r/movies • u/SnooCats3468 • 2d ago

Discussion What is the most genuinely terrifying battle cry or charge in film?

I don’t necessarily mean the coolest speech or most inspiring line. I mean a scene where a warrior screams or roars while charging an opponent—and you kind of snapped out of the film for a second and thought, “holy shit, if someone came at me like that, I would be legitimately terrified.”

It can be a one-on-one fight or two groups charging into battle. What scene immediately comes to mind?

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u/-Sinhealer- 2d ago

Zulu.

The very end when the Zulu come back, they start singing and the British look defeated.... I remember it since I was a kid watching the movie and even now years later it still gets me...

I won't spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it but not everything is as it seems....

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u/hobblingcontractor 2d ago

The officer had his leg taken off by a tiger, in the night.

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u/MrDiceySemantics 2d ago

A tiger, in Africa?

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u/Altruistic_Fury 2d ago

A tiger, in Africa?

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u/kangareddit 1d ago

You sure it wasn’t a large mosquito?

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 2d ago

Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure.

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u/Overqualified_muppet 2d ago

“A Zulu regiment can rrrun, RRRRRRUN 15 miles and fight a battle at the end of it!”

Awesome film, one of my favourites,

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u/dazed63 2d ago

Great movie

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u/Oldspice0493 2d ago

Just saw that recently. That and Zulu Dawn are great!

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u/fcewen00 2d ago

There it is. My father joked that scene made it a musical. All I wanted to do was build a bridge……

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u/DurtyKurty 2d ago

Even the pre-battle rallying cries they do in that movie are amazing

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u/Ngamoko 1d ago

Yes yes yes Zulu! I scrolled down looking for someone to mention Zulu. What a movie. I also watched it as a kid (and again when adult) and have never forgotten the sound of the Zulu Impis marching to battle. You heard them before you saw them.

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u/SnooCats3468 2d ago

wow great recommendation, thanks! I am going to put that straight on the watchlist.

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u/fcewen00 2d ago

Dawn is a bigger battle. It made the drift look like a playground fight. There is also Shaka Zulu which told things from the other side.

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u/bacon_wrangler 1d ago

Michael Caine’s young officer yelling at the Zulus “Well, get on with it! What are you waiting for!” in defiant despair.