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Old 03-25-2010, 01:37 PM  
Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life
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Anyone actually seen any of these fucked up and supposedly banned movies?

I was diggng for a download of 1-Ichi the other day, and came across a list of banned movies, some of which sound pretty fucked up. Anyone ever seen any of these? I have seen Ichi The Killer and 1-Ichi, both of which i thought were awesomely hilarious movies. I didn't feel particularly queasy at any time during these flicks, they werejust pure cheese. But as you can see by reading some of these other movie descriptiosn, they go on to say Ichi The Killer is the tamest on the list. Some of the others sound outright fuck up and I don't particularly know that I'd even want to watch them. Curiosity has definitely got me by the balls here though. I'm curious, just HOW fucked up are these flicks?

Irreversible (2002)
Irreversible is not a film, it's a machine. A machine built with one purpose and one purpose only: to upset, distress, nauseate, and disturb you. From the queasy camera movements, to the hypnotizing soundtrack, to the reverse narrative, to the violent and disturbing imagery, Irreversible is not a film that you will easily forget.

Though there are only two really sick scenes in the film, (a harrowing, violent, and seemingly never-ending rape, and the infamous fire-extinguisher-bludgeon scene), they are so well done, and so shocking - especially in the context of the story - that we felt compelled to include Irreversible on this list. Rarely has a title been so appropriate; once you have seen this film, you cannot un-see it, and its effect on your will be forever Irreversible.

Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Men Behind The Sun stands out on the list as the only film to be based on a true story. This truly sickening film recounts the atrocities committed during World War 2 by the Japanese in the name of science, research, and the advancement of warfare.

To be honest, this film could be 100% fictional and it still would have made the top 10 list, as some of the scenes are downright brutal and extremely controversial: a (supposedly real) live cat is thrown into a room of starving rats and torn to pieces; a (supposedly real) corpse of a boy is slowly autopsied; a man is placed in a pressure chamber until his intestines blow out of his anus; a woman is tied to a post outside in the freezing cold, with buckets of cold water being dumped over her head to test the effects of frostbite, then her hands are plunged into boiling hot water, the skin peeling right off the bones; etc etc (those aren?t even the worst scenes, trust us).

Add to those visual images the fact that these atrocities were actually committed and you have yourself a recipe for something truly disturbing and unsettling - one that will challenge your mind and your ideals (along with your ability to hold down your lunch).

The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975)
By far the most heady and artsy film on the list, Pier Paolo Pasolini?s Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom is also one of the most disturbing and (dare we say) damaging. There are very few films that, upon viewing, will have us running to the showers to try and scrub ourselves clean. This is one of those films.

The premise is fairly simple: a group of wealthy, influential, and severely deranged fascists in World War 2-era Italy kidnap a group of teenage boys and girls from their villages, lock them away in their compounds, and spend the next weeks using them to re-enact the Marquis De Sade?s 120 Days of Sodom. So over the course of the film they strip them down, humiliate them, make them eat feces, molest them, rape them and ultimately publicly dismember and execute them.

Feel good movie of the year? We don't think so. The film does have a lot to say about the nature of power and the corruptive attraction of pure fascism, and is considered a work of art by the film community (it was released as part of the highly esteemed Criterion Collection DVD?s, which is extremely rare and expensive). Don't let that fool you though, this film is nasty, dirty, puerile, and may scar you for life (if you can get your hands on a copy).

Ichi The Killer (2001)
We'd like to take a time out to give thanks to whatever higher power (or lower power, as it were) is responsible for Takashi Miike's existence. That crazy son of a ***** has cranked out some of our all time favorite genre flicks, and is one of the reasons we love Japan so damn much. So it's only natural that his most gleefully violent, over-the-top and sadistic film make this list.

Ichi is probably the most well known film on this list; primarily because - despite the insane levels of gore, smut, and depravity that occur in the film - Ichi manages to have an almost playful, comical aspect to it. In short, it doesn?t take itself too seriously, and the characters are so quirky and weird that it?s much easier for most people to digest the fact that they?re cutting off someone?s nipples, or slicing someone in half, or cutting someone?s face off and throwing it against the wall, etc etc - hence the film?s popularity and accessibility. As it stands, this film is often quoted as the sickest film ever, but usually only by people who haven?t seen the rest of our Top 10.

