The films

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The Loved Ones

An Australian teenager says no to a girl for the school dance, and she holds her own dance instead.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture

Banned outright in Sweden. The coldest film in this category and the one Kill Bill is built from.

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Society

A Beverly Hills teenager suspects his family are not human. The last twenty minutes prove it, wetly.

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The Driller Killer

Ferrara's debut, and mostly a film about being broke in New York. The sleeve got it prosecuted.

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Faces of Death

A mondo compilation whose most famous scenes are staged. Sold as real and marketed on being banned.

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Frontier(s)

New French Extremity meets Texas Chain Saw, against the backdrop of a real French election.

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Save the Green Planet!

A man convinced aliens are infiltrating Earth kidnaps a CEO to torture the truth out of him. Nothing prepares you for where it goes.

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The House by the Cemetery

Fulci's dream logic at its least coherent and most atmospheric. The dubbing of the child is a war crime.

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Them

A French couple terrorised in a house at night, 77 minutes, and it claims to be true.

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The New York Ripper

Fulci's most repellent film, and it is truly designed to make you feel bad for watching it.

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Maniac

Joe Spinell wrote himself the lead and Tom Savini blew his own head off on camera.

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Santa Sangre

Jodorowsky's most coherent film, which is a comparative statement. A circus, an armless mother and a son who lends her his hands.

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Suicide Club

Fifty-four schoolgirls hold hands and step in front of a train in the first three minutes.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

67 minutes of black and white industrial noise made over eighteen months by a crew that mostly quit.

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The Entity

A woman is repeatedly assaulted by an invisible entity, and the film sides with her against the psychiatrists.

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Demons

Lamberto Bava, produced by Argento, and it is a film about a cinema audience being turned into monsters inside the cinema.

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Inside

The most extreme film on this site. A pregnant woman, her house, and a woman with scissors.

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Cannibal Ferox

Sold as the most violent film ever made. Lenzi chasing Deodato and killing more animals to do it.

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Ichi the Killer

Miike at his most gleefully unpleasant, and the sickbag handed out at Toronto was a marketing stunt that worked.

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Speak No Evil

Danish. About politeness, and the ending is the bleakest thing in this decade of horror.

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Fresh

The title card arrives 33 minutes in, which tells you what kind of film it intends to be.

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Man Bites Dog

A Belgian film crew follow a serial killer and gradually start holding the equipment for him.

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Apostle

Gareth Evans doing folk horror with the fight choreography left in. Much nastier than expected.

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Bring Her Back

The Philippou brothers' second, and considerably harder to sit through than the first. Sally Hawkins is the reason.

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Climax

A dance troupe, spiked sangria, and Gaspar Noé's camera refusing to cut. Unbearable by design.

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Green Room

A punk band plays the wrong venue. Jeremy Saulnier does not flinch and neither does the film.

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Infinity Pool

Brandon Cronenberg again. Wealthy tourists, a legal loophole and Mia Goth having a wonderful time.

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Thirst

A priest volunteers for a vaccine trial, dies, and comes back needing blood. Park Chan-wook adapting Zola.

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Possession

A divorce film with a tentacle in it. Adjani's U-Bahn scene is the most extreme acting on this site.

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High Tension

The film that named New French Extremity in the popular imagination, and its ending is still being argued about.

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The Beyond

Almost no coherent plot and that is the argument for it. One of the bleakest endings in the genre.

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The Devil's Rejects

Rob Zombie's second film, and it turns the killers from his first into the protagonists, which should not work.

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Wolf Creek

Three backpackers in the Australian outback. The first hour is a holiday film and it is not padding.

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I Saw the Devil

A secret agent catches a serial killer, releases him, and does it again. And again.

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Mandy

Nicolas Cage, a chainsaw duel and Jóhann Jóhannsson's last score. Not for everyone and not trying to be.

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Terrifier 3

Unrated, made for very little, outgrossed studio horror, and the effects are the entire proposition.