A List Of The Most Disturbing Films

by SushiStoner103 | created - 07 Aug 2014 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public

This is the ultimate list of disturbing films for cinema extremists and horror movie fanatics, I have rated the following films by their shock factor and a combination of their overall quality and my personal taste.

Keep in mind this list is still in progress as i will attempt to watch more and more disturbing films, the entries with no text indicates the films I have yet to see, but i will grow a pair and do so ASAP. So any recommendations are welcome and appreciated.

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1. The Profane Exhibit (2013)

108 min | Horror

Deep within the underbelly of Paris, there is a club which is the home of a secret, wicked society. At first it resembles an ordinary fetish or Goth nightclub, but within the cavernous ... See full summary »

Directors: Jeremy Kasten, Uwe Boll, Ruggero Deodato, Anthony DiBlasi, Marian Dora, Ryan Nicholson, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Michael Todd Schneider, Sergio Stivaletti, Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Christine Ahanotu, Dídac Alcaraz, U. Bernard, Stephanie Bertoni

Votes: 269

Im praying for you Unearthed!

2. The Onania Club

80 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Completed

Hanna secretly joins a group called The Onania Club. Its members, strong independent L.A. women, get aroused by the misery of others. Hanna meets more misery than she could ever hope for and in the process loses everything she cares for.

Director: Tom Six | Stars: Jessica Morris, Darcy DeMoss, Deborah Twiss, Karen Strassman

Release the onania club!

3. Blight of Humanity (2018)

76 min | Drama, Horror

A Sunday walk through the late summer landscape leads not only to a small lake, but also to the abyss of human existence. Dominance and oppression, superiority and humiliation serve for an alleged "incarnation".

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Marietta Fiori, Johnatan Maria von Gross, Jörg Wischnauski

Votes: 93

Shock Factor - 10/10 (high impact sexual violence, sexualised nudity, scenes of animal cruelty, blood and gore)

Overall film - 75%

4. Black Mass of the Nazi Sex Wizard (2015 Video)

Not Rated | 66 min | Horror

In this demonic labyrinth we experience the satanic ritual which spawns endless incarnations of Angela Aberdeen, as she is doomed to live out her haunted existence of the eternal "lost girl... See full summary »

Director: Lucifer Valentine | Stars: Sister S., Chalice, Heather Cage, Yesenia Black

Votes: 205

Shock Factor - 10/-10 (high impact blood and gore, sexualised nudity, scenes of degradation and self-mutilation)

Overall film - 60%

Did not expect it but as a standalone piece, the very controversial and despicable Lucifer Valentine has made an incredibly distasteful and dangerous work of art

5. ReGOREgitated Sacrifice (2008)

TV-MA | 65 min | Horror

A girl with disturbing hallucinations continues her downward spiral into hell. Not for the faint of heart.

Director: Lucifer Valentine | Stars: A. Belle, The Black Angels of Hell, Honey, J.J.

Votes: 996

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual violence, High impact sexual activity, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 30%

6. Slow Torture Puke Chamber (2010)

Unrated | 77 min | Horror

The final in the trilogy. A bulimic prostitute talks about her deranged childhood while being sexually tortured.

Director: Lucifer Valentine | Stars: Shari Caruso, Ameara Lavey, Hope Likens, Ms. Lucy

Votes: 866

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual activity, high impact blood and gore, high impact child abuse and themes, high impact sexual violence, scenes of degradation)

Overall film - 35%

7. Atrocious (2015)

79 min | Horror

While examining a traffic accident where a woman was badly hurt, the unorthodox police commander finds proof of even more gruesome facts and decides to deal out vengeful justice.

Director: Lex Ortega | Stars: David Aboussafy, Abigail Bonilla, Ricardo Brito, Alberto Hernandez Campusano

Votes: 1,012

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact violence, blood and gore, sexual violence, scenes of mutilation and themes)

Overall film - 60%

8. August Underground (2001 Video)

Unrated | 70 min | Horror

Two serial killers go on a murdering rampage as one films the outcome from behind a video camera.

Director: Fred Vogel | Stars: Kyle Dealman, Casey Eganey, Dan Friedman, Alexa Iris

Votes: 3,642

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact violence, scenes of torture and degradation, blood and gore and themes)

Overall film - 20%

Close to Snuff as one can get without digging up the obscure deeper down the iceberg.

