Oliver Stone’s film (from a Quentin Tarantino original script), a remake similar in theme to Terrence Malick’s (Badlands (1973), was a visually-riveting , controversial, anarchic and brutal film about media sensationalism and obsession, in its story of two serial killer-lovers and white-trash outlaws: abused Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis) and psychotic Mickey (Woody Harrelson) – inspired by real-life spree killer Charles Starkweather, who went on a violent, cross-country (Route 666) Southwestern random killing joyride. TV tabloid show host/reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.) made them famous celebrities for his sensationalist “American Maniacs” show. In the shocking ending, the two outlaws shot Gale – broadcast live on camera in a rural setting. The extremely violent film was lambasted as “evil” and “loathsome” for its hypocritical violence-soaked satire on screen violence.
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Co-producer, co-writer, and director Mel Gibson’s R-rated, self-financed, independent smash-hit film, a brutal depiction of Jesus’ last 12 hours on Earth, stirred up considerable controversy. It was filmed with dialogue in three languages (Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin) with subtitles, and although Gibson claimed that the account was authentic and ‘truthful’ – it would be nearly impossible to derive a strict and true historical account of the events from the Gospels. The scourging (a 10-minute sequence) and crucifixion scenes in particular were overpoweringly graphic, bloody, torturous and vicious. Even Gibson admitted that the film was deliberately “shocking” and “extreme” in order to depict Jesus’ enormous sacrifice.
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This widely-acclaimed film from debut film director/actor Orson Welles (24 years old) is usually regarded as the greatest film ever made. The film, budgeted at $800,000, received unanimous critical praise even at the time of its release, although it was not a commercial success (partly due to its limited distribution and delayed release by RKO due to pressure exerted by famous publisher W.R. Hearst). The film engendered controversy (and efforts at suppression in early 1941 through intimidation, blackmail, newspaper smears, discrediting and FBI investigations) before it premiered in New York City on May 1, 1941, because it appeared to fictionalize and caricaturize certain events and individuals in the life of William Randolph Hearst – a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher.
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John Schlesinger’s film was a major milestone although controversial at its time for its gay-related content and subject of male prostitution. Its title “midnight cowboy” referred to nocturnal cowboys in the big city – those who were hustlers. The ground-breaking film was the first (and only) X-rated (for adult-oriented, not porno) mainstream film (later reduced to R), based on James Leo Herlihy’s 1965 novel. It was unusual for its rating to be so high, since the unflinching film did not contain significant profanity, graphically-brutal violence, or frontal nudity, although it did portray some partial nudity and simulations of sex. It told an adult-themed story about a naive, swaggering, transplanted (and emasculated) dishwasher/stud – a displaced small-town “cowboyish” Texan named Joe Buck (Jon Voight) who struggled and aspired in the sordid 42nd Street area of NY to become a successful hustler or gigolo – while posing as a “macho midnight cowboy,” although he eventually resorted to homosexual street hustling to survive.
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Director/co-writer Sam Peckinpah’s provocative, brilliant yet controversial breakthrough Western was shocking for its graphic and elevated portrayal of violence and savagely-explicit, orgiastic carnage, yet hailed for its truly realistic and reinterpreted vision of the dying West in the early 20th century (at a time when mass-produced murder was possible with the Gatling gun). The film opened with innocent village children intrigued by putting red fire ants and scorpions together and setting fire to the swarming pile. The much-imitated, influential film was book-ended by two extraordinary sequences, both massacres. The gang of desperadoes were first assaulted in the film’s opening ambush following a failed bank robbery in a Texas border town, and then brutally destroyed in the film’s conclusion – as united comrades in a selfless, redemptive act – by a savage and vindictive Mexican warlord named Mapache (Emilio Fernandez) after a double-crossing arms deal.
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Writer/director John Cameron Mitchell (director of the cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)) brought his second arthouse feature film this “most explicit” or sexually-graphic film ever screened; it also had the widest release of any film showing unsimulated sex, although it was encased within a non-pornographic dramatic narrative about emotionally-challenged post 9/11 New Yorkers searching for sexual happiness and self-discovery; this highly controversial film – named for the underground sex salon (“for the gifted and challenged”) in the unrated film, contained unsimulated, hardcore images of sexual intercourse (gay and straight), masturbation, a dominatrix sex whipping, an orgy scene and a gay menage a trois scene (with oral sex).
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In this lesbian-leaning female bonding film from female director Annette Haywood-Carter – and based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, then-unknown Angelina Jolie starred as tough, wild, and rebellious Margret ‘Legs’ Sadovsky who helped four other fairly like-minded teenaged girls (shy Rita (Jenny Lewis), girl-next-door Maddy (Hedy Burress), sexually-promiscuous Violet (Sarah Rosenberg), and pot-head druggie Goldie (Jenny Shimizu)) to overcome the sexual oppression and harrassment of their peers and a biology teacher at their Portland, Oregon high school. In one semi-exploitative erotic scene, the girls received a trademark flame tattoo emblazoned on their breasts by needle-wielding Legs.
