2. Slovakia - Hostel
The list so far has covered the extremes annals of horror and gross out comedy which have caused uproar from their countries of origin or setting, but none became as public a debacle as when Eli Roths Hostel, a gruelling torture-porn film set in Slovakian capital Bratislava, was being created. Hostels story revolves around three backpackers being drugged at a trap hostel and taken to a complex where the rich can pay big money to kill them however they wish. It also features charming plot points such as high levels of prostitution, child gangs who beat adults up for bubble-gum and many references to the country as being war torn and undeveloped. While Kazakhstan eventually learnt to embrace the publicity that Borat brought, Slovakia could see no such positive in being branded a country where the average citizen is a criminal looking to sell your life or a pint-sized criminal looking to steal your gum. One politician of Slovakia even went so far as to say he was extremely offended and that he think(s) that all Slovaks should feel offended." Certainly not a ten point rise in tourism, then?