10 Movies We Dare You to Watch | SPIKE

In this day and age when marketing for just about every movie does everything it can to get you to go to their films short of showing up at your house and giving you a full body massage (give them a year), there are some films that succeed in accomplishing the opposite. They are so violent, disgusting, and disturbing in nature that their very presence defies, nay, dares you to see them.

By Danny Gallagher

10. Oldboy

The term "torture porn" has been thrown around a lot by wimpy local newspaper critics who probably get squeamish carving a Thanksgiving turkey. This classic revenge tale from South Korea features brutal torture scenes that not only enhance the story, but could make those critics' stomach crawl up their esophagus and out of their mouths, pouncing with wet-sounding splat-steps straight for the exit. After the film's hero is imprisoned for 15 years for seemingly no reason, he exacts his revenge on his captors in a number of cruel and painful ways that will make you wince so hard, it'll sprain your eyelids.

9. Hard Candy

A year before Ellen Page became America's sweetheart as the title character of Diablo Cody's Juno, Mrs. Page was actually America's "heart-eater." She played a very vengeful, pedophile-baiting hero in the extreme psychological thriller Hard Candy who lures a pervert into a trap and spends a good portion of the film building more uncomfortable tension than a fart at a funeral. She deems amateur castration as the ultimate revenge and spends the majority of the film alluding to the fact so much that the need to reach the unkindest climax of all becomes almost unbearable. Watch it with a good strong cup over your crotch (whether you have a penis or not).

Hard Candy - Trailer

A suave photographer spends his spare time trawling teen internet chat rooms and picks up innocent young girls to torture and molest. When he meets up with Hayley, he can't believe his luck as she willingly goes back to his apartment, no ruse necessary. But the tables are turned and the creep gets a taste of his own medicine.

8. August Underground's Mordum

Some might think that Hollywood grade-A special effects and make-up can make movie kills look the most realistic. Tell that to the drooling, lumbering masses that stumbled out of the theater after watching this underground snuff screener. The direct-to-DVD murder masterpiece from the aptly named "Toe Tag Productions" only had a shoestring budget but still had one goal in mind when they were making it: go for the throat (and other various body parts). The violent special efforts stick to your id like peanut butter on the roof of your mouth long after you've seen them. The entire film such a bloody mess that I'm surprised Febreze didn't jump at the chance to sponsor it.
 
7. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

When you think of indie documentaries, you probably think of tweed jacket-sporting yuppies who attend immaculate movie theaters that serve lactose-free snacks and herbal teas at the concession stand. Tell that to the people who lined up to watch this bit of twisted real life. Sick follows Bob Flanagan, a lifelong sufferer of a harsh case of cystic fibrosis that makes breathing feel more like a privilege instead of a right. To numb himself from the pain, he joins the BDSM lifestyle and turns torturing himself into an art.

His pleasure-seeking goes far beyond whips and chains, though. The most graphic scene features him nailing his "manhood" to a board directly towards the camera, proving once and for all why art-house theaters don't sell hot dogs. You would think that would be the hardest (no pun intended) part of the film, but it's the emotions that are really the eyeball grabbers since the film captures his slow and painful death on film for the whole world to see. It'll make your soul's testicles retract.

6. Audition

This Japanese film from notorious horror director Takashi Miike doesn't really get heavy until the final 20 minutes, but its slow pacing grates against your nerves and the final, brutal scene has you grasping for a climax because you physically want it to end. A beautiful young girl auditions for what she thinks is a movie but is actually a mock trial to help a recent widow find a new wife. The girl waits by the phone for days for the call she was promised and as the widow dives into her life, he peels back layers and layers of a very evil onion. The final scene in which the woman tortures the widow with needles and a piano wire has caused more than a few audiences to leave the theater.

Audition - Trailer