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

1/6: 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

2/6: 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

3/6: 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

4/6: 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

5/6: 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

6/6: 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