Hostel Part 3 Where To Watch

[Meggan Shankman]

Filmmakerscan have the best intentions for a movie, but sometimes the end results are too horrific, unsettling or shocking for audiences to see. Some were judged harshly at the time they came out and subsequently released, while others remain justifiably banned from the public eye.

Most of the movies on this list were eventually released in the United States, but were banned by film classification boards and governments in other countries. Judge for yourself with these 15 horror movies that were deemed too disturbing to watch.

Among the countries to ban A Clockwork Orange were Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, Brazil, Spain, South Korea and parts of Canada. The British movie was released in America after Kubrick removed 30 seconds of explicit sexual footage which got it an R rating in theaters.

Even the premise of this movie is enough to upset stomachs. A Serbian Film tells the story of a semi-retired porn star who needs to work to make money. He agrees to appear in what he thinks is an art film but turns out to be a murderous film with pedophilic and necrophilic themes.

The story is based on a classic Swedish arthouse film The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of two girls who are kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered in the woods. The parents of the girls then exact revenge. Craven made a remake of the movie in 2009 that wasn't banned at all.

The movie allegedly made cinema-goers faint and vomit while others complained of more serious reactions like heart attacks and a miscarriage. The movie was banned across different cities in the US and the UK. Despite the furor, The Exorcist still won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

Kōji Shiraishi's Japanese horror movie features a young couple being subjected to unspeakable torture methods. For seemingly no reason, the couple who were snatched on their first date, are stabbed, dismembered then healed, purely for the sexual satisfaction of their captor.

Referred to as a "shockumentary" movie, The Poughkeepsie Tapes had to wait for seven years before being released. Though not based on a true story, it shares shocking images purported to be real from a serial killer who shot over 800 gory videotapes of himself doing unspeakable things.

Though it was never explicitly stated that it was banned from cinemas because of its psychologically disturbing content, MGM delayed the release in 2007, but it was then officially released to on-demand customers in 2014.

The title may give away the reason why this Italian movie was banned in several countries. The found-footage style film featured intense gore and was investigated after its release to determine whether the scenes were staged or real.

John Waters comedy was banned across many towns in America for 25 years. Its portrayal of homosexuality, explicit sexual content, animal cruelty, and inclusion of the lead character eating dog feces turned many a stomach. His next dark comedy, Female Trouble, was also reportedly banned for similar themes.

The first movie was shocking, but not banned anywhere, whereas The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) was deemed too extreme for British audiences, and it did not receive a classification and was banned in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Funnily enough, the third movie, which features the human centipede concept on an even bigger scale, slipped by the censors without alteration.

This Italian horror art film was widely censored and banned after it debuted in 1975. The nihilistic movie based on corrupt Italian libertines features intense scenes of extreme violence, sadism and sexual and psychological torture.

Showing the rape and revenge journey of Jennifer Hills, I Spit on Your Grave features a lengthy 30 minutes of gang rape. Famed filmed critic Roger Ebert called it "a vile bag of garbage" upon its release in theaters. The likes of West Germany, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and Ireland banned the movie while heavily censored versions were shown in Australia, Canada and the UK.

The Guardian suggests the movie is "banned in 46 countries." The original has seen smaller releases in the years since, but many of the sequels are still banned, deemed too shocking, upsetting and disturbing to witness.

It's hard to believe that the same director who gave the world the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy and a Wizard of Oz spinoff movie made his debut with a horror film that was banned upon its release.

Sam Raimi made the movie while he was still a student, and The Evil Dead was deemed to be one of the most gruesome and gory movies ever made in 1981. It performed better overseas than it did in the United States, but was and reportedly still is banned in some countries. The 2013 remake was banned by the likes of Finland, Ukraine and Singapore.

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A montage of a "bidding war" for victims reveals that the movie's sadistic secret society has a diverse, affluent international clientele. But there's still a sense that the old-world Eastern European setting and culture somehow brings out traits that are wicked and deadly. A character who escapes may or may not be stained with the murderous spirit.

Gruesome, bloody torture gore. Weapons/implements include power saw, blades, a filthy hypodermic needle, a blowtorch, and dissecting tools. Two decapitations, followed by close ups of the oozing neck stump. A trophy room of severed heads, and a close up of a corpse savaged by dogs. One of the few times the camera turns away is when one character shoots a child to death.

Both male and female nudity, though there's a lot more of the latter than the former (that said, a tortured/severed penis is a prominent prop). Sex is more talk than action here, but there are lesbian overtones.

Parents need to know that this gruesome horror sequel absolutely isn't for kids, even though splatter-loving teens may well want to see it. The movie is full of non-stop images of graphic, bloody deaths. A naked girl is hung upside down and sliced until her blood creates a shower on her murderer (also a nude woman), a man is dissected alive and cannibalized, and other victims are subjected to decapitation, castration, vicious dog attacks, and more. Characters also swear, smoke, drink, and do drugs -- and there are hints of lesbianism -- but all of that plays second fiddle to the grisly torture scenes. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

In the first Hostel, an cheap European inn turns into a death trap for a group of college-age wayfarers when they're kidnapped, taken to a grim factory, and sadistically slaughtered by wealthy customers. At the beginning of Part II, Hostel's sole escapee is eliminated by the secret society, whose evil influence turns out to reach worldwide. Their wealthy clients, ensconced in cushy skyscraper offices and corporate boardrooms, bid via Internet and PDA on who gets to have the choicest kill, then fly over to Slovakia to do it. While the first movie's victims were primarily American college guys looking for easy drugs and sex, the sequel's premium prey consists of three female American art students. Wealthy, smart Beth (Lauren German); bookish Lorna (Heather Matarazzo); and party-girl Whitney (Bijou Phillips) are enticed by a slinky European model friend to the familiar Slovakian hostel and a colorful-yet-creepy ethnic festival. Viewers also meet the two American clients who paid to kill the girls: Todd (Richard Burgi), a boisterous, macho clod who can hardly wait to spill blood, and Stuart (Roger Bart), who's more hesitant and uncertain. Hostel barely gave viewers any details about the ordinary-looking sadists patronizing the place, but here Todd speaks eagerly of committing murder as a sort of rite of passage -- it proves that you've got the proverbial eye of the tiger, that you're superior person. He compares taking a life with having sex for the first time.

There's a (feeble) argument to be made that HOSTEL: PART II is a "better" film than the original gore-torture hit. What's "better" about this equally sadistic sequel? This time around, the target audience (the sort of fans who instantly recognize the names of Italian gore-movie icons of the '70s in the supporting cast) are already in on the grisly secret. So rather than waste time going through the motions again, director Eli Roth uses Hostel: Part II to address -- a little bit -- the philosophical rationale for the factory and the working operations of the secret society of murderers that maintains it. But there are still gallons of blood and nonstop ghastly violence -- so viewers who thought the first film was an atrocity won't see many redeeming qualities here, either.

When a nude woman takes a blood shower under the spurting, suspended body of a dying victim, viewers will probably be too grossed out to do much thinking, but on a certain level, these Hostel movies do have a grim message: proposing that human nature really is this dark and depraved. (Stuart, having second thoughts en route to the factory, asks "Are we sick?" Todd responds "We're the normal ones!") Eastern Europe -- with its history full of wars, genocide, and Grimm fairy tales -- is portrayed as a place where recreational torture and death can become a profitable business. The factory, with its snarling dogs and gates, recalls imagery from Holocaust movies like Schindler's List. The American girls are somewhat more gracious visitors than the first film's sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll Yankee guys, but the message seems similar, and more than a little xenophobic: "These foreigners and their ways are different. Staying home is safer."

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