Post by progressiveelement on Sept 20, 2018 20:14:56 GMT
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PROSECUTED TITLES
Absurd
-Italian Halloween rip-off. So long as you don't ask questions, its not too bad, its pacier than many of its ilk.
Anthropophagous the Beast
-Boring Italian gore flick. Picks up a bit in the last 15 minutes, but that's not really worth the slog.
Axe
-Weird shocker. Offbeat, bit slow, better than I was expecting.
The Beast in Heat
-Italian Nazi sexploitation garbage. Silly, but makes one feel dirty watching it.
Blood Feast
-Ahead of its time concerning gore. There's nothing else to recommend it for, its a boring, cheap shitfest that made a profit off a gimmick.
Bloody Moon
-Eurotrash time! A West German production, shot in Spain by Spanish hack Jess Franco, this is actually easier to sit through than many of his films, with little more than gore, boobies, and goofy false scares.
The Burning
-A Friday the 13th knockoff, but one of the better 80s slashers. Unfortunately now tainted by association with one of the producers, one Harvey Weinstein, which lends a creepy vibe to the sleazy moments.
Cannibal Apocalypse
-Italian gorefest. Not a cannibal movie like others we can name, this is more a plague movie, like a prelude to something akin to 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, I Am Legend, it suffers from pacing problems.
Cannibal Ferox
-Italian gutmuncher. A trash fan's delight, if they can get past the animal killings.
Cannibal Holocaust
-The most notorious of the Italian cannibal movies. Its actually quite well done, with a more serious, nihilist tone than its brethren, though it does go way overboard.
Devil Hunter
-Eurotrash time (to be used for multi-Euro productions)! Jess Franco once again, this time a godawful jungle flick that not even lots of nudity can make exciting, though some may find it a hoot.
Don't Go in the Woods
-A backwoods slasher. Should be shown in film schools as an example of how to fuck everything up when making a movie - bad editing, bad acting, random characters, random events, seemingly random footage on occasion, and a nasty ear-torturing score that does not ever shut up!!!
The Driller Killer
-An early one from Abel Ferrara. Its more a grungy arthouse variation on Repulsion (which it references) than a full-on shocker, better on atmosphere than horror.
Evilspeak
-That's more like it, a Satanic shocker. Its basically just Carrie, but with a dude in military school, and black magic instead of telekinesis, not great, but good gore FX.
Exposé
-A British nasty. Veers between horror and softcore smut, and they don't really gel - it was promoted like a bawdy Brit sex flick, which isn't really the way to go for a movie that has a rape scene.
Faces of Death
-Mondo documentary. Mostly fake, its not worth more than a single viewing for curiosity.
Flesh for Frankenstein
-Eurotrash time! Uneven, but Udo Kier is amusing, and there's some really sick shit for the gorehounds.
Forest of Fear
-Zombie hippies! Its actually really boring, and surprisingly tame.
Gestapo's Last Orgy
-Another Italian Nazi sexploitation shitfest. Nothing was too tasteless for 70s smut, and this one is a pretty grotty little one.
The House by the Cemetery
-Odd Italian shocker. The first half is mostly dreamy, offbeat atmospheric visuals, but the second half leaves no doubt director Lucio Fulci is in charge when it turns into an all-out bloodbath.
The House on the Edge of the Park
-Grimy Italian shocker. Basically a rapey Desperate Hours riff.
I Spit On Your Grave
-Infamous rape-revenge flick. Its not quite what folks like Ebert made out, but its definitely not a date movie.
Island of Death
-Anglo-Greek production. Torture, mutilation, forced drug overdose, masturbating to pics of dead people, goatfucking, rape, male-on-male rape, after all that, would it really be that much of a surprise when the "twist" reveals incest?
The Last House on the Left
-Early Wes Craven shocker. Easily his nastiest film, though the unnecessary comedy cops and a second half that takes quite a mighty bit of suspension of disbelief remind you that yes, it is indeed only a movie.
Madhouse
-US-Italian slasher. Plus killer dog, its watchable, nothing special.
Mardi Gras Massacre
-Ripoff of Blood Feast. The murder scenes are pretty graphic, but you'd be forgiven if you thought they were recycling the same footage over and over, as each scene is shot the exact same way, kinda wasting the fake torsos which have been specially tailored to match each victim.
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
-Gruesome, sleazy shocker. Worth a look, but the best stuff occurs in flashback.
