10 Brutal Movies With The Biggest Body Counts

8. 13 Assassins

Estimated Body Count: 293

Director Takashi Miike is no stranger to making movies with epic body counts, and his remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 period actioner 13 Assassins took that near-parodic levels with its spectacular assembly of gnarly murder.

The film, which sees thirteen assassins teaming up for a suicide mission to kill the tyrannical Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi (Gorō Inagaki), touts a body count far above any of the samurai classics it was clearly influenced by - a whisker shy of 300 kills, in fact.

Even before the main battle between the assassins and the Akashi forces begins, the assassins wipe out a solid 70-or-so men with arrows, only to find themselves facing off against Akashi's 200-strong contingent.

What follows is nothing short of a bloodbath, with both sides effectively being wiped out in a glorious flurry of expertly-filmed samurai carnage. Ultimately, Miike's remake makes the original look like Pee-wee's Playhouse.