2010 saw the release of what is widely considered to be one of the most violent films in history. Serbian filmnot only brutal, twisted, brutal, graphic and full of heartbreaking scenes. At the same time, it is a vast collection of depraved sexual fetishes, crimes and a staggering selection of the worst and most brutal scenes in cinema of the last fifty years. Which, of course, led to its director Srdjan Spasojevic being called a sadist – at best – or outright a person capable of exploring pain without the slightest ethical prejudice.
But in fact, the director was explaining to anyone who would listen that his film contained critical social commentary. So much so that he uses an endless collection of gruesome rapes, beheadings and disembowelments to talk about human evil. But not just because of the horrific images. Moreover, the film quickly became a cult object, and later one of the favorite feature films of fans of cruelty and ultra-violence. In the end, the tape By doing nothing but scandalous, it showed more culture than one might have expected.
Of course, this is not the first time that a director has decided to use cinema to scare and evoke disgust, fear and pain. That’s why we recommend five extreme films for early October, the perfect month to explore horror. From a must-have on any list of this kind to a dark classic about the most horrific violence. Everything you can explore from different points of view, the worst and most poisonous in human nature.
Martyrs (Filmin)
In 2008, director Pascal Laugier made one of the heaviest, most raw, human suffering and horrific films in memory. Martires tells several stories at the same time, but they all converge in one scene. Violence, cruelty and human degradation as a means of exaltation and the door to understanding the beyond.
The film, which begins with a young woman escaping a lingering horror, has multiple layers of meaning and shows them through torture, beatings and vivisection. Which in the first hour turns into a debilitating series of fears, spilled blood and thoughts about where the possibility of pain leads.
But it is the final scene, in which the possibility of accessing intangible and supernatural knowledge is associated with extreme horror, that makes the film a classic in this genre. In particular, by showing that what is hidden in the darkness of human existence is more terrible than fear, as we rationally understand it. Thanks to its impact, was on the tape redo American in 2015, Kevin and Michael Goetz.
Crash (Filmin)
Extreme sex, car accidents and orgasms. David Cronenberg took James Graham Ballard’s book of the same name and created a unique epic of violence turned into a means of pleasure and satisfaction. But before the shootings, massacres or beatings, the film focuses on a group of characters who degrade their bodies – and They cause you harm in unprecedented ways – through car accidents.
So, a good part of the scenes crashoccur between spectacular crashes and smoking vehicles. The perfect setting for a writer to show his tortured characters having wild sex surrounded by smoke, blood and broken glass. The strangest thing is that as the wounds become more severe, the reasons for this type of extreme pleasure become more human. Compassion, understanding, love, desire, the need to go beyond one’s own limits.
The film defies classification and David Cronenberg gives it a depraved and decadent look that gets worse as the story progresses. In his shocking ending, Crash made his central conflict clear. The human need to be one’s own worst enemy.
Battle Royale (Moobi)
Based on the book of the same name by Koushun Takami, this film by Kinji Fukasaku is extreme and brutal from the very first traumatic sequence. But beyond the bloodshed – and there is enough of it to be shocking – this film focuses on thinking about what makes a person cruel. Is it our nature or a learned behavior that gets worse and worse over the course of life?
The film is set in a dystopian setting and is remarkably similar to the popular saga. hunger games. Just like in the story of Suzanne Collins, a group of young people are forced to confront each other in order to survive. But that’s where the difference ends. Because although the North American community hides and questions the possibility of evil, battle royale he explores it with cruel joy.
The result is a plot that makes no concessions on moral issues. And the few that exist answer larger questions about the need to stay alive even in the worst circumstances. Painful graphics and a feeling of total horror – this is the choice for everyone is looking for an uncomfortable and overwhelming plot.
A Clockwork Orange (Max)
Decades apart, Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s work is far more sober – and even subtle – than the controversy that arose at its premiere would have suggested. But in 1972, the idea arose about a group of losers capable of committing all sorts of outrages and even rape. just for fun, it seemed unthinkable.
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Especially because Kubrick took what was most brutal and twisted in the novel and embellished it with the aesthetics and soundtrack of a story led by Beethoven. But the truth is that A Clockwork Orange opened the door to a new type of cinema. who explored human nature without concessions.
He thought much more about the causes of evil and the search for satisfaction in cruelty and excess. The result is a fundamental film for understanding modern cinema, especially violent cinema. Interesting fact. At the time of release, Stanley Kubrick had to ask Warner Bros. pull the film from UK cinemas. And this after he and his family received death threats.
Fun Games – Fun Games (Movistar+)
You’ve probably heard about the North American version of this cruel, unbearable and uncomfortable film released in 2009. However, the 1997 version of him is much more twisted, violent, and most of the time unbearable than redo United States. This is despite the fact that both films were directed by Michael Haneke and tell the same story.
Namely: the torture that the participants endure at the hands of two heartless teenagers. However, the Austrian film makes better use of tension, hints of violence and moments so extreme that will leave even the most seasoned of fans breathless.
Of course, this version of violence is more psychological and less bloody than other plots on this list. However, his perversity and the way he portrays random cruelty are some of the most disturbing aspects of this film. It is recommended to start in October.
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