The films

WATCHcult

Late Night Trains

Last House on a train, scored by Ennio Morricone, which is a sentence that should not be true.

WATCHcult

The Beast in Heat

Nazisploitation at its most worthless. On the list for good reason and worth nobody's evening.

WATCHcult

The Toolbox Murders

The first fifteen minutes are notorious. The remaining seventy are a different and much duller film.

WATCHcult

Absurd

D'Amato remaking his own Anthropophagous as a Halloween knock-off. Grim and dull in equal measure.

WATCHcult

Contamination

An Alien knock-off with exploding chests and a Goblin score doing heavy lifting throughout.

cult

Gestapo's Last Orgy

Nazisploitation, and the tag exists because the shelf gets documented, not because this is worth time.

WATCHcult

Killer Nun

Anita Ekberg as a morphine-addicted nun in a hospital. Nunsploitation with an actual performance in it.

WATCHcult

Snuff

A dull Manson knock-off with a fake murder stapled on the end and a marketing campaign of hired protesters.

WATCHcult

The Boogey Man

A haunted mirror and a Halloween score Ulli Lommel could not afford to license properly.

WATCHcult

The Cannibal Man

Almost no cannibalism. A slaughterhouse worker, a body count and Franco-era Spanish class rage.

WATCHcult

The House on the Edge of the Park

Deodato's Last House riff with David Hess again. Mean, cheap and effective at exactly one thing.

WATCHcult

Zombie Creeping Flesh

Bruno Mattei splicing stock documentary footage into a zombie film and hoping nobody notices.

WATCHcult

Bloody Moon

Jess Franco doing a slasher for German money. Contains the stone-saw scene and little else.

WATCHknown

Blood Feast

The first gore film. Shot in four days for 24,500 dollars and it looks it, which is half the appeal.

WATCHknown

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

Zombies caused by an agricultural radiation device, shot in the Lake District. Much better than it sounds.

WATCHknown

Anthropophagous: The Beast

Famous for two shots and unwatchable between them. George Eastman wrote himself the title role.

WATCHknown

Dead & Buried

Eerie, well made, and completely undeserving of the list. Stan Winston's effects.

WATCHknown

The Funhouse

Hooper on a real budget with Rick Baker's monster. Nowhere near nasty enough to be on this list.

WATCHknown

Death Trap

Hooper's follow-up to Chain Saw, shot entirely on a sound stage lit in red. A hotel, a scythe and a crocodile.

WATCHknown

The Driller Killer

Ferrara's debut, and mostly a film about being broke in New York. The sleeve got it prosecuted.

WATCHknown

Faces of Death

A mondo compilation whose most famous scenes are staged. Sold as real and marketed on being banned.

WATCHknown

Flesh for Frankenstein

Shot in 3D with Udo Kier and a spleen. Warhol's name on it, Paul Morrissey's film.

WATCHknown

The House by the Cemetery

Fulci's dream logic at its least coherent and most atmospheric. The dubbing of the child is a war crime.

WATCHknown

Prisoner of the Cannibal God

Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in New Guinea. Real animal deaths, which is why it stays notorious.

WATCHknown

The Burning

The best film on the prosecuted list. Savini's raft scene is why it was on it.

WATCHknown

Cannibal Ferox

Sold as the most violent film ever made. Lenzi chasing Deodato and killing more animals to do it.

WATCHknown

Inferno

The Suspiria sequel. Less coherent, more beautiful, and has the best underwater sequence Argento shot.

WATCHknown

Possession

A divorce film with a tentacle in it. Adjani's U-Bahn scene is the most extreme acting on this site.

WATCHknown

A Bay of Blood

The hinge between giallo and slasher. Friday the 13th Part 2 lifts two murders almost shot for shot.

WATCHknown

Tenebrae

Argento's last great giallo, and the one with the three-minute crane shot up the side of a house.

WATCHknown

The Beyond

Almost no coherent plot and that is the argument for it. One of the bleakest endings in the genre.

known

The Devils

Ken Russell's best film, cut in every territory it has ever played, and still not properly released.

WATCHknown

Zombie Flesh Eaters

A zombie fights a shark. There is also an eye and a splinter. Fulci's most purely entertaining film.

WATCHknown

I Spit on Your Grave

Ebert called it the worst film ever made. Clover argued the camera is with her throughout. Both cases are live.

WATCHcanon

The Last House on the Left

Craven remaking Bergman on no money. To avoid fainting, keep repeating: it's only a movie.

WATCHcanon

Irréversible

Runs backwards and uses infrasound to make you physically unwell. About 200 walked out at Cannes.