We’ve all seen films that are objectionable, whether it be images, dialogue or both. What is tasteless to some is another person’s award worthy flick. Below are some of the most tasteless, vile and sick films to ever be created. The films on the list are not poorly made (mostly) and in fact I like quite a few on this list, but it doesn’t mean that they are by any means tasteful.
Freddy Got Fingered
Ok Hollywood, hands up. Who greenlit this project? A truly bizarre and rarely funny peak inside Tom Green’s mind. What kind of film is based on the son accusing the father of abusing his brother? This one.
From running around in a hollowed out moose costume to whipping a disabled girl’s legs, it is all here and it is all devoid of taste.
Ick Moment: Delivering a baby and then for some reason swinging it around the room on its own umbilical cord, afterbirth everywhere… just gross.
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
Tom Six upped the ante in his reactive sequel to his original A to M horror. “100% Medically Inaccurate” was the tag line for Part 2, so this pretty much meant free reign for the centipede constructor. Everything about this film is in poor taste.
The violence is horrid, although mercifully shot in black and white – except for a scene involving poo, only then do we get another color. (No prizes for guessing which color.) Not content with punishing the audience with gore, Six then goes further by introducing a terrible, whispered secret that plays throughout the film and adding the extreme birth and death of a baby. It is just so horrible and vile that it was banned in a few countries – so naturally Part 3 is on the way.
Ick Moment: A moment involving injecting laxatives into a 12 person ‘pede.
Ken Park
We all know Larry Clark’s Modus Operandi – place teens in questionable situations, preferably shirtless and then they engage in debauchery. However, with Ken Park, Clark and writer Harmony Korine took the formula from his best film – Kids – and set it in the suburbs and turned them loose. The results yield some very questionable scenes involving a multitude of controversial subjects. Most of it without any real context, giving the term tasteless a new definition.
Ick Moment: A drunken father wakes his sleeping son in one of the worst ways possible.
Scary Movie 2
I know that picking out just one of the Scary Movie franchise entries seems like shooting fish in barrel, but Scary Movie 2 is the pinnacle of poor taste. Which, in a franchise that revels in the gross out gag, is a mean feat. From go to whoa, the poo, vomit, any other bodily fluid, gay and even priest jokes litter the screen. In the entire film, there is about two jokes that show any thought at all. Totally tasteless – but the Wayans Brothers know it, know their audience and exploit it.
Ick Moment: A riff on The Exorcist Pea Soup Vomit scene, that goes so far over the top that The Meaning of Life vomit scene looks like an art-house surrealist dream.
So, there you have it. Four of the most tasteless films ever created. Did I miss your favourite film or your favourite film to show and freak out your friends with? Have at it with the comments section below and bask in the gross, sticky, smelly residue of the tasteless film.
March 4, 2013
Great list! There sure are more uncomfortable titles than Scary Movie 2, but you really nailed it with this post, showing us such demented and tasteless pieces of cinema.
This is a list not recommended for a weekend film marathon. Unless of course, you want to fry your brain and drown in your own puke.
How’s that for a tasteless comment? 🙂
March 4, 2013
A tastefully tasteless comment!
A film that very nearly made the list was Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste (and perhaps even closer was BrainDead or Dead Alive as it is known in some parts) but despite the little moments in the film like dining on a communal bowl of puke, it didn’t quite have the enough of those moments to be considered…
March 8, 2013
Oh boy, I should send this list to my grandma…