5 of the most outrageously perverse films ever made
Just to be clear, I’m not talking about that kind of perverse films. Rather, these are films that could have been written by an pubescent adolescent that somehow got made into actual feature-length movies and got shown in cinemas. So the next time you want to throw away that ridiculous premise you came up with, reword it to be a strange and unusual concept, and you might end up with a sleeper hit.
1. Nekromantik
A 1987 West German erotic horror film, “Nekromantik” is so perverse that it’s banned in Singapore (and it’s still banned). It centres around a man with necrophilia who brings home a corpse to enjoy with his wife, but finds out that she prefers the corpse to him.
It sounds like a comedy premise, but it’s filled with scenes of gore, death, necrophilia, and a whole lot of blood. Perhaps it would be seen as a dark comedy today, but back then it was a horrific showcase that, predictably, garnered its own group of diehard fans.
Hell Comes to Frogtown. (The Loft Cinema)
2. Hell Comes to Frogtown
This 1988 film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans are no longer fertile due to radiation. Those who can still breed are highly valued. Somehow, a fertile man is sent into a town of mutant frogs to rescue a bevy of fertile women for the sake of all humanity.
To give an idea of the tone of this film, they track down the protagonist by the pregnant women that he has been leaving in his wake. The protagonist is forced to accomplish his mission because his genitals will get shocked if he disobeys them. And if that’s not weird enough, the mutant frogs have captured the fertile women in an attempt to propagate their own species. It’s like all the strangest stereotypes of dystopian movies jumbled up together in one froggy mess.
3. Vase de Noces (Wedding Trough)
Billed as a Belgian art film, “Vase de Noces” was released in 1974 and focuses on a farmer who mates with a pig. He later discovers that their children, piglets, prefer the sow to him (I wonder why?) and ends up killing his offspring. The sow commits suicide, and so does he, showing us why bestiality is a really bad idea. It never got into theatres, but it’s always at film festivals.
It might have a fancy title, but it’s commonly known as the movie about mating with pigs. It’s so terrible that it got banned three times in Australia! Not only is it a demented film about bestiality, it also has a tragic ending. You could see it as some sort of commentary on bestiality, but personally, it sounds like a film that was made on a dare.
White Chicks. (Imp Awards)
4. White Chicks
As recently as 2004, we had “White Chicks,” which saw the Wayan brothers play a pair of black male cops that have to dress up as white female heiresses to, well, it doesn’t really matter because we still can’t get over the fact that their disguise involved them changing gender and race! Worst of all, people actually fell for it in the film, with all the flirting that entails. Ew.
It’s such a ridiculous concept that people would go to cinemas just to see how they pulled it off. If the make-up and prosthetics involved them becoming some sort of fantastical monster, that might still be worth it, but no. They just became white chicks. It’s a whole lot of effort for an idea that borders on the the asinine. And yet, it was a financial success. Such is Hollywood.
HK Forbidden Super Hero: The Abnormal Crisis. (Encore Films)
5. HK Forbidden Super Hero: The Abnormal Crisis
And to round it all off, this year we have “HK Forbidden Super Hero: The Abnormal Crisis.” HK stands for “Hentai Kamen,” if you didn’t realise, and this is a sequel about an ordinary buffoon who becomes a muscular superhero when he dons his girlfriend’s panties — on his face! His signature moves always involve him smashing his genitals against the face of his opponents to defeat them. Ouch. But it works.
Firstly, this was born from a manga, which had to have been an incredible hit for it to have been made into a movie! Then we have an actor who’s prancing around in his undies for the bulk of the film. Who knows how many wardrobe malfunctions must have happened on set? But despite all this, it’s actually a pretty good comedy, if you can get over all the panties and genital smashing involved. It’s currently showing in cinemas.
Have you watched any outrageously perverse films lately? Tell us which ones are the worst (or are so bad that they’re good)!
Marcus Goh is a Singapore television scriptwriter. He’s also a Transformers enthusiast and avid pop culture scholar. He Tweets/Instagrams at Optimarcus and writes at marcusgohmarcusgoh.com. The views expressed are his own.
