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Deathgasm (2015): Dir. Jason Lei Howden
Feat. Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, James Blake…; Bloody–minded Kiwi horror–comedy has two teenage metal fans stirring up trouble in small–town New Zealand when they accidentally…
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Martin Starr; Direct sequel to the wintery zombie hit features more undead Nazis, Russkie POWs and other WWII foes.
Dead Snow (Død Snø) (2009): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner; Nordic splatter comedy pitches a group of fresh–faced medical students against a hoard of re–animated Nazis in the snowy highlands.…
Diagnosis: Death (Diagnosis Death) (2009): Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Bret McKenzie…; Stand–up comedian and writer Raybon Kan casts himself in this schlocky horror spoof as a terminal patient who becomes a human guinea pig at a…
Drag Me To Hell (2009): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver; Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in this twisted tale of a loan officer (Lohman) who has three days to rid herself of a deadly curse placed upon…
Smash Cut (2009): Dir. Lee Demarbe
Feat. David Hess, Sasha Grey, Michael Berryman…; Splatter comedy with Hess as horror hack who discovers a way to both gain notoriety and also to keep those pesky special effects costs down.…
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009): Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Eri Otoguro; Another enjoyable stock effort from the makers of TOKYO GORE POLICE et. al, this combines home–brewed splatter, ropey special effects, and…
Zombieland (2009): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone…; Deftly funny splatter comedy set in a post–apocalyptic world overrun with – you guessed it – Zombies, has two drifters teaming up…
I Sell the Dead (2008): Dir. Glenn McQuaid
Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman…; Bumptious horror–comedy of corpses with two beleaguered grave robbers having to contend with the troublesome undead and blood–lusting…
Machine Girl, The (2008): Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Minase Yashiro, Asami Miyajima; Brainless ultra–violence combines straighforward revenge narrative with a novelty twist: a plucky schoolgirl, whose stand against local…
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008): Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
Feat. Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head…; Gore–soaked goth opera set in a future necropolis where worldwide organ failure has necessitated a global organ–selling empire with an…
Tokyo Gore Police (2008): Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura
Feat. Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Ltao, Yukihide Benny; Trashy, imaginative Japanese gore fest aims to out–splatter Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD with its outrageous hybrid of ROBOCOP and…
Trailer Park Of Terror (2008): Dir. Steven Goldmann
Feat. Nichole Hiltz, Matthew Del Negro, Trace Adkins; Yet another installment in the zombie–comedy genre sees a group of troubled high–school students get stranded in a trailer park occupied…
Hostel 2 (2007): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Jay Hernandez, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips…; Macabre, sadistic sequel from Tarantino protégé Eli Roth veritably oozes gore, this time following a disparate trio of college girls to Slovakia,…
Planet Terror (2007): Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin…; Robert Rodriguez's half – and quite possibly, the better half – of the "Grindhouse" double bill (with Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF),…
Black Sheep (2006): Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney…; A slick splatter–comedy in the Kiwi tradition of BAD TASTE, about a herd of rabid, flesh–eating sheep run amok in rural New…
Slither (2006): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker; The small American town of Wheelsy is visited by a slithery space squid, which sends a variety of parasitic slugs out to invade the bodies of the…
Turistas (2006): Dir. John Stockwell
Feat. Josh Duhamel, Melissa George; Well in keeping with HOSTEL’s trendsetting sadomasochism, this Brazilian–set thriller concerns a group of backpackers stranded in a jungle…
Devil's Rejects, The (2005): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon…; There is no pause in the blood–letting for this sequel to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, with dir. Zombie continuing the saga of the murderous Firefly…
Evil Aliens (2005): Dir. Jake West; Riotous horror–comedy in the shamelessly low–rent tradition of BAD TASTE, in which a tabloid TV presenter gathers up her film crew to…
Feast (2005): Dir. John Gulager
Feat. Balthazar Getty, Navi Rawat, Josh Zuckerman; The trapped patrons of a bar are feasted upon by a horde of flesh–eating monsters in a horror extravaganza derived out of modest means –…
Hostel (2005): Dir. Eli Roth
Feat. Jay Hernandez; A rather grisly exercise in 'torture chamber' suspense, in which two American backpackers head for Slovakia, hoping to crash a legendary sex scene at…
Land of the Dead (2005): Dir. George Romero
Feat. John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Robert Joy…; Fourth installment for dir. Romero's famed DEAD series, set around a future world overrun by shuffling, half–rotten 'zombies' who menace a…
Wolf Creek (2005): Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi…; One of the more terrifying horror films of recent years, this Australian version of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE has three young travellers come…
Creep (2004): Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Franke Potente; A grisly British horror entry that begins with German star Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) trapped in the London Underground after missing her party…
Seed Of Chucky (2004): Dir. Don Mancini
