Subgenre Sampler
Battle Heater (Kotatsu) (1990)- Dir. Geroge Iida
Feat. Pappara Kawai, Akira Imoto - A maniacal low–budget doozie about a man–eating Kotatsu heater, this adds its own spirited splash to the horror mini–genre of…
Parents (1989)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis - Frightening piece of horror kitsch about a boy who suspects his parents are cannibals. Splendid, stylised direction and set design make this a…
Smoke 'em If You Got Em (1988)- Dir. Ray Boseley
Feat. George Huxley, Nique Needles - The apocalypse inspires a group of loutish adolescents to throw a party, in spite of their guests dying from radiation sickness! Bizarre comedy…
Bad Taste (1987)- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Peter Jackson - New Zealand's entry into the splatter comedy genre, shot on consecutive Sundays over a four year period, is among the best ever made. Outrageously…
Crazy Love (Love Is a Dog from Hell) (1987)- Dir. Dominique Deruddere
Feat. Josse De Pauw, Geert Hunaerts, Michael Pas… - Superlative tragicomedy based on the work of Charles Bukowski is told in three parts – pre–pubescence, acne plagued teenagehood and…
Screamplay (1986)- Dir. Rufus Butler Seder
Feat. George Kuchar, Katy Bolger - Tacky amusement can be found in this midnight flick about a splatter movie writer whose nightmare visions become frighteningly real!
Brazil (1985)- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm… - Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
Re-Animator (1985)- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton - Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Mixed Blood (1984)- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Marilia Pera, Richard Ulacia - Appropriately loose and ironic black comedy about gang and drug shenanigans in NYC from Warhol's factory alumni, Morrissey.
Deathstalker: Last Great Warrior King (1983)- Dir. James Sbardellati
Feat. Rick Hill, Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker - Trashtastic sword–and–sandals fantasy sees a chiselled Rick Hill play a warrior who must save the earth (and the girl) from a wicked…
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