Murder Set Pieces (2004)
What to say about this film that hasn?t already been said? You can easily describe Nick Palumbo?s magnum opus in 3 words: controversial, controversial, controversial. Murder-Set-Pieces is a throwback to a time when horror and exploitation films really pushed the envelope through excessive scenes of violence and sex (ie Last House on the Left, I Spit On Your Grave, etc), and it manages to conjure up the same amount of controversy as the aforementioned films.

Does that mean the film is good? Well that?s up to you to decide (our opinion? Not really), but what it DOES mean is that this film is 100% certified sickness. Featuring special effects by the gore masters at Toe Tag Pictures (also responsible for our #1 movie on this list), this film has definitely got its share of sick moments, bloody dismemberments and horrifying rapes, all shot in gorgeous 35mm with a real score and a real budget. The highlight (or lowlight) lies in the slow, graphic, and extremely realistic murder of a young child - a scene that will stick with you for a long time, whether you want it to or not.

Guinea Pig series
The Guinea Pig films (from the Japanese "giniipiggu") are a series of 1980s Japanese horror films with extremely detailed special effects. According to Snopes, the films became infamous when Charlie Sheen mistook one for a snuff film and contacted the FBI to report it. The tapes gained notoriety in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the first five films of the series were found showcased in the 5,763 videotape collection of Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, who re-enacted scenes from the films as a part of his crimes. Because of the constant controversy surrounding the series, it has now been deemed illegal in Japan to produce any movies with the "Guinea Pig" label. The series has since been reissued on DVD in the United States and in the Netherlands.

The Devil's Experiment
The film revolves around a group of men who kidnap and graphically torture a young woman as part of an experiment on the human body's threshold of pain.

Flower of Flesh and Blood
The second video, Za ginipiggu 2: Chiniku no hana (1985), was based on a manga written by the director Hideshi Hino. In it, a man dressed as a samurai drugs a woman and proceeds to cut her apart, and finally adds her body parts to an extensive collection.

After viewing a portion of this film, actor Charlie Sheen was convinced the murder depicted was genuine and contacted the MPAA, who then contacted the FBI. FBI agent Dan Codling informed them that the FBI and the Japanese authorities were already investigating the film makers, who were forced to prove that the special effects were indeed fake [1][2] [3] (similar to what Italian film director Ruggero Deodato had to do with his film Cannibal Holocaust). The band Skinny Puppy wrote the song "The Mourn" after discovering the video and believing it authentic. When they later learned it was a fake they incorporated clips of it into their live stage show.

Cannibal Holocaust Uncut (1980)
Nothing conjures up that gut-deep feeling of horror like a dose of good, old-fashioned Cannibalism. And though a slew of sick Cannibal films came out in the 70?s, the crème de la crème of inter-species snacking is, without a doubt, Ruggero Deodato?s horrific masterpiece Cannibal Holocaust.

This is exploitation at its finest; rife with graphic scenes of rape, dismemberment, torture, real animal death, and, of course, cannibalism. The film is presented similar to The Blair Witch Project, with the footage supposedly recovered from a group of American researchers who documented their trip to the jungles of South America right up until their final moments, which lends a grainy, realistic look to the film that goes a long way to making it feel very real and very disturbing.

The film was banned in countless countries, and Deodato actually had to show evidence, in court, that the film was indeed fake, even going so far as to bring the actors on a popular TV talk show in Italy to prove they were still alive.

Though the film depicts countless scenes of rape and murder, what really pushed this film over the top was the very real and very unsettling footage of animal slaughter, which caused the film to be banned even in its country of origin (Italy). If you are overly sensitive to this kind of thing, you may want to skip this one, though we suspect if you are reading this list, you aren?t the squeamish type. Which is why we love each and every one of you sick b*stards.


So, what's the take? Sacrifice my mental comfort and watch some this peutrid shit?
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