Of all the variety of genre affiliations, almost every category of films has found its implementation in modern cinema. We are familiar with dramas, action films and action, comedies and thrillers, which, in turn, are erotic and psychological. French, American, Chinese films of similar subjects are known to many. A group is kept apart, which can rally any of these genres in their most sometimes unusual combination.
The main feature of shocking films is their frank naturalness, which is not covered by any norms and principles. On the contrary, the creators of the plot are ready to get to our consciousness, leaving such an aftertaste that is beyond the power of any other “normal” film. In this article, we will examine why the most terrible, forbidden films are created, and try to answer the question of what constitutes the most shocking film known to the viewer.
What do we know about cruelty?
Agree, the surrounding reality includes a lot of dangerous things. The world is slowly plunging into the abyss of cruelty, which cannot but reflect on the information that we absorb through television, films and news. Such things are so familiar that we adapted to them, not noticing how they affect our consciousness.
Unfortunately, being a mirror of our everyday life, cinema does not stand aside. With relative frequency, he releases horror films, bloody and spectacular, tickling the nerves of the audience. For several decades, controversial films have been on the list of banned for showing in the territories of individual countries. And although censorship tries to stop their spread in time, nevertheless, the creators are contriving to find ways to make paintings accessible to the masses.
Cruelty - a new feature of films?
Films frightening with their frankness evoke a completely different perception and audience assessment. The most shocking film must have in its arsenal such components as cruelty in its highest incarnation, immoral things related to drugs, sex and alcohol, rude ridicule and even mockery of politics, religion, people and society.
Such, for example, is “Salo, or 120 days of Sodom,” one of the famous films of this direction. His style is “Chernukha”. Based on the book of the Marquis de Sade, it was released in 1975 after the death of director Pierre Pazolini. In the fierce drama, the last days of Italian fascism are displayed; there is a huge number of naturalistic scenes of violence, as well as sexual acts in the most perverted forms.
Taboo? Come on!
Needless to say, most of these paintings are prohibited for display. Despite this, shocking films, the list of which is constantly being analyzed, remain a favorite and interesting object for all kinds of research. For example, it is known that the British daily The Independent periodically presents its readers such lists.
The Argentinean painting “Snaff 102” occupies an honorable place in them. And although the explicit warning “not recommended” speaks for itself, there were many who wanted to watch the film. It is devoted to all kinds of bullying against the fairer sex; the main character, a reporter, is trying to unravel the phenomenon of real humiliation. Murders and ill-treatment, abhorrent methods of abuse, including violence against pregnant women - all this can be found in the picture.
Everyone has the right to set boundaries
However, to compile a list of shocking, banned films is subject not only to journalists. Spectators and true connoisseurs of cinema, possessing curiosity and zeal, can find countless examples of such films, including those that they had a chance to watch in person. Therefore, we can say with confidence that each viewer will discover his most shocking film. The main thing that combines these films is a strong impression, an ambiguous trace and an effect on the mind. So in some cases it is better to refuse to view it.
Refuse, for example, from watching the Austrian 1997 Fun Games. The modern adaptation was shot by the same director ten years later, but with other actors. Still the picture is fraught with hellish cold. The family, together with a 10-year-old son, comes to a picturesque corner near the lake. Strangers are knocking on the house. By killing the owner’s dog, they offer a brutal survival game ...
At one's own risk!
Creating paintings of this kind, the creators, as a rule, do not announce this openly, but give appropriate categories warning about the presence of scenes of a certain nature, informal aesthetics and profanity. Before looking into the most brutal films, let's remind ourselves that they are all designed to insult, affect your feelings and greatly shock. Hence the main rule - to watch or not - only you choose.
The most terrible - films from Serbia
Former porn actor Milos has long been tied up with his favorite business. Now he lives a peaceful life with his family. A meeting with Leila leads to the agreement to participate for the last time in a new film, which is shot by an eccentric rich man. Soon Milos realizes that before him is not just a movie, but a war for survival - the bloodiest, most real ...
