The films

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The Gestapo's Last Orgy

The most extreme of the sadiconazista cycle, and the only one shaped like a love story.

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The Grapes of Death

Rollin does an outbreak. A pesticide turns wine-country villagers into oozing killers.

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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

Barbara Steele married to a necrophile surgeon, and Freda smuggling it past the 1962 censors on innuendo alone.

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The House on the Edge of the Park

Deodato points Last House at a dinner party. Grubby, mean, effective.

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3 Dev Adam

Captain America and a Mexican wrestler fight Spider-Man, who is a murderer. Unlicensed, obviously.

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Across 110th Street

Grim, well acted, and the best film in the cycle by some distance.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Not pinky violence. Fukasaku's handheld yakuza epic, and a classic.

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Castle of Blood

Barbara Steele in a haunted house on a bet. Better than it sounds.

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Five Fingers of Death

The one that broke kung fu in America, months before Bruce Lee did.

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Flower and Snake

The film that made Nikkatsu's S&M line a going concern. Rope, and lots of it.

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Four of the Apocalypse

Fulci does a bleak, hallucinatory western. Four outcasts cross a hostile frontier. Most do not make it.

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Grizzly

Jaws with a bear, pitched exactly that way, and it worked.

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Hatchet for the Honeymoon

A bridal-couture killer who narrates his own psychosis, and the best ghost gag Bava ever staged.

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Master of the Flying Guillotine

A blind monk, a bladed hat on a chain, and a tournament. Perfect.

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Matango

Honda's mushroom-people film. Far bleaker than anything else Toho made.

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Mom and Dad

Kroger Babb toured it for twenty years with a fake nurse in the lobby.

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Operation Kid Brother

They cast Sean Connery's actual brother. That is the entire idea.

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Razorback

A giant pig film shot like a perfume ad. Somehow works.

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Supervixens

Meyer's biggest hit of the decade, and his cartoon violence at its most cartoonish.

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The Black Belly of the Tarantula

The killer paralyses you first so you feel it. A first-rank giallo nobody name-checks.

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The Man from Hong Kong

Jimmy Wang Yu wrecks Sydney, with hang-gliding and a man actually on fire. Peak crossover.

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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times

A family curse, a killer in a red cloak, and a legend that kills every hundred years.

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The Untold Story

Anthony Wong won Best Actor for this. Then you find out what goes in the pork buns.

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Tourist Trap

Mannequins that move, telekinesis, and a masked killer. Far stranger than a slasher should be.

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Vixen!

The one that made the money and triggered the obscenity fight.

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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

Best title in the genre. Poe adaptation with Edwige Fenech and a black cat.

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Zatoichi: The Tale of Zatoichi

The blind masseur who is also the deadliest swordsman alive. The first of twenty-five-plus.

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Daughters of Darkness

Delphine Seyrig as Bathory in an empty Ostend hotel. Genuinely elegant.

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Deathstalker

Corman in Argentina. The genuine article, for better and worse.

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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Ninety minutes of driving and one of cinema's great abrupt endings.

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Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!

Nothing to do with Django, and one of the strangest and cruelest westerns Italy ever shot.

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Escape from the Bronx

More of the same, with flamethrowers and property developers as villains.

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Frankenhooker

A man rebuilds his dead girlfriend from the parts of exploded sex workers. Exactly that stupid, and great.

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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Same Ilsa, new empire. The harem keeps the whip, loses the swastika.

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Jungle Holocaust

Deodato's first pass. Slower, meaner, less interesting than what followed.

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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

The eurospy archetype, from a French agent who beat James Bond into print by four years.