The ‘most disturbing movie of all time’ is one you probably haven’t heard of.
You might be expecting one of the gory Saw films, or something as chilling as the Cold War cartoon When the Wind Blows – which features an elderly couple slowly dying of radiation poisoning – but you’d be wrong.
The award actually goes to Italian flick Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, according to Complex.com.
The incredibly dark flick is focused on rich – and corrupt, obviously – Italian libertines in the final years of Italian fascism at the time of the Republic of Salò.
It centres around the kidnap of 18 teenagers, who are held for 120 days of extreme torture of the sexual and psychological kind.
The film is arranged into four parts based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, with the film being a very loose adaptation of the never finished 1785 novel The 120 Days, by Marquis de Sade.
The graphic flick sees on-screen rape, the killing and scalping of young women who attempt escape, and one horrific scene where the president’s daughter is tricked into eating a slice of polenta stacked with rusty nails.
It gets plenty worse, with unspeakable acts too dark to repeat here playing out on-screen in a perverse 116 minute movie.
The film’s director Pier Paolo Pasolini said of the controversial film: “There is a lot of sex in it, rather towards Sado-Masochism, which has a very specific function – that is to reduce the human body to a saleable commodity.”
He added: “My need to make this film also came from the fact I particularly hate the leaders of the day.
“Each one of us hates with particular vehemence the powers to which he is forced to submit. So, I hate the powers of today.
“It is a power that manipulates people just as it did at the time of Himmler or Hitler.”
The official Complex review of the film, meanwhile, says: “Pasolini, intending to make vicious points about fascism, shows everything, avoiding tricky edits in favour of steady-cam, front-and-centre shots of each and every sick visual.
“One watch is all it takes for Salò to burn itself into your memory for years hence. Just writing about it makes us want to take a shower.”
The 1975 film was banned in Australia, New Zealand, Iran and other countries across the globe – and isn’t available on any modern-day streaming services.
That means you’d have to go hunting for a DVD or VHS tape if you wanted to give your stomach a gruesome test.
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