Night of the Bloody Apes
-Goofy Mexican horror film. Features real open heart surgery, not sure why that offended people so much.
Night of the Demon
-Bigfoot horror flick. The deaths go so far over the top, they're more amusing than horrific.
SS Experiment Camp
-Italian Nazi sexploitation crap. Its very tame compared to others, but hardly excuses the subject matter.
Tenebrae
-Italian giallo thriller, from Dario Argento. So, expect lots of style, a thin story, and funky music.
Zombie Flesh Eaters (aka Zombi 2, or Zombie)
-Probably the best known Italian zombie film. Takes awhile to cut loose, and Darwinism in action is the best way to view the stupidity of some characters, but when the zombies start appearing more frequently, ironically, they breathe life into the film.
THE ONES THAT AVOIDED PROSECUTION
The Bogey Man
-Blend of supernatural shenanigans and slashers. Its a bit meeh for a couple scenes, but once it actually reveals what its actually about, it improves quite a bit (silly moments aside).
Contamination
-Italian cash-in on Alien. Very gory, but goofy throwback to the likes of Quatermass, Bodysnatchers, etc, its surprisingly enjoyable, with an awesome Goblin score.
Dead & Buried
-Uneven, but often creepy shocker. Cool ending.
Death Trap
-Tobe Hooper's second movie after Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It sometimes comes off like a third-rate rehash, but it has its moments.
Delirium
-A very schizophrenic movie. It starts off in generic, but watchable slasher territory, but halfway in, transforms into some nonsense about vigilante Vietnam vets.
Don't Go in the House
-Imagine Norman Bates had a flamethrower instead of a knife. Its basically a riff on Psycho, its not too bad a movie, but the fiery deaths are only effective first time round.
The Evil Dead
-Sam Raimi's cinematic debut. And it kicks ass, with stylish visuals throughout, great camerawork, a zippy pace, plenty of gore, even goofy moments that add to the charm.
Frozen Scream
-Four writers are credited on this weird flick about a mad scientist and zombies. It is fair to assume there wasn't a lot of corroborating going on, and the actors are so stiff, its no real stretch for them when they come back as evil undead minions.
The Funhouse
-Tobe Hooper again. An OK horror flick, hardly "nasty".
Human Experiments
-Seems like standard women in prison stuff at first. But it seems to get more interesting when the main premise - the experiments- are revealed, only it kinda fizzles out.
I Miss You, Hugs & Kisses
-Canadian nasty!!! For the most part, it plays like a TV movie of the week, but out of nowhere, some of the flashback death scenes get surprisingly brutal.
Inferno
-Dario Argento's follow-up to his Suspiria. Goes on a bit, but if you like plenty of style, and minimal story, its quite atmospheric - it is certainly the most colourful looking of the "nasties".
Killer Nun
-Italian combo of nunsploitation and giallo. Its OK, if over the top at times (mostly when Anita Ekberg shows up and goes psycho bitch on everyone).
Late Night Trains
-Why not just call it Last Train on the Left? A blatant ripoff of Last House, though to be fair, its not worse, or better (perhaps a tad nastier - switchblade deflowering anyone?)
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie)
-Eurotrash time! Actually, its not really trash, its a pretty good zombie film, one of the best to have Italian crew.
Nightmare Maker
-For the most part, its a decent slasher. But, first time viewers in today's climate will undoubtedly pick up on a bizarre obsession with homosexuality running through it - the bigoted sheriff, the gay slurs uttered often by a young Bill Paxton, the villain decrying homosexuals as very sick people, it was really bizarre as it had near fuck all to do with the main plot.
Possession
-Euro....arthouse time? This is an arty farty movie, a French-German movie, but no normal heavenly manna for the chin-stroking Gallois-smoking beret adorned pretentious douche, we're in David Lynch territory here - an insane, demented movie with both Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill going batshit crazy, Adjani has sex with a tentacled Thing which morphs into something else, and it just gets stranger, all the way to the end.
Pranks
-Routine slasher. Improves a fair bit in the last third.
Prisoner of the Cannibal God
-Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in an Italian cannibal movie. Its not very good, but I do like the bit with the hot naked native girl getting jiggy with herself (but not the dude fucking a pig bit, wtf!)
Revenge of the Bogey Man
-One of the worst sequels ever put together. Its 80 minutes long, roughly, and about 40 of those minutes is just "flashbacks" to the original, what an effing joke.
