Most Startling Films Ever Made

Akira

This is the first completely animated movie to make the list. Akira is psychologically challenging, and it’s full of body horror.

Videodrome

Videodrome is more of an Akira-style body-horror movie, released right before Akira. This movie resembles a cross between Bladerunner and The Thing, and we love it.

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The More You Know

  • The Judas Cradle was a means of torture where the victim was forced to sit on a spike.
  • Muscovite palaces and courts had professional foot-ticklers.
  • Ancient Egyptians used dead mice for toothaches.
  • Some of the velociraptor noises in "Jurassic Park" are actually tortoises mating.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.