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Death Walks at Midnight

Ercoli's brighter, faster Death Walks. Nieves Navarro sees a murder and nobody buys it.

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Dirty Ho

A prince and a thief, master and pupil in disguise. Lau Kar-leung's wittiest choreography.

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Exterminators of the Year 3000

The Italian Road Warrior with sand instead of the Bronx, muscle car included.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

Ito's last. Kaji drags a severed arm through Tokyo in the opening minutes.

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Ganja & Hess

An art film that was sold as a vampire picture. Recut and buried for decades.

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Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

Bleeding skies, a forehead-splitting alien, and an ending with no comfort in it whatsoever.

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J.D.'s Revenge

A dead 1940s gangster possesses a mild law student. Blaxploitation crossed with the supernatural.

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Long Weekend

A couple litter, and Australia decides to kill them. Excellent.

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Love Camp 7

The film that invented nazisploitation six years before Ilsa made it a genre.

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Messiah of Evil

Made by the couple who then wrote American Graffiti. A nightmare that never explains itself.

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Requiem for a Vampire

Rollin at his purest. Two women in clown costume, a castle, almost no dialogue.

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Santo vs. the Vampire Women

The best-shot Santo film. He wrestles twice for no reason at all.

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School of the Holy Beast

The Japanese entry, and formally the most accomplished of them.

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Sex & Fury

The naked snow swordfight. Everyone remembers it; the rest is decent Meiji melodrama.

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Spider Baby

Jack Hill's first, Lon Chaney Jr's last good role. Very odd and very fond.

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SS Experiment Camp

A DPP video nasty far better known for its poster than for anything in the film.

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

The title is the pitch. Delivers on it with unusual formal care.

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The Big Bird Cage

Funnier and better than the first. Sid Haig is having an excellent time.

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The Black Abbot

The standard-issue Wallace krimi. Hood, abbey, inheritance, fog.

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The Blood Beast Terror

Cushing called it the worst film he ever made. He was being generous.

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The Gore Gore Girls

Herschell Gordon Lewis signs off with a meat tenderiser and a gag about chocolate milk.

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The Nun and the Devil

Convent politics played as Renaissance power-drama. More Borgia than bondage.

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The Sinister Monk

A whip-wielding monk killing heiresses. Closest the krimi got to giallo.

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The Wizard of Gore

A stage magician whose tricks are real. Lewis's most interesting idea.

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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

Coffin Joe returns, still hunting the perfect woman, and the film turns Technicolor to show you Hell.

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2020 Texas Gladiators

D'Amato and Eastman's Mad Max in a cowboy hat. Assembled entirely from better films.

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Abby

The blaxploitation Exorcist. A minister's wife is possessed by a sex demon. Warner Bros sued.

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Barbed Wire Dolls

Jess Franco's contribution to the cycle. Cheap, delirious and utterly shameless, even for him.

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Behind Convent Walls

Borowczyk brings his erotic art-house eye to the convent. Beautiful, explicit and barely plotted.

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Chained Heat

Linda Blair goes to prison. A sleazy 80s update of the formula, with a corrupt warden and a hot tub.

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Conquest

Fulci does Conan through so much fog you can barely see the gore. Somehow that helps.

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Dolemite

Technically inept and completely irresistible. Boom mics in every other shot.

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El Vampiro

Mexico's caped vampire, fanged on screen a year before Hammer got there.

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Executioners from Shaolin

Lau Kar-leung's revenge epic. A survivor spends years learning the one style that can beat the villain.

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Fascination

Rollin's best, and the one where the pretty dream logic finally grows teeth.

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Graveyard of Honor

Fukasaku's nastiest. A gangster too unstable for organised crime.