1980 • France • Directed by Olivier Mathot

Even by the sleaziest standards of ‘80s EuroTrash, it remains a film that must be seen to be believed: When a pair of criminal knuckleheads and their busty moll kidnap the young daughter of a wealthy tycoon, they foolishly choose to hide in a local jung...

1985 • Italy • Directed by Ruggero Deodato

For his follow-up to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time: David Hess of THE LAST HOUSE ON T...

1985 • Spain • Directed by Jess Franco

One of the more infamous works of his Golden Films Internacional period, writer/director Jess Franco's depraved subversion of raunchy comedy, erotic thriller and heretical horror has never popped off the screen like this: When four topless cocktail waitress...

1985 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung

Lifelong friends since they met as boys at Peking Opera school, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung conquered the Hong Kong film industry side-by-side in the 1970s and 1980s. One of their greatest collaborations sees the two 'brothers' playing actual brothers for...

1985 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung

Lifelong friends since they met as boys at Peking Opera school, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung conquered the Hong Kong film industry side-by-side in the 1970s and 1980s. One of their greatest collaborations sees the two 'brothers' playing actual brothers for...

1988 • United Kingdom • Directed by Nico Mastorakis

DON’T DRINK THE WATER!

From cult director Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Hired to Kill) comes Nightmare at Noon, a hectic mashup of eco-horror and shoot ‘em up full of daring stunts and explosive action!

Something strange is afoot in a sma...

1986 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung

All aboard for the all-star action-packed adventure of a lifetime as martial arts maestro Sammo Hung (Heart of Dragon) brings East and West crashing spectacularly together in Millionaires’ Express!

Sammo himself plays Ching Fong-tin, a former outlaw wit...

1989 • Italy • Directed by Bruno Mattei

For director Bruno Mattei (Violence in a Women's Prison) and co-writers Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi (Troll 2), their final, and most notorious, collaboration went beyond brazen plagiarism to become a fearless act of deranged genius. In this bravura...

1981 • Australia • Directed by Richard Franklin

Stacey Keach (Escape From New York) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Quentin Tarantino's favourite Australian film: Road Games, a high-speed thriller with a Brian May score that you won't regret putting your thumb out for.

A laid-back Amer...

1981 • United Kingdom • Directed by Norman J. Warren

A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

1989 • United States • Directed by Jeff Burr

"Stepfather" Jerry Blake escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. With a future wife and new stepson who love him, Blake eliminates anyone who stands in his way to building the perfect family.

Humanoid sea creatures emerge from the depths and start killing a fishing town's residents and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off. This glorious, gory and grisly 1980 monster movie also features a score by James Horner and Roger C...

1981 • United States • Directed by Michael Laughlin

The Ozploitation classic, and one of the most unique shockers of the ‘80s, returns like never before: Michael Murphy (Manhattan), Dan Shor (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and Fiona Lewis (The Fury) star in this grisly saga of bizarre experim...

1988 • United States • Directed by Kevin Tenney

Ten teenagers - including Linnea Quigley - party at an abandoned funeral parlour on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.

1982 • United States • Amy Holden Jones

A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.

1986 • United States • Carol Frank

College student Beth and her sorority sisters are stalked by an escaped psychopathic killer who shares a strange telepathic link with her.

1985 · United States · Directed by Stuart Gordon

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

1988 • United States • Directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette

College students from Miskatonic University who retreat to an early 18th-century mansion for a weekend of lust are stalked by a fatalistic female in this horror film taken from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The demon delights in tearing the lim...

1989 • United States • Directed by Douglas Grossman

Teenage kicks take a decidedly dark turn in director Douglas Grossman’s Hell High – a twisted tale of delinquency pushed to its horrifying extreme, where Class of 1984 meets I Spit on Your Grave!

When high school football hero Jon-Jon (Breakin...

1982 • United States • Directed by Robert Deubel

A host of familiar genre faces including Hal Holbrook (Creepshow), Rutanya Alda (Amityville II: The Possession), Julia Montgomery (The Kindred) and Lauren-Marie Taylor (Friday the 13th Part 2) rounds out the cast of this gloriously mean-spirited s...

1984 · United States · Directed by Buddy Cooper

Although the slasher film was in decline by the mid-1980s, there were still some grisly delights to be had… and they don’t come much grislier than writer-director Buddy Cooper’s sickening stalk-and-slash classic The Mutilator! When Ed receives a me...

1989 • United States • Directed by Scott Spiegel

Ace check-out girl, Jennifer, has a deranged ex-boyfriend who's fresh out of prison. When he appears outside, weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut, and the night crew starts dying...one by one, in the most gruesome ways imaginable...

1989 • United States • Directed by Bruce R. Cook

Using sensory deprivation techniques, a doctor of parapsychology provokes his students to examine their own deaths in ever more horrifying circumstances. Roles are exchanged and shuffled as reality and fantasy become indistinguishable and each new...

1987 • Canada • Directed by Jack Bravman

Tony Washington (Jon-Mikl Thor) returns from the dead with the help of a voodoo priestess (Manuska Rogaud) after he is killed by joy-riding teenagers. He then seeks revenge against the terrible teens and the local police captain (Adam West).