The films

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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Brazil's first horror film, made by a man who invented himself as a character and played him for fifty years.

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

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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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Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

A plane crash, an alien blob, and the single most striking red sky in Japanese genre film. Tarantino borrowed it.

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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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Long Weekend

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

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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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SS Experiment Camp

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

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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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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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We Are What We Are

A Mexico City family loses its father and has to work out who now does the hunting.

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A Dark Song

A grieving mother and an occultist doing a months-long ritual properly. The tedium is deliberate.

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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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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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Night of the Bloody Apes

A luchadora, a heart transplant from a gorilla, and real open-heart surgery footage spliced in.

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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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Deep River Savages

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

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Dumplings

An ageing actress buys rejuvenating dumplings from a woman in a housing estate. You know what is in them.

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Enys Men

A lone woman on a Cornish island in 1973, a flower, a standing stone, and time coming apart.

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Lake Mungo

Barely a horror film for an hour. Then there is a shot on a mobile phone people do not forget.

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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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Sightseers

A caravan holiday across the English Midlands turns into a killing spree, and it is a very bleak comedy about class and resentment.

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The Void

Practical effects made on Kickstarter money, doing an unembarrassed Carpenter impression.

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Azrael

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

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Birth/Rebirth

A morgue technician and a grieving mother reinventing Frankenstein without any of the theatrics.

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Censor

A BBFC examiner during the video nasties panic starts to come apart. Essential viewing for this site specifically.

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Death Line

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

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

A web-streaming crew live-broadcast from a real abandoned Korean hospital for the views.

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Hounds of Love

A Perth couple abduct a teenage girl, and the film is about the fracture between the two of them.