The stairwell/decapitation scene in High Tension is pretty wild.

August Underground/Mordum should be near the top of this list.

There's a difference between graphic and violent. If you didn't think that the American History X scene was violent, then I can't help you.

Yeah, Robocop should have been there.

How about Ghost Ship ..Isn't that the one where there are like 50 people dancing on the deck of the ship and then....*SPOILER*........................................................

........they all get severed in half by a chain..with the little girl standing there..that freaked me out, I have to admit that was something I hadn't seen before.....otherwise the movie was forgettable.

Man, that flick The Passion of the Christ, God that was brutal

Only movie i ever watched where i had to keep telling myself it wasn't real.

What happened in Irreversible ? Please tell me the details of the grisly death in that movie?

First scene of the movie,

And I concur with others that this scene and the Casino Pesci scene should be included.

Howzzabout Tom Savini's death in MANIAC?

*shivers* gave me nightmares for weeks... best horror flick of 2004, no question.

And unlike American History X, it shows everything. Great special effects. I actually felt sick to my stomach watching it.

Irreversible should be #1 on this list... it's the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. Very disappointed it didn't even make the list.

The scene in Irreversible was so sick I had to turn away. I NEVER do that!

As for the person who mentioned Robocop's ED-209 killing...the point of making the death scene so long and violent was because...it was supposed to be funny. At first, you are sick too your stomach, but after a few seconds, and the scene is still going on and ED-209 is STILL firing at the poor guy, you just have to laugh.

Of course, once they cut it for the R rated, the effect was lost. Now Murphy's death...man oh man. I used to watch Robocop as a kid, and to this day I still wonder why i'm not fucked up because of being exposed to that at such a young age.

I'll have to cast my vote for The Passion as well. I enjoy movie violence, but that literally sickened me.
2nd place - nearly all of the deaths (animals included) in Cannibal Halocaust.
Robocop,in it's day was also pretty harrowing.

well theres also

The list maker says 'the reason he's never watched American History X again.' Thought I was alone on that one...

no love for the chestburster scene in ALIEN?
or the chick getting eaten alive, screaming to God, at the beginning of JAWS?

I agree that fire extinguisher scene in IRREVERSIBLE should have been in the Top 5.
And almost any of the deaths in ROBOCOP, that movie's the king of violence.

It's an OK list. I don't think anything in American Psycho, Silence Of The Lambs, Natural Born Killers or 28 Days Later were violent enough to make the Top 10. I mean, if you are going to pick NBK then why not throw in the gun-going-off-in-the-car-scene near the end of Pulp Fiction? If you are going to pick 28DL for the eye gough scene, why not pick the very same scene in Blade Runner or anything from any Dario Argento/George Romero movie (lots of violent deaths, being eaten, torn apart, slashed in two, etc.)?

Time for a callback.

How about the "fire hydrant" death from King of New York? Cop is trying to climb in the limo, Fishburne is holding him off, with Walken driving. He maneuvers close to the curb, and the cop just gets friggin nailed by the hydrant, and sticks there. The sound effect makes the scene.

The next ten minutes between Walken, Snipes, Fishburne, and Caruso are pretty nice as well.

I think the scene where Marie is watching from the closet in High Tension is worse than the stairwell scene. Especially if you include the hand...uuuuh...

= J