The films

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The Coffee Table

A Spanish couple buy a hideous coffee table, and then the worst thing imaginable happens in the first act.

Cannibals who look like they were recruited outside the catering truck. Almost impressively bad.

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The Werewolf and the Yeti

Paul Naschy in the Himalayas. On the list almost certainly because somebody read the title and stopped.

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Devil Hunter

Franco at his most indifferent. Ninety minutes of jungle and a monster with bulging eyes.

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Cannibal Apocalypse

Vietnam veterans come home with a bite that spreads. A better idea than the film delivers.

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Lisa and the Devil

Bava given complete freedom, and the film is a dream nobody can escape, including the producer.

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Pieces

A chainsaw killer on a Boston campus, made by Spaniards, and it is gloriously incoherent.

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The Cannibal Man

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

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Zombie Creeping Flesh

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

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Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Bava's first-person portrait of a killer who murders brides to recover a childhood memory. Genuinely strange.

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Piggy

Spanish, a bullied teenager, and a moral problem she is left holding alone.

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Who Can Kill a Child?

Opens with eight minutes of real famine footage, then asks its title question literally.

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The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

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

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Verónica

A Madrid teenager holds a séance during a solar eclipse and brings something home. Loosely based on a real police file.

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Dagon

Stuart Gordon adapting The Shadow over Innsmouth, relocated to a rotting Spanish fishing town.

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Sleep Tight

The concierge of a Barcelona apartment block cannot bear that a tenant is happy, so he makes sure she is not.

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REC 2

The sequel picks up minutes after the first, sends a SWAT team into the sealed building, and reframes the whole outbreak.

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The Devil's Backbone

Del Toro's other Spanish Civil War film, and he has called it the companion to Pan's Labyrinth.

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REC

A Barcelona apartment block, a news crew, and eighty minutes with no let-up.

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The Orphanage

Produced by del Toro, and it is a film about a mother rather than a house.

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The Platform

A vertical prison and a descending table of food. The metaphor is a brick and the film is effective anyway.

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The Skin I Live In

Almodóvar's only horror film, and it is a revenge story disguised as a mad-scientist melodrama.

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The Others

A twist that survives a second viewing, which is rarer than it sounds.