The Slayer
-Dream demon movie. Starts off alright, but seems they did not know how to turn their idea into a movie, so it just plods along through basic stalk'n'kill routine.
Terror Eyes
-From the director of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! A pretty average slasher, though a few of the deaths are worth checking it out for.
The Toolbox Murders
-Gory, sleazy hack em up, it at least goes along at a fair pace. Until the second half, when it bogs down, becoming a hostage drama.
Unhinged
-Strong inklings of Psycho in this one. Its quite dull.
Visiting Hours
-Michael Ironside makes for a menacing creepy villain in this Canadian nasty. William Shatner has a glorified cameo and says some really stupid shit in his own unique.....fashion.....in...that...he pauses....thendramaticallysaysthingsfast!!!
Zombie Creeping Flesh
-If you thought the STARRS team in the original Resident Evil seemed barely qualified to recognize one end of a gun from the other, the elite Interpol SWAT guys in this make them seem like Navy SEALs. This is an Italian riff on Dawn of the Dead (even stealing music), and while there's plenty of gore, the main characters just make you hope they die fast so you won't have to put up with them anymore.
THE ONES THAT WERE WITHDRAWN WITHOUT FURTHER HASSLE
Abducted
-aka Schoolgirls in Chains. Its bad, but don't worry, the "schoolgirls" look about 28.
The Black Room
-A really strange one. Features that witch thing Conan had sex with, only other movie I seen her in, aswell as a young Linnea Quigley.
Blood Song
-Unremarkable except for who plays the psycho killer. Frankie Avalon....😲
Cannibal
-Italian gutmuncher. Has more of a survival adventure feel than simply throwing nasty shit at the screen, but there's still animal killings, and our "hero" gets rapey with Me Me Lai.
Christmas Evil
-I think Troma produced this one. It was surprisingly OK, dark humoured, but the villain was more of a tragic mental case than crazed nutjob.
Dawn of the Dead
-Yup, George A Romero's zombie masterpiece. Zombies feature a lot in nasties, don't they?
Dead Kids
-or Strange Behavior. I wasn't sure what to make of it, it starts off interesting, but the climax kinda lost my interest.
Death Weekend
-Canada strikes again! This was actually not bad, it seems like I Spit territory from the premise, but its not really like that, its a taut little captivity thriller.
Deep Red
-Dario Argento again. One of his best.
Don't Answer the Phone
-Sleazy shocker. Not as nasty as made out, the villain is often hard to take seriously.
Eaten Alive
-Italian gutmuncher, with a Jim Jones style madman. Its actually much sleazier than the cannibal films on the official list.
The Evil
-Haunted house flick. Wasn't too bad until we find out what's behind it all, and at that point, it was facepalm time for me.
Final Exam
-Slasher. So memorable, I had to rewatch clips to remember which was which - this and Graduation Day.
Friday the 13th
-The very first. It does the job well enough, but its not that great.
Friday the 13th Part 2
-Marking the point Jason as we know him appears, although wearing a cloth bag over his head. Its better paced than Part 1, but the ending sucks.
Graduation Day
-Slasher. Meh.
The Hills Have Eyes
-The original one, from Wes Craven. I found myself liking this one best, its quite tense when the shit hits the fan, and one of Wes' best ones.
Honeymoon Horror
-Slasher. And boring as fuck.
Inseminoid
-British Alien wannabe. Schlock, nothing more, what shock value it had has vanished. (Watch Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, and The Deadly Spawn instead)
The Killing Hour
-Shite. One sleazy bit is the only reason anyone got snowflakey about it.
The Mad Foxes
-Definitely a must-see for exploitation fans. This deranged Eurotrash flick is a bad, but gloriously over the top revenge flick, with an admirable lack of restraint.
Massacre Mansion
-Think Face Without A Pair of Functioning Eyes. Its not bad, quite ghoulish in fact.
Mausoleum
-Dopey demonic possession film. Gives new meaning to breastfeeding.
Nightbeast
-Dumbass killer alien movie. Starts off at a good pace, then slows down interminably.
Night of the Living Dead
-George A Romero's zombie classic evidently was still too much for some folk in 80s Britain, the pansies. What was wrong with these idiots?
Nightmare City
-More zombies. These ones use guns, and can fly a plane - daft but fast paced, and very violent Italian zombie film, spoiled by one of the laziest endings ever.
Parasite
-One from the Charles Band factory. A few good gore moments, and features a young Demi Moore.
