Putting the audience through the wringer has been the aspiration of some of art’s greatest creatives. Hitchcock swore by suffering. Theatrical pioneer Antonin Artaud believed that the perfect work should leave at least one audience member dead from shock. And modern cinema has been running with that baton for years. That’s not to say that every film on this list is a solid gold winner, of course. Disturbing extremity is, also, a refuge of the lamest and most immature creative attention seekers, so expect plenty of unsettling trash as well. But, whether gooܫd, bad, or somewhere in between, what you can guarantee is that the following 25, whatever their genre✃, are going to make you feel decidedly grim, and weird in no small way.
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25. Antichrist (2009)
Backstory: Serial grimster Lars von Trier's deliberately provocative and hugely upsetting film, with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a dysfunctional grieving couple. Following the death of their son, the woman becomes inconsolable, leading the man to attempt extreme exposure therapy by taking her to a woodland cabin - nature is one of her deepest fears - in order to attain some manner of healing. It♎ doesn't work, natural꧙ly, and instead leads to unhinged, sexually charged, mutilating fallout with potential supernatural overtones.
Sickest Scene: Willem Dafoe's poor balls are crushed by Gainsbourg, who then proce𒉰eds to masturbate her now-unconscious husband until he ejaculates blood. Before drilling a grindstone through his leg.
24. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Backstory: One-time star director of the French extreme new wave Alexandre Aja helms the remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 original mutant hillbilly exploitation horror. A family on holiday suffer a tyre puncture and get strand🔴ed in the🉐 desert. Alas, they are stranded in the middle of sadistic cannibal killer territory and, after a deceptively slow-burn first act, things rapidly, and without warning, get starkly horrific and resolutely do not let up.
Sickest scene: The sequence in which the full-scale assault really begins. After steady teases that Something Is Not Right – culminating in a suicide – the family is awakened by the screams of their dad being burned at the stake just outside their camper van. From that point on it’s a relentless frenzy of violent attack, rape, shootings, stabbings, and forced lactation at gunpoint. There were notable walkouts when the film🦹 first opened in America. When you watch the movie, you can pinpoint without any doubt which scene incited those walkouts.
16. Flowers Of Flesh And Blood (1985)
Backstory: This is actually just part two of the seven-strong Guinea Pig series from Japan. Flowers Of Flesh And Blood is a masochistic faux snuff film, in which a man dressed as a samurai cuts up a woman before adding her pieces to his extensive collection. It was so convincing that Charlie Sheen informed the FBI he believed 🦩it to be real after a viewing in the early '90s.
Sickest Scene: The killer joyfully posing his disembodied victims head with the rest of his collection, a frantic relea🥂se after an age of🔯 tortuous cutting.
