I read in a trivia book several years ago that "Red Dawn" had the most specific acts of violence up to that time. It may have been most acts of violence per minute or something, but it's probably been outdone since then.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if "Hard Boiled" is the current champ. The whole reason I bought the movie is because of the scene in which Chow Yun-Fat slides down the bannister, pumping round after round into dozens of guys (as civilians drop left and right simultaneously).
I tried doing body counts for slasher movies years ago, but "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch" outdid them all with its cryptic
Spoiler:ending.
"The whole world will see this broadcast and perish"
Naturally, an apocolypse movie like "The Stand" or most zombie movies will outrank most slashers or shoot-em-ups. The real challenge here is to figure out what kind of movies to include in the contest, and what kind of deaths to count (on-screen only, etc).
i would think any of the lotr movies like in the first at start in prelude and all the orcs just get zapped coz saurons power is gone, and in tt at least 10,000 orcs get killed. and how could we forget rotk and although we dont see all 200 000 orcs and 10 000 orcs and another billion soldiers get killed, well, theres still heaps
let me rant about/reccomend to you all,the little known eighties horror flick bloody wednesday,it has a scene at the end where the main character walks into a restauraunt and kills around thirty innocent bystanders,maybe not the highest body count in a movie but certainly the most ballsy in a they cant show that kind of way............i highly reccomend you all seek this film out,,it was recalled in oz and all copies destroyed a few years back so all you oz posters good luck finding a copy