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As a genre that specializes in eliciting feelings in the vein of tension, disgust, and terror, Horror
is renowned for consistently pushing the envelope of what is acceptable to show onscreen. In many cases, this is all part and parcel of the cinematic experience, but every once in a while, a horror movie comes along that crosses the line, making one or more creative decisions that ultimately result in a deeply unpleasant viewing experience for large chunks of the audience.
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Whether it be due to a reliance on extreme subject matter, excessive amounts of gore, or even just a relentlessly bleak narrative development, a number of high-profile horror movies have taken things too far over the years, arguably stripping the wider film of any semblance of entertainment in short order. This writer is a huge fan of horror movies, but there comes a point where the question must be asked as to who some of this morbid content actually serves.
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Terrifier 3 (2024)
Directed By Damien Leone
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Terrifier 3
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Horror
3/10
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Release Date
October 11, 2024
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The third entry in Damien Leone’s Terrifier series, 2024’s Terrifier 3 arguably highlights the problem with the franchise as a whole. Chronicling the murderous exploits of David Howard Thornton’s Art the Clown, the Terrifier movies are notorious for featuring some of the most gory and gruesome content ever brought to life onscreen, a state of affairs that makes them legitimately difficult for many viewers to enjoy.
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This is perfectly exemplified by 2024’s latest installment. Terrifier 3 raises the bar to unimaginably disgusting new levels yet again, from Cole’s grisly death by chainsaw to Aunt Jessica’s demise via a combination of rat and feeding tube. Gratuitous gore doesn’t have to be a hindrance to an enjoyable horror outing, but the content in Leone’s latest outing is so sickening that it ultimately begs the question of whether he has some kind of grudge against his audience.
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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Directed By Ruggero Deodato
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Cannibal Holocaust
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Horror
Release Date
June 21, 1985
Runtime
95 minutes
Director
Ruggero Deodato
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One of the most controversial and polarizing horror movies of all time, 1980’s Cannibal Holocaust follows a rescue mission in the Amazon rainforest during the 1970s, searching for a team of filmmakers who disappeared while trying to make a documentary about cannibal tribes. One of the first horror outings to utilize the found footage style of filmmaking, Ruggero Deodato’s picture features some of the most disturbing scenes that the genre has ever witnessed.
The graphic content in Cannibal Holocaust is so realistic that Ruggero Deodato was charged with murder after rumors swirled that the deaths depicted in his movie were actually legitimate (via The Guardian).
In addition to completely traumatizing depictions of castration, torture, and sexual assault, Cannibal Holocaust is notorious for featuring six legitimate animal deaths onscreen, with further reports of exploitation of the Indigenous people casting a permanent black stain on the movie’s wider reputation. Deodato’s controversial entry is still remarkably touted by some critics as one of cinema’s best cannibal movies, but this is one where the film’s connotations are just too unsettling to sweep under the rug.
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The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence (2011)
Directed By Tom Six
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
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Drama
Horror
Crime
Release Date
October 6, 2011
Runtime
91 minutes
Director
Tom Six
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Serving as a follow-up to 2009’s original entry, 2011’s The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence is one of those movies that really makes the viewer question what sort of benefit producing this type of content actually offers. There’s no artistic craft here, no nuanced metaphor for the vile content unfolding onscreen. To describe Tom Six’s sequel as a horror film is arguably a disservice to its purported parent genre, considering this is little more than an hour and a half of gross-out tactics.
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The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence (2015) |
20% |
Following an intellectually disabled man who draws inspiration from the original movie to create his own nightmarish version of the human centipede, Six’s sequel is sickening. The Human Centipede 2’s nauseating add-ons compound the sheer horror already associated with the movie’s central premise. Six may be trying to make the point that his appalling entry is just a movie, but that isn’t enough to redeem Full Sequence’s horrendous content.
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Tusk (2014)
Directed By Kevin Smith
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Tusk
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Horror
Comedy
4.3/10
Release Date
September 6, 2014
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Inspired by a darkly comical true story, Tusk remains one of cinema’s most notorious body horror outings. The movie follows Wallace Bryton, a podcaster lured into a trap by an eccentric and mentally unstable former sailor, who soon unveils his plans to surgically reconstruct him into a nightmarish human-walrus hybrid. Starring Justin Long as the unfortunate walrus-to-be and Michael Parks as his captor, Howard Howe, Kevin Smith’s outing actually has some wickedly dark black comedy going for it in patches.
Unfortunately, said patches are largely overshadowed by what little remains of Smith’s work apart from that; namely, one of the most disgusting movies that the 2010s had to offer. The graphic depiction of what Parks does to Long’s charge is bad, but the sheer skin-crawling connotations of Bryton’s never-ending suffering are worse, whether he’s having his own severed fibias used to make walrus “tusks” or the fact that he literally heals into his appalling “suit,” rendering it a permanent part of his body.
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Hostel (2005)
Directed By Eli Roth
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Hostel
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Horror
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4/10
Release Date
January 6, 2006
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Executive produced by none other than Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth’s Hostel is an excellent example of a movie that is simply too graphic for its own good. Following a pair of tourists who find themselves taken hostage by a sinister organization that allows clients to mutilate and murder human beings for a hefty fee, the 2005 horror features a deviously inventive premise and a thrilling story. Sadly, Roth’s film arguably ends up falling over its own feet thanks to some of the nastiest scenes in the horror genre.
