The films

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Blood Rites

Andy Milligan shooting in Staten Island with a hand-held Auricon. An acquired taste nobody acquires.

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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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Exposé

The only British film on the DPP list. A novelist, a typist and Fiona Richmond in a farmhouse.

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Fight for Your Life

A home invasion built entirely on racial abuse. Genuinely hard to watch and not for craft reasons.

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Frozen Scream

Every line is dubbed, including scenes with nobody talking. Almost hypnotically incompetent.

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Mardi Gras Massacre

An Aztec-obsessed killer in New Orleans. A Blood Feast remake in all but name, and slower.

Franco women-in-prison, made fast and cheap. On the list for the category rather than the content.

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Axe

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

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The Coffee Table

A Spanish couple buy a hideous coffee table, and then the worst thing imaginable happens in the first act.

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Human Experiments

A women-in-prison film with a brainwashing subplot. Linda Haynes deserved better material.

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Island of Death

Mastorakis watched Texas Chain Saw, counted the perversions and wrote a list. It shows.

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Jigoku

A student's guilt drags everyone he knows into a Buddhist hell, and the last third is that hell in detail.

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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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SS Experiment Camp

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

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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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Dumplings

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

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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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Hounds of Love

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

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Late Night Trains

Last House on a train, scored by Ennio Morricone, which is a sentence that should not be true.

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The Beast in Heat

Nazisploitation at its most worthless. On the list for good reason and worth nobody's evening.

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The Toolbox Murders

The first fifteen minutes are notorious. The remaining seventy are a different and much duller film.

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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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Alucarda

Mexican nunsploitation with an actual argument, and everybody in it screams for eighty minutes.

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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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Gestapo's Last Orgy

Nazisploitation, and the tag exists because the shelf gets documented, not because this is worth time.

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Killer Nun

Anita Ekberg as a morphine-addicted nun in a hospital. Nunsploitation with an actual performance in it.

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Pieces

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

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Snuff

A dull Manson knock-off with a fake murder stapled on the end and a marketing campaign of hired protesters.

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Terrified

Argentinian, and it front-loads three of the best scares of the decade in the first twenty minutes.

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The Cannibal Man

Almost no cannibalism. A slaughterhouse worker, a body count and Franco-era Spanish class rage.

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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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The Untold Story

A Macau restaurateur and the pork buns. Anthony Wong won Best Actor for it, which tells you about Hong Kong in 1993.

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Trouble Every Day

Claire Denis made a vampire film with no vampires, and it was booed at Cannes.

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The Sadness

Taiwanese, and among the most extreme things released this decade. Go in warned.

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When Evil Lurks

Argentinian, merciless, and it establishes early that the film will not spare anybody. It means it.

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Blood Feast

The first gore film. Shot in four days for 24,500 dollars and it looks it, which is half the appeal.