The films

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Late Night Trains

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

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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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Marebito

Takashi Shimizu, between Grudge films, shot this in eight days about a cameraman who brings something home from the underworld.

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Noroi: The Curse

A documentary film-maker investigates a demon called Kagutaba and does not come back.

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Parents

A boy in 1950s suburbia suspects the leftovers his parents keep serving are people. Bob Balaban directed.

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The Beast in Heat

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

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The Legend of Hell House

Richard Matheson adapting himself. Colder and nastier than The Haunting, and nearly as good.

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The Perfection

Swerves three times and mostly earns them. Best watched knowing nothing at all.

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The Toolbox Murders

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

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Absurd

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

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Alucarda

Mexican nunsploitation with an actual argument, and everybody in it screams for eighty minutes.

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Angst

An Austrian film about a killer released from prison, shot with a camera rig nobody had used before.

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Contamination

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

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Gestapo's Last Orgy

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

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In a Violent Nature

A slasher shot entirely from behind the killer, at walking pace, with no score. A formal experiment that works.

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Incantation

A Taiwanese found-footage film built around a curse the film itself tries to pass to you.

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It Lives Inside

An Indian-American teenager unleashes a demon from Hindu folklore while trying to assimilate.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!

A Carpathian village, a dead girl with a white ball, and Fellini borrowed the image wholesale.

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Killer Nun

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

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Motel Hell

A folksy farmer makes the best smoked meat in the county. The secret is people, planted in the garden up to their necks.

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Oddity

Irish, small, and it contains one of the best-constructed scares of the decade. The wooden man.

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Pieces

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

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Pontypool

The infection is carried by the English language, and the whole film happens in a radio booth.

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Q: The Winged Serpent

An Aztec god nests atop the Chrysler Building and eats sunbathers, and Michael Moriarty is extraordinary.

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Skinamarink

Ninety minutes of ceilings and corners at 4am. Either the scariest thing you have seen or nothing at all.

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Snuff

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

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Terrified

Argentinian, and it front-loads three of the best scares of the decade in the first twenty minutes.

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The Boogey Man

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

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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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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.

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The Untamed

A Mexican film in which a creature from a crashed meteorite provides pleasure and death in equal measure.

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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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Bedevilled

A Seoul bank worker visits the island she grew up on. Everybody there has been failing one woman for years.

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Bloody Moon

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

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Cam

A camgirl finds an identical copy of herself has taken over her account and locked her out.

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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.