Tim Dirks's 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time
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Films always have the ability to anger us, divide us, shock us, disgust us, and more. Usually, films that inspire controversy, outright boycotting, picketing, banning, censorship, or protest have graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious, political or race-related themes and content. They usually push the envelope regarding what can be filmed and displayed on the screen, and are considered taboo, "immoral" or "obscene" due to language, drug use, violence and sensuality/nudity or other incendiary elements. Inevitably, controversy helps to publicize these films and fuel the box-office receipts.
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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Peeping Tom
1960, in 20 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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Blood Feast
1963, in 4 top lists Check -
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Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Last House on the Left
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Exorcist
1973, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Incredible Torture Show
1976 — a.k.a. Bloodsucking Freaks, in 3 top lists Check -
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Snuff
1975 — a.k.a. American Cannibale, in 1 top list Check -
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Day of the Woman
1978 — a.k.a. I Spit on Your Grave, in 3 top lists Check -
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Cannibal Holocaust
1980, in 6 top lists Check -
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Cannibal ferox
1981 — a.k.a. Cannibal Ferox, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Evil Dead
1981, in 8 top lists Check -
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Evilspeak
1981, in 1 top list Check -
64 -1
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983, in 3 top lists Check -
69 -1
Bad Taste
1987, in 6 top lists Check -
70 -1
Nekromantik
1988, in 4 top lists Check -
72 -1
Hei tai yang 731
1988 — a.k.a. Man Behind the Sun, in 2 top lists Check -
79 -1
Braindead
1992 — a.k.a. Dead Alive, in 8 top lists Check -
89 -1
Stigmata
1999, in 2 top lists Check -
105 -1
Hostel
2005, in 2 top lists Check -
111 -1
Martyrs
2008, in 7 top lists Check -
113 -1
Srpski film
2010 — a.k.a. A Serbian Film, in 2 top lists Check -
114 -1
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
2009, in 3 top lists Check -
115 -1
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
116 -1
The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
2015, in 1 top list Check
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