10 Foreign Horror Films That Shame Hollywood

A Serbian Film is your typical movie about an aging, struggling porn star who agrees to participate in an “art film” without realizing that his director’s brand of pornography involves new born children.

Director Srdan Spasojevic claimed his film was a parody of the kind of politically correct features being made in Serbia, but the rest of the world begged to differ and the picture was promptly banned in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore, among other countries. Like it or loathe it, A Serbian Film has no equal.

Mark Kermode described the film as a “nasty piece of exploitation trash” redolent of the excesses of Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust), but Spasojevic’s picture is too well made to really bear comparison with the Video Nasties.

It’s a shocking movie, as it was meant to be, but it’s also an unforgettable one, a charge that can’t be levied at the majority of modern horror films.