The films

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Delirium

A Vietnam veteran, a vigilante group and a plot that gives up. Not the Lamberto Bava one.

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Penda's Fen

A BBC play about a repressed vicar's son in the English countryside, and it is one of the strangest things ever broadcast.

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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

A Canadian courtroom drama about a real murder. Its presence on the list is inexplicable.

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Sissy

An Australian wellness influencer at a hen weekend. Much sharper and much nastier than the premise suggests.

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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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Frozen Scream

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

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Possum

A disgraced puppeteer returns to his childhood home carrying a bag he cannot get rid of.

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The Slayer

A painter's nightmares kill people on an off-season island. Genuinely atmospheric and badly underrated.

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The Witch Who Came from the Sea

Millie Perkins is extraordinary in it. A sad film about incest and memory, banned as a gore film.

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Unhinged

Three women, a mansion, rain, and a twist. Shot in Oregon and stranger than its reputation.

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You'll Never Find Me

A stranger knocks during a storm at a caravan-park trailer, and neither of the two people is quite what they seem.

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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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Don't Look in the Basement

An asylum where you cannot tell staff from patients. Shot in twelve days in Texas and quite effective.

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Visiting Hours

Michael Ironside stalking a hospital. A real cast, a real budget, and no business being on the list.

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A Field in England

Deserters in the English Civil War eat mushrooms and dig for treasure while reality dissolves. Shot in black and white in twelve days.

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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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Resolution

Two friends in a cabin while something rewrites the story around them. Benson and Moorhead's first film.

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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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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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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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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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Censor

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

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Marebito

Takashi Shimizu, between Grudge films, shot this in eight days about a cameraman who brings something home from the underworld.

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Parents

A boy in 1950s suburbia suspects the leftovers his parents keep serving are people. Bob Balaban directed.

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The Perfection

Swerves three times and mostly earns them. Best watched knowing nothing at all.

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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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Killer Nun

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

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Oddity

Irish, small, and it contains one of the best-constructed scares of the decade. The wooden man.

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Pontypool

The infection is carried by the English language, and the whole film happens in a radio booth.

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Skinamarink

Ninety minutes of ceilings and corners at 4am. Either the scariest thing you have seen or nothing at all.

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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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Cam

A camgirl finds an identical copy of herself has taken over her account and locked her out.