7. Kim Richards - Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
Here's the sort of scene you'd be hard-pressed to get away with in today's politically correct Hollywood landscape. The scene in question has a young girl buy an ice cream, realise she's been given the wrong one, and upon returning to the ice cream van, finds the owner murdered by a local gang. She shouts "I wanted vanilla twist", only for a gang member to turn and shoot her straight through the chest. Splattered with blood, she collapses to the floor, dead, and the film continues as normal... Hilariously, the MPAA threatened to give the film an X-rating if the scene wasn't cut, so Carpenter suggested that he did, only to release it with the scene in tact anyway, something you naturally couldn't get away with these days. Needless to say, it's a shocking scene not merely because it's child murder, but because it's so gratuitous and completely unsentimental; there is no hesitation on the part of the killer, and Carpenter focuses on the brutal gore, which even he agrees is excessive.