Feat. William Boyd, Jennifer Tilly, Redman …; The demonic killer dolls are back in this blood besmattered follow–up to BRIDE OF CHUCKY, which tracks the efforts of the young doll 'Shitface'…
House of 1000 Corpses (2003): Dir. Rob Zombie
Feat. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon…; A gut–churning, schlocky homage by rock–singer Rob Zombie (of White Zombie fame) to the underground 'gore' films of the 1960s and…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (2003): Dir. Marcus Nispel
Feat. Jessica Biel; Despite being largely unnecessary, and certainly no improvement on the original, this remains a solid remake of Tobe Hooper's groundbreaking 1974…
Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat (2002): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Mark McLachlan, John McConnell, Melissa Morgan…; A surprisingly enjoyable sequel to Lewis's 1963 "classic", this is the director's first movie since 1972's GORE GORE GIRLS. The direction and…
Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) (2002): Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase; Off–beat Japanese thriller based on apparently real–life incidents in which groups of high–school children commit mass…
Undead (2002): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins; This brash splatter effort from Australia makes impressive, exhaustive use of special effects on a very low budget as it turns into an almost…
Audition (1999): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina; An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999): Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno; A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
Ebola Syndrome, The (1996): Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Anthony Wong; Birthed from the notorious "Category 3" underbelly of Hong Kong cinema, this close relative of THE UNTOLD STORY features another deranged murderer on…
Satan Returns (1996): Dir. Allan Lam
Feat. Chingmy Yau, Donnie Yen; On a rash mission to find the devil's daughter, a cult member with strange powers resorts to wrenching the hearts (and we mean literally) of women…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994): Dir. Kim Henkel
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey; The fourth movie in the loose Texas Chainsaw franchise, directed by the writer of the original cult classic (not that that makes a difference). This…
Basket Case 3 (1992): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Annie Ross; Completing the trilogy, this installment sees Belial separated from his able–bodied Siamese twin, getting married and fathering a gaggle of…
Bloodlust (1992): Dir. Jon Hewitt
Feat. Big Bad Ralph, Kelly Chapman, Max Crawdaddy; Underground cinema rag Fatal Visions presents this guerilla–style, shot–on–video gorefest that failed to amuse the British censors…
Braindead (Dead Alive) (1992): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody; Local prodigy's magnum opus may well be the last word in zombie film. What begins as a nervous romance for naive young Lionel soon turns into a…
Night of the Living Dead (1991): Dir. Tom Savini
Feat. Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles; Intelligent remake with FX–whizz and long–time Romero collaborator Savini in the driver's seat, keen to flaunt his bag of gory tricks.
Basket Case 2 (1990): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Judy Grafe, Annie Ross; Emulating the sublimely grimy flavour of the original, this commendable sequel sees Belial the basket–dweller return with friends of a…
Frankenhooker (1990): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen; A young scientist accidentally chops up his gal with a lawnmower, then seeks new body parts from the red light district in order to preserve their…
Re-Animator 2 (Bride Of Re-Animator) (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs; Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and friends return for a gory homage to Bride of Frankenstein, but its a pale shadow of both films, with noticeably…
Society (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Billy Warlock, Connie Danese, Ben Slack; Perverse hallucinations plague a young man in this sqeaumish satire of social mores in LA. The finale is an outrageous orgy of slimy…
Blood Diner (1988): Dir. Jackie Kong
Feat. Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer; Homage to BLOOD FEAST, features similar tongue–in–cheek carnage.
Brain Damage (1988): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry; Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
Demons 3 - The Ogre (Brivido giallo - La casa dell'orco) (1988): Dir. Lamberto Bava
Feat. Virginia Bryant, Paolo Malco; Gothic–tinged telemovie from the son of Mario Bava, which severs any connection with previous DEMONS films with the tale of an American…
Night of the Demons (1988): Dir. Kevin S. Tenney
Feat. Linnea Quigley, William Gallo; Shlocky 80's horror based around a group of high school seniors partying inside an isolated funeral parlour where they unknowingly release a demon or…
Slugs (Slugs, Muerte Viscosa) (1988): Dir. Juan Piquer Simon
Feat. Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale; Creature feature based on the UK horror novel of the same name by Shaun Hutson. A rural town is invaded by mutant killer slugs, spawned from…
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…
Evil Dead 2 (1987): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell; Not so much a sequel as a big–budget remake, it's a tour–de–force of slapstick horror with camera theatrics that confirm a major…
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987): Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne…; Improving on the perfunctory Pt. 2, this ups the ante on the gross–out special effects as Freddy wreaks further havoc on the kids he's helped…
Redneck Zombies (1987): Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Feat. Steve Sooy, Anthony M. Carr, Keith Johnson…; Troma–trash about zombies who happen to be rednecks.
