9. Gaspar Noe
Gaspar Noe is the crazy director for the new age. An exciting and daring artist, Noe likes to push the boundaries of taste and test his audience through a series of punishing scenes that are often hallucinatory. Many brand Noe's films as disgusting and disturbing, largely due to the high amounts of explicit sex and violence that feature in them, though to others they are fearless works of art showcasing a director on fine form. Irreversible is by far the most controversial work of his career, mostly for the lengthy rape scene that features Monica Bellucci being violently attacked for around 10 minutes in an unbroken scene that is one of the most challenging in cinema history. The film received a myriad of different responses, including claims that it was homophobic, but Noe countered by saying that he appears in the gay club scene in the background, masturbating. Enter the Void, Noe's similarly infamous acid trip of a movie also contains lots of contentious imagery as his camera goes everywhere, and when I say everywhere, I mean everywhere. Despite entering his fifties, Noe's appetite for crazy only seems to be strengthening, which is delightful news for us movie fans who like to be transported for his lucid worlds of seediness and desperation.