Steven Seagal is no stranger to dishing out punishment. He's broken more bones than the NFL, shot more people than John Wick, and caused tens of thousands of dollars in window damages over the course of his career. However, there are a few ultra-gruesome kills Seagal has inflicted on his silver screen foes that are a cut above the rest!
Today we're counting down the most savage and brutal kills in Steven Seagal movies. Look away if you're squeamish! This is no pacifist we're dealing with!
THE GLIMMER MAN (1996)
The comedy action film The Glimmer Man paired Seagal with Keenan Ivory Wayans as a Buddhist ex-special ops soldier who has since become an LAPD detective. The two investigate what appears to be a serial killer named "the Family Man," but it soon takes a much deeper and more complex turn involving a chemical weapons smuggling ring.
The end battle finds Seagal's Jack Cole going up against Donald Cunningham, the man responsible for murdering his ex-wife. The two engage in a brutal fight where Cunningham manages to land only solid hit on Cole, which is enough to get him tossed through a glass window where he's impaled through the skull on a wrought iron fence.
HARD TO KILL (1990)
In Hard To Kill, Seagal portrayed Mason Storm, an LAPD internal affairs detective whose wife is murdered by corrupt police officers working for a villainous Senator. Storm awakens from a coma seven years after the attack to plan his revenge on those responsible, even if it takes him all the way to the top.
The final act of the film sees Storm confront the men responsible for the attack on his family, including Jack Axel, the man who pulled the trigger on his wife. Storm kills him by jamming a broken pool cue through his neck and kicking him in the face to finish him off.
OUT FOR JUSTICE (1991)
Seagal played another hard-edged cop named Gino Felino, a man on the hunt for a former childhood friend who has since turned into an insane and unpredictable lunatic named Ritchie Madano. Throughout the film, Gino kills Ritchie's henchmen in a variety of grotesque ways, but none so over-the-top as the final melee fight against Ritchie himself.
After beating Ritchie to a savage, bloody pulp using anything he can get his hands on (including a frying pan), he finally puts an end to the villain once and for all by grabbing a corkscrew out of his hand and jamming it right through his forehead.
EXIT WOUNDS (2001)
Seagal paired up with DMX as Orin Boyd, a cop with anger management problems who ends up battling a group of corrupt cops who are selling seized heroin. He eventually gets neck deep into their affairs, culminating in a massive showdown to bring the perps to justice.
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Boyd squares off against the leader of the group, Sergeant Strutt (played by Michael Jai White) who tries to flee on a helicopter, only to be stopped by Boyd before it can clear the rooftop. Strutt falls to his death, impaled through the back with a large metal pipe.
ON DEADLY GROUND (1994)
In the final act of Seagal's environmental action vehicle On Deadly Ground, his character Forrest Taft goes up against a band of mercenaries hired by a ruthless oil CEO to take him out.
In one particularly brutal melee fight, one of the henchmen comes at Taft with a knife, taking a jab which he instantly reverses, driving the knife straight through his cheek before ramming his face into the wall, which pushes the knife clean through the back of his head. The scene moves quick, but it's blatantly graphic enough to make anyone cringe!
ABOVE THE LAW (1988)
Above The Law is one of the few Seagal action movies to find his character getting beaten by the baddies. Zip-tied to a chair, Seagal's Nico Toscani is punched repeatedly in the face by main baddie Kurt Zagon, before he's injected with a drug which makes him high.
The drug has the opposite effect, sending Toscani into a rage and allowing him to snap the zip-ties and leap from the chair, dispatching all the henchmen in the room before getting his hands on Zagon and snapping his arm in the opposite direction, then breaking his neck. It all happens in a flash, but it's one tremendously impressive fight sequence.
UNDER SIEGE (1992)
Under Siege put Seagal in the shoes of Casey Ryback, an experienced cook with legendary combat skills that he uses to take out a terrorist group looking to commandeer a nuclear attack vessel. Through the course of the film, he kills a number of baddies using a variety of creative methods, including his final fight with Tommy Lee Jones' character Strannix.
The most grisly kill of the film is undoubtedly when Ryback scuffles with a henchman, only to grab him and tear his throat out in graphic fashion. Makes one wonder about Ryback's overall grip strength in the gym.
SUBMERGED (2005)
In this 2005 straight-to-DVD flick, Seagal plays Chris Cody, a seasoned mercenary in prison for breaking several laws which allowed him to prevent a major terrorist attack on the United States. He's released from prison and set loose to take out a mad scientist expanding a CIA mind control program for his own nefarious ends.
As Seagal takes out bad guy after bad guy in his signature fashion, he's given one gloriously brutal kill in the form of a knife to the back of an enemy's neck, severing the spinal cord before protruding out the front of his throat, with all the gurgling one might expect from such a takedown.
ABSOLUTION (2015)
In 2015's Absolution, Seagal plays John Alexander, a government contract killer who goes up against a ruthless mobster known as The Boss (played by Vinnie Jones) who is wired into the political system. John finds The Boss and confronts him, but not before dealing with his bodyguard.
The two engage in a fight where John delivers a brutal beat-down before executing him with a double-fingered jab to the neck, killing him instantly.
MARKED FOR DEATH (1990)
None of Seagal's movie kills are as gruesome and brutal as the one served up in Marked For Death! Seagal plays retired DEA agent John Hatcher, a man who returns home to find his neighborhood infested with a Jamaican voodoo drug gang led by the maniacal Screwface. The two square off in America before the action switches to Jamaica, where Hatcher and friends attack Screwface's villa and murder him.
They use his severed head as a warning to the Screwface cartel to pack it up and move out, but little do they suspect that the villain had an identical twin. After catching them off guard, this second Screwface engages Hatcher in a prolonged battle that ends with him gouging the former's eyes into his skull, breaking his back over his knee, and throwing him unceremoniously down an elevator shaft like a sack of garbage. It's easily Seagal's most brutal movie kill, by far.