The films

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Dead & Buried

Stan Winston effects and a good twist. Underseen.

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Eaten Alive!

Lenzi recycling other films' footage into a Jonestown story. Grim work.

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Gamera, the Giant Monster

Daiei's cut-price answer to Godzilla. A flying turtle. Children loved it.

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Gone in 60 Seconds

93 cars destroyed for real. The director broke his own ankles. Worth it.

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Hells Angels on Wheels

The biker cycle's Jack Nicholson entry, shot by Laszlo Kovacs and a cut above the AIP norm.

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I Vampiri

Freda walked off Italy's first sound horror; Bava finished it. The whole euro-gothic shelf starts here.

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Lady Snowblood

Where Kill Bill got most of its ideas, including the snow.

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Samurai Rebellion

Kobayashi and Mifune against feudal authority again. It builds slowly and then it does not stop.

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The Funhouse

Tobe Hooper does a carnival slasher. A deformed killer, a hall of mirrors, and real dread.

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The House That Dripped Blood

Four Robert Bloch stories, Cushing and Lee on hand, and barely a drop of the title's blood.

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The Whip and the Body

Bava and Christopher Lee doing sadomasochism the censors did not catch.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture

The eyepatch Tarantino copied. Contains real hardcore inserts and a real animal death.

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To the Devil a Daughter

Hammer's last gasp. Christopher Lee said it finished the studio off.

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1990: The Bronx Warriors

Fred Williamson in a cape. Castellari doing Warriors on a Roman budget.

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Day of Anger

A gunfighter mentors a despised young man, then has to face what he created. Van Cleef at his best.

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Face to Face

Sollima's smartest western: watch a decent man discover he likes it.

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Female Trouble

Divine's crime spree as performance art. Waters at his most focused and vicious.

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Martin

Romero's vampire film. A boy who needs blood, and no fangs, cape or certainty that he is one.

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Psych-Out

A deaf runaway searches for her brother in Haight-Ashbury. Nicholson with a ponytail and a band.

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Rolling Thunder

Paul Schrader script, and the last twenty minutes are perfect.

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Society

A teen suspects his rich family are not human. The finale proves it, wetly.

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The Beast

An acclaimed animator's fairytale about a noblewoman and a well-equipped forest beast, banned on sight.

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The Devil Rides Out

Hammer's best occult film. Lee as the hero for once, and enjoying it.

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The Driller Killer

Abel Ferrara's debut. More interesting as a document of downtown New York.

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The Giant of Marathon

Reeves again, with underwater battle scenes Bava shot uncredited.

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The Mercenary

Corbucci's Zapata western. A Polish gun-for-hire, a peasant revolutionary, and Jack Palance in a frock.

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Two Thousand Maniacs!

H.G. Lewis, a Southern town, and gore effects that predate everyone.

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War of the Gargantuas

Two giant humanoid brothers, one good, one savage, tear up Japan. Weirdly beloved, and Brad Pitt's favourite.

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Witchfinder General

Vincent Price with the camp removed. Reeves died at 25, a year later.

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Alice, Sweet Alice

American giallo in Catholic New Jersey. Genuinely disturbing and well acted.

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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Fulci does psychedelia. The dog scene got him prosecuted.

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A Touch of Zen

Three hours, a bamboo forest, and a Cannes prize. Barely exploitation.

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Coffy

Pam Grier's arrival. Jack Hill knows exactly what he has.

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

The film that invented the Amicus anthology, dealt out as tarot on a train.

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Faces of Death

Mostly fake, entirely cynical, and a rental-shop legend regardless.

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Keoma

Late, strange, half-sung by a folk narrator. Castellari's best film.