly acquired taste in film =]

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.

It always amazes me when people say stuff like "Omg, Dawn of the Dead is so violent" and I'm just like "wut :|", definitely desensitised!