Holy men are called to rid her of the unholy spirit. It turns out that, well, she’s possessed by a demon. begins exhibiting some incredibly odd behavior. Synopsis: A young girl in Washington D.C. His name was cleared, and his space in the fake-snuff-film hall of fame was cemented. The filmmaker had to track down his actors and bring them before the jury so they could explain that they had not, in fact, been slaughtered during the production. When the film ran in France, Photo magazine alleged that the extensive ritual-sacrifice sequences were the real deal, and the courts threw a murder charge on Deodato for good measure. An anthropologist leads an expedition to recover the documentarians who went looking for the indigenous tribes of maneaters rumored to be hiding around the jungle they then find savagery beyond their wildest imagining, including an infamous sequence of a young woman impaled on a wooden stake and numerous examples of why the movie is named Cannibal Holocaust.Ĭontroversy: After 10 glorious days of release (during which the film generated a staggering $200 million0, the film was pulled from theaters and Italian director Ruggero Deodato was slapped with obscenity charges.
Synopsis: Square one of horror’s found-footage subgenre, this alleged “lost tape” from an American film crew trekking into the Amazon crossed every line it could reach. Remember, it’s only a movie…it’s only a movie…it’s only a movie…. But all of the movies here fall under the category of controversial, all of them took the genre to some fairly extreme places, and all of them get a 1-10 according to how much respective outrage each work generated. Several films nearly got folks arrested a couple merely inspired repulsion and disgust from critics and audiences alike, along with some passionate jeers. So we’ve singled out 14 horror films that have caused various degrees of public outcry upon their release – or in a few cases, weren’t released in certain countries for decades. We’ve all seen good scary movies and bad scary movies – it’s the really ugly ones, however, that tend to generate the most memorable and notable notoriety. And then there are the ones that push so many social-taboo envelopes, strike so many collective raw nerves and tweak so many communal gag reflexes that they are a cut, if you will, above the rest. There are some that get deep under your skin – often times because they’ve literally flayed or burrowed under their characters’ skins – and others that will make you see everyday items (a bowl of pea soup, a hockey mask, a videotape) in a horrifying new light. There are horror movies that will give you nightmares, and cause you to fear showers and shallow waters for decades.
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