Opera

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Bamboo House of Dolls

Shaw Brothers takes on the WIP film. As strange a combination as it sounds.

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The Twilight People

The cheapest Island of Doctor Moreau ever committed to film, and one of the most watchable.

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Alvin Purple

The sex comedy that funded the entire boom. Historically important, hard going.

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Boardinghouse

The first shot-on-video horror feature, blown up to 35mm and just as ugly as that sounds.

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Human Lanterns

A Shaw wuxia that turns into a slasher, with lanterns made of human skin.

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Penitentiary

Prison-boxing blaxploitation that out-grossed every indie of its year and got forgotten anyway.

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Petey Wheatstraw

Rudy Ray Moore makes a deal with the Devil to come back from the dead. Deranged and delightful.

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She-Devils on Wheels

H.G. Lewis hands the gore to a real biker gang. The acting is a crime; the piano wire is the point.

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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

Meiko Kaji before Toei, leading a girl gang through Nikkatsu's coolest delinquent picture.

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Stunt Rock

No plot. A stuntman and a prog band. Exists purely so Grant Page can work.

obscure

Tarkan Versus the Vikings

A Turkish barbarian, his wolf, and the most beloved rubber octopus in world cinema.

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The Burning Moon

Shot-on-video German splatter so homemade you can smell the garage. Ittenbach's Herschell Gordon Lewis tribute act.

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Phenomena

Insect telepathy, a Swiss boarding school, and a straight-razor chimpanzee. Argento off the leash.

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Class of 1984

Death Wish enrols at high school and the faculty loses.

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Fist of Fury

Bruce Lee kicks a 'No Dogs and Chinese' sign to splinters. The crowd never recovered.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night

The killer-Santa movie that got itself run out of cinemas in a week.

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Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood

The fake snuff film that got Charlie Sheen on the phone to the FBI.

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Nekromantik 2

Buttgereit's necrophilia sequel, prosecuted on arrival, and stranger than the first.

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The Eternal Evil of Asia

Black magic, exploding wizards, and a curse that turns a man's head into a penis. Cat III lost its mind.

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Ebola Syndrome

Anthony Wong versus the world, armed with a virus and no impulse control.

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I Saw the Devil

Revenge as a chew toy. Nobody in Korean cinema has been crueller for longer.

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A Tale of Two Sisters

Korea's classiest ghost story, and the one that actually rewards a rewatch.

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Ichi the Killer

Miike hands out sick bags at the premiere and earns every one of them.

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Trouble Every Day

Cannibal desire filmed like an art installation, and it will not hurry for you.

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A Bay of Blood

Bava invents the slasher a decade early. Friday the 13th copied two kills outright.

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Anthropophagus

Almost entirely people walking around an island. Then two minutes of infamy.

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Blood Feast

The first gore film. Barely competent, historically unavoidable.

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Braindead

Jackson before the trilogy. The lawnmower scene ends the argument.

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Cannibal Apocalypse

Vietnam veterans as cannibals. Sillier and kinder than the jungle cycle.

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Cannibal Ferox

Lenzi chasing Deodato with none of the argument. Real animal deaths, no defence.