Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Controversy: 17 Films to Buy & Rent
- I Spit On Your Grave (Day of the Woman, aka I Hate Your Guts) (1978)
- Dir. Meir Zarchi
Feat. Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace…
- Legendary 1970s video nasty in which a feminist writer (Keaton) holidaying in the countryside is menaced and repeatedly raped by four locals, whom…
- Fight For Your Life (1977)
- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd
- A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
- Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
- Dir. Roger Michael Watkins
Feat. Roger Michael Watkins
- Both notorious and obscure, this 1970s shocker concerns a drug–dealer who upon being released from jail enters the shady world of porno…
- Snuff (1976)
- Dir. Michael Findlay, Roberta Findlay
Feat. Ana Carro, Roberta Findlay
- 'Notorious' thriller set amid a world of South American drug–smuggling sleazebags, which supposedly climaxes with an actual filmed murder.…
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…
- Exorcist, The (1973)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn
- Landmark, influential horror film tells its tale of a child diagnosed with a case of demon–possession in explicit detail. A penetrating sense…
- Last House on the Left, The (1972)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
- Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…