The films

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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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You Won't Be Alone

A Macedonian witch story told as a Malick film, and it is about what it is to be a person.

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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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Kuroneko

Two women murdered by samurai return as cats bound by a promise to drink the blood of every samurai they meet.

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Quatermass and the Pit

A Martian spacecraft under a London tube station, and it explains the Devil.

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

The real Santa Claus is a horned thing frozen in a Finnish mountain, and a drilling company has found it.

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Saint Maud

A palliative nurse decides she has been called. Morfydd Clark is terrifying and the last shot is a gut punch.

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Theatre of Blood

Vincent Price as a hammy actor murdering the critics who denied him an award, each death staged from Shakespeare.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter

Oz Perkins' debut. Glacial, wintry, and the timeline is doing something you will only spot late.

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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.

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The House That Dripped Blood

Four stories tied to one house, written by Robert Bloch, with Christopher Lee and a very young Jon Pertwee joke.

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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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The Sentinel

A model moves into a Brooklyn brownstone that turns out to be the gateway to Hell, guarded by a blind priest.

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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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Wolfen

Not really a werewolf film. Something older is hunting in the ruins of the South Bronx.

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Burnt Offerings

A family rents a summer house that heals itself by consuming them. Karen Black, Oliver Reed and Bette Davis.

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Death Trap

Hooper's follow-up to Chain Saw, shot entirely on a sound stage lit in red. A hotel, a scythe and a crocodile.

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Hatching

A Finnish girl raises a monster from an egg, and it is about a mother's Instagram-perfect lie.

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Martin

Romero's own favourite. A vampire film in which there may be no vampire, only a disturbed boy with razor blades.

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One Cut of the Dead

Sit through the rough first 37 minutes. That instruction is the whole review and it is worth obeying.

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Prophecy

Mercury poisoning produces a mutant bear in the Maine woods, and it is angrier about logging than most activists.

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Ravenous

A Sierra Nevada fort in 1847, cannibalism as manifest destiny, and a score unlike any other.

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Session 9

Shot in a real abandoned asylum, and the building does most of the work.

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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 Devil Rides Out

Christopher Lee as the hero for once, and the best script Hammer ever filmed.

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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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The Medium

Thai-Korean, a documentary crew following a shaman, and the last twenty minutes are relentless.

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The Vast of Night

A radio DJ and a switchboard operator in 1950s New Mexico chase a signal across one night. Shot for almost nothing.

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Tumbbad

An Indian folk horror about greed, a hidden god, and a womb in the earth, spanning three generations.

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Twins of Evil

Peter Cushing as a witch-hunter who is worse than the vampires, and the Collinson twins were Playboy's first.

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Vampire Circus

A plague-quarantined village visited by a travelling circus, and it is the strangest film Hammer made.

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Witchfinder General

Vincent Price with the camp switched off, torturing people in English summer sunshine.

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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Fulci's best giallo, a fever of LSD dreams and a murder that may not have happened.

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Cronos

Del Toro's first film, and the vampire is a grandfather trying to stay with his granddaughter.

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Faces of Death

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