A Serbian Film To Cannibal Holocaust: Horror Movies That Were So Scary That They Got Banned

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Banned in 14 countries): Five friends run out of gas while driving to their grandfather's house. One by one they are tormented and killed by a chainsaw-wielding killer. Image: IMDb

I Spit on Your Grave (Banned in 14 countries): After a young writer is brutally raped and left for dead by four men, she hunts them down one by one to exact a terrible vengeance. Image: IMDb

Cannibal Holocaust (Banned in 13 countries): During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across a lost film shot by a missing documentary crew. Image: IMDb

A Serbian Film (Banned in 12 countries): An ageing porn star agrees to participate in an art film only to uncover that he has been drafted into making a paedophilia and necrophilia-themed snuff film. Image: IMDb

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Banned in 9 countries): A group of fascists round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. Image: IMDb

The Devils (Banned in 6 countries): In 17th-century France, Father's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft. Image: IMDb