Street Trash (1987): Dir. Jim Muro
Feat. Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Marc Sferrazza; Sub–par gorefest about exploding vagrants on NY streets. Some people liked it.
Demons (1986): Dir. Lamberto Bava
Feat. Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny; Son of Mario Bava, aided by Dario Argento, takes a slash at the zombie genre, with the undead uprising in a picture theatre.
Day of the Dead (1985): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato; Apocalyptic paranoia looms in an underground shelter for a few survivors in a world overrun with zombies. Conclusion to the 'Dead' trilogy builds a…
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…
Toxic Avenger, The (1985): Dir. Michael Herz, Sam Weil
Feat. Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard; A nerd becomes super–powered after falling into a vat of radioactive waste, and proceeds to clean up crime in one of the most notorious yet…
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984): Dir. Ray Cameron
Feat. Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price…; Horror comedy about six scientists investigating a creepy manor, where a mysterious massacre killed 18 guests in a single night many years…
Death Warmed Up (1983): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Michael Hurst; Hell–bent on exacting revenge on a loony scientist, Michael Hurst leads his friends to a secret island where toxic abominations run riot. This…
Basket Case (1982): Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Kevin VanHentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner; Sleazy and cheesy horror–comedy about a gawky teenager and his mutant siamese twin, Belial, who has a penchant for caneware and murder.
New York Ripper (1982): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Jack Hedley, Daniela Doria; A sadistic tale from Italian dir. Fulci (THE BEYOND) which concerns a killer roaming New York City and murdering women while babbling like 'Donald…
Evil Dead, The (1981): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell; Made on a budget of less than $100,000, this explosive splatter movie takes gore to the very limits. Colossal amounts of tomato sauce fill the screen…
Turkey Shoot (1981): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Steve Railsback; Vicious Ozzie cult film set in a future society where criminals are hunted in a controlled environment. Intended to make MAD MAX look like THE SOUND…
Contraband (The Smuggler) (1980): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Fabio Testi; A slight change of pace for dir. Fulci, here concocting a vicious criminal thriller about rival smugglers on the Naples waterfront, but which manages…
Maniac (1980): Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro; Notoriousy grisly 1980s "video nasty", featuring Tom Savini effects (inc a very famous head explosion and several scalpings) amid an otherwise…
Brood, The (1979): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Oliver Reed; Oliver Reed stars in this disturbing tale about genetic experiments and the reaches of parental anger. Though violent and often surreal, the story…
Dawn of the Dead (Zombies, Dawn of the Dead) (1979): Dir. George Romero
Feat. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger; One of the most effectively violent films ever produced, this classic gorefest has the walking dead run amok in a shopping mall. The comic–book…
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979): Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson; The Italian goremeister's answer to DAWN OF THE DEAD (and originally marketed as a sequel to it) sees zombies making grisly mincemeat of various poor…
Bloodsucking Freaks (1978): Dir. Joel Reed
Feat. Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem; Repugnant exploitation fare set in a New York theatre of sleaze, promises gross, delivers the insufferable. A film to truly absolve one's morbid…
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…
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.…
Body Beneath, The (Vampire's Thirst) (1972): Dir. Andy Milligan
Feat. Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis; Grindhouse dir. Milligan creates his best effort and the English equivalent of PLAN 9 into the bargain with this endearingly inept horror. Set…
Gore, Gore Girls, The (1972): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin; Trash–king Hershell Gordon Lewis hung up his film–making hat after this effort about the serial murders of Go–Go dancing strippers,…
Wizard of Gore, The (1970): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager; One of gore–merchant Lewis’ (BLOOD FEAST) best, involving a bogus stage magician, whose act carves murderous carnage through his…
Ghastly Ones, The / Seeds of Sin (1968): Dir. Andy Milligan
Feat. Maggie Rogers, Candy Hammond, Veronica Radburn…; For hardcore grindhouse fans only, comes this double bill from notorious trash hound, Andy Milligan. "The Ghastly Ones" is his first horror film…
Gruesome Twosome (1967): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell; Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
Color Me Blood Red (1965): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner; "Blood–feaster" Hershell Gordon Lewis tones down the gore for this third of his splatter forays – a spin on A BUCKET OF BLOOD about an…
Two Thousand Maniacs (1964): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Connie Mason, William Kerwin; One of the more enjoyable of Herschell Gordon Lewis' early gore efforts, with a better and funnier idea than most – southern town celebrates…
Blood Feast (1963): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason; Blame this one! – The pioneer of the splatter film, the first to graphically depict human entrails etc. Very bad acting and a ludicrous plot…

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