20 Most Extreme Horror Films Of All Time
9. The Angels' Melancholia (2009)
The follow-up to the 2006's Cannibal, Marian Dora's Melancholie Der Engel (aka The Angels' Melancholy) is one of the most notorious, undeniably hardcore German releases ever produced. Clocking over two hours of length, the film is an epic portrait of pain and suffering.
Feeling his mortality and fearing that he's reaching the end of his life, the film's main character Katze decides to meet up with some old friends at an old house in which they used to spend time delving into dark pleasures. The group decides to allow Katze to go out in style as their initially simple fun turns increasingly more depraved and horrific. Animal cruelty, murder, and masturbating to dead bodies ensue. There is also a particularly unsettling scene featuring a young woman defecating on a guy as he licks her backside.
This film pretty much spits in the face of public morality - a cynical and philosophical ode to violence and depraved sexuality. Poetic, radical, unwieldy and impossible to forget.