Transgressive Horror
Curated by the horror codex · 27 films
Beyond what the audience expects or is comfortable with. Films designed not to entertain but to endure — pushing violence, taboo, and transgression past every conventional boundary.
1Freaks
1932 ★ 3.9
2The Virgin Spring
1960 ★ 4.5
3Straw Dogs
1971 ★ 4.0
4The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 ★ 4.2
5Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
6Possession
1981 ★ 4.1
7The Evil Dead
1981 ★ 4.4
8Hellraiser
1987 ★ 4.1
9Nekromantik
1988 ★ 2.8
10Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1989 ★ 4.2
11Funny Games
1997 ★ 4.3
12Audition
2000 ★ 3.9
13August Underground
2001
14Ichi the Killer
2001 ★ 4.3
15Irreversible
2002 ★ 4.3
16High Tension
2003 ★ 3.9
17Inside
2007 ★ 4.0
18Martyrs
2008 ★ 4.0
19Antichrist
2009 ★ 3.0
20A Serbian Film
2010
21mother!
2017 ★ 3.3
22Climax
2018 ★ 3.6
23The House That Jack Built
2018 ★ 4.0
24The Sadness
2021 ★ 3.7
25Barbarian
2022 ★ 3.5
26Speak No Evil
2022 ★ 3.8
27The Substance
2024 ★ 4.1