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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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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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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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.

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

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Axe

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

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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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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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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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Long Weekend

A couple with a failing marriage treat a beach with contempt. Nothing supernatural happens.

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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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SS Experiment Camp

Notorious in Britain almost entirely for its poster. The film is inert.

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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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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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Deep River Savages

The first Italian cannibal film. A Man Called Horse relocated to Thailand with mondo bolted on.

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Death Line

Descendants of collapsed tunnel workers living under Russell Square, and Donald Pleasence steals it.

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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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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 Toolbox Murders

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

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Alucarda

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

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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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Killer Nun

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

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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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The Cannibal Man

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

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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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Daughters of Darkness

Elizabeth Báthory in an empty Ostend hotel out of season, and it is the most elegant vampire film ever made.

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House

Toho asked their ad director what would scare children. He asked his eleven-year-old daughter and filmed her answers.

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Tales from the Crypt

Amicus adapting the EC Comics, with Joan Collins menaced by a killer Santa and Peter Cushing as a wronged dustman.

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Who Can Kill a Child?

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