9. Martyrs (2008)

R | 99 min | Horror

A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin

Votes: 106,406

Shock factor - 10/10 (High impact violence, High impact scenes of torture and themes)

Overall film - 90%

Martyrs most likely represents the peak of new french extremity, it's the most psychologically tormenting and emotionally punishing films ever put to screen.

10. Debris Documentar (2012 Video)

75 min | Horror

A man unknowingly leads a double life.

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Marian Dora, Martina Adora, Katja Bienert, Alexandra Dumas

Votes: 168

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual themes, high impact sexual activity, high impact sexual violence)

Overall film - 55%

11. Carcinoma (2014)

87 min | Drama, Horror

A formidable descend to human decay.

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Ulli Lommel, Thomas Goersch, Carina Palmer, Stanley Grimmer

Votes: 276

Shock Factor -10/10 (High impact themes, high impact sexual activity)

Overall film - 75%

While it is very disturbing, its more upseting

12. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)

Not Rated | 91 min | Horror

17 Metascore

Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

Director: Tom Six | Stars: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black, Kandace Caine

Votes: 42,950 | Gross: $0.12M

Shock Factor- 10/10 (High impact sexual violence, scenes of torture, graphic violence and themes)

Overall Film- 75%

13. A Serbian Film (2010)

NC-17 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

Director: Srdjan Spasojevic | Stars: Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic

Votes: 71,678

Shock factor- 10/10 (High impact sexual violence/high impact violence, blood and gore, high impact themes)

Overall film- 85%

Many would regard this to be the most disturbing film ever made, this rings truth in those who havn't actually seen it. For those who have its up there but there are worse

14. Hate Crime (2012)

Not Rated | 73 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

A Jewish family, that just arrived in a new neighborhood, are recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a bunch of crystal-meth-crazed Neo-Nazi lunatics.

Director: James Cullen Bressack | Stars: Jody Barton, Nicholas Adam Clark, Gregory DePetro, Debbie Diesel

Votes: 1,164

Shock Factor - 9/10 (high impact sexual violence, strong violence, sustained threat and themes)

Overall film - 55%

15. Flesh of the Void (2017)

77 min | Horror

Death is imminent and meaning absent in this visual exercise of pointless nihilism. A visual experiment of anger and psychosis, captured on all kinds of manipulated film. Pain and anguish ... See full summary »

Director: James Florian Quinn | Stars: Man Without a Face, Kmsura, Dead Flesh, Elektriking

Votes: 166

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact horror themes, High impact sexual themes, High impact sexual activity, themes of pedophilia)

Overall Film - 55%

16. 29 Needles (2019)

Unrated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

Francis uses pain to hold back his inner demons, but when this no longer works, his obsessions for pain and sex lead him into new territory.

Director: Scott Philip Goergens | Stars: Brooke Berry, Jamee Nicholson, Joe Meduza, Ryoko H.

Votes: 104

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual activity, scenes of self-mutilation)

Overall film - 45%

17. The Girl Next Door (2007)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

29 Metascore

Follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.

Director: Gregory Wilson | Stars: William Atherton, Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, Kevin Chamberlin

Votes: 29,376

Shock Factor - 10/10 (High impact sexual violence, high impact themes, scenes of torture)

Overall Film - 80%

18. Subconscious Cruelty (2000)

92 min | Fantasy, Horror

An anthology of horror, consisting of four segments all themed around gory subjects.

Director: Karim Hussain | Stars: Sophie Lauzière, Anne-Marie Belley, Brea Asher, Ivaylo Founev

Votes: 2,086

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual activity, strong violence, blood and gore and themes)

Overall film - 65%

19. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

TV-MA | 117 min | Drama

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti

Votes: 65,823

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High Impact violence, strong scenes of torture and degradation, sexual activity themes)

Overall Film - 90%

Pioneering!

20. Trauma (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Four friends, partying in a house in the middle of nowhere are brutally attacked by a man and his son, forcing the remaining women to take vengeance upon them.

Director: Lucio A. Rojas | Stars: Catalina Martin, Macarena Carrere, Dominga Bofill, Ximena del Solar

Votes: 2,483

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual violence, high level violence, blood and gore)

Overall film - 50%

21. Mysterious Skin (2004)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama

74 Metascore

Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison

Votes: 76,311 | Gross: $0.70M

Shock factor - 10/10 (High impact themes of pedophilia)

Overall film - 85%

This one really got to me

22. Philosophy of a Knife (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 266 min | Drama, Horror

A graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.

Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Tetsuro Sakagami, Tomoya Okamoto, Yukari Fujimoto, Manoush

Votes: 1,686

Shock Factor - 10/10 (high impact sexual activity, high impact violence, blood and gore, scenes of degradation and torture)

Overall film - 40%

23. The Bunny Game (2011)

Not Rated | 76 min | Horror

A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.

Director: Adam Rehmeier | Stars: Rodleen Getsic, Jeff F. Renfro, Drettie Page, Coriander Womack

Votes: 2,833

Shock Factor 9/10 (High impact sexual violence, scenes of degradation, blood and gore)

Overall film - 20%

Torture for the sake of torture

24. Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006 Video)

Unrated | 71 min | Horror

The gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations.

Director: Lucifer Valentine | Stars: Ameara Lavey, Pig Lizzy, Maja Lee, Pam McCartney

Votes: 2,968

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact violence, blood and gore/High impact sexual violence/sexual activity)

Overall Film - 20%

25. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror

22 Metascore

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi

Votes: 61,133

Shock factor - 9/10 (Scenes of animal cruelty/high impact blood and gore/high impact sexual violence and themes)

Overall film - 85%

26. Concrete (2004)

113 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured.

Director: Hiromu Nakamura | Stars: Katsuya Kobayashi, Miki Komori, Masanori Machida, Kensuke Mano

Votes: 506

Shock Factor - 9/10 (high impact sexual violence, scenes of degradation and violence)

Overall film - 20%

27. Midori (1992)

Unrated | 47 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

The story based off of the controversial manga by Suehiro Maruo takes place where a little orphaned girl joins a freak-show circus troupe whose members rape and abuse her. She then finds a glimmer of hope in the enigmatic magician who joins the group.

Director: Hiroshi Harada | Stars: Minako Naka, Norihiko Morishita, Keinosuke Okamoto, Kazuyoshi Hayashi

Votes: 3,665

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual themes, strong animated violence, scenes of child abuse and pedophilia themes)

Overall Film - 80%

While shocking its artistically accomplished

28. Melancholie der Engel (2009)

Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Two friends meet again to share their last days in an old house where everything happened a long time ago. They gather a group of people, which results in a disastrous turn of events, during which reveals the deepest human depths.

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Zenza Raggi, Carsten Frank, Frank Oliver, Janette Weller

Votes: 1,498

Shock Factor 10/10 (High impact sexual themes, High impact sexual violence, High impact sexual activity, blood and gore, scenes of animal cruelty)

Overall film - 45%

Marian's magnum opus is only for his hard-core fans

29. Pink Flamingos (1972)

NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

47 Metascore

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole

Votes: 27,900 | Gross: $0.18M

Shock Factor - 8/10 (Strong sexual violence, sex scenes and sexualised nudity)

*this does deserve a 10/10 rating, however most of the disturbing elements are played off with comedic intent.

Overall Film - 90%

30. Voyage to Agatis (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Mystery

A wealthy couple of perverts lures a prostitute to a seemingly innocent yachting cruise under the sun; however, by the end of the day, she will end up humiliated, and, above all, violated. But, is this the end of her nightmarish ordeal?

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Thomas Goersch, Tatjana Lommel, Janna Lisa Dombrowsky

Votes: 387

Shock Factor - 8/10 (graphic violence, sexualised nudity)

overall film - 60%

31. Grotesque (2009)

Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Thriller

A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Kotoha Hiroyama, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako, Tsugumi Nagasawa

Votes: 7,453

Shock factor - 9/10 (High impact scenes of torture, blood and Gore)

Overall Film - 30%

The ultimate definition of torture pornography

32. Cannibal (2006 Video)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An internet advertisement placed by a man with a cannibalistic obsession brings yields a willing victim to serve up his own flesh in this dramatic account of the crime that shocked the world.

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Carsten Frank, Victor Brandl, Tobias Sickert, Joachim Sigl

Votes: 1,585

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact blood and gore, high impact sexual activity, depictions of animal cruelty)

Overall film - 40%

33. Audition (1999)

R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

70 Metascore

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura

Votes: 89,226

Shock Factor- 8/10 (High impact themes, scenes of torture)

Overall Film- 80%

34. Antichrist (2009)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

49 Metascore

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Votes: 136,530 | Gross: $0.40M

Shock factor - 9/10 (High impact sex scenes, high impact violence, a scene of self-mutilation)

Overall film - 85%

35. Found (III) (2012)

Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

41 Metascore

A horror-obsessed boy discovers his older brother is a serial killer.