“Serbian film”, released in 2010, tops the list of paintings that can have a negative impact on human consciousness. The release of the picture made a lot of noise: it gained such a public outcry that many countries quickly banned it from broadcasting. Ambiguous reviews were not only in Serbia, but also in a number of other states. The scariest films, to which the Serbian film can be attributed, abound with excessive cruelty, as well as a natural demonstration of necrophilia, pedophilia and rape. But not only this was the resonance - according to many critics, the picture contains a clear political connotation.
Freaks, experiments, cannibals ...
“Freak Show” was released in 2007 and only on video. It can be included in the category “Horror Films”, because the audience is presented with a wild fear of what is happening ... Mr. Lawn holds his own circus - each of its members has a pronounced pathology of the body. The owner loves his troupe so much that anyone who tries to offend someone will suffer a well-deserved punishment. Several strollers join the circus. And then they plot a gorgeous plan for his robbery. It is unlikely that they can imagine who these little freaks really are ...
The painting “Freak Show” is banned in many countries. The film is a remake of "Urodtsev" 1932. At the moment, not a single distributor was found in Russia who would dare to show a picture.
Can the most shocking film do without human experience? No. Therefore, the “Philosophy of the Knife” (2008) immediately falls into this category. It is curious that this is a joint Russian-American project that talks about the Japanese detachment that operated during the Second World War. Terrible experiments and ongoing research on the human body will lead to ecstasy even the most sophisticated viewer!
Only with his poster “Cannibal Hell” can scare to death. Undoubtedly, it is included in the most extraordinary scary films and is a vivid example of paintings that are subject to viewing only by a narrow category of viewers with a persistent psyche. The picture is designed in a pseudo-documentary genre and occupies a leading position among tapes banned for display all over the world. They spoke of Hell of the Cannibals as a tape of terrifying power, the most brutal, physically disgusting and at the same time real picture.
The plot tells the story of a film crew that travels from New York to the Amazonian jungle to search for previously missing colleagues. The found film demonstrates all the basic principles of the life of cannibals, including eating uninvited guests from modern civilization ...
Outright cruelty
The French Irreversibility became perhaps the most talked about and shocking film of 2002. It can be included in the category “Most Cruel Films”.
The man is desperately looking for the only person - the killer of his girlfriend, whom he raped in the underpass. The film is famous for the fact that the narrative takes place in reverse order. But this is not the first case in the history of cinema. The scenes of the attack on the main character, as well as the killing of a visitor in a dirty gay club, who was beaten on the head with a fire extinguisher, turned out to be much more spectacular. The fact that the main roles were played by Monica Belucia and Vincent Cassel, the couple at the time of filming, remained completely inexplicable.
Due to open cruelty, “Irreversibility” can be included in adult films: a picture with a realistic 9-minute rape of the heroine Bellucci is allowed for viewing by persons over 18 years of age.
“The Last House on the Left” (original 1972 and a remake of 2009) and the trilogy “I Spit on Your Graves” are among the most cruel, perverted paintings. The action of both films is focused on the main characters, who are brutally raped by a company of strangers. Girls of last effort try to grab hold of the rest of life, and when it seems that it has ended, a saving breath comes. A special intrigue lies in the second half of the film, where victims will have to develop an individual revenge plan for each of their offenders. Both tapes gained audience recognition, and the scenes of abuse were recognized as the most spectacular and most realistic.
Thrash is a fashionable perversion
You will be pleasantly surprised that such a previously unknown direction as “trash” was presented to the public in our country at the end of the last century. Svetlana Baskova shot a picture on an amateur film and invited the debutant Vladimir Epifantsev. The action takes place in the guardhouse, where the junior officers talk on vital topics. Their communication takes place in a perverse environment - with the use of homosexuality, coprophilia and open sadism. The film revealed a radical non-format plan and is considered the most dirty and vile on domestic television. The audience, who still watched the tape, shared their impressions afterwards: “The Green Elephant” consists of shocking sensations, which are extremely difficult for an unprepared person.
