10 Foreign Language Horror Films Hollywood Doesn't Have The Balls To Remake

Language: Japanese

While Ichi The Killer is known for its vivid violence, Takashi Miike's Visitor Q is lauded by fans of the director for its utter weirdness and its ability to make even the most hardened of viewers cringe. This bizarre black comedy horror opens with the question "have you ever done it with your Dad?" and proceeds to show a TV reporter not only paying to have sex with his estranged prostitute daughter in a sleazy hotel room, but also videotaping the act of incest as part of a documentary on the youth of the day.

The reporter's wife is brutalised by their son on a daily basis, leaving her covered in welts and bruises and forcing her to turn to heroin, a habit she isn't afraid to feed by partaking in her daughter's profession. Their miserable lives are changed forever when a mysterious stranger (the titular Visitor Q) hits the father over the head with a rock, invites himself into their home and proceeds to show them the way to familial bliss.

Of course, being a Takashi Miike film, this version of familial bliss includes multiple murders, moments of necrophilia and a kitchen full of freshly pumped breast milk. Visitor Q is the pinnacle of Miike's extreme style, addressing themes of alienation and repressed sexuality as only he knows how.

It lacks the bloodshed of some of his other efforts, though he gets the stomach churning and the skin crawling in other ways, ways that would make most Hollywood execs blush.