20 Most Disturbing Japanese Horror Movies Of All Time

1. Squirmfest (1989)

The Plot: A woman eats a meal containing worms, then she sits at a piano, craps all over the floor, and is then made to eat it. Enough said. Why It's Disturbing: And finally, we've come to a film that sits so gingerly on the cusp between horror film and fetish porno that it's hard to know where one ends and the other begins. Even if you can manage to track down a copy of Squirmfest (it circulates on bootleg torrent sites periodically but is otherwise a challenge to find outside of Japan, hence the ultra-low-quality screengrab), you're best advised to leave this alone, because it's about as sick as it gets. If you really need anymore elaboration beyond the synopsis above, just know that it is genuinely horrifying and among the most vomit-inducing "films" ever made, and it'll doubtless make you wonder how much the lead actress was paid for her, um, commitment to the role. The film mostly endures nowadays as a badge of honour for horror fans to put themselves through, and in substituting buckets of gore for all manner of other bodily fluids, it's about as stomach-churningly vile as cinema gets. What are the most disturbing Japanese horror flicks you've seen? Shout them out in the comments!
 
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