The films

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Flavia the Heretic

Far angrier and more political than the packaging suggests.

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Goliath and the Vampires

Maciste renamed again, fighting a shapeshifter. Cheerfully incoherent.

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Goodbye Uncle Tom

Jacopetti and Prosperi's slavery reconstruction, and the most indefensible thing the mondo pair ever shot.

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Hell of the Living Dead

Bruno Mattei rips off Dawn of the Dead with a Goblin score he also stole. Gloriously shameless.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!

A ghost child with a white ball. Fellini and Scorsese both stole from it.

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Killer Nun

Anita Ekberg, morphine, and a plot that gives up around the hour mark.

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

A disgraced executioner and his toddler take the assassin's road. The pram has blades in it.

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Nekromantik 2

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

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Pieces

Spanish, incoherent, and gleefully stupid. 'Bastard! Bastard!'

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Q: The Winged Serpent

Larry Cohen, a dragon over Manhattan, and a great Michael Moriarty.

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Revolver

Di Leo's saddest. Oliver Reed, and a Morricone theme that hurts.

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Short Night of Glass Dolls

Narrated by a paralysed man presumed dead. Unusual and very good.

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Squirm

Electrified worms in Georgia. Rick Baker's early effects are the draw.

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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

Martino at his most efficient. Nobody wastes a frame.

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The College Girl Murders

The point where the black-and-white krimi tips over into full-colour giallo delirium.

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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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Tokyo Gore Police

The Japanese splatter movement at full arterial pressure, from the man who built it.

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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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Class of Nuke 'Em High

Troma's toxic high school, second only to Toxie. Exactly as stupid as you want it to be.

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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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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

A live-action gore manga where nobody has heard of restraint or arterial pressure.