Director: Scott Schirmer | Stars: Gavin Brown, Ethan Philbeck, Phyllis Munro, Louie Lawless

Votes: 5,162

Shock factor - 9/10 (High impact violence/strong themes)

overall film - 50%

36. Where the Dead Go to Die (2012)

Unrated | 95 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods.

Director: Jimmy ScreamerClauz | Stars: Ruby Larocca, Brandon Slagle, Joey Smack, Victor Bonacore

Votes: 1,415

Shock Factor 8/10 (Disturbing imagery, animated violence, sexual violence, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 35%

37. Irreversible (2002)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

51 Metascore

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.

Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon

Votes: 147,638 | Gross: $0.75M

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual violence, graphic violence)

Overall Film - 85%

38. Bijitâ Q (2001)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô

Votes: 17,053

Shock Factor - 9/10 - (High impact sexual themes, high impact sexual violence)

Overall Film - 90%

I see it more as a jet black comedy

39. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror

83 Metascore

When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 454,908 | Gross: $232.91M

Shock Factor- 10/10 "for its time" 8/10 "present day" (High impact horror themes, strong violence)

overall Film- 90%

"Still holds up, forever a horror classic"

40. Headless (I) (2015)

85 min | Horror

After unearthing the lost slasher film from 1978 in Found (2012), the now-grown-up skull-masked boy abducts and tortures helpless women. Now, he needs one more victim. Will her blonde-haired head end up as the Killer's latest trophy?

Director: Arthur Cullipher | Stars: Shane Beasley, Kelsey Carlisle, Ellie Church, Dave Parker

Votes: 1,579

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High impact violence. blood and gore, sexual violence and themes)

Overall film - 65%

41. Excision (2012)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.

Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, Traci Lords

Votes: 24,614

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High Impact themes/blood and gore)

Overall film - 75%

42. Nekromantik (1988)

Not Rated | 71 min | Horror

A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.

Director: Jörg Buttgereit | Stars: Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt, Collosseo

Votes: 10,974

Shock Factor 9/10 (High impact sex scenes, strong violence, scenes of animal cruelty)

Overall film - 30%

43. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror

5 Metascore

Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems.

Director: Tom Six | Stars: Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, Robert LaSardo

Votes: 19,742

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High level violence & sexual violence, Scenes of torture, strong blood and Gore)

Overall Film - 70%

Another misunderstood comedy, love Tom Six

44. Zivot i smrt porno bande (2009)

90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

An aspiring film maker turns to porn after little success, then falls into a pursuit of crime with his band of misfits and suffers the repercussions of their unprecedented journey.

Director: Mladen Djordjevic | Stars: Mihajlo Jovanovic, Ana Acimovic, Srboljub Milin, Radivoj Knezevic

Votes: 2,355

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact themes, high impact sexual violence, sexual activity, blood and gore)

Overall film - 85%

45. Brutal (I) (2017)

67 min | Horror

A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. They are willing to kill everyone to find that special someone.

Director: Takashi Hirose | Stars: Asami, Katrina Grey, Shigeo Ôsako, Iona

Votes: 453

Shock Factor - 9/10 (high impact bloody violence and themes)

Overall film - 70%

46. Inside (2007)

R | 82 min | Horror

Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot

Votes: 44,693

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact violence, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 80%

47. I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

R | 106 min | Horror, Thriller

When Katie innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into a nightmare of rape, torture and kidnapping. Now, she will have to find the strength to exact her brutal revenge.

Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Yavor Baharov, George Zlatarev

Votes: 32,874 | Gross: $0.00M

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High Impact sexual violence, scenes of torture, graphic violence)

Overall Film - 60%

48. State's Evidence (2004)

R | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

Six high school teenagers decide to commit suicide together, but their plans soon go awry when one of them has something darker in mind as well.

Director: Benjamin Louis | Stars: Douglas Smith, Kris Lemche, Drew Tyler Bell, Alexa PenaVega

Votes: 762

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact sexual violence, child abuse scene, high impact themes and violence)

Overall Film - 65%

49. I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

R | 101 min | Horror, Thriller

19 Metascore

An aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.

