Snuff (1976)
This movie about a cult in which a group of bikers is dedicated to killing people became very controversial because it has a scene in which the crew kills a woman while filming the movie. Visually it is so, so real, that there is a theory that this murder actually happened. If we add that the directors, Michael Findlay Horacio Fredriksson and Simon Nutchern were in charge of spreading the rumor, the terror increases. Fortunately, it was just a publicity stunt.
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
At the time of its release, this film was banned in around fifty countries because of how disturbing it was. It not only has a few scenes gore Exaggeratedly realistic, but there is a sexual assault and seven animals were killed on camera. The plot takes us on the journey of a documentary filmmaker who travels to the Amazon to study cannibalistic tribes.
Come and see (1985)
This is not strictly a horror movie, but it is one of those that leaves you horrified for weeks. In it we see Flyora, a young man who joins the Soviet resistance movement in World War II and experiences the cruelty of that episode without filters, without mercy and without the corny moments to which films like Schindler’s List. No, the message here is hopeless from beginning to end. And that makes this film impossible to watch: it is so heartbreaking that thinking that this was the reality destroys anyone’s soul.
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August Underground (2001)
This film takes us to the side of Peter, a serial killer as he murders people in the most sadistic, eschatological and disturbing ways. This movie was followed by two sequels, and while they’re horrible too, there’s nothing quite like the first movie.
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Dans ma peau (2002)
This French film directed by and starring Marina de Van is one of the most transgressive films of French extremism and therefore, an experience of those that forces you to roll up your head and cover your eyes, leaving a small space to see the screen because, Although it is grotesque, something forces you to keep watching. Here, we see the story of a woman fascinated by self-mutilation, after suffering an accident.
Martyrs (2008)
This Pascal Laugier film is a story of revenge by a woman against the people who kidnapped her as a child. Together with a friend who was also a victim of abuse, she begins a very disturbing journey in which violence, powerlessness and anger do not miss a second.
The Human Centipede (2009)
This movie starts out like the cliché of a horror movie: Two friends who are on a car trip get a flat tire and ask the wrong person for help, which in this case is an insane surgeon who has a rather disturbing idea: to bond. chain three people to create a triple Siamese, or a human centipede.
A Serbian Film (2010)
You have to see what people do for money. In this film, a financially troubled porn actor agrees to star in an art film, only to realize – obviously, when it is too late – that the film involves necrophilia and pedophilia. Such was the controversy of this film that the director, Srdan Spasojevic, was accused of child pornography, some time after the charges were dropped. Vile, cruel and inhuman, this film leaves traumas even in the most experienced in violent genres.
River of Fundament (2015)
This is a movie that makes you wonder from the first second why the hell are you watching it. At five and a half hours long, this highly complex film explores human waste as an object of contemplation, inspired by the novel Ancient Evenings by Normal Mailer. The result is three acts that represent different incarnations of the writer, with highly eschatological scenes and music and choreography that do not let you have a second of peace.
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Vox Lux (2018)
This film stars Natalie Portman and Jude Law, so from there we know that it is disturbing in a different way than most of the films in this count. Aesthetically, this Brady Corbet film is gorgeous, but it begins with an overly realistic student massacre and the end credits appear nine minutes after it begins because, of course, from there you lose faith in life. The rest of the movie is packed with the worst that humankind has to offer, and it’s excruciating. Beautiful, but unbearable.