The films

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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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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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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 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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Bedevilled

A Seoul bank worker visits the island she grew up on. Everybody there has been failing one woman for years.

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Piggy

Spanish, a bullied teenager, and a moral problem she is left holding alone.

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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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Ms .45

Abel Ferrara's second film. A mute seamstress, a .45, and a nun's habit at the end.

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Revenge

Reworks the structure with the assault largely off screen, which removes nothing it needs.

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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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I Spit on Your Grave

Ebert called it the worst film ever made. Clover argued the camera is with her throughout. Both cases are live.

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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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Irréversible

Runs backwards and uses infrasound to make you physically unwell. About 200 walked out at Cannes.