10 Brutal Movies With The Biggest Body Counts

2. 300

Estimated Body Count: 585

Zack Snyder's 300 has few aspirations towards historical accuracy, but it sure is entertaining as an intentionally over-the-top, hyper-stylised comic book adaptation brought to vivid live-action form.

Snyder's gorgeous rendition of the Battle of Thermopylae is largely focused on the 300 Spartans annihilating a seemingly never-ending fleet of Persian soldiers, typically by stabbing them or, in one especially glorious sequence, hurling them off a cliff.

The highly CGI-assisted nature of the film's production - largely shot against green screen as it was - means that all of the blood is digital, lending another heightened, comic book-y layer of grisly exaggeration to 300's aesthetic.

Of the film's 585 kills, only around 20 are of Spartan soldiers, with the overwhelming majority being faceless Persian goons - and the occasional animal, too.

And yet, despite culling a small village's worth of people, 300 still doesn't hold the claim for the movie with the biggest, most brutal body count.