Controversy in art and cinema reveals society’s boundaries, exposing the pressure points where cultural comfort meets disruptive truth. Films that generate genuine outrage achieve something more ...

Today marks 51 years since one of the most controversial and influential horror films, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, first premiered in Austin, Texas, on October 1, 1974. Directed by Tobe Hooper, the ...

Sometimes, it's a good film with contentious content. Other times, it's a terrible film that tries and fails to be transgressive. One thing is certain: When a film stirs up controversy, it's quite a ...

The film’s formal rigor, structured around Dante’s circles of Hell, presents evil as systemic rather than aberrational. The most controversial films that are actually masterpieces Controversy in art ...