10 Horror Movies That Wage War On Your Senses

10. House Of 1000 Corpses

At the turn of the century, horror-rock icon Rob Zombie made his feature debut with the deliriously morbid and hugely entertaining House of 1000 Corpses.

Zombie has helmed many of his own music videos over the years, and the skills he learned in the director's chair for his signature brand of industrial boogie-metal are on full display in this film's overly energetic presentation.

In essence, the film is a re-telling of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but if everyone involved was on copious amounts of acid.

It's every bit as raw as Tobe Hooper's seminal classic, but it's bathed in so much neon lighting that it could even put Nicholas Winding Refn to shame. Stylistically, it's like a UV paint party inside a fairground fun-house - one that just happens to be full of murderous hillbillies.

To this day, it remains Zombie's most audacious, ambitious, and shockingly bold attempt at making a seventies-style grindhouse flick. Utilising all manner of audio, video, and editing manipulation techniques, this film launches its sensory assault from the opening frames.

Even when compared to his other, more visually stunning film The Lords of Salem, Corpses comes out on top for being so outrageously stylish and thoroughly mean-spirited.