Phantasm
-Bizarre horror flick that looks great for a cheap movie. Enjoyably insane, with memorable elements, like The Tall Man and the flying sphere, lets hope the Remake Brigade leaves this one alone.
Prey
-Really strange British scifi horror with some sleaze thrown in, and for some reason, crossdressing. Its crap, but one of the lesbians is pretty hot. 😎
Prom Night
-One of Jamie Lee Curtis' post-Halloween early slashers. Its good some ok moments.
Rabid
-You Canadian sleazeballs! This one's an early David Cronenberg shocker, and I prefer it to his previous one Shivers.
The Prowler (aka Rosemary's Killer)
-One of the upper rung of 80s slashers. Mainly because of Tom Savini's FX, its pretty generic stuff.
Scanners
-Probably the oldest Cronenberg film that is most widely known. It could have been better, there's a bit of a lull in the middle third, and the lead actor is a total stiff, but its a pretty good film, one to watch if you liked The Fury and Firestarter.
Shogun Assassin
-A dubbed, re-edited, rescored version of the second Lone Wolf and Cub film, Baby Cart at the River Styx (with some footage from the first, Sword of Vengeance, forming the prologue). An ultraviolent samurai flick, with blood galore, and some amazing fight scenes.
Suspiria
-Dario Argento's surreal witchcraft tale. Not for all tastes, but if you're a horror fan who has a taste for artiness, this one is required viewing.
Terror
-Same director as Inseminoid, and Prey. This is slightly better than those, but that's not saying a lot.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
-The original classic. Once Leatherface appears, it doesn't let up.
The Thing
-John Carpenter's scifi horror classic, much maligned at the time of release. More faithful to the source than the 1951 version, this is one of the only real rivals Alien ever had (the other being Predator, which is too easily dismissed by the snobbier fans).
Xtro
-Brit scifi shocker, that goes off on bizarre tangents. Really weird, its like an unholy mishmash of ET and Alien, with whatever visions the writers had while dropping acid thrown in.
Zombie Holocaust
-Italian zombie film that throws cannibals into the mix. The cannibals cause more damage than the zombies who just waddle while someone dubs "URRRGH" over them, and we get a nice bit of completely gratuitous nudity.
BANNED BUT NOT CLASSED AS NASTIES
Maniac
-Trashed by critics, but those people are morons. If you live in reality, its an effectively disturbing shocker, somewhat reminiscent of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Mother's Day
-One from Troma. Don't understand why it was banned, its too silly to take seriously.
The New York Ripper
-Lucio Fulci's nastiest movie. Mostly chicks getting sliced up.
Straw Dogs
-Sam Peckinpah sure got under a lot of noses. Its actually a pretty good film, with a growing anticipation for the inevitable moment Dustin Hoffman finally snaps.
OTHERS CAUGHT UP IN IT ALL
Basket Case
-Grungy fun. Goofy at times, but good stuff.
City of the Living Dead
-More zombies. Some great gore in this one, like the drilling bit, brains yanked out, a girl vomiting out her intestines, but wtf was going on at the end?
Madman
-Watchable slasher. A little too much padding.
Terror Express
-Kinda similar to Late Night Trains but more like a rough softcore smut movie. Italians could be real messed up, this veers into a few eeeeeewwww sleaze moments.
OTHER NOTEWORTHY MORALITY BAITERS
A Clockwork Orange
-Disturbing, but great stuff. Ignore any whiners, if all they can see is the nasty stuff, they should stick to the safe Hollywood popcorn fodder.
Child's Play 3
-Chuckie is the only thing good about this one. Contrary to what assholes tried to claim, there was no proof this inspired the James Bulger murder, nor was it banned. This shit from the media did instigate a new backlash against the "nasties", with The Sun, that harbinger of truth that would never invent stories (*cough*Hillsborough*cough*) even displaying headlines like "FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN, BURN YOUR VIDEO NASTIES!" Yup, don't let facts get in the way of sensationalism .
The Exorcist
-Sent some viewers into hysteria back in the day. I'm not the biggest fan, but its a good movie, you are no horror fan if you don't watch it!
Scum
-Hard-hitting drama set in a British borstal. It was actually a remake of a BBC TV movie that the Beeb pulled, with some of the same cast.
Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Oveffiend
-For some in the West, their first look at the more adult examples of anime. While definitely not for the SJW crowd, its nothing compared to the more explicit anime.
