▶ watchobscureScum of the Earth
1963 · USA · 73m
Herschell Gordon Lewis invents the roughie the same year he invents gore. Busy man.
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▶ watchcultManiac
1934 · USA · 51m
Dwain Esper's roadshow lunacy. A man eats a cat's eye. Not the 1980 film.
▶ watchcultMarihuana
1936 · USA · 57m
Esper again. One reefer leads directly to nude swimming and death.
cultThe Immoral Mr. Teas
1959 · USA · 62m
Historically pivotal, formally inert. Watch ten minutes and read about the rest.
▶ watchcultMom and Dad
1945 · USA · 97m
Kroger Babb toured it for twenty years with a fake nurse in the lobby.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownBlood Feast
1963 · USA · 67m
The first gore film. Barely competent, historically unavoidable.
▶ watchknownReefer Madness
1936 · USA · 66m
A church-funded warning that became a comedy 40 years later.
▶ watchknownWhite Zombie
1932 · USA · 69m
Lugosi, Haitian folklore, and the first zombie film. No eating involved.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownHäxan
1922 · SE/DK · 105m
A 1922 documentary about witchcraft that is also a horror film. Way ahead of itself.
▶ watch⊘ bannedcanonFreaks
1932 · USA · 64m
Killed Browning's career, banned in Britain for thirty years. Still unclassifiable.