Bloodiest Scenes In Movies

If you want a comically bad, yet excessively bloody movie scene, then 1992’s Dead Alive is the gore-fest you’ve been waiting for. We’re talking, of course, about the infamous lawnmower scene. Director Peter Jackson certainly wasted no time dialing things up when Lionel enters a zombie infested house, simply saying “party’s over,” before pulling the ripcord on the lawn mower, and going to town on the infected hoard.

At the same time, Paquita is hard at work disposing of the disembodied zombie parts in the kitchen using a trusty blender. It has been reported that this one scene alone used almost 80 gallons of fake blood, and we’re surprised it wasn’t more.

1980’s Cannibal Holocaust boasts a different assortment of violent movie scenes than Dead Alive in the sense that some of the violence is in fact very real. In fact, this movie has scenes depicting genuine cruelty to animals, which is the reason (among others) that it was banned in over 50 countries.

Cannibal Holocaust has a scene in which a large turtle is pulled out of the water and gruesomely dismembered with a machete, and the camera work leaves very little to the imagination.

It’s one thing for a movie scene to depict violence for shock and entertainment value, but in the case of Cannibal Holocaust, there’s nothing entertaining about it.

This might come off as an insensitive thing to say, but we really hope that this particular movie production nailed the taping of the turtle scene in one take. At least that way other turtles wouldn’t have to meet a similar fate.

The Saw franchise took violence in movies to an entirely new level when it was introduced to us 2004, and boasts us one of the most violent movie scenes we’ve ever seen.

We’re greeted by Jigsaw, who tells Amanda that she has a minute to remove a “reverse bear trap” from her head before it removes her head from her body. A video demonstration shows Amanda the violent force in which the contraption will behead her, and she has to think fast if she wants to escape from such a gruesome fate.

Believe it or not, the reverse bear trap isn’t what makes this movie scene so violent. It’s Amanda’s escape that brings about the blood when she realizes the key to the device is actually inside another victim’s stomach.

So Amanda has two options: have her head explode like a pinata stuffed with dynamite, or dismember the helpless man with a crude knife so she could fish through his entrails in search of the key she so desperately needs.

If we had to name one singular movie scene that accurately portrays the horrors of war, we’d direct your attention to Saving Private Ryan. The opening sequence in Saving Private Ryan is not for those with a weak stomach, as it viscerally and accurately captures the carnage experienced during the Omaha Beach D-Day landing. But violence aside, this movie scene has some of the most stunning cinematography you’ll ever see in a war film.

What’s most jarring about the opening to Saving Private Ryan isn’t necessarily the violence, but rather the young men’s reaction to the hostile territory in which they are placed.

The shock cutting, slow motion sequences, and soldiers screaming for their mothers force a shell-shocked feeling onto the audience, and it’s safe to say that this movie scene stuck with audiences long after the credits rolled.

Stating that “you have to feel the violence to know what it’s about,” director Srđan Spasojević has gone on record defending A Serbian Film, and what it represents.

Though it’s hard to put the graphic sexual violence of this exploitation movie into words, the beheading scene in which a woman is violently sodomized and beaten before being decapitated comes to mind. We’d like to say the violence stops there, but it only gets worse.

Though this entire movie is nauseating in every sense of the word, the scene that depicts a newborn baby being molested in what is described as “newborn porn” can’t be left out of this entry, though we wish we didn’t have to talk about it.

Spasojević has gone on record saying that A Serbian Film is a diary of “our own molestation by the Serbian Government,” and describes it as a film about the “monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don’t want to do.”

But despite Spasojević’s strong feelings, Serbian actor Dragan Bjelogrlić has stated that this film is just plain wrong in its representation, and condemns the movie, and the scenes within it as “shallow and plain wrong.”

While the first Saw film was making a name for itself for its use of elaborate torture devices and Jigsaw’s sadistic gameplay, Hostel took a different approach. Unlike Saw, there is nothing clever about this movie’s torture scenes. In other words, we’re just seeing people get ripped apart by their tormentors without having to solve any riddles.

The most egregious example of torture in the first Hostel movie is a scene in which Josh Brooks is strapped to a chair, and tortured with a drill before getting his throat slit in front of a mirror so the last thing he sees before dying is himself dying.

Luckily for viewers, they weren’t strapped to their chairs and were free to leave the movie theater after watching this particular scene if they decided they had enough.