Horror as a whole is designed to make people scared, it wants to see you squirm.
Whether that through a ghostly tale, a terrifying masked madman with a butchers knife, or even
a house of horrors.
No matter the plot, the horror genre wants you to lie in bed at night thinking about
what you just watched.
However, there are some movies out there that take this to unspeakable levels, and well
and truly cross the line in the process.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down our list of the Top 5
Scary Horror Movies That Went Too Far.
Before we begin though, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be
responding to some of your comments, and with that, let’s jump in.
5 The Girl Next Door Now, this is one of the most disturbing films
I have ever watched, along with its counterpart, An American Crime, which tells the same story,
just with Ellen Page in the lead role.
Anyway, The Girl Next Door, also known as Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, is a
2007 horror film directed by Gregory Wilson and is inspired by the real-life murder of
Sylvia Likens.
The film follows a young teenage girl who suffers horrible abuse at the hands of her
caretaker, who also encourages the neighborhood boys to torment her.
Now, like I said, this movie is based of the real-life murder of Sylvia Likens, a girl
who was murdered in Indiana back in 1965.
She was held captive and subjected to unspeakable acts of violence which was committed over
a period of three months before she ultimately passed away from her injuries on October 26th.
Now, as you can imagine, any film that is made based on these crimes isn’t exactly
going to be an easy one to sit through, and that’s exactly the case with The Girl Next
Door.
However, the moment that well and truly crossed the line is one that I truly can’t describe
in detail because it is so horrific and disturbing, but let’s just say it will have all of you
crossing your legs by the end of it.
Trust me when I say, don’t watch this movie, it’s very upsetting.
4 Megan Is Missing Now, this is the one movie on our entire list
that I haven’t seen, but when I read about what goes down I had to include it regardless,
just as a warning to stay clear from this disturbing trainwreck of a movie.
Megan is Missing is a 2011 found footage, psychological horror film directed by Michael
Goi.
The film revolves around the days leading up to the disappearance of Megan Stewart,
a popular high school student in North Hollywood who decides to meet a boy she had been talking
to online, and the subsequent investigation launched by her best friend Amy Herman.
Now, right off the bat, Goi based the film on a series of real life cases of child abduction
and emphasized that his reason for highlighting certain violent moments was to unnerve people,
and for them to understand the modern risks that children are exposed to online.
Now, spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen the movie or want to watch the movie
-- if you do, I have a lot of questions about your choice of movies, but I’ll drop that
for now.
Anyway, jumping forward to the end of the movie, it is revealed that Amy has been kept
and tortured, before being offered a chance to escape, all she has to do is get into a
barrel.
However, inside the barrel is the body of Megan, then Amy is locked in and buried in
the forest.
The end.
Honestly, this movie crossed so many lines in my eyes.
3 Martyrs Honestly, I hate talking about this movie
because it genuinely disturbs me, and I understand that a lot of people enjoy it and I won’t
take that away from anyone, but these types of movies I hate with a burning passion.
Martyrs is a 2008 horror film directed by Pascal Laugier and follows two young women
who were both victims of abuse as children who embark on a bloody quest for revenge only
to find themselves plunged into a living hell of depravity.
The film received huge controversy upon its release, and polarized critics and viewers
alike, with it being associated with the New French Extremity movement.
Martyrs, like many exploitation films, takes its violence and runs it into the ground,
definitely going too far in the process while examining how much pain a human body can really
take.
I mean, there is a scene where someone’s skin is removed from their body, I don’t
have time for that.
The film ended up receiving a 59% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which in my opinion,
is oddly high considering the subject matter.
How people sit through this movie, I have no idea.
The general consensus states, I quote: “A real polarising movie, this Gallic torture-porn
is graphic, brutal, nasty, and gruesome and not to everyone’s taste.”
However, saying that, in the early 2010’s, Time Out conducted a poll with several authors,
directors, actors, and critics who have worked in the horror genre to vote for their top
horror films.
Martyrs placed at number 31 on their top 100 list.
2 The Shining Now, this may be a film that you’re surprised
is popping up on our list, because quite honestly, there is nothing in The Shining that is considered
too much to handle, in my opinion anyway.
However, it’s the filming process and director Stanley Kubrick who took things way too far.
First and foremost, The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film based on the Stephen
King novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd.
The film focuses on Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts
a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the
Colorado Rockies.
Wintering over with Jack are his wife, Wendy Torrance and young son, Danny Torrance.
Danny possesses “the shining”, psychic abilities that enable him to see into the
hotel’s dark and disturbing past.
Now, after a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound, Jack’s sanity begins to crumble
due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel, placing his wife and
son in danger.
The film itself is terrifying, and is by far one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
However, off screen was just as horrifying as it was on, according to some of the cast.
Stanley Kubrick was said to have continually bullied Shelley Duvall during the filming
process, which lasted over 13 months.
He supposedly told crew members not to sympathize with her, while also belittling her and criticizing
her acting abilities, telling her she was worthless and a waste of time.
However, the most infamous on set incident was when Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to
shoot the baseball-bat scene 127 times in a row, meaning what we see on screen during
that moment is actually how she was feeling.
Honestly, she has never been the same sense, becoming a recluse and even appearing on Dr
Phil.
I feel for her.
1 A Serbian Film I’ve spoken countless times about this movie,
and honestly, it makes me sick to my stomach, but if we’re doing a list about movies going
too far, this of course has to be on it, and it has to be number one.
A Serbian Film is a 2010 Serbian exploitation horror film that tells the story of a financially
struggling porn star who agrees to participate in an “art film”, only to discover that
he has been drafted into a snuff film with pedophilic and necrophilic themes.
Upon its release, the film quickly garnered a reputation worldwide for being one of the
most extreme and disturbing horror movies ever made.
And you will understand why in a few seconds.
Some of the film’s most disturbing moments include unspeakable acts on certain characters,
that we can’t go into detail on because it is honestly horrifying and upsetting to
even talk about.
And when I say unspeakable acts, I truly mean unspeakable acts.
These particular moments, that I once again can’t get into detail about, resulted in
the movie being banned in Germany, Norway, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia,
Spain and Singapore.
Following the movie being banned in Spain, the director of a film festival actually faced
criminal charges, which were later dropped, for showing the movie at his festival, with
the accusations being that screening the film constituted as the exhibition of child por****ography.
However, the director of the movie jumped to the man’s defense, stating: “the sequences
weren’t made to be arousing in any way, but to depict the pure horror and brutality
of innocence being ruthlessly defiled.”
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any horror movies that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
Before I go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of our last videos,
Top 5 Horror Movie Sequels Better Than The Original.
TheUnatuber said: “Lucy, I know you don’t like to blow your own horn, but come, now,
you know damn well that McPhee Two: The Continuing Evil of Lucyfer should’ve been on this list!”
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Somaveline said: “Hate you?
Lucy, you just made a list of titles that nobody else was brave enough to admit are
better than the original.
I fully agree with the whole list.
In some cases (Nightmare on Elm Street, V/H/S, Child’s Play) I appreciate the original
for GIVING us the sequels.
Also, a Nightmare on Elm Street 2 never happened.
For some reason they went straight from 1 to 3.
LONG LIVE THE DARK QUEEN” ---
TasManischerTeufel said: “Damn you are so badass Lucy, would love to drink a beer with
you.”
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WhiskeyBrewer said: “Will the sequel to this list be better?
If Lucy has anything to do with it I’m sure it will.”
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The Word of the Day said: “Lucy you single?
If so I’m ready to be sacrificed lol” ---
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