10 Most Tasteless And Outrageous Directors In Movie History

8. Ruggero Deodato

Ruggero Deodato makes the list due to two particular films he helmed - the notorious Cannibal Holocaust and the epic sleaze fest House On The Edge Of The Park - two films which incurred the wrath of the BBFC during the Video Nasties era. Where does one start with Cannibal Holocaust? Liberal animal snuff and hijinks inflicted by the documentary upon the natives, which included torching their huts, raping their women and ogling a woman who has been impaled through the vagina and out through her mouth. The whole film is really an assault on the senses through the depiction of thoroughly obscene and disgusting film footage, which also includes real life Mondo Movie footage of people being executed for real. House On The Edge Of The Park is in a similar unwholesome vein as Cannibal Holocaust. It really utilises David Hess' ultimate bad guy persona through the character of Alex who is a conduit for much depravity and sleaze - including the rape and murder of a woman in the opening scenes and the thoroughly objectionable slicing and dicing of a very young girl. Scuzzy as hell, when it was given a release in the UK in the noughties, it was shorn of around 12 minutes of footage and didn't make any sense or generate shock value. Killjoys.