News > 10 Most Controversial Horror Films

Written by John Lichman

Ah, finally, a list we can get behind!

Sure, you have to include The Exorcist, Hostel and Zombie 2 (aka "Eli Roth ain't got nothing on this eye scene.") But we applaud the decision by CTV to include little seen films like Freaks, Peeping Tom and House of a 1000 Corpses.

But the biggest (and perhaps most fitting of them all) surprise at #10 is Dali's Un Chien Andalou:

While not technically a horror movie as we know them today, this film from Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali is fantastic Freudian free association at its best.

What made this surreal bit of celluloid so controversial was its opening sequence in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor. Buñuel  has stated that "Nothing in the film symbolizes anything. The only method of investigation of the symbols would be, perhaps, psychoanalysis."

So, FW commenters, what would you include? But let's go into lesser-seen stuff. Yeah, Alien is freaky, but it's so played out. What gives you the creeps so much that you still have a hard time watching it? Special points if you can help me remember the name of that Harvey Keitel film where he gets a spear impaled through him.