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PROSECUTED TITLES
Absurd
-Italian Halloween rip-off. So long as you don't ask questions, its not too bad, its pacier than many of its ilk.
Anthropophagous the Beast
-Boring Italian gore flick. Picks up a bit in the last 15 minutes, but that's not really worth the slog.
Axe
-Weird shocker. Offbeat, bit slow, better than I was expecting.
The Beast in Heat
-Italian Nazi sexploitation garbage. Silly, but makes one feel dirty watching it.
Blood Feast
-Ahead of its time concerning gore. There's nothing else to recommend it for, its a boring, cheap shitfest that made a profit off a gimmick.
Bloody Moon
-Eurotrash time! A West German production, shot in Spain by Spanish hack Jess Franco, this is actually easier to sit through than many of his films, with little more than gore, boobies, and goofy false scares.
The Burning
-A Friday the 13th knockoff, but one of the better 80s slashers. Unfortunately now tainted by association with one of the producers, one Harvey Weinstein, which lends a creepy vibe to the sleazy moments.
Cannibal Apocalypse
-Italian gorefest. Not a cannibal movie like others we can name, this is more a plague movie, like a prelude to something akin to 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, I Am Legend, it suffers from pacing problems.
Cannibal Ferox
-Italian gutmuncher. A trash fan's delight, if they can get past the animal killings.
Cannibal Holocaust
-The most notorious of the Italian cannibal movies. Its actually quite well done, with a more serious, nihilist tone than its brethren, though it does go way overboard.
Devil Hunter
-Eurotrash time (to be used for multi-Euro productions)! Jess Franco once again, this time a godawful jungle flick that not even lots of nudity can make exciting, though some may find it a hoot.
Don't Go in the Woods
-A backwoods slasher. Should be shown in film schools as an example of how to fuck everything up when making a movie - bad editing, bad acting, random characters, random events, seemingly random footage on occasion, and a nasty ear-torturing score that does not ever shut up!!!
The Driller Killer
-An early one from Abel Ferrara. Its more a grungy arthouse variation on Repulsion (which it references) than a full-on shocker, better on atmosphere than horror.
Evilspeak
-That's more like it, a Satanic shocker. Its basically just Carrie, but with a dude in military school, and black magic instead of telekinesis, not great, but good gore FX.
Exposé
-A British nasty. Veers between horror and softcore smut, and they don't really gel - it was promoted like a bawdy Brit sex flick, which isn't really the way to go for a movie that has a rape scene.
Faces of Death
-Mondo documentary. Mostly fake, its not worth more than a single viewing for curiosity.
Flesh for Frankenstein
-Eurotrash time! Uneven, but Udo Kier is amusing, and there's some really sick shit for the gorehounds.
Forest of Fear
-Zombie hippies! Its actually really boring, and surprisingly tame.
Gestapo's Last Orgy
-Another Italian Nazi sexploitation shitfest. Nothing was too tasteless for 70s smut, and this one is a pretty grotty little one.
The House by the Cemetery
-Odd Italian shocker. The first half is mostly dreamy, offbeat atmospheric visuals, but the second half leaves no doubt director Lucio Fulci is in charge when it turns into an all-out bloodbath.
The House on the Edge of the Park
-Grimy Italian shocker. Basically a rapey Desperate Hours riff.
I Spit On Your Grave
-Infamous rape-revenge flick. Its not quite what folks like Ebert made out, but its definitely not a date movie.
Island of Death
-Anglo-Greek production. Torture, mutilation, forced drug overdose, masturbating to pics of dead people, goatfucking, rape, male-on-male rape, after all that, would it really be that much of a surprise when the "twist" reveals incest?
The Last House on the Left
-Early Wes Craven shocker. Easily his nastiest film, though the unnecessary comedy cops and a second half that takes quite a mighty bit of suspension of disbelief remind you that yes, it is indeed only a movie.
Madhouse
-US-Italian slasher. Plus killer dog, its watchable, nothing special.
Mardi Gras Massacre
-Ripoff of Blood Feast. The murder scenes are pretty graphic, but you'd be forgiven if you thought they were recycling the same footage over and over, as each scene is shot the exact same way, kinda wasting the fake torsos which have been specially tailored to match each victim.
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
-Gruesome, sleazy shocker. Worth a look, but the best stuff occurs in flashback.
