The films

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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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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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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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Unhinged

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

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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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Terror Eyes

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

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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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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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Visiting Hours

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

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

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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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Devil Hunter

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

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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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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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Parents

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

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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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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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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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Pieces

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

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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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The Boogey Man

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

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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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Zombie Creeping Flesh

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

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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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Xtro

A British alien-abduction film so incoherent and disturbing it has never been fully explained, by anyone, including its director.

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Mr. Vampire

Hopping Chinese vampires, a Taoist priest, and sticky rice as a medical treatment. It invented a whole genre.

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Night of the Comet

A comet turns most of Los Angeles to dust, and two Valley girls inherit the city.

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Stage Fright

A killer in a giant owl mask trapped in a theatre with a dance troupe. Michele Soavi's debut and the best late giallo.

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The Stuff

A white dessert oozing from the ground becomes a national craze, and it is eating the people who eat it.

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Anthropophagous: The Beast

Famous for two shots and unwatchable between them. George Eastman wrote himself the title role.

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Dead & Buried

Eerie, well made, and completely undeserving of the list. Stan Winston's effects.

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The Funhouse

Hooper on a real budget with Rick Baker's monster. Nowhere near nasty enough to be on this list.