The films

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Assault! Jack the Ripper

A couple who find that killing is the only thing that works, followed all the way down.

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Ecstasy of the Angels

Wakamatsu wires the pink film to a detonator and steps back.

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House of Whipcord

Pete Walker builds a secret prison to punish the censors who wanted one. Sheila Keith is the nightmare.

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Island of Death

Mykonos has never looked prettier or hosted anything uglier. Mastorakis dared himself to be banned and won.

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Violated Angels

The Richard Speck murders restaged as avant-garde pink film. Wakamatsu's coldest hour.

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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

The first Brazilian horror film, and the birth of Coffin Joe, a national icon with terrible fingernails.

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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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Successive Slidings of Pleasure

A nouveau-roman novelist makes a nunsploitation film and refuses to let it mean anything.

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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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Female Trouble

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

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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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Santa Sangre

Jodorowsky's late masterpiece. A circus, a cult, an armless mother, and her son's hands.

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Pink Flamingos

Divine competes to be the filthiest person alive. The most notorious act in film history closes it.

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The Holy Mountain

Jodorowsky's spiritual epic. Every frame is a blasphemous tableau, and it is dead serious.

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In the Realm of the Senses

The art film that shipped its own negatives abroad to beat Japan's censors. Unsimulated, and deadly serious about it.

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Eraserhead

Lynch's industrial nightmare about fatherhood. It played midnight for years and made him.