The 11 Nastiest Movies Streaming Now on Shudder
Sometimes, after a long day of work and most likely doom scrolling, you just want to take in an absolute mess of blood and guts. Gory films have a special place in many horror lovers’ hearts, a way to escape reality and see a world where everything is just 100 times worse than anything you may be going through (hopefully). And Shudder is here to deliver the nasty, blood-covered goods.
The streamer is an embarrassment of nasty riches, and it can be a little overwhelming! So I’m here to give you the 11 grossest films on Shudder. Get ready to feel nauseous!
The Sadness
This title just hit Shudder on May 12 and it already deserves a place on this list. Rob Jabbaz’s Taiwanese zombie film follows a couple as they try to survive a plague that has swept the city. And this isn’t the typical zombie virus. It’s one that instigates aggression and sexual desire to the extreme. Plus, the creatures can still speak to their victims. It’s got some of the most depraved scenes I’ve seen in horror and it is Very Good. It’s a gorgeous example of how to do extreme horror well.
Trouble Every Day
In Claire Denis’ 2001 film, cannibalism and sex go hand-in-hand. Beatrice Dalle plays Coré a woman who, when she has sex, rips into the flesh of her partner due to a strange malady she contracted. Meanwhile, Vincent Gallo’s character suffers the same affliction and is traveling to Paris for his honeymoon, which is a cover for finding Coré. It descends into sexual bloody madness. It would make a perfect double feature with The Sadness.
Clearcut
I watched this underrated gem on Shudder just a few weeks ago, and it’s required viewing. The film follows a white lawyer trying to help protect Indigenous land. But when he fails, an Indigenous man Arthur (Graham Greene) takes matters into his own hands. Peaceful and lawful actions have done nothing. So, violence becomes the answer. Really brutal violence.
Koko-Di Koko-Da
This divisive title is unrelenting. When a couple goes camping to heal from the recent death of their child, they stumble into the domain of a demented trio who loves to toy with their prey. And it’s not just straightforward mind games and torture. They trap the couple in an infinite time loop where they die over and over again.
The Woman
Lucky McKee’s The Woman is a movie I hesitate to revisit because of its unrelenting cruelty towards the woman (Pollyanna McIntosh). The woman here is feral and lives in the woods away from society. But one day, a man captures her and traps her in his barn. He ties her up and takes advantage of her in more ways than one. He also commands his family to participate in order to civilize her. Yeah. It’s a lot.
Sheitan
If you want a holiday movie from Hell, New French Extremity title Sheitan is right up your alley. It’s often compared to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre but set deep in the French countryside where strange villagers live out their days. A group of city dwellers happen upon the town and are drawn into a web of cruelty, abuse, and incest.
Hellraiser
This classic horror title obviously deserves a place on a list of nastiest titles on Shudder. And it’s another title that pairs gore with sex. I’m sensing a trend here. In Hellraiser, flesh is ripped to shreds as the Cenobites control a hell of pain and pleasure.
Ichi The Killer
Takashi Miike is a king of extreme horror, and his film Ichi The Killer is a prime example of his depravity. The titular Ichi is a deranged man hunting members of the yakuza. He himself is also being hunted by a sadomasochistic yakuza. When Ichi becomes enraged, he gets violent and horny. So you can imagine where the film goes.
Anthropophagous
Thank you Shudder for bringing us one of the original video nasties. A group of travelers is stranded on an island with a cannibal. He massacred a whole village, and this boat of people is his next meal. The film is Gross with a capital g. At one point the man rips a baby out of a woman’s stomach. And for 1980, that was incredibly transgressive. It still is now, to be fair, but a little less than the impact Anthropophagous had on audiences at the time of release.
Society
Two words: The Shunting. While a majority of Brian Yuzna’s Society is about a boy trying to solve a strange mystery, its ending earns it a place on this list. Mounds of flesh and naked bodies meld into each other, what looks like lube drips off every surface, and a man’s face is where his anus should be. It’s horror insanity. And it’s beautiful.
Cannibal Holocaust
This seminal found footage movie got director Ruggero Deodato in legal trouble as authorities thought he actually murdered his cast. The found video contains footage of a doomed documentary crew studying cannibals in South America. Shudder delivers the nasty good with this classic extreme horror.
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