What do you think is the extreme of violence? A cruelly crushed head? A horrifying mincemeat of human flesh? Or – help! – an innocent bilau bitten off? Just in case, we’ve included those three things and a bunch of other atrocities.
To compile the ten most punk productions of all time, we gathered a heavyweight trio: critic Luís Carlos Merten, from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, journalist Carlos Primati, contributor to and editor of Cine Monstro magazine, and filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach, director of films such as Dois Córregos and Garotas do ABC. Our list gathered well-known movies such as Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2, and independent productions, such as the cult Aniversário Macabro. On the big screen, the tendency to show raw violence emerged in the 1930s with the gangster thriller Scarface, from 1932. As its shootings seemed real, the film had serious problems with censorship.
Because of Scarface, the American government launched the so-called Hays Code, a set of laws to control the bloodbath on screens, which lasted until the end of the 60s. its subgenres, such as splatter movies, where blood literally splashes on the screen (the biggest representative is Night of the Living Dead, from 1978).
There was still no mention of the so-called snuff movies, sadomasochistic videos that would culminate in the “real” murder of one of the actors. It seems super macabre, but don’t be scared: everything indicates that snuff are nothing more than a legend.
In the United States, the FBI investigated the existence of this type of film for 20 years. Didn’t find a single copy.
ketchup overdose Top 10 Macabre Goes Over the Fake Bloodbath macbeth
DIRECTOR – Roman Polanski
YEAR – 1971
MOST PUNK SCENE – Macbeth stabs King Duncan several times while he sleeps, in a scene that was not part of the play’s original montage
The bloodiest version of this Shakespeare classic was filmed two years after the murder of Sharon Tate, wife of French-Polish Roman Polanski. For critics, the trauma of the director explains the excess of violence in the production
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
DIRECTOR – Sam Peckinpah
YEAR – 1974
MOST PUNK SCENE – A pregnant girl has her arm broken by her own father
In this Mexican western, a farmer tortures his own daughter and promises 1 million dollars to whoever brings the head – literally – of Alfredo Garcia, who would have impregnated the girl. Bang-bang was banned in Sweden, Germany and Argentina
the devil’s mark
DIRECTOR – Michael Armstrong
YEAR – 1970
MOST PUNK SCENE – A woman accused of witchcraft has her tongue torn out in a torture session
The tortures of the medieval inquisition are the setting for this horror classic. Right at the opening, nuns appear being raped. Some theaters that showed the film distributed vomit bags for the audience to endure the jolt.
macabre birthday
DIRECTOR – Wes Craven
YEAR – 1972
MOST PUNK SCENE – Girl bites off thug’s penis
The creator of the A Hora do Pesadelo and Panic series made his directorial debut with this hardcore film, in which a group of criminals rape, torture and kill two girls. No wonder the film was banned for 30 years in Great Britain
Taxi Driver-Taxi Driver
DIRECTOR – Martin Scorsese
YEAR – 1976
MOST PUNK SCENE – A gigolo has his fingers shot off
In this thriller, Robert de Niro plays a crazy taxi driver who decides to kill an American presidential candidate. The brothel shootout is so bloody that the producers had to tone it down in post-production by taking some of the color out of the scene and making the blood a pinkish tint.
killers by nature
DIRECTOR – Oliver Stone
YEAR – 1994
MOST PUNK SCENE – With the help of her boyfriend, daughter drowns her father and sets her mother on fire
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play two psychopaths who travel around exterminating people. To try to reduce the film’s censorship, director Oliver Stone cut or redid 150 excerpts before final editing. Even so, suspense was banned in Ireland.
Cannibal Holocaust
DIRECTOR – Ruggero Deodato
YEAR – 1980
MOST PUNK SCENE – A girl is impaled with a wooden stake sticking out of her mouth
To tell this story about hungry cannibals, director Ruggero Deodato even killed real animals. And to combat a wave of rumours, he had to take the actors to a TV show in Italy to prove they hadn’t been stewed in the jungle.
Irreversible
DIRECTOR – Gaspar Noé
YEAR – 2002
MOST PUNK SCENE – Rapist has his head smashed in with a fire extinguisher
The goddess Monica Belucci plays a raped woman in a scene that lasts almost 20 minutes. In addition to the hardcore plot, the first half hour of this French film has annoying background noise that provokes nausea and vertigo. At the cinema, many people were discouraged from watching the film in the middle of the session
Rick’s story
DIRECTOR – Ngai Kai Lam
YEAR – 1991
MOST PUNK SCENE – Man gets minced in a giant meat grinder
This mix of horror and comedy mixes kung-fu, severed limbs and gouged out eyes. In the meat grinder scene, the production used so much fake blood that the actor who played Ricky couldn’t get the red dye off his skin for three days.
Kill Bill – Vol. 1 and 2
DIRECTOR – Quentin Tarantino
YEARS – 2003 and 2004
MOST PUNK SCENE – After a tremendous beating, The Bride, pregnant, is shot in the head
Mainly in part 1, Quentin Tarantino’s epic charges in the ass. In the sequence where the Bride faces an army of masked men, 57 people go in the bag. And the ketchup pours mercilessly: in all, the producers used more than 1,700 liters of pretend blood in both films.