25 Most Controversial Horror Movies Ever Made

7. Psycho

The Exorcist
Paramount Pictures

Partial nudity, the flushing of toilets and pre-marital relations hardly sound like concepts that would raise many alarms, but hey, 1960s America was far more prudish than it is today.

Hitchcock famously tussled with film executives over the aforementioned aspects of the film and its violence, eventually getting it to pass after several cuts.

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