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Director Paul Verhoeven’s glossy erotic thriller (with a script by Joe Eszterhas) was typical of the 90s; troubled, burned-out SF police detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) investigated seductive, bi-sexual mystery writer and brutal ice-pick murder suspect Catherine Tramell (a star-making and career-launching role for Sharon Stone) after a series of murders of males during intercourse and S&M sex; the film opened with views (from all angles, including a reflection in a ceiling mirror) of a couple making love – the unidentified female was atop rock star Johnny Boz (Bill Cable), and elements of S&M were revealed when she tied his arms to the bedpost – before stabbing him to death with an icepick. The sexually-charged film, featuring a taunting femme fatale predator with an insatiable sexual appetite and possibly homicidal tendencies included an infamous, sex-revealing leg-uncrossing/crossing scene (without panties) during interrogation in a police station room filled with middle-aged men (after she provocatively asked Curran: “Have you ever f–ked on cocaine, Nick?”).
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Friedkin adapted William Peter Blatty’s best-selling, 1971 blockbuster book about satanic demon possession (based on a true-story of a 13 year-old Maryland boy in 1949), and created one of the most disturbing, frightening, shocking, and exploitative films ever made. The horror film masterpiece, the first major horror blockbuster, was one of the most opposed and talked-about films, A sweet pre-teenaged girl Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) became possessed by a malevolent evil spirit – and after urinating on the carpet in public and experiencing a shaking bed, was soon transformed and disfigured into a head-rotating, levitating, green vomit-spewing, obscenity-shouting creature. Her divorced, film-star mother Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) was at wit’s end, until she called on a dedicated, faith-questioning Jesuit priest Father Karras (Jason Miller) to exorcise the malevolent devil from her daughter’s body by An elderly priest Father Merrin (Max von Sydow).
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Almost a quarter of a century after the similarly-themed Making Love (1982), this Best Picture-nominated melodrama appeared with its story about two young cowboys who had an unexpected tryst while shepherding in 1963. It told how their ill-fated love affected their married lives in the following three decades. This was the first mainstream gay/bi-sexual romance film, heavily-promoted by the media, to receive multiple awards and critical/public acclaim, with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture (and ultimately three Oscars) from major A-list film-maker and Best Director-winning Ang Lee. However, some conservative Catholic organizations cited the film as “morally offensive” for its open portrayal of a homosexual relationship, and others criticized the film as sexually propagandistic.
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This daring and scandalous, unrated art-house import about heartless and irrational female sexual rage by two hardened and randy females was the first collaboration between French film-maker Virginie Despentes and former porn actress Coralie Trinh Thi. The two main characters were lower class French ‘bad girls’ named Manu (Raffaela Anderson) and prostitute Nadine (Karine Bach/Karen Lancaume), who were portrayed by French adult film stars. After being pushed around by losers and low-lifes in their seedy, marginal neighborhood, they decided to engage in a shooting spree and sexual romp across France. The French film was a very violent, sensationalist, bold, graphic and hard-core sex.
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William Friedkin’s notorious, grisly thriller film about a police investigation told about the seedy and dangerous underworld of gay S&M in NY’s heavy leather bars (including The Ramrod), and included actual leather-clad gay patrons as extras in the meat-packing district rather than actors.
The controversial film about an alternative or extreme lifestyle starred Al Pacino as a sexually-confused undercover cop (posing and transforming himself into a gay man in order to fit the killer’s victim profile) named Steve Burns investigating violent serial killer murders in the Big Apple’s homosexual underworld. In one startling scene, Pacino was tied up butt-naked on a bed and threatened with a knife. By film’s end, Burns continued to visit gay bars even after the serial killer was caught — and a last-minute murder opened up the suggestion that Burns was the killer, thereby connecting violence with the homosexual lifestyle. The film opened with a disclaimer.
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This extremely graphic, hotly-debated cult classic Italian film – the uncredited inspirational precursor of the faux-documentary The Blair Witch Project – was filled with violent, grisly, and disturbing images. The exploitation film was purportedly the story of a film crew, led by Alan Yates (Gabriel York), that disappeared while making a documentary (a feature entitled “The Green Inferno” about the last surviving tribes that still practiced cannibalism) in the wilds of South America’s Amazon area. Masterful cinematic tricks and special effects created an unnerving view of the fate of the team – found in undeveloped film cans by a search and rescue team.
Grisly, realistic-looking scenes included a castration/dismemberment, some beatings with large hammers, guts-eating, a forced abortion, numerous animal slaughterings (including a horrible turtle murder), gang-rape and impalement of a woman on a pole.
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