Director: Meir Zarchi | Stars: Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Anthony Nichols

Votes: 31,198

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High Impact sexual violence, medium level violence)

Overall Film - 60%

A true exploitation classic

50. Ichi the Killer (2001)

R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama

55 Metascore

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun

Votes: 60,042 | Gross: $0.02M

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High Impact violence, blood and gore, strong sexual violence, scenes of torture)

Overall Film - 80%

51. I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

R | 108 min | Horror, Thriller

27 Metascore

A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.

Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Andrew Howard, Daniel Franzese

Votes: 93,139 | Gross: $0.09M

Shock factor - 8/10 (High impact sexual violence/blood and gore)

Overall Film- 75%

"A plausible effort to revamp and appeal to contemporary audiences"

52. Palindromes (2004)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

53 Metascore

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber

Votes: 12,868 | Gross: $0.55M

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High impact themes, sexual violence)

Overall Film - 80 %

53. Faces of Death (1978)

Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Horror

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.

Director: John Alan Schwartz | Stars: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton, Thomas Noguchi

Votes: 7,999 | Gross: $35.00M

Shock Factor - 9/10 (Distressing images, torture, violence, blood and gore, scenes of animal cruelty)

Overall Film - 65%

A pseudo documentary on the atrocities of life, a little dated but the realism still stands for the most part.

54. Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A Chinese restaurant worker wanted for murder in Hong Kong contracts Ebola in South Africa, becomes immune to it, and unknowingly spreads the virus there, then comes back to Hong Kong and continues to infect people with it.

Director: Herman Yau | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Yeung-Ming Wan, Fui-On Shing, Tsui-Ling Wong

Votes: 4,902

Shock Factor - 8/10 (scenes of animal cruelty, strong sexual violence and themes)

Overall film - 80%

Depending on your sense of humour this may just pass as one of the greatest dark comedies to date.

55. I Spit on Your Grave: Vengeance Is Mine (2015)

Unrated | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Jennifer is still haunted by the memory of being gang raped and almost killed years ago. At her therapist's advice, she joins group therapy and meets similar women. She befriends one and they want more than just talk - justice/vengeance.

Director: Richard Schenkman | Stars: Sarah Butler, Jen Landon, Doug McKeon, Gabriel Hogan

Votes: 15,547

Shock Factor - 8/10 (Strong Sexualised Violence, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 75%

56. Gozu (2003)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

58 Metascore

A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Yûta Sone, Kimika Yoshino, Shohei Hino, Keiko Tomita

Votes: 12,733 | Gross: $0.05M

Shock Factor - 8/10 (Strong sexual references and themes)

Overall Film - 95%

Miike is a god

57. Gummo (1997)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

19 Metascore

Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.

Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh, Jacob Reynolds

Votes: 38,250 | Gross: $0.02M

Shock factor - 8/10 (Strong acts of animal cruelty/strong themes)

Overall film - 90%

58. No Reason (2010)

TV-MA | 70 min | Horror

Engulfed by anguish, trapped inside an allegory of torment and carnage, Jennifer's soul seeks the path of awareness and enlightenment.

Director: Olaf Ittenbach | Stars: Irene Holzfurtner, Mathias Engel, Alexander Gamnitzer, Andreas Pape

Votes: 719

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High impact bloody violence, blood and gore)

Overall film - 65%

60. Girl Hell 1999 (1999 Video)

65 min | Horror

Misaki is a girl trapped in a world violent beyond compare. Her home life is a wreck, two men are interested in her, and a homeless woman she regularly visits. But little does she know life is only going to get more violent...

Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi | Stars: Natsumi Harada, Yuusuke Kimura, Toshimaru Murai, Sheena Nagamori

Votes: 513

Shock Factor - 9/10 (high impact sexual violence, strong sexual themes and violence)

Overall film - 65%

Shock Factor- 8/10 (Strong violence/blood and gore, strong sexual themes)

Overall Film- 75% "Its a fun party film"

62. Cold Fish (2010)

Not Rated | 146 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

66 Metascore

The lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka

Votes: 14,520

Shock Factor - 8/10 (High impact blood and gore, sexual violence and themes)

Overall Film - 85%

63. Ringu (1998)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô

Votes: 77,484

Shock Factor- 8/10 (Strong horror themes)

overall Film- 100%

One of my favourite horror films of all time

64. The Woman (I) (2011)

R | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

58 Metascore

When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.

Director: Lucky McKee | Stars: Pollyanna McIntosh, Brandon Gerald Fuller, Lauren Ashley Carter, Chris Krzykowski

Votes: 25,845

Shock Factor - 8/10 (Strong sexual violence, medium level violence and themes)

Overall film -65%

65. The Last House on the Left (2009)

R | 110 min | Horror, Thriller

42 Metascore

After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.

Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen

Votes: 100,375 | Gross: $32.75M

shock factor - 8/10 (Strong sexual violence and Graphic violence)

Overall Film - 60%

66. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

R | 92 min | Horror

33 Metascore

A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.

Director: Tom Six | Stars: Dieter Laser, Winter Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura

Votes: 87,258 | Gross: $0.18M

Shock Factor- 7/10 (Strong horror themes, medium level violence, sense of peril)

overall Film- 80%

The plot was interesting, the characters were not except for Dr. Heiter he was a blast, truly hilarious and at times captivating.

its kind of a guilty pleasure ;)

67. Incident in a Ghostland (2018)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

44 Metascore

A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.

Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Crystal Reed, Mylène Farmer, Anastasia Phillips, Emilia Jones

Votes: 39,646

Shock Factor - 9/10 (High impact scenes of torture, medium level violence and themes)

Overall Film - 70%

68. I Saw the Devil (2010)

Not Rated | 144 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

67 Metascore

A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.

Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Jeon Gook-hwan, Chun Ho-jin

Votes: 146,184 | Gross: $0.13M

Shock factor - 8/10 (High level violence)

Overall film - 85%

69. Hostel: Part II (2007)

R | 94 min | Horror

46 Metascore

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel and discover the grim reality behind it.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart

Votes: 95,995 | Gross: $17.61M

Shock factor - 8/10 (High impact blood and gore, graphic scenes of torture)

Overall film - 70%

70. Wedding Trough (1974)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

An allegoric male character falls in love with his pig.

Director: Thierry Zéno | Star: Dominique Garny

Votes: 1,658

Shock Factor - 8/10 (Scenes of animal cruelty, strong sexual activity and themes)

Overall film - 35%

71. Hostel (2005)

R | 94 min | Horror

55 Metascore

Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova

Votes: 190,959 | Gross: $47.33M

Shock Factor- 8/10 (High impact violence, blood and gore, scenes of torture)

overall Film- 65%

72. Oldboy (2003)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

78 Metascore

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.

Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Kim Byeong-Ok

Votes: 635,732 | Gross: $0.71M

Shock Factor - 8/10 (Strong violence/infrequent scenes of torture/strong themes)

Overall film - 100%

One of my all time favourite movies.

73. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

R | 83 min | Horror

90 Metascore

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain

Votes: 183,609 | Gross: $30.86M

Shock factor- 8/10 for its time 7/10 today (Strong violence and themes)

overall film- 85%

74. Taxidermia (2006)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

83 Metascore

Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.

Director: György Pálfi | Stars: Csaba Czene, István Gyuricza, Gina Moreno, Éva Kuli

Votes: 18,630 | Gross: $0.01M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong themes, Graphic surgical depictions)

Overall Film - 80%

75. 31 (2016)

R | 102 min | Horror, Thriller

35 Metascore

Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, hellish compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Brake, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie

Votes: 22,978 | Gross: $0.78M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong Violence, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 60%

76. Contracted (2013)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

48 Metascore

After being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD; but, it's actually something much worse.

Director: Eric England | Stars: Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams, Alice Macdonald, Matt Mercer

Votes: 16,457 | Gross: $0.00M

Shock factor - 7/10 (body horror/strong themes) Overall Film - 50%

77. Begotten (1989)

Unrated | 72 min | Fantasy, Horror

Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.

Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia

Votes: 11,756

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong horror themes, sexual themes and distressing imagery)

Overall Film - 45%

78. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

R | 102 min | Drama

71 Metascore

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Votes: 898,680 | Gross: $3.64M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong drug use and themes)

Overall Film - 95%

79. Angst (I) (1983)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.

Director: Gerald Kargl | Stars: Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Silvia Ryder, Karin Springer

Votes: 13,462

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong violence and themes)

Overall Film - 50%

80. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

R | 84 min | Horror

58 Metascore

Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.

Director: Robert Hiltzik | Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet

Votes: 38,055 | Gross: $11.00M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong violence)

Overall Film - 65%

81. Noroi (2005)

Not Rated | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Jin Muraki, Rio Kanno, Tomono Kuga, Marika Matsumoto

Votes: 15,321

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong horror themes)

Overall Film - 90%

One of the best found footage films

82. Contracted: Phase II (2015)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

35 Metascore

Riley searches for a cure to the virus that took over Samantha before it consumes him and the entire world.

