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Atroz
Atroz (Atrocious) is a 2015 Mexican extreme horror film by Lex Ortega, expanded from his 2012 short, about serial killers caught after a car crash whose crime tapes are found; first Mexican gore film in commercial theaters (2018).
August Underground
August Underground is a 2001 American found-footage horror film by Fred Vogel of Toe Tag Pictures, first of the trilogy with Mordum and Penance, a fake snuff tape that led to a 2005 Canadian obscenity arrest.
Blood Feast
Blood Feast (1963) is Herschell Gordon Lewis's low-budget Miami horror film about caterer Fuad Ramses murdering women for the goddess Ishtar, widely regarded as the first splatter film and a drive-in hit despite scathing reviews.
Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly) is a 1981 Italian cannibal horror film directed and written by Umberto Lenzi, starring Giovanni Lombardo Radice as drug dealer Mike Logan and Lorraine De Selle as anthropology student Gloria Davis; notorious for real animal killings, the 'banned in 31 countries' tagline, and the UK video nasties list.
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust, also known as Holocausto caníbal, is Ruggero Deodato's 1980 Italian found-footage horror film about a documentary crew killed in the Amazon, notorious for unsimulated animal killings and its UK video nasty censorship history.
Captivity (film)
Captivity is a 2007 horror thriller directed by Roland Joffé, starring Elisha Cuthbert as a fashion model imprisoned and tortured by an unknown captor; a US–Russian co-production shot in Moscow.
Cold Fish (冷たい熱帯魚)
Cold Fish (冷たい熱帯魚, Tsumetai nettaigyo) is a 2010 Japanese thriller by Sion Sono, released by Nikkatsu in 2011, inspired by the 1993 Saitama dog-breeder serial murders; Denden won the Japan Academy Prize for supporting actor.
Deadgirl
Deadgirl is a 2008 American indie horror film directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, written by Trent Haaga, about teens who find an undead woman in an abandoned asylum; premiered at TIFF 2008, released by Dark Sky Films.
Don't Torture a Duckling
Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si sevizia un paperino) is Lucio Fulci's 1972 Italian giallo about child murders in a southern Italian village, starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, and Tomas Milian, with a Riz Ortolani score, censorship troubles, and a celebrated lynching scene.
Ebola Syndrome (伊波拉病毒)
Ebola Syndrome (伊波拉病毒, 1996) is a Hong Kong Category III cult horror film directed by Herman Yau, starring Anthony Wong as an Ebola-carrying killer, produced by Wong Jing, restored uncut in 4K.
Erotic Ghost Story
Erotic Ghost Story (聊斋艳谭, Liao zhai yan tan) is a 1990 Hong Kong Category III fantasy horror directed by Ngai Choi Lam, starring Amy Yip, about three fox spirits seduced by the Wu Tung demon; it spawned sequels.
Frontier (2007 film)
Frontier(s) (Frontière(s)) is a 2007 French horror film, Xavier Gens's first feature, about young thieves fleeing Paris who fall into an inn run by cannibal neo-Nazis near the Luxembourg border.
Grotesque (2009 film)
Grotesque (グロテスク) is a 2009 Japanese splatter horror film by Kōji Shiraishi about a couple, Kazuo and Aki, kidnapped and tortured by a doctor; the BBFC refused it an 18 certificate, banning it in the UK.
I Drink Your Blood
I Drink Your Blood: 1970 American grindhouse horror film by David E. Durston, also known by working title Phobia; rabid-dog-blood meat pies infect a Satanic hippie cult; first MPAA X rating for violence alone.
I Spit on Your Grave
I Spit on Your Grave, aka Day of the Woman, is Meir Zarchi's 1978 rape-revenge horror film starring Camille Keaton as writer Jennifer Hills; retitled on re-release, prosecuted as a video nasty, debated as feminist or misogynist, and remade in 2010.
I Spit on Your Grave (2010 film)
I Spit on Your Grave (2010), also known as The Revenge of Jennifer Hills, is Steven R. Monroe's remake of Meir Zarchi's 1978 Day of the Woman, starring Sarah Butler as a novelist who takes violent revenge on her rapists; critically panned but commercially successful on DVD.
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine (2015) is an American rape-revenge horror film, the third remake-era entry and direct sequel to the 2010 film, starring Sarah Butler as vigilante Jennifer Hills, directed by R.D. Braunstein for CineTel Films.
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) is a Canadian Nazisploitation film directed by Don Edmonds, starring Dyanne Thorne as a sadistic Nazi camp commandant; shot in nine days on the Hogan's Heroes sets, twice rejected by the BBFC, and followed by three sequels.
Martyrs (2008 film)
Martyrs is a 2008 French-language horror film by Pascal Laugier, released 3 September 2008, starring Mylène Jampanoï and Morjana Alaoui; a New French Extremity cult film about a cult torturing women, remade in 2015.
Ms. 45
Ms. 45 (Angel of Vengeance) is Abel Ferrara's 1981 American rape-revenge thriller starring 17-year-old Zoë Lund as mute seamstress Thana, who takes a .45 pistol revenge spree through New York after two rapes; now a feminist cult classic.
Natura contro
Natura contro (Cannibal Holocaust 2, The Green Inferno) is a 1988 Italian Amazon adventure film directed by Antonio Climati, about a journalist searching for the missing Professor Korenz; it is considered the last film of the Italian cannibal cycle.
Nekromantik
Nekromantik (1987) is Jörg Buttgereit's Super 8 underground German horror film about a street cleaner who brings home a corpse; banned in several countries, bootlegged, and later reappraised, with sequel Nekromantik 2 (1991).
Orgy of the Dead
Orgy of the Dead is a 1965 American nudie-cutie horror film directed by Stephen C. Apostolof (A. C. Stephen) from Ed Wood Jr.'s screenplay and novel, starring Criswell as the Emperor of the Dead judging topless dancers in a moonlit cemetery.
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls is a 2006 Canadian experimental horror film by Lucifer Valentine, first of the Vomit Gore Trilogy, starring Ameara Lavey as Angela Aberdeen; 71 minutes, released 14 February 2006.
Snuff (film)
Snuff (1976) is an American exploitation horror film by Michael and Roberta Findlay, originally The Slaughter (1971), whose staged murder coda, added by distributor Allan Shackleton, popularized the snuff film urban legend despite no genuine snuff film ever being located.
The Bunny Game
The Bunny Game is a 2010 black-and-white American extreme horror film by Adam Rehmeier, co-written with star Rodleen Getsic, about a prostitute abducted by a trucker; banned by the BBFC in 2011, released uncut in the US in 2012.
The Farm (2018 film)
The Farm (2018) is an American horror film written and directed by Hans Stjernswärd, starring Nora Yessayan and Alec Gaylord as a couple kidnapped and farmed as human livestock; premiered at Overlook 2018, released by Red Hound Films.
The Green Inferno (film)
The Green Inferno is Eli Roth's 2013 cannibal horror film, co-written with Guillermo Amoedo, about student activists captured by an Amazon tribe. Shot in Peru and Chile, delayed to a 2015 release, grossing $7.2 million.
The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left (1972) is Wes Craven's directorial debut, a rape-revenge horror produced by Sean S. Cunningham for about $90,000, inspired by Bergman's The Virgin Spring, banned by the BBFC, and remade in 2009.
The Last House on the Left (2009 film)
The Last House on the Left (2009) is Dennis Iliadis's remake of Wes Craven's 1972 horror film, starring Garret Dillahunt, Tony Goldwyn, and Monica Potter; released March 13, 2009 by Universal, it grossed $45,995,223 worldwide and scored 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.