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After a literally exhausting amount of torture, involving drills and severed fingers to name but a few of the delights unfolding onscreen, it’s around the point that Jay Hernandez’s Paxton graphically cuts out a young woman’s disfigured eyeball as an act of mercy that the last semblance of enjoyment factor completely disappears from Hostel. It’s worth noting that Roth’s outing garnered positive reviews, but from this writer’s perspective, there’s gore, and then there’s what Hostel brings to the table.
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Antichrist (2009)
Directed By Lars von Trier
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Antichrist
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Drama
Horror
Thriller
1/10
Release Date
May 20, 2009
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Starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2009’s experimental art horror outing Antichrist remains one of director Lars von Trier’s most unsettling movies. The film follows the starring duo’s unnamed married couple in the aftermath of their young son’s accidental death, depicting an increasingly disturbing series of events that occur after they seclude themselves in a remote woodland cabin to mourn their loss.
There’s conceivably a deviously nasty message lurking at Antichrist‘s heart, but much like other prominent examples of von Trier’s work, there’s simply too much horrific content on offer to waste much thought on what that might be.
There’s conceivably a deviously nasty message lurking at Antichrist‘s heart, but much like other prominent examples of von Trier’s work, there’s simply too much horrific content on offer to waste much thought on what that might be. Any film that deals with concepts like genital mutilation is always going to present an exceedingly difficult watch, and that’s just one of the numerous disturbingly graphic depictions of gore that von Trier’s outing presents for context.
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Speak No Evil (2022)
Directed By Christian Tafdrup
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Speak No Evil
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Horror
Thriller
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7/10
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March 17, 2022
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2024’s English-language remake of the Danish-Dutch production Speak No Evil was lauded as one of the most unsettling horror movies of the year, speaking volumes to the disturbing nature of the 2022 original, considering that it makes the James McAvoy-led effort look tame by comparison. Both films follow a family visiting another couple and their child after meeting on holiday, only for their new friends to duly be unveiled as ruthless killers.
Director Christian Tafdrup was originally inspired to make Speak No Evil after receiving a similar invitation from a couple that he and his family met on holiday (via Syfy).
While both stories unfold in a similar manner, James Watkins’ take chose to play it safe by omitting some of its source material’s most harrowing content. Chief among them is the way Speak No Evil’s remake changes the original’s disturbing ending. Christian Tafdrup’s conclusion sees the murderous couple force their guests to strip naked and brutally stone them to death, cutting out their daughter’s tongue and forcing her to masquerade as their new child to begin the cycle anew. Speak No Evil remains a superbly made horror movie, but the brutality of this ending is beyond the pale.
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Would You Rather (2012)
Directed By David Guy Levy
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Would You Rather
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Thriller
Horror
Release Date
February 8, 2013
Runtime
93 Minutes
Director
David Guy Levy
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Revolving around a twisted take on the titular contest, 2012’s Would You Rather follows a group of down-on-their-luck individuals who partake in a depraved version of the classic party game at the behest of a twisted billionaire, in the hopes of winning a lucrative prize. Unfortunately for them, traditionally hypothetical questions like “Would you rather lose your sight or experience drowning for five minutes?” soon take on an all-too-literal meaning.
Would You Rather isn’t the worst horror movie of the genre, but the film’s relentlessly graphic depiction of its sickening array of party games still goes way too far. After you’ve witnessed an old lady bleed out after being stabbed in the thigh with an ice pick or somebody slicing their own eyeball open with a razor blade, it’s arguably pretty hard to derive any legitimate sense of enjoyment from proceedings.
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Maniac (1980)
Directed By William Lustig
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Thriller
Horror
Release Date
February 8, 2013
Runtime
93 Minutes
Director
David Guy Levy
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It speaks volumes to the utterly harrowing nature of Maniac that the movie remains one of cinema’s most disturbing horror outings almost half a century later. William Lustig’s psychological slasher follows Joe Spinnell’s Frank Zito, a psychotic serial killer who murders and scalps young women residing in New York City. Leveraging the talents of special effects maestro Tom Savini to maximum effect, Maniac is one of the bloodiest entries of slasher sub-genre.
However, there simply isn’t enough substance to Maniac’s premise and central character to justify the film’s levels of mindless killing and appalling violence.
Unfortunately, that’s what ultimately trips Lustig’s effort up. The movie’s tone is desperate and bleak from start to finish, painting a chilling profile of an entirely realistic, mentally ill killer. However, there simply isn’t enough substance to Maniac’s premise and central character to justify the film’s levels of mindless killing and appalling violence, with the slasher still making for horrifically uncomfortable viewing to this day.
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
Directed By Lars von Trier
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The House That Jack Built
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Horror
Crime
Drama
Release Date
October 17, 2018
Runtime
152 Minutes
Director
Lars von Trier
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Heavily channeling the influence of Dante’s Inferno and drawing inspiration from Ted Bundy, The House that Jack Built sees von Trier in a somewhat restrained form, speaking volumes to the brand of filmmaking that the controversial Danish director typically offers. Following the eponymous serial killer over 12 years, the Matt Dillon-led film is arguably von Trier at his most accessible and still manages to be one of the most harrowing horror movies of all time.
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Outside a deliciously poetic conclusion for the film’s despicable villain that sees him literally enter the deepest circle of Hell, The House that Jack Built falls into the typical von Trier trap of being too relentlessly unpleasant to even begin to enjoy. Case in point? The movie depicts a scene where Jack graphically murders a pair of young boys before their mother’s very eyes, forcing her to endure a twisted picnic with her son’s bloodied corpses before killing her too, and that’s not even the worst sequence in this horror film.
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