10 Films More Controversial Than Charlie Sheen's 9/11 Movie
8. The House On The Edge Of The Park
The House On The Edge Of The Park is a cheap Italian rip-off of The Last House On The Left from the director of Cannibal Holocaust, which automatically guarantees the film a certain notoriety. Not surprisingly, the BBFC originally rejected the film for theatrical distribution, which only enhanced its reputation among horror fans.
The scene that rubbed the censors up the wrong way occurs near the end of the picture, when David Hess (in a virtual reprise of his performance in Last House On The Left) withdraws his straight razor, denudes one of the female partygoers and proceeds to torture her in front of her friends. It’s a shocking sequence made worse by a dumb “twist” ending – the partygoers lured Hess to their house in order to kill him, and could’ve stopped the attack at any time.
Finally issued on VHS in 2002, the movie was missing 11 minutes and 43 seconds, including most of the above sequence, but you know what? The film does just fine without it.