Night of the Bloody Apes
-Goofy Mexican horror film. Features real open heart surgery, not sure why that offended people so much.
Night of the Demon
-Bigfoot horror flick. The deaths go so far over the top, they're more amusing than horrific.
SS Experiment Camp
-Italian Nazi sexploitation crap. Its very tame compared to others, but hardly excuses the subject matter.
Tenebrae
-Italian giallo thriller, from Dario Argento. So, expect lots of style, a thin story, and funky music.
Zombie Flesh Eaters (aka Zombi 2, or Zombie)
-Probably the best known Italian zombie film. Takes awhile to cut loose, and Darwinism in action is the best way to view the stupidity of some characters, but when the zombies start appearing more frequently, ironically, they breathe life into the film.
THE ONES THAT AVOIDED PROSECUTION
The Bogey Man
-Blend of supernatural shenanigans and slashers. Its a bit meeh for a couple scenes, but once it actually reveals what its actually about, it improves quite a bit (silly moments aside).
Contamination
-Italian cash-in on Alien. Very gory, but goofy throwback to the likes of Quatermass, Bodysnatchers, etc, its surprisingly enjoyable, with an awesome Goblin score.
Dead & Buried
-Uneven, but often creepy shocker. Cool ending.
Death Trap
-Tobe Hooper's second movie after Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It sometimes comes off like a third-rate rehash, but it has its moments.
Delirium
-A very schizophrenic movie. It starts off in generic, but watchable slasher territory, but halfway in, transforms into some nonsense about vigilante Vietnam vets.
Don't Go in the House
-Imagine Norman Bates had a flamethrower instead of a knife. Its basically a riff on Psycho, its not too bad a movie, but the fiery deaths are only effective first time round.
The Evil Dead
-Sam Raimi's cinematic debut. And it kicks ass, with stylish visuals throughout, great camerawork, a zippy pace, plenty of gore, even goofy moments that add to the charm.
Frozen Scream
-Four writers are credited on this weird flick about a mad scientist and zombies. It is fair to assume there wasn't a lot of corroborating going on, and the actors are so stiff, its no real stretch for them when they come back as evil undead minions.
The Funhouse
-Tobe Hooper again. An OK horror flick, hardly "nasty".
Human Experiments
-Seems like standard women in prison stuff at first. But it seems to get more interesting when the main premise - the experiments- are revealed, only it kinda fizzles out.
I Miss You, Hugs & Kisses
-Canadian nasty!!! For the most part, it plays like a TV movie of the week, but out of nowhere, some of the flashback death scenes get surprisingly brutal.
Inferno
-Dario Argento's follow-up to his Suspiria. Goes on a bit, but if you like plenty of style, and minimal story, its quite atmospheric - it is certainly the most colourful looking of the "nasties".
Killer Nun
-Italian combo of nunsploitation and giallo. Its OK, if over the top at times (mostly when Anita Ekberg shows up and goes psycho bitch on everyone).
Late Night Trains
-Why not just call it Last Train on the Left? A blatant ripoff of Last House, though to be fair, its not worse, or better (perhaps a tad nastier - switchblade deflowering anyone?)
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie)
-Eurotrash time! Actually, its not really trash, its a pretty good zombie film, one of the best to have Italian crew.
Nightmare Maker
-For the most part, its a decent slasher. But, first time viewers in today's climate will undoubtedly pick up on a bizarre obsession with homosexuality running through it - the bigoted sheriff, the gay slurs uttered often by a young Bill Paxton, the villain decrying homosexuals as very sick people, it was really bizarre as it had near fuck all to do with the main plot.
Possession
-Euro....arthouse time? This is an arty farty movie, a French-German movie, but no normal heavenly manna for the chin-stroking Gallois-smoking beret adorned pretentious douche, we're in David Lynch territory here - an insane, demented movie with both Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill going batshit crazy, Adjani has sex with a tentacled Thing which morphs into something else, and it just gets stranger, all the way to the end.
Pranks
-Routine slasher. Improves a fair bit in the last third.
Prisoner of the Cannibal God
-Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in an Italian cannibal movie. Its not very good, but I do like the bit with the hot naked native girl getting jiggy with herself (but not the dude fucking a pig bit, wtf!)
Revenge of the Bogey Man
-One of the worst sequels ever put together. Its 80 minutes long, roughly, and about 40 of those minutes is just "flashbacks" to the original, what an effing joke.