Director: Josh Forbes | Stars: Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown, Anna Lore

Votes: 5,225

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong blood and gore/scenes of body horror)

Overall Film - 35%

83. We Are the Flesh (2016)

Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

62 Metascore

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.

Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter | Stars: Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Jonathan Miralda

Votes: 3,290

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Sexual activity, strong sex scenes and themes)

Overall Film - 80%

84. Dumplings (2004)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror

Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.

Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Bai Ling, Miriam Chin-Wah Yeung, Sum-Yeung Wong, Wai-Ling Chan

Votes: 10,294

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong themes)

Overall Film - 75%

85. V/H/S/2 (2013)

R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller

49 Metascore

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.

Directors: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard | Stars: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, Adam Wingard, Hannah Hughes

Votes: 43,979 | Gross: $0.02M

Shock Factor- 7/10 (Strong blood and gore)

Overall Film- 65%

86. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama

60 Metascore

The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell

Votes: 98,169 | Gross: $0.33M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong sex scenes, sexual violence, nudity and themes)

Overall Film - 60%

87. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama

64 Metascore

A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf

Votes: 131,526 | Gross: $0.79M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong sex scenes, nudity and themes)

Overall Film - 70%

88. V/H/S (2012)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

54 Metascore

When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, Adam Wingard | Stars: Calvin Lee Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman

Votes: 68,349 | Gross: $0.10M

Shock Factor- 7/10 (Strong violence)

Overall Film- 65%

89. Under the Skin (I) (2013)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

80 Metascore

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell

Votes: 158,194 | Gross: $2.61M

Shock factor - 7/10 (Strong horror themes)

Overall film- 95%

90. Cabin Fever (2002)

R | 93 min | Horror

56 Metascore

Five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent

Votes: 83,692 | Gross: $21.16M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong scenes of body horror/violence)

Overall Film - 65%

91. Tourist Trap (1979)

PG | 90 min | Horror

A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekinetic powers to control the attraction's mannequins.

Director: David Schmoeller | Stars: Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones, Jon Van Ness, Robin Sherwood

Votes: 12,860

Shock Factor - 6/10 (moderate horror themes)

Overall Film - 75%

An underrated gem

92. Baskin (2015)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Thriller

58 Metascore

A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.

Director: Can Evrenol | Stars: Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Görkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Muharrem Bayrak

Votes: 12,445

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong violence, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 75%

93. Eden Lake (2008)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

65 Metascore

Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.

Director: James Watkins | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis, Jack O'Connell

Votes: 94,838 | Gross: $0.01M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (strong violence, sense of peril, sustained threat)

Overall Film - 85%

94. All Hallows' Eve (2013)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Thriller

A babysitter finds a VHS tape which features various sinister murders performed by a psychotic clown.

Director: Damien Leone | Stars: Katie Maguire, Catherine A. Callahan, Marie Maser, Kayla Lian

Votes: 12,359

Shock factor 6/10 (Strong violence)

Overall Film - 60%

"A fun pick for halloween"

95. The Skin I Live In (2011)

R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

70 Metascore

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes

Votes: 165,848 | Gross: $3.19M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (strong sexual violence and themes)

Overall Film - 75%

96. Dogtooth (2009)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

73 Metascore

A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis

Votes: 110,410 | Gross: $0.11M

Shock factor - 7/10 (Strong themes, medium level violence)

Overall Film - 90%

97. Megan Is Missing (2011)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.

Director: Michael Goi | Stars: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite, Jael Elizabeth Steinmeyer

Votes: 15,462

Shock Factor - 7/10 (strong themes, distressing images)

Overall Film - 60%

This one gets a lot of shit, but gotta hand it to Michael Goi, a disaster piece

98. House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

R | 89 min | Horror

31 Metascore

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie

Votes: 93,386 | Gross: $12.63M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (Strong violence)

Overall Film - 70%

99. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

77 Metascore

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes: 881,229 | Gross: $6.21M

Shock factor - 7/10 (Strong Sexual violence, medium level violence)

Overall film- 100%

Masterpiece

100. The Green Inferno (2013)

R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror

38 Metascore

A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton

Votes: 49,414 | Gross: $7.19M

Shock Factor - 7/10 (strong violence, blood and gore)

Overall Film - 65%



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