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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Axe

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

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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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Death Line

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

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In a Violent Nature

A slasher shot entirely from behind the killer, at walking pace, with no score. A formal experiment that works.

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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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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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Ravenous

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

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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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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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Bone Tomahawk

A slow western for 90 minutes, then one scene people never forget. You will know it when it starts.

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The Hills Have Eyes

A nuclear family against a family mutated by nuclear testing. By the end there is no difference in method.

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X

A porn crew shoot on a Texas farm in 1979. Ti West doing the texture of the era properly.

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Cocaine Bear

A black bear ingests a fortune in dropped cocaine and goes on a rampage. Loosely, very loosely, based on a true event.

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The Last House on the Left

Craven remaking Bergman on no money. To avoid fainting, keep repeating: it's only a movie.

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Deliverance

Not marketed as horror and the founding text of an entire horror subgenre.

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Wrong Turn

Competent, well shot, and exactly what it says. Stan Winston did the mutants.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Almost bloodless and completely unbearable. Heat, noise and exhaustion doing all the work.

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Friday the 13th

Copied Halloween without any of the craft, added Savini, and proved the formula worked anyway.

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The Cabin in the Woods

A machine for explaining why every other film on this site is shaped the way it is.

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The Evil Dead

Prosecuted dozens of times and won more often than it lost. Raimi was 21 and it shows in the best way.