extreme horror movies

[UK_zombie]

I have watched films since a young age, I am talking the time of £75+ VHS that my best friends brother would buy and we would sneak into his room to watch American Ninja, No Retreat No Surrender and Flesh Gordon (lol my first of another type of film!).

This was before VHS players overtook Betamax and became widely available (chorus of young uns going "Beta-what?)

Then my interest was further fueled by going to a friends house whose ex hippy parents ran a video shop and had copies of things like Last House, Texas Chainsaw and Driller Killer lying around and had no issue with letting 12 year olds watch them...

A Serbian film is like an extreme version of 8mm, however I cannot understand what the film makers were trying to achieve when they filmed certain scenes and you do go away thinking that it was purely for shock factor. All I have to say is thank god for fast forward since as soon as I realised what was happening it was time to skip.

Irreversible, Ichi, Martyrs all have decent plots (IMO) but have extreme elements to the movies.

Ichi actually was done in a cartoon-ish, manga type way so you can get away with watching it, although in the uncut version there are some brutal moments.

Irreversible is a very good film, well written, well performed, there is a long drawn out scene that is uncomfortable (IE do not watch on a date) but the film as a whole, its message and the outcome really mess with you. No words to explain other than it does its job. Really well.

Had to Edit just to mention big kudos to goodcop for mentioning Dario - his "Demons" films are great fun.

(In case you have not realised UK_zombie = MASSIVE film fan)