The films

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Delirium

A Vietnam veteran, a vigilante group and a plot that gives up. Not the Lamberto Bava one.

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Blood Rites

Andy Milligan shooting in Staten Island with a hand-held Auricon. An acquired taste nobody acquires.

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Don't Go in the Woods

Shot in Utah for 100,000 dollars with a score that never stops. Beloved by a small and stubborn group.

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Hellbender

Made by one family during lockdown for almost nothing, and it looks better than films with fifty times the budget.

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Night of the Demon

Bigfoot tears a man's genitals off. That is the scene, that is the film, that is why it was prosecuted.

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Don't Go Near the Park

Cursed cave dwellers from 12,000 BC eating people in modern Los Angeles. Incoherent throughout.

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Fight for Your Life

A home invasion built entirely on racial abuse. Genuinely hard to watch and not for craft reasons.

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Frozen Scream

Every line is dubbed, including scenes with nobody talking. Almost hypnotically incompetent.

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Mardi Gras Massacre

An Aztec-obsessed killer in New Orleans. A Blood Feast remake in all but name, and slower.

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Revenge of the Bogey Man

Roughly 40 percent flashback to the first film. A sequel assembled rather than made.

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The Slayer

A painter's nightmares kill people on an off-season island. Genuinely atmospheric and badly underrated.

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The Witch Who Came from the Sea

Millie Perkins is extraordinary in it. A sad film about incest and memory, banned as a gore film.

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Unhinged

Three women, a mansion, rain, and a twist. Shot in Oregon and stranger than its reputation.

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Axe

68 minutes, shot in nine days, and oddly melancholy for something on a banned list.

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Forest of Fear

Marijuana growers, a herbicide and some very slow zombies. On the list by accident of title.

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Hell House LLC

A team building a Halloween haunted attraction in a real abandoned hotel, and the footage is all that is left.

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Terror Eyes

A motorcycle killer in Boston with a kukri. Rachel Ward's debut and a real giallo influence.

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Don't Look in the Basement

An asylum where you cannot tell staff from patients. Shot in twelve days in Texas and quite effective.

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Evilspeak

Clint Howard, a military academy, a computer and a lot of pigs. Better than it has any right to be.

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Human Experiments

A women-in-prison film with a brainwashing subplot. Linda Haynes deserved better material.

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Madhouse

A deaf teacher, a disfigured twin and a rottweiler. Shot in Savannah and better made than most of the list.

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Deadstream

A disgraced livestreamer broadcasts himself alone in a haunted house for the clout, and gets exactly what he deserves.

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Impetigore

An Indonesian folk horror about a woman who returns to a village that has been waiting for her.

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death

A woman fresh out of a psychiatric hospital moves to a Connecticut farmhouse, and the film never confirms what is real.

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Love Camp 7

The film that started the nazisploitation cycle. Lee Frost, a backlot, and no defence available.

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Messiah of Evil

A California coastal town waiting for a blood moon, made by the writers of American Graffiti, and it looks like nothing else.

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Pranks

A dorm over Christmas break and a plot that runs out. Notable mainly for an early Daphne Zuniga.

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Resolution

Two friends in a cabin while something rewrites the story around them. Benson and Moorhead's first film.

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The Blackening

A group of Black friends at a cabin play a racist board game that traps them, and the whole film is the joke that the Black character always dies first.

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The Front Room

A pregnant woman is forced to care for her husband's monstrous, dying, evangelical stepmother.

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Don't Go in the House

A man with a flamethrower and a steel room. The mother is the point and the film knows it.

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Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

The distributor went to prison over this one. The only DPP case that put a man behind bars.

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Spring

A love story that happens to involve an immortal woman whose body is not stable. Benson and Moorhead again.

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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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Nightmare Maker

Susan Tyrrell as the aunt, giving a performance far too committed for the film around it.

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Azrael

A near-wordless survival film in a post-apocalypse where a cult has cut out their own tongues.