Favorite controversial films

[Moonshadow]

I've had Circle of Iron in my Netflix queue for about a year -now you guys convinced me to move it to the top to see what the fuss is about!

[Howler]

A Clockwork Orange
Murder Set Pieces
A Serbian Film

[Count_Zirock]

"Caligula" (a.k.a. "Gore Vidal's Caligula," although he fought to have his name removed from it, and won!) I like to watch people's reactions to it. I think of it as the non-horror version of "Cannibal Ferox."

[marsattacks666]

I'd say "Illsa, She Wolf of the SS". Wall-to-wall nudity, Nazis, torture, gore, and sweet revenge.

Great film. Dyanne Thorne is super hot.  But, yes. The film was controversial in it's heyday.

[marsattacks666]

A Clockwork Orange
Murder Set Pieces
A Serbian Film

A Serbian film, wow! That movie is beyond F****D up.  Beyond the realms of controversy.
I don't think the film should have ever been produced.  Which is weird., because I totally
love disturbing, shocking, disgusting and over the top cinema.

[marsattacks666]

I'm going to go with: FACES OF DEATH.  The films/film series was very controversial in the early 80s.
So much so, many video stores would not carry or rent out the film series.

[Paladin]

I'm going to go with: FACES OF DEATH.  The films/film series was very controversial in the early 80s.
So much so, many video stores would not carry or rent out the film series.

Sounds a lot like Mondo Cane...

[zombiehorror]

Of the "controversial" movies I own or like enough to own;

I Spit on Your Grave, Last House on the Left....the originals of course!

The Exorcist, A Clockwork Orange, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Freaks, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer, Dogma,  Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, Blood Sucking Freaks...

Not to mention Frankenstein, Psycho and Rosemary's Baby!!

[Haunted hearse]

"Song of the South" historically inacurate?  If it had taken place before the Civil War, well slaves didn't simply leave a plantation because they were unhappy, like Uncle Remus does, after he's told to stop telling stories to the boy.  But "Song of the South" takes place after the Civil War.  Former slaves often worked the same plantations they worked as slaves, but now had to be paid for it. All those farm workers you're seeing in the movie are NOT slaves. Costumes or furnishings?  Seems period correct for a film that takes place in the Victorian era.  An olderman instructing a child whose parents don't have time for him, why is that so far fetched?  The father heads for Atlanta, and leaves his wife and son behind on a plantation.  We'll Plantations continued to exist after the civil wars, and I think the Atlanta they are refrencing was in existence by that time.  Where are the historical in accuracies that are supposed to abound?  I liked "Django Unchained", but that film was riddled with inaccuracies, like the use of Dynamite in the 1850's.   More then anything else, it's the mis-perception that the film takes place before the civil war, that has people angry, because they think it's a film about a singing and dancing slave.  When Walt made the movie, he wanted it set after the civil war for that reason.  It may be because the father is heading for Atlanta because of some trouble brewing there, that some think it takes place before the War between the States, so that may be where that comes from.  If one has the good fortune to have seen the movie, Slavery isn't a part of it. 

[LundyAfterMidnight]

I also LOVE Circle Of Iron, but I had no idea it was considered controversial. I saw it on a drive-in double bill w/The Exorcist years ago. It's been my favorite martial arts movie ever since.

[zombiehorror]

I liked "Django Unchained", but that film was riddled with inaccuracies, like the use of Dynamite in the 1850's.

I haven't seen Django Unchained yet so I don't know what the dynamite looked like but there were tubular-fused explosives prior to 1850's, they just weren't labeled dynamite or TNT at that point!

[Paladin]

Seems like anything with Nazi overtones is controversial. I saw Ilsa: She Wolf... a long time ago and it was considered a porn film back in the day but by today's standards I think it's mild. The Nazi stuff would have the PC police up- in- arms. I don't even know if it's available, though I'm almost certain it could be had if someone really wanted it through bootlegs and such.
Even Schindler's List (which was excellent) had controversy surrounding it for a while.

Inglorious Basterds is another film that I'd have on my list, but this is fairly new.

[Paladin]

I will watch just about anything. My criteria is usually- Hey, it's starting or it's really late, and I've lowered my standards.
I have watched some movies that I later IMDB-ed to see who the actors were, and read that they were considered controversial. I'm usually surprised to find out that a movie caused a stir.....unless of course I sat for 2 hours and didn't understand ANYTHING that was going on and then I feel better!    I recently watched "Last Tango in Paris", and IMDB-ed (I think that's a verb) it to see if I missed something. After reading that it was controversial....I understood that it was not meant for some of us to "get".  hahahahaha
 I LOVE " Circle of Iron"!! It just speaks to me, and I read that it was supposed to be a different type of movie- but Bruce Lee (the writer) died before it was started.  And some of the violent scenes that he had intended  to be in the film had been changed to comedic scenes- which was controversial. I still have watched it over 20 times.
I love some of the ultra violent thrill kill movies as well- like The Devil's Rejects. It's a beauty!

I will try to watch just about anything. There are films that I will just avoid. For example anything with Tom Cruise because I just don't like him.  There are other actors, but they are just not worth the trouble for me.

Last Tango In Paris was raked over the coals at one time. People chastised Brando because they thought that that this role was beneath him, but I disagree.
I think that there are a lot of messages in Tango... and it's the kind of movie that you have to watch 2- 3 times in order to attain everything- because there are just to many twists and turns with the lead characters.
We have a revival theater on the other side of town and this is played every now and then at midnight.

[Paladin]

"Caligula" (a.k.a. "Gore Vidal's Caligula," although he fought to have his name removed from it, and won!) I like to watch people's reactions to it. I think of it as the non-horror version of "Cannibal Ferox."

I own Caligula on DVD. Considering the subject matter, Pagan Rome, I didn't think that it was all that bad.
In fact, if this were shown on Masterpiece Theater (for example) the outcry would have been minimal.
I, Claudius contained many controversial scenes and materials and it's considered a masterpiece (and I agree that it is.).

[Fester]

Seems like anything with Nazi overtones is controversial. I saw Ilsa: She Wolf... a long time ago and it was considered a porn film back in the day but by today's standards I think it's mild. The Nazi stuff would have the PC police up- in- arms. I don't even know if it's available, though I'm almost certain it could be had if someone really wanted it through bootlegs and such.
Even Schindler's List (which was excellent) had controversy surrounding it for a while.

Inglorious Basterds is another film that I'd have on my list, but this is fairly new.

Ilsa She Wolf of the SS was not controversial necessarily because of the Nazi connection in the title. It was mostly because it was one of the most famous or infamous sexploitation movies which came out in the 1970s.

By the way, She Wolf was filmed on the old Hogan's Heroes set and burning the place down at the end of the movie saved the expense of tearing the place down.
BTW there were at least four Ilsa sexploitation flicks:
    Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
    Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
    Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
    Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
All of them follow basically the same pattern of lets find new and more explicit and often, more disgusting ways to push the limits of obscenity.
These movies featured lots of scenes of torture interspersed with gratuitous soft core sex. 
Oh, and Anchor Bay released them on DVD and are probably still available "PC police" notwithstanding.  It is still on Netflix.