The Slayer
-Dream demon movie. Starts off alright, but seems they did not know how to turn their idea into a movie, so it just plods along through basic stalk'n'kill routine.
Terror Eyes
-From the director of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! A pretty average slasher, though a few of the deaths are worth checking it out for.
The Toolbox Murders
-Gory, sleazy hack em up, it at least goes along at a fair pace. Until the second half, when it bogs down, becoming a hostage drama.
Unhinged
-Strong inklings of Psycho in this one. Its quite dull.
Visiting Hours
-Michael Ironside makes for a menacing creepy villain in this Canadian nasty. William Shatner has a glorified cameo and says some really stupid shit in his own unique.....fashion.....in...that...he pauses....thendramaticallysaysthingsfast!!!
Zombie Creeping Flesh
-If you thought the STARRS team in the original Resident Evil seemed barely qualified to recognize one end of a gun from the other, the elite Interpol SWAT guys in this make them seem like Navy SEALs. This is an Italian riff on Dawn of the Dead (even stealing music), and while there's plenty of gore, the main characters just make you hope they die fast so you won't have to put up with them anymore.
THE ONES THAT WERE WITHDRAWN WITHOUT FURTHER HASSLE
Abducted
-aka Schoolgirls in Chains. Its bad, but don't worry, the "schoolgirls" look about 28.
The Black Room
-A really strange one. Features that witch thing Conan had sex with, only other movie I seen her in, aswell as a young Linnea Quigley.
Blood Song
-Unremarkable except for who plays the psycho killer. Frankie Avalon....😲
Cannibal
-Italian gutmuncher. Has more of a survival adventure feel than simply throwing nasty shit at the screen, but there's still animal killings, and our "hero" gets rapey with Me Me Lai.
Christmas Evil
-I think Troma produced this one. It was surprisingly OK, dark humoured, but the villain was more of a tragic mental case than crazed nutjob.
Dawn of the Dead
-Yup, George A Romero's zombie masterpiece. Zombies feature a lot in nasties, don't they?
Dead Kids
-or Strange Behavior. I wasn't sure what to make of it, it starts off interesting, but the climax kinda lost my interest.
Death Weekend
-Canada strikes again! This was actually not bad, it seems like I Spit territory from the premise, but its not really like that, its a taut little captivity thriller.
Deep Red
-Dario Argento again. One of his best.
Don't Answer the Phone
-Sleazy shocker. Not as nasty as made out, the villain is often hard to take seriously.
Eaten Alive
-Italian gutmuncher, with a Jim Jones style madman. Its actually much sleazier than the cannibal films on the official list.
The Evil
-Haunted house flick. Wasn't too bad until we find out what's behind it all, and at that point, it was facepalm time for me.
Final Exam
-Slasher. So memorable, I had to rewatch clips to remember which was which - this and Graduation Day.
Friday the 13th
-The very first. It does the job well enough, but its not that great.
Friday the 13th Part 2
-Marking the point Jason as we know him appears, although wearing a cloth bag over his head. Its better paced than Part 1, but the ending sucks.
Graduation Day
-Slasher. Meh.
The Hills Have Eyes
-The original one, from Wes Craven. I found myself liking this one best, its quite tense when the shit hits the fan, and one of Wes' best ones.
Honeymoon Horror
-Slasher. And boring as fuck.
Inseminoid
-British Alien wannabe. Schlock, nothing more, what shock value it had has vanished. (Watch Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, and The Deadly Spawn instead)
The Killing Hour
-Shite. One sleazy bit is the only reason anyone got snowflakey about it.
The Mad Foxes
-Definitely a must-see for exploitation fans. This deranged Eurotrash flick is a bad, but gloriously over the top revenge flick, with an admirable lack of restraint.
Massacre Mansion
-Think Face Without A Pair of Functioning Eyes. Its not bad, quite ghoulish in fact.
Mausoleum
-Dopey demonic possession film. Gives new meaning to breastfeeding.
Nightbeast
-Dumbass killer alien movie. Starts off at a good pace, then slows down interminably.
Night of the Living Dead
-George A Romero's zombie classic evidently was still too much for some folk in 80s Britain, the pansies. What was wrong with these idiots?
Nightmare City
-More zombies. These ones use guns, and can fly a plane - daft but fast paced, and very violent Italian zombie film, spoiled by one of the laziest endings ever.
Parasite
-One from the Charles Band factory. A few good gore moments, and features a young Demi Moore.
