Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Wild at Heart (1990)- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd… - Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Nick Cave - Despite the uncompromising, raw depiction of brutal prison life, this film is a non–exploitative essay that ultimately indicts the future of…
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1987)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Michael Rooker, Tom Towles - Theatrically banned, this uncut version ranks as one of the more unsettling works ever committed to film. In short, a low–budget masterpiece…
Class of 1984 (1982)- Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Perry King - A new school–teacher (Perry King) finds himself intimidated by members of his unruly class – to the point where he must exact brutal…
Scum (1980)- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels - Life in a British borstal painted in unflinchingly realistic hues. Clark's deeply affecting indictment of the penal system plays out barbaric rituals…
Angel Mine (1979)- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot - A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
Driller Killer (1979)- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Abel Ferrara - Somewhat notorious as a 'video nasty' of the 80s video boom, this debut from bad boy auteur Abel Ferrara was perhaps misunderstood (like The Texas…
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…
Desperate Living (1977)- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey - The third in John Waters' unholy trilogy again succeeds in his aim to simultaneously shock and incite hysterics. No Divine this time, but Liz Renay,…
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…
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