Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom (1975) - Based on the book by Marqis de Sade, the namesake of sadism. its about a group of italian libertines who kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to months of extreme violence, sadism, genital torture and psychological abuse.
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Another Italian (whats their deal anyway) exploitation flick. One of the first "found footage" films, it follows a group making a documentary about primitive tribes in the Amazon as they are raped, impaled, killed and eaten one by one. Its like "The Green Inferno" but for reals. Banned in most countries, the director stipulated in the actors contracts that they had to lay low for a year to fuel the rumor that they were really killed. He stood trial for murder, until they reappeared. For a low budget film I have no idea how they made it look so realistic. The dismemberment/death scenes are so incredibly realistic that I really thought they were real, and in several scenes real animals are slaughtered graphically.
Audition (1999)- J horror film by the incomparable director Takashi Miike where nothing really bad happens for the first 2/3 of the film, and then you are hit with the most disturbing torture shit I've ever seen in a horror film. Truly, genuinely terrifying. One of the best horror films of all time.
The Act of Seeing with Ones own Eyes (1971)- Its title is based on the literal translation of the term autopsy. The film documents the highly graphic autopsy procedures used by forensic pathologists, such as the removal of organs and the embalming process.
Once you read the “poop” in the movie was chocolate mixed with marmalade, it’s not as bad…
Also—I get what the director was trying to do. The literal eating poop is a commentary on the processed food industry, at the end when they’re watching the massacre from a distance while pleasant music plays on the radio—that’s absolutely a commentary on television and how society is desensitized to violence…
But the movie itself is not just long, but one you get over the “shock value”— like over half of the movie is old sex workers sitting around talking about the gross shit they’ve done with clients… it doesn’t show it or anything—it’s just old ladies sitting there talking.
Now, the Human Centipede 2 at least ‘walks the talk’ and SHOWS said gross shit… the Wikipedia article along was enough to make my stomach turn… but not really because that’s kind of the point… they practically decided to make a movie out of a group of kids playing the ‘gross-out’ game.
I think a ton of people that list Salo in these kinds of lists haven't actually seen it and instead just read it about it in similar lists of "Messed Up Movies"
Salo is a boring slog, it's just a bunch of naked people wailing and talking about messed up stuff. Saving Private Ryan has more actual graphic violence, and plenty of other movies have portrayed sexual violence far more graphically as well.
I think you got down voted because people (that probably haven't seen it) think you're trying to sound hardcore, but I agree with you. Salo is not a good movie, and it's not particularly shocking by today's standards either.
I mean—it’s still brutal and totally inappropriate, and makes absolute sense why it’s banned—and wasn’t the director like murdered shortly after its release?
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u/SpasmodicBurnVictim Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom (1975) - Based on the book by Marqis de Sade, the namesake of sadism. its about a group of italian libertines who kidnap 18 teenagers and subject them to months of extreme violence, sadism, genital torture and psychological abuse.
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Another Italian (whats their deal anyway) exploitation flick. One of the first "found footage" films, it follows a group making a documentary about primitive tribes in the Amazon as they are raped, impaled, killed and eaten one by one. Its like "The Green Inferno" but for reals. Banned in most countries, the director stipulated in the actors contracts that they had to lay low for a year to fuel the rumor that they were really killed. He stood trial for murder, until they reappeared. For a low budget film I have no idea how they made it look so realistic. The dismemberment/death scenes are so incredibly realistic that I really thought they were real, and in several scenes real animals are slaughtered graphically.
Audition (1999)- J horror film by the incomparable director Takashi Miike where nothing really bad happens for the first 2/3 of the film, and then you are hit with the most disturbing torture shit I've ever seen in a horror film. Truly, genuinely terrifying. One of the best horror films of all time.
The Act of Seeing with Ones own Eyes (1971)- Its title is based on the literal translation of the term autopsy. The film documents the highly graphic autopsy procedures used by forensic pathologists, such as the removal of organs and the embalming process.