The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover and The Devils immediately spring to mind.

cradle of fear and human centipede were the most gorest, upsetting an vile movies Ive ever seen. btw, that is NOT a compliment.

Was Human Centipede any good? I Sky+ it but deleted it after a couple of weeks, without watching it, when my hard drive filled up. I figured it would probably be dodgy given the fact it was recorded off the Horror Channel (their programming can be pretty weak!).

I enjoyed it. I really liked the concept. I wouldn't put it with the likes of Salo and A Serbian Film for being disturbing though.

Cheers! I'll keep an eye out for it on the Horror Channel

Eraserhead should be towards teh top of a sucky over-rated films list, but certainly not disturbing. Most disturbing thing about it was that I wasted 90 minutes of my life on it.

Audition? Come on. There's 1 fucking scene of gore in the whole damn thing. Sure, it looks very good, but it's one scene and the rest of the movie was a snooze-fest.

Personally, I found Storytelling & Requiem for a Dream to be more disturbing than at least half of the ones I've seen off this list.

I 100% agree with this-these two movies are criminally overlooked in lists like this. I would also plump for "The Holy Mountain" in this list-personally I would have replaced "The Exorcist" with "Martyrs" or "Salo". I haven't seen "A Serbian Film" or The "Human Centipede" yet though.

The Passion of the Christ was a fairly shocking movie. I guess in terms of the most shocking with the biggest success at the box office, Passion, Exorcist and Blair Witch would be up there.

Here's a question; which movie has most successfully combined gore with box office success?

A Serbian Film and August Underground are all well and good for guys like us, but what movie has succeeded in bringing the masses to our kind of filth?

Out of the movies listed, I would think The Exorcist was the most successful. The Hostel and Saw movies are pretty gory and disturbing and seem to enjoy box office success as well.

Saw and Hostel are the two that spring to mind first. The Passion is also main stream, based on popular approval, but is it possible for a movie to achieve universal approval if it's themes are purely needless sadism?

Saw isn't that gratuitous and is genuinely a movie of real substance and innovation. The funny thing about The Passion is that it's success is driven purely by religious obligation. The screening I attended was amazing, in that the majority of the folk were clearly church-goers and there out of religious masochism/obedience.

Hostel is a moderately successful gory movie but rides on the coat tales of the Saw bandwagon. I think it's clear that extreme cinema in the form of gornography hasn't really triumphed in the English speaking world. I know Salo is highly respected as 'arthouse' cinema and that August Underground series is highly thought for what it achieves in make-up without a budget or CGI but these are only industry accolades.

Has extreme cinema topped the box office overseas? Irreversible in France or Ichi in Japan? Can you see a desensitising of the public in favour of hardcore violence? Don't you think that Holywood now includes increasingly graphic violence to what would've previously been a little sugar coated ie True Grit v True Grit!

I predict that 20 years from now we'll be watching ultra violence injected mainstream cinema not a million miles from the average entry on our most disturbing list