10 Most Controversial Horror Movies Ever Made
10. Silent Night, Deadly Night
It outgrossed
A Nightmare on Elm Street at the box office
its first week, but the parental outrage about a killer Santa Claus
forced TriStar Pictures to pull it from theaters shortly after it
opened.
9. Freaks
This 1932 film used actual deformed people to play its title
characters, and it was so shocking to moviegoers at the time that it was
banned in the UK for 30 years.
8. Cannibal Holocaust
Ruggero Deodato’s 1980 “found footage” horror story about lost tribes
who eat people caused such a stir in Italy that the director was
arrested for obscenity and the film was seized by the government.
7. Night of the Living Dead
The original George A. Romero zombie nightmare was released a month
or so before the MPAA was in place, so children accustomed to matinee
monster movies were truly scarred, causing
Variety to decry “the pornography of violence.”
6. Salo: 120 Days of Sodom
While considered more an art film than horror, it is based on the
writings of the Marquis de Sade, which got it banned often for its
horrific content of rape, torture and murder.
5. I Spit On Your Grave
Meir Zarchi’s harrowing revenge saga was banned in several countries
and considered a prosecutable “video nasty” in the UK for decades. See
also: Wes Craven’s
The Last House on the Left.
4. The Exorcist
Along with the rumors of a cursed film set and the sacrilegious
themes that forced Warner Bros. to hire bodyguards to protect Linda
Blair, William Friedkin’s legendary film was accused of using subliminal
imagery for prurient purposes.
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Tobe Hooper had somehow hoped his 1974 seminal classic would get by
with a PG rating, but instead it was given an X and became banned in
many countries.
2. A Serbian Film
Director Srđan Spasojević uses child rape and necrophilia to protest
“the fascism of political correctness,” which should tell you all you
need to know about why this movie has been banned in many nations.
1. The Human Centipede
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