Movies made solely for the purpose of shock value aren't always a good thing.

Take a certain controversial anti-Muslim flick we've been hearing about lately, for instance.

And a lot of gross-out comedies produced in the wake of John Waters and then watered down through the Farrelly brothers heyday are just cheap attempts to garner uncomfortable laughs and shouts of "no they didn't!" But when a filmmaker really has guts or knows how to creatively cause you to cringe for good purpose, that's something any cinephile should like to see.

Maybe not everyone enjoys every sort of crazy or weird or disturbing or completely f**ked-up film, but I believe there's a good deal of worth in filmmakers doing something we haven't ever seen before on the big...

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