10 Incredible Horror Movies You’ll Never Watch Again (And Why)
2. Dogtooth
Yorgos Lanthimos has made plenty of weird movies in his time, but the director's early effort, Dogtooth, might be his weirdest. Rather than delving into death curses or anything supernatural though, the horror of Dogtooth is strangely believable: what would happen if a parent never allowed their kids outside the house or taught them about the world around them?
Of course, this kind of isolation from the real world and the indulgence by the father of the fictional reality he's constructed around the home does these kids no favours, who grow up as traumatised and dysfunctional as you'd imagine.
This kind of scenario could have been played for laughs, but Dogtooth (while retaining some black humour) mostly plays it straight, highlighting every uncomfortable aspect of this warped family.
From incest to animal murder, the thriller touches on every uncomfortable topic in the horror book.
Because the whole thing is essentially Child Abuse: The Movie, it's naturally not something you want to sit through more than once - if at all.