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The list Video nasties includes
Faces of Death, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Evil Dead, I Spit on Your Grave and The Toolbox Murders.
The list consists of 122 members.
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Faces of Death
1978 American mondo horror film
Overview: Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan ...Release date: 24 May 1980Genre: Documentary, Crime, HorrorDirector: John Alan SchwartzCast: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton, Thomas Noguchi, Adolf Hitler, Benito MussoliniProducer: William B. James, Herbie LeeWriter: John Alan SchwartzA collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies The common factor is death by some means.
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Eaten Alive!
1980 film
Overview: Eaten Alive! (Italian: Mangiati vivi! — same meaning but with plural expressed) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi. The film is about a young woman (Janet Agren) who is searching for ...Release date: 20 March 1980Genre: Horror, AdventureDirector: Umberto LenziProducer: Mino Loy, Luciano MartinoWriter: Umberto LenziA young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult ... 0
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The Thing
1982 American science fiction horror film
Overview: The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story ...
Release date: 25 June 1982Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, ThrillerDirector: John CarpenterProducer: Stuart Cohen, David FosterWriter: Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr.A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. 0
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 US horror film directed by Tobe Hooper
Overview: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain ...Release date: 1 October 1974Genre: Horror, ThrillerDirector: Tobe HooperProducer: Kim Henkel, Tobe HooperWriter: Kim Henkel, Tobe HooperFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to ... 0
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Slave of the Cannibal God
1978 Italian horror film directed by Sergio Martino
Overview: Slave of the Cannibal God (Italian title: La montagna del dio cannibale, literally The Mountain of the Cannibal God) is a 1978 Italian horror film starring Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach, with English ...Release date: 25 May 1978Genre: Adventure, HorrorDirector: Sergio MartinoCast: Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina, Franco Fantasia, Lanfranco SpinolaProducer: Luciano MartinoWriter: Cesare Frugoni, Sergio MartinoA girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle. 0
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The Evil Dead
1981 American supernatural horror film by Sam Raimi
Overview: The Evil Dead is a 1981 American independent supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeMa ...Release date: 15 October 1981Genre: Fantasy, Horror, ThrillerDirector: Sam RaimiCast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Philip A. GillisProducer: Bruce Campbell, Gary HoltWriter: Sam RaimiFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. 0
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Suspiria
1977 film by Dario Argento
Overview: Suspiria is a 1977 Italian epic supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis ...
Release date: 1 February 1977Genre: Horror, MysteryDirector: Dario ArgentoCast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna JavicoliProducer: Claudio Argento, Salvatore ArgentoWriter: Dario Argento, Daria NicolodiAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly ... 0
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Phantasm
American horror film
Overview: Phantasm is a 1979 American science fantasy horror film that was directed, written, photographed, and edited by Don Coscarelli. The first film in the Phantasm franchise, it introduces the Tall Man (Angus ...
Release date: 1 January 1979Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, ThrillerDirector: Don CoscarelliCast: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus, Kenneth V. JonesProducer: Dac Coscarelli, Paul PeppermanWriter: Don CoscarelliA teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons ... 0
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Night of the Living Dead
1968 film directed by George A. Romero
Overview: Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman ...Release date: 1 October 1968Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, DramaDirector: George A. RomeroProducer: Karl Hardman, Russell StreinerWriter: John A. Russo, George A. RomeroA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East ... 0
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Jungle Holocaust
1977 Italian film
Overview: Ultimo mondo cannibale (English: Last Cannibal World; also known as Cannibal, Jungle Holocaust and The Last Survivor) is a 1977 Italian cannibal exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written ...Release date: 8 February 1977Genre: Horror, AdventureDirector: Ruggero DeodatoProducer: Tito Carpi, Gianfranco ClericiAn oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their ... 0
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Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults
1969 film directed by Rolf Thiele
Overview: The New Adventures of Snow White (German: Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen) is a 1969 West German sex comedy film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Marie Liljedahl, Eva Reuber-Staier, and Ingrid ...Release date: 29 August 1969Genre: Comedy, HorrorDirector: Rolf ThieleProducer: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm GrimmThe characters from the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales (Mother Goose, etc.) engaged in activities the Grimm Brothers probably wouldn't approve of ... 0
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Friday the 13th Part 2
1981 film by Steve Miner
Overview: Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut, and written by Ron Kurz. It is the sequel to Friday the 13th (1980), and the second ...
Release date: 1 May 1981Genre: Horror, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: Steve MinerProducer: Lisa Barsamian, Tom GruenbergWriter: Ron Kurz, Arch McCoyFive years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is w ... 0
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Friday the 13th
1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Overview: Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram ...
Release date: 9 May 1980Genre: Horror, Mystery, ThrillerDirector: Sean S. CunninghamProducer: Sean S. Cunningham, Alvin GeilerWriter: Arch McCoy, Ron KurzCamp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning. 0
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Foxy Brown
1974 film by Jack Hill
Overview: Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character who takes on a gang of drug dealers who killed her boyfriend. The film ...Release date: 5 April 1974Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Jack HillProducer: Buzz FeitshansWriter: Jack HillA sexy black woman, Foxy Brown, seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down... 0
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I Spit on Your Grave
1978 film by Meir Zarchi
Overview: I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman) is a 1978 American rape-and-revenge film written and directed by Meir Zarchi. The film tells the story of Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton), a fiction ...Release date: 23 May 1978Genre: Drama, Horror, ThrillerDirector: Meir ZarchiProducer: Meir Zarchi, Joseph ZbedaWriter: Meir ZarchiAn aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge. 0
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Dawn of the Dead
1978 horror film directed by George A. Romero
Overview: Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein. An American-Italian international co-production, it is the ...Release date: 2 September 1978Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, ThrillerDirector: George A. RomeroProducer: Claudio Argento, Dario ArgentoWriter: George A. RomeroFollowing an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television ... 0
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Tenebrae
1982 film by Dario Argento
Overview: Tenebrae (lit. '"darkness"', also known as Tenebre) is a 1982 Italian giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Anthony Franciosa as American author Peter Neal, who – while ...Release date: 28 October 1982Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Horror, CrimeDirector: Dario ArgentoCast: Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'AngeloProducer: Claudio Argento, Salvatore ArgentoWriter: Dario ArgentoAn American writer in Rome is stalked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book. 0
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The Toolbox Murders
1978 American slasher film directed by Dennis Donnelly
Overview: The Toolbox Murders is a 1978 American slasher film directed by Dennis Donnelly, from a screenplay by Neva Friedenn, Robert Easter, and Anne Kindberg. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Wesley ...Release date: 1 March 1978Genre: Thriller, Horror, DramaDirector: Dennis DonnellyProducer: Tony DiDio, Jack KindbergWriter: Neva Friedenn, Robert EasterA ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox. 0
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The Hills Have Eyes
1977 American exploitation-horror film directed by Wes Craven
Overview: The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman and Dee Wallace. The film follows the Carters, a suburban family ...Release date: 22 July 1977Genre: Horror, ThrillerDirector: Wes CravenProducer: Peter LockeWriter: Wes CravenOn the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready ... 0
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The Burning
1981 film by Tony Maylam
Overview: The Burning is a 1981 American teen slasher film directed by Tony Maylam, and starring Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua, and Lou David. Its plot follows a summer camp caretaker who ...Release date: 8 May 1981Genre: HorrorDirector: Tony MaylamProducer: Michael Cohl, André DjaouiWriter: Harvey Weinstein, Tony MaylamA former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers re ... 0
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