Violent Westerns
AMC Movie List

Violent Westerns

Whoa indeed! Which movie does brutal best?

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1 The Wild Bunch
Sliced, diced, and slowed down by director Peckinpah, this movie's violence become ballets of butchery. 123 197
2 The Man With No Name [Film Series]
Sergio Leone's trilogy was pretty sordid stuff for it's day, and he gets extra credit for pulling it off with style. 92 166
3 The Man from Laramie
This 1955 classic is famous for a gut-wrenching scene in which James Stewart gets shot through the hand. 24 122
4 Warlock
In this dark tale, an attacker pins Richard Widmark's hand to a table with a steak knife, and twists. 3 109
5 The Quick and the Dead
Sam Raimi's modern Western features several shots viewed through cavernous gunshot wounds. 2 146
6 The Proposition
Starring Guy Pearce, in this, bodies are speared, backs are whipped to tatters, and skulls explode. 0 118
7 Django
With a machine gun, Django racks up an obscene body count. Also, a man is force-fed his own ear. -24 110
8 El Topo
Castration, suicide, rape and torture dominate the hellish Wild West seen in this cult classic. -46 98
9 Sukiyaki Western Django
Takashi Miike's gorefest takes the wound-as-tunnel a step further by firing an arrow through the hole. -55 103
10 Condenados a Vivir
A Spanish take on amputations, disembowelment, stabbings... its US title was "Cut Throats 9." -62 86