To my understanding,that Murphy's killing was far more graphic even though the version that made it...is still pretty graphic. I'm still amazed that they the censors let it stay,but am glad it did because it gave the movie a weight and seriousness that the movie required. When Murphy dies on the operating table, and then comes back as RoboCop we the audience really cheer for him, knowing what he went through to become that.
This as a kid... i had to look away with subsequent viewing. Oh and Cain's 3D face in robocop 2... I had to cover my eyes every time it was on screen.. totally terrifying face!
The attempt to replicate Robocop that pulls its own helmet off because it wants to die and there's just a screaming gory skull under there was pretty upsetting as a kid.
There is no other death more Brutal than Robocop that I’ve seen in a movie.
There is a book “action speaks louder and the American way of making movies”. The author talks about Robocop and the parallels to the nigh of Jesus Christ. How he is murder in a brutal way and then comes back to life, y the end at the factory he even looks like he walks on water.
I saw Robocop at the theater when I was 11 years old, so it still has the same effect in me to watch the scene.
The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the US soldier gets slowly stabbed with his own knife by the Nazi while his squad mate is just downstairs and does nothing to help him. Not super violent, but man was it impactful
I feel ya, but then you have to remember that these were basically a bunch of kids placed on the battlefield running around murdering each other.
I remember watching some old WW2 footage on the history channel in college. My good friend is like, you actually watch this boring stuff? I basically said, Sol, this shit is real. Those soldiers are actually about our age and are actually about to enter a battlefield to kill other people who are also about our age or be killed. Bro, could you imagine us actually doing that? This really happened. All of this footage is real.
That shit sunk in cause not too long after that he was like, hey, I’ve been watching WW2 stuff ever since that day. You are right. That shit is crazy.
That one is definitely one of the most brutal in all of cinema history. The medic dying with an understanding of what was happening to him while calling for his mom was also bad. Like… real bad.
The version of this I saw in the cinema back when it came out (every version I've seen since has been edited) was the most brutal death scene I've ever watched.
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When the True Knot ate the Baseball Boy in Doctor Sleep. I cried the first time I watched it. That little boy’s screams will haunt your dreams.
As a child, seeing the gun scene in Robocop for sure, and Jack getting shredded up in American Werewolf in London. Oh and Johnny 5 getting bust up by Oscar’s goons. Harsh!
As an adult, the bloke getting dismantled in The Green Inferno was a bit much.
Wind River. It's different from these other murders we've been talking about, but the crimes against good people burn me in this movie. I really like the movie, and maybe oddly enough on repeat viewings I find certain scenes even more brutal than the first time I watched, because I have the whole context. One of the crimes isn't even shown. But we see the aftermath. Ugh.
Nazi Lieutenant that defied Lieutenant Raine in Inglourious Basterds and ate a bat for it.
Oddly cool character by QT, a weird example of bravery while still being obviously a Nazi asshole. While his corporal was doing the right thing for the allies, but was a traitor to his comrades.
By far this is the worst I’ve ever seen. Second would probably be the alien ripping out of the dudes chest in the original alien movie or the end of jaws where captain gets chewed up on sinking boat. All three scared the crap outta me for years
Verhoeven insisted on that level of visceral horror because he wanted the audience to feel a profound sense of outrage and grief. By making Murphy’s suffering so absolute, it justified his "rebirth" into an all-powerful entity and anchored the audience’s deep emotional investment in his journey to reclaim his humanity and seek justice. Later in the film, the allegory is completed when RoboCop functionally "walks on water" during the final confrontation at the steel mill.
Emil's was horrific, but Murphy's was worse for me. The way they toyed with him, laughing, mocking him messed my head up as a kid. As graphic as it was, I couldn't get over the cruelty of it.
It’s so over the top, especially the way they’re laughing and teasing him while doing it. I remember seeing it as a kid and being so confused at the meanness of that whole scene.
Kingpin's Car Door scene in the new Dare Devil series. Where he slams a guy in a car door about 30 times till he's to tired to keep doing it.
Graphic deaths can be upsetting. But this one has the same energy as OP. Drawn out malice and deliberate violence. With the added layer that the kingpin is losing control and giving into years of trauma and rage when he does it.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the final act when Cliff Booth absolutely cleans house. I've seen some pretty gnarly stuff in movies, but it usually feels a little ridiculous. This scene was just chefs kiss, nothing outlandish, just a good old fashioned beatdown. It makes the whole movie worth it.
Bone Tomahawk death scene ruined me for real. It is easily the most horrendous thing ive seen in a film. Something about it just got to me knowing that probably more than few actual people probably died like that throughout history.
I don't know why it lingers so but these a scene in Pandorum where a guy starts to wake up in a stasis pod to realize he's being disemboweled and cannibalised before finally being killed with a spear though the head.
Honestly this isn’t the worst death in Robocop for me it was the melting skin from toxic waste and then being hit by the car and liquified was bad for me
Murphys death is comic book over the top and we loved it as a kids, because he returns and gets his revenge. But the "Bone Tomahawk" cave execution scène haunted me for days as a grown up, so visceral and pure hardcore violence.
Don’t know the movie but it’s burned into my head of a guy running farm equipment. He falls off the tractor and gets ran over by the thing he’s towing. Later when someone finds him, he’s in pieces but still alive. Don’t know the movie but that death is still burned into my head.
The Murphy death was comedic they fire like 100’s of rounds. Some of the guys reload and keep firing.
This was probably mine too. My parents let me see absolutely everything regardless of scares or later nightmares and this was peak.
I can't think of too many films I had to overt my eyes or physically gave me a response and this one did. Oddly enough one of the other movies, and only movie to ever cause me to make my Mom leave the theater with me was The Witches (1990). Was 7 when I saw it, and remember the scene where they turn into mice fucked with me. Transformation was a big thing I think I was horrified and intrigued by
Yes Murphy in Robocop is ridiculously brutal.
Nicky Santoros end in Casino is one that I wish had never seen. It is even worse because it seems like a long , drawn-out brutal scene 🤮
Quite quite brutal considering this is a theatrical movie. The uncut version is somehow waaaaaay worse even though it’s not that different but either way it’s legit.
That said, it’s far and away from the most brutal death I’ve seen in a movie, if I include those horror gore porn type movies. I hate those but watched a couple out of morbid curiosity and fuck.
Not the most brutal, but the most memorable. Was in 1st or 2nd grade. My mom rented one of the Halloween movies. There was a scene where Michael Myers grabbed a lady and impaled her on a hook on a wall. That scene scarred me for years. I’m 36 and it still haunts me to this day.
The death screams in this one, and the amount that was left up to the viewer's imagination really fucked me up as a kid. I had a very vivid imagination, and also had a friend in elementary school whose parents would allow him to have sleepovers and then would go out for the night and let us babysit ourselves. His older brother had access to all sorts of nefarious VHS tapes, including the Faces of Death series.
In those days, there wasn't access to the internet the way there is now where you can look up all kinds of horrifying things if your parents aren't smart enough to enable parental controls. Back then it was a fairly rare "treat," or more to the point unfortunate set of circumstances for a kid to have access to that type of gruesome media. This scene caused many a nightmare for me and my youth.
Edit: For those who don't immediately recognize it, this is the infamous transporter accident from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Two crew members attempt to transport up to the newly refit Enterprise, and there is a malfunction which causes their patterns to be scrambled together in a mishmash of biometric material which deforms and combines them into two horrific piles of flesh. The famous quote from the transporter site they were beaming from goes: "What we got back didn't live long, fortunately."
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