10 Most Controversial Horror Movie Moments

10. The Eye - Hostel

Eli Roth's Hostel begins with Paxton and his friends travelling around Europe to hook up with girls and get wasted. When they hear Slovakia is filled with stunning women eager to please men, they head there and stay at a hostel. When Paxton's friends go missing after spending time with several sex workers, he discovers they've been taken to a facility where deranged elites have tortured them to death.

Hostel's violence is so infamous, it received a lot of flack before it was released. Considering it has scenes of people crushed under trains, fingers chopped off with a chainsaw, and kneecaps impaled with a drill, you can see why. (Also, that scene where Paxton tries to walk after getting the achilles tendons sliced open is impossible to watch without wincing.)

But the moment that makes everyone queasy is when Paxton rescues (if you can call it that) a girl from a surgeon blowtorching her face. Despite saving her life, her eye is left dangling out of its socket, forcing Paxton to snip it off with scissors. Just when you thought this scene couldn't get more gross, her open socket begins gushing fluid, compelling all viewers to gag.