My Top Most Controversial
Films
I have listed from my viewing experiences the most controversial
films that I have seen.
Without any regard to ranking or personal preference I have
listed those films that not only had a broad spectrum of reviews, but also made
national news due to their subject content and story line.
They are:
1.
Basic Instinct – Legs crotch flash, sex and female
serial murderer
2.
Last Tango in Paris – Rated X, Marlon Brando’s use
of butter and libidinous appetites
3.
Midnight Cowboy – Male Prostitution - Only film with an X rating nominated for Best
Picture
4.
United 93 – Reenactment of 9/11 flight was eerie
and intense
5.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Menacing true Story
of serial killing of unsuspecting teenagers
6.
Scarface (1983) – A film about drug dealing - murder becomes glorified
as a modern day cult classic
7.
Henry and June – First film rated NC17 dealing
with libidinous adventures
8.
Reservoir Dogs – Song “Stuck In The Middle With You”,
a knife and an ear results in very hard to watch.
9.
The Silence of The Lambs - A transsexual, a
cannibal and a feminist all in one film
10.
Kids – A story of teenage sex and the spread of AIDS
11.
Dirty Harry – An iconic cop who appears to be fascist
and racist and yet culturally popular
12.
Cruising – A Cop goes undercover in gay community to find
serial killer with stereotypical portrayals
13.
The Exorcist – Devil possession of children.
14.
The Passion of the Christ – Jesus last days draped
in blood and brutality – National concerns of anti-Semitism
15.
The Last Temptation of Christ – A crucified Christ
wonders about sex and a life with Mary Magdalene
16.
A Clockwork Orange – The primordial instincts
for rape and violence it set to Beethoven
17.
Deep Throat – If you have to ask, look it up
18.
Psycho – People were afraid to take showers
after this film was released
19.
The Deer Hunter – Working class men, the Vietnam
war, drugs and Russian Roulette
20.
Rosemary’s Baby – Some believed a perversion of
the Christian faith with devil worship
21.
Irreversible - A viscous lengthy rape and murder made
people walk out of theaters
22.
Hard Candy – A teenage girl gets revenge against
a pedophile
23.
The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover - Depravity
and decadence mixed with wealthy excesses
24.
Brokeback Mountain – Homosexual love within the backdrop
of a western story
25.
Blue Velvet -
Small town gangsters and violence, with scenes of sexual degradation
26.
Fatal Attraction – Husbands nationwide saw the potential
consequences from cheating
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