Ever seen something so obscene and shocking that it makes Jade Goody seem tame? Ever just had to, shaking, reach for the light switch? Ever seen your dinner reappear onscreen while watching a film? Bona fide scares here…
5. Fantasia – this is for children!?
Dancing broomsticks, flirtatious ostriches and dinosaurs. If Ozzy Osbourne directed a film, this would be it. It’s a bad trip gone wrong. Set to Tchiakovsky.
4. The Silence of the Lambs – the suit of skin
“It rubs the lotion of its skin or else it gets the hose again!” Serial killer Buffalo Bill likes his victims to lather up with moisture cream before skinning them (for that erotic edge. Mmmm).
3. Blue Velvet – Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth.
David Lynch’s strange and wonderful neo-noir may induce nightmares due to the psychotic, amyl nitrate sniffing Frank Booth. Who does NOT want you to look at him.
2. Audition – torture time!
An ideal girlfriend is preferably not one that paralyses you, sticks needles in your eyes, and finally cuts off your foot with piano wire. Plenty of gore, not much happy ever after here.
1. Dead Ringers – surgery gone wrong.
In Cronenberg’s masterpiece, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists with some unorthodox practise once they get hooked on drugs. Women be warned – it can be somewhat unsettling to see a giant, bloodied metal claws hovering over… well.
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