Dreamland: the most striking shocking films
The USA rightfully remains the world cinema leader. And it would be disrespectful to say that Hollywood has not tried the most sophisticated genres. The Exorcist of 1973 positioned itself as the worst movie of all time. Other facts can confirm this title: profit exceeding costs 36 times, four Golden Globes and three more nominations, recognition of viewers and critics. "The Exorcist" introduced a new (and most importantly - high-quality) direction of American horrr paintings. The main character, the actress, notices the oddities behind her daughter. Believing that these are just mental disorders, she invites the priest, who makes an unusual diagnosis: the girl fell into obsession with the devil.
The subject of exorcism later became almost a favorite genre. At different times, pictures come out with a similar plot: “The Six Demons of Emily Rose”, “The Spell”, “The Baby Rosemary”, “The Last Exile of the Devil”, “Astral”, “Take Me to Hell”, “Devil”. The best examples, all of them are presented as the most terrible, unpredictable films (USA - producer) on demonic themes.
Chinese shock puzzle
Surprisingly, in almost every state you can find the most shocking films. What attracts the creators of these paintings? It seems that every self-respecting country must release at least a couple of tapes of this kind. Chinese films, which can also scare, are represented by the following striking examples.
"The man behind the sun." A military drama that combines elements of horror and historical milestones. The action takes place in the 40s of the last century in Manchuria, the northeastern region of China. Camp “731” got its name because of medical research that is closed to others. Prisoners were brought to this place, on which experiments of various nature were carried out. Excessive naturalism and cruelty of explicit scenes forced to remove the film from the box because of the received threats about the burning of movie theaters.
“Empire of feelings”. Based on real events, the 1976 picture can be called erotic and deep at the same time. The drama tells about the all-consuming passion of the Garden and its owner. The girl is tormented by guilty feelings about the murder, and at the same time, this feeling brings her sweet pain. Cutting off the genital organ of a man whom she madly loved, Sada carries it along with him along the street. The court passed her acquittal, shocking the public ...
Movies Reminiscent
A Clockwork Orange is perhaps one you cannot forget. Staged by the great director Stanley Kubrick, he takes his detachment. The scandalous, banned in England picture with four Oscar nominations explores the motives of juvenile delinquency. The gang leader, the most sophisticated killer and criminal, ends up in prison, where he becomes the object of a new program to correct his character and cruel inclinations. As if challenging the public, this invention proves that even after such a processing of consciousness, the desire to commit crimes does not disappear anywhere ... The film was remembered for several bright moments and even funny scenes, which together does not reduce its aggressive mood. Separately, the soundtrack and the brilliant play of the cold-blooded Malcolm McDowell are highlighted.
A Clockwork Orange is included in the Shocking Movies category. A list of such paintings can not do without a truly creepy “Human Centipede”. The film, created by the Dutch director Tom Six, tells the story of two girls who got lost while traveling in Germany. Once in the house of a crazy doctor, they understand that they will be the object of a new experience that has not yet been conducted with people ... The tape received mixed reviews from the audience, but it gave rise to a series of new paintings of a similar nature - “Tusk” and “The Skin in which I live” .
Not only full-length films can cause spectator shock. Shocking documentaries can very well repeat this, a striking example is “Faces of Death” of 1993. The screen displays the most mysterious phenomenon that has always interested mankind - death. The plot is devoid of sequence; it offers a mixture of the most varied variations of death. It is shown with reliable realism: disaster and war, murder and execution, cannibalism ... The film is banned in many countries. It is proved that viewing it causes a deep nervous breakdown, eating disorders and sexual dysfunctions in many.
Another striking example of a shocking documentary is the series of stories “Shocking Asia”, representing the life of many peoples, which is very difficult to believe in the reality. The cycle includes research such as sex reassignment surgery, mass graves, self-abusive rituals and customs, survival lessons in the jungle, and the most dangerous areas of modern Tokyo.
The best of the best
Of course, the list presented is not exhaustive. The article discusses the most striking examples, which allows us to highlight the TOP shocking films in the entire history of cinema:
- “Serbian film”;
- "Exorcist";
- “Fat, or 120 days of Sodom”;
- A Clockwork Orange
- “Human Centipede”;
- “Faces of death”;
- “Hell of the Cannibals”;
- “The philosophy of the knife”;
- “Irreversibility”;
- “The last house on the left.”