Phantasm
-Bizarre horror flick that looks great for a cheap movie. Enjoyably insane, with memorable elements, like The Tall Man and the flying sphere, lets hope the Remake Brigade leaves this one alone.
Prey
-Really strange British scifi horror with some sleaze thrown in, and for some reason, crossdressing. Its crap, but one of the lesbians is pretty hot. 😎
Prom Night
-One of Jamie Lee Curtis' post-Halloween early slashers. Its good some ok moments.
Rabid
-You Canadian sleazeballs! This one's an early David Cronenberg shocker, and I prefer it to his previous one Shivers.
The Prowler (aka Rosemary's Killer)
-One of the upper rung of 80s slashers. Mainly because of Tom Savini's FX, its pretty generic stuff.
Scanners
-Probably the oldest Cronenberg film that is most widely known. It could have been better, there's a bit of a lull in the middle third, and the lead actor is a total stiff, but its a pretty good film, one to watch if you liked The Fury and Firestarter.
Shogun Assassin
-A dubbed, re-edited, rescored version of the second Lone Wolf and Cub film, Baby Cart at the River Styx (with some footage from the first, Sword of Vengeance, forming the prologue). An ultraviolent samurai flick, with blood galore, and some amazing fight scenes.
Suspiria
-Dario Argento's surreal witchcraft tale. Not for all tastes, but if you're a horror fan who has a taste for artiness, this one is required viewing.
Terror
-Same director as Inseminoid, and Prey. This is slightly better than those, but that's not saying a lot.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
-The original classic. Once Leatherface appears, it doesn't let up.
The Thing
-John Carpenter's scifi horror classic, much maligned at the time of release. More faithful to the source than the 1951 version, this is one of the only real rivals Alien ever had (the other being Predator, which is too easily dismissed by the snobbier fans).
Xtro
-Brit scifi shocker, that goes off on bizarre tangents. Really weird, its like an unholy mishmash of ET and Alien, with whatever visions the writers had while dropping acid thrown in.
Zombie Holocaust
-Italian zombie film that throws cannibals into the mix. The cannibals cause more damage than the zombies who just waddle while someone dubs "URRRGH" over them, and we get a nice bit of completely gratuitous nudity.
BANNED BUT NOT CLASSED AS NASTIES
Maniac
-Trashed by critics, but those people are morons. If you live in reality, its an effectively disturbing shocker, somewhat reminiscent of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Mother's Day
-One from Troma. Don't understand why it was banned, its too silly to take seriously.
The New York Ripper
-Lucio Fulci's nastiest movie. Mostly chicks getting sliced up.
Straw Dogs
-Sam Peckinpah sure got under a lot of noses. Its actually a pretty good film, with a growing anticipation for the inevitable moment Dustin Hoffman finally snaps.
OTHERS CAUGHT UP IN IT ALL
Basket Case
-Grungy fun. Goofy at times, but good stuff.
City of the Living Dead
-More zombies. Some great gore in this one, like the drilling bit, brains yanked out, a girl vomiting out her intestines, but wtf was going on at the end?
Madman
-Watchable slasher. A little too much padding.
Terror Express
-Kinda similar to Late Night Trains but more like a rough softcore smut movie. Italians could be real messed up, this veers into a few eeeeeewwww sleaze moments.
OTHER NOTEWORTHY MORALITY BAITERS
A Clockwork Orange
-Disturbing, but great stuff. Ignore any whiners, if all they can see is the nasty stuff, they should stick to the safe Hollywood popcorn fodder.
Child's Play 3
-Chuckie is the only thing good about this one. Contrary to what assholes tried to claim, there was no proof this inspired the James Bulger murder, nor was it banned. This shit from the media did instigate a new backlash against the "nasties", with The Sun, that harbinger of truth that would never invent stories (*cough*Hillsborough*cough*) even displaying headlines like "FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN, BURN YOUR VIDEO NASTIES!" Yup, don't let facts get in the way of sensationalism .
The Exorcist
-Sent some viewers into hysteria back in the day. I'm not the biggest fan, but its a good movie, you are no horror fan if you don't watch it!
Scum
-Hard-hitting drama set in a British borstal. It was actually a remake of a BBC TV movie that the Beeb pulled, with some of the same cast.
Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Oveffiend
-For some in the West, their first look at the more adult examples of anime. While definitely not for the SJW crowd, its nothing compared to the more explicit anime.
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