It's GHOUL SUMMER - what are the most ghoulish movies ever made?

I don't mean like with actual depictions of ghouls and monsters I mean like the most disturbing, gross displays of humanity put to film. Think Salo and A Serbian Film.

Necromantik

Farewell Uncle Tom

This sounds like a contender:

toad road is the drug hippie vers of 'snow on tha bluff' & i say that in the best possible way

― johnny crunch, Saturday, June 27, 2015 2:07 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yuck i don't want to see that i don't think. i loved snow on tha bluff though.

― scott seward, Saturday, June 27, 2015 2:12 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even tougher sell if you become aware that all the drug use depicted is real drugs & that the lead actress literally od'd in real life as it started playing festivals o_O

― johnny crunch, Saturday, June 27, 2015 2:41 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://twentyfourframes.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/let-it-be-posters1.jpg

lol

maybe some kind of monster too

special features rule on that one

lol I love how we skipped stuff like Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will and just went straight to the Beatles

Human Centipede counts

shakey have you seen farewell, uncle tom? birth of a nation and triumph of the will have nothing on it.

actually that's the only one mentioned so far that I haven't previously seen/heard of

it's a "re-enactment" of pre-civil war slavery featuring Haitian "actors" that were paid in bowls of rice

quality entertainment for Boyd Rice and Death in June fans

oy vay.. going to have to check this out for ghoul summer. ive had the riz ortolani soundtrack for a long time. never knew how ghoulish its source material is!

Easily among the most repugnant movies ever.

Red To Kill for sure. But I found Principles Of Lust even more disturbing even though it isn't nearly as extreme.

the soundtrack is a gem! It was the 5th and last made by the Mondo Cane dudes.

Mondo Hollywood is kind of ghoulish, in that it features Bobby Beausoleil as "cupid" as well as Jay Sebring who ended up being murdered by The Manson.

Eric H tell me more! Not a lot of info in English on those films.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/farewell-uncle-tom-1972

maybe some kind of monster too

that was the other band movie i considered posting

Cannibal Ferox is suitably skeevy but obv that's the point

The synopsis is bad enough, but doesn't do justice to just how unpleasantly it was all shot ... fisheye lenses, all kinds of grotesque substances and puddings.

and the focus on the teeth

It's like if some rando, poorly produced jr. high civics class video got mixed up with The Evil Dead.

Cannibal Ferox is suitably skeevy but obv that's the point

Yeah, the live animal slaughter in lots of Italian mondo/cannibal movies def counts as gross displays of humanity. The rape culture aesthetics of things like New York Ripper, House on the Edge of the Park (or Last House on the Left, also starring David Hess), Don't Torture a Duckling, Straw Dogs etc are equally repugnant.

Straw Dogs rape scene is really strange and not of a piece w those others imo

I don't think this is the right forum or context to directly address that, but it's undeniable that SD was one of the main sources of the 'enjoyment of rape' trope common to lots of exploitative movies in the 1970s (just as the bodily mutilation in A Man Called Horse is one of the things that stands behind the Italian 'savage'/cannibal movie)

fair enough. I think it's a fundamental misreading of the scene but "influence" is a funny/slippery thing

Part of the limits of exploitation filmmaking is the way that it too often erases away any of the nuance and complexity of source material like SD or The Virgin Spring.

I wld highly recommend Stevie Simkin's long monograph on SD, btw:

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/straw-dogs-stevie-simkin/?K=9780230296701

ok sarah im going to watch goodbye uncle tom tonight. im pretty scared. the soundtrack is so ill tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQyJThgf8Y

Dogtooth.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Cat_in_the_hat.jpg

excellent choice

The Uncle Tom trailer is on Youtube and I just watched it. This is my last post as I am now going to step in front of a train.

Underrated ghoul:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/S%26Man.jpg

Justly rated:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Henryportrait.jpg

Shitty:
http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/8585/p8585_p_v7_aa.jpg