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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Penda's Fen

A BBC play about a repressed vicar's son in the English countryside, and it is one of the strangest things ever broadcast.

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Attachment

A Danish-Jewish folk horror about a dybbuk, a mother, and a relationship the mother will not permit.

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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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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

A Canadian courtroom drama about a real murder. Its presence on the list is inexplicable.

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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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Sissy

An Australian wellness influencer at a hen weekend. Much sharper and much nastier than the premise suggests.

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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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Exposé

The only British film on the DPP list. A novelist, a typist and Fiona Richmond in a farmhouse.

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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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Possum

A disgraced puppeteer returns to his childhood home carrying a bag he cannot get rid of.

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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.

Franco women-in-prison, made fast and cheap. On the list for the category rather than the content.

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You'll Never Find Me

A stranger knocks during a storm at a caravan-park trailer, and neither of the two people is quite what they seem.

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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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The Coffee Table

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

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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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Huesera: The Bone Woman

Mexican, and the best pregnancy horror since Rosemary's Baby. The joint-cracking sound design is the thing.

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Human Experiments

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

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Island of Death

Mastorakis watched Texas Chain Saw, counted the perversions and wrote a list. It shows.

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Jigoku

A student's guilt drags everyone he knows into a Buddhist hell, and the last third is that hell in detail.

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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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Tigers Are Not Afraid

Children orphaned by the Mexican drug war, three wishes, and the dead following them through the streets.

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Visiting Hours

Michael Ironside stalking a hospital. A real cast, a real budget, and no business being on the list.

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A Field in England

Deserters in the English Civil War eat mushrooms and dig for treasure while reality dissolves. Shot in black and white in twelve days.