Many people enjoy a scary movie, but could you handle one of the most controversial worldwide?
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Unlike many horrors, that trigger discomfort and fear, this movie has left viewers downright disturbed.
Discussing it on social media, one person writes: “There is NOTHING more disturbing than this film. It makes The Human Centipede look PG.”
Another adds: “That’s still embedded in my brain. I wish I’d not watched it.”
A third viewer warns: “Please don’t watch, it has explicit scenes that will haunt you forever. Traumatizing.
In agreement, a fourth says: “If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and never watch it.”
Directed by Srđan Spasojević, the movie follows a semi-retired adult star named Miloš who accepts an offer to star in an art film.
Before he can reconsider, Miloš discovers he’s committed to a brutal film filled with extreme s**ual content and other elements too horrific to describe.
Upon its release in 2010, the film sparked widespread controversy and significant edits had to be made – in the United Kingdom, 49 individual cuts were required, across 11 scenes, as per the BBFC.
Of the 46 countries that have banned the film, major markets include Australia, Spain, and Malaysia.
The New York Times reports that Ángel Sala, the director of the Sitges Film Festival, was charged with exhibiting child p***ography with the screening of the movie.
EL PAÍS reports that the charges were dropped – if he had been convicted he would have faced jail time.
Critics were divided on the movie, with some acknowledging the director’s vision while others denounced it as disgusting.
On the entertainment site Thoughtnova, film critic Mark Kermode wrote: “The director says it’s allegorical… if it so, then the allegory just gets lost in the increasingly stupid splatter.
“The most annoying thing about it is – torture p*** is one thing, but pompous, pretentious torture p*** is something else.”
For Philosophy in Film, Matthew Jones stated it’s ‘a frontrunner for the most disturbing movie ever made.’
The film’s co-writer, Aleksandar Radivojević, defended the movie – he told TPortal it’s ‘a metaphor for our national cinema,’ lambasting state-funded Serbian films as ‘boring, predictable, and altogether unintentionally hilarious.’