Italian B-movie regular George Eastman plays an escaped mental patient, who's on the run from his former doctor (who also happens to be a priest for some reason). Having torn his guts open on a spiked fence, he's admitted to a local hospital where he quickly recovers, then goes on a murderous rampage.

Heads get stuffed in oven's, hypodermic needles are shoved in eyes and there are various power tool murders, including the use of a band saw, before he's eventually halted by getting an axe in the head.

Directed by Joe D'Amato, (under the pseudonym Peter Newton) who's probably better known for his soft porn films like the "11 days & 11 Nights" films. This was released in some countries as a follow-up of sorts to his earlier "Anthropophagous the Beast" (another entry on the Nasties list), though the only connection between the two is the director, and it's lead actor George Eastman, who plays the maniac in both.

For me, the only disturbing part of this film was perhaps the police sergeant's uncanny resemblance to comedian Robin Williams. Lookout for Euro-porn starlet Annie Belle (House on the Edge of the Park) as one of the victims.

Italian director Joe D'Amato's second entry on the nasties list (filmed under his other pseudonym Aristide Massaccesi) which, ironically, was the forerunner to "Absurd".

Tisa Farrow (Mia's sister) and a group of tourists visit a small Greek island, only to find it's inhabitants have been devoured by a crusty looking shipwrecked man, played by D'Amato regular George Eastman, who's been washed up on the shore with a taste for human flesh after devouring his wife and kid in the lifeboat.

The people in the group subsequently get attacked and devoured one-by-one, including a particularly nasty scene where he stomps on the belly of a pregnant woman and eats her foetus. But he finally gets his come-uppance by getting a pickaxe through his stomach and dies snacking on his own intestines.

A group of 3 psychopaths on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralysed grandfather. After being raped by 2 of the gangster's she retaliates using an axe and razorblades.

The film seems to borrow elements from "Last House on the Left" (another entry on the list), though the film is not overly graphic in any way, with the killings being more implied than shown.

It is interesting to note that another film by the same director entitled "Date with the Kidnapper" failed to make the list, although distinctly similar in style and content.

Directed by Ivan Katansky (AKA Luigi Batzella) this is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi atrocities. Taking place in an unspecified French town under Nazi occupation, a senior female SS officer arrives to help sort out the problems with the local resistance groups, whilst carrying out her bizarre genetic experiments.

The "beast" of the title is a half man/half beast dwarf creature (Sal Boris, star of numerous Italian horrors), which she has created in a bizarre genetic experiment to torture the female POW's in her care, by giving them to the vertically challenged beast, who subsequently "bonks" them to death (though he only actually appears in 2 scenes).

The rest of the film focuses on the various nasty things the Nazi's do to the locals and the attempts of the female SS officer to torture the resistance members. She eventually gets the tables turned on her when the allies attack and the resistance gives her to her own creature.

It's worth noting that the majority of scenes with the nazis fighting the resistance was re-used footage from the directors earlier film "When the Bell Tolls" (1970) edited around the newly filmed scenes with the female SS Officer's experiments, with some battle scenes taken from "Heroes Without Glory" (1971).

The first of several zombie films from Italian splatter-master Lucio Fulci which made the Nasties list. This one with a plot seemingly "borrowed" from Micheal Winners "The Sentinel". Which sees Fulci regular Catherine MacColl inherit a New Orlans Hotel, which unfortunately stands on one of the 7 entrances to Hell.

Haunted happenings include hotel guests being eaten by flesh eating spiders, having their eyes gouged out by zombies, and attacked with acid. Before she and her doctor friend, played by fellow British actor and Eurohorror stalwart David Warbeck, end up trying to shoot their way out of a zombie filled hospital during the films climax.

One of Fulci's best films, along with "Zombie Flesh-Eaters", which also happened to make the list. The film shared a number of similarities with his earlier "City of the Living Dead" which surprisingly escaped inclusion. Although his "House by the Cemetery" (often regarded as part of an unnoficial trilogy with Beyond and City...) wasn't so fortunate. The film clearly had an influence on 80's rock band 'Europe' (remember them?) as they released a song inspired by the film called "Seven Doors Hotel" in 1983 .

More commonly known as "A Bay of Blood", this stalk and slash film by cult Italian director Mario Bava is essentially about a group of grasping relatives, who try to murder each other off so that they might own a highly desirable country mansion.

Described as a perverse reworking of the 1950's film "La Ronde", this plays almost like a bizarre black comedy, with people getting axes in the face and being repeatedly stabbed.

Slasher film fans may notice several killings that bear an uncanny resemblances to some of the deaths in the earlier Friday the 13th films. Most notably, the aformentioned person getting an axe in the face and a couple being skewered in bed togethor whilst "on the job".

One of the earliest gore movies ever to produced, this tacky little 1963 film by the notorious Herschell Gordon Lewis, follows the exploits of an insane Egyptian caterer, who goes around hacking limbs, brains and tongues off female victims in order to build himself the perfect female body in which to resurrect the god of Ishtar (nothing to do with the Dustin Hoffman film).

He hopes to do this during a banquet he is preparing for a client, who is unaware of what ingredients he is using for his dishes. But he meets an untimely end whilst being chased by the police and tries to hide from them in the back of a rubbish truck.

Why anyone would think this badly acted film, with its awful dialogue, inappropriate music and unconvincing gore (OK I suppose it was made in 1963) was offensive or obscene is quite beyond me. Former Playboy model Connie Mason stars in one of the leading roles (who obviously wasn't hired for her acting abilities).

Three sisters and their husbands have to stay in their late fathers house overnight in order to inherit his fortunes. But, as they bed down for the night, the group are susequently attacked by a retarded lunatic named Colin, who dishes out the gore with a pitchfork.

Directed by the late Andy Milligan (no relation to Spike), the film is exceptionally amateurish, featuring extremely bad acting, poor dialogue and amazingly bad production which includes the directors instructions being audible on the soundtrack and the camera revealing crew members during the fight scenes.

The films only notable inclusion was actor Richard Romanus, who went on to star in Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets".

"Bloody Awful" would be a more fitting title for this clunker of a slasher film, about the pupils of a foreign language school on the Costa del Sol, who are getting bumped off in a series of bizarre killings by someone in a Mickey Mouse mask (and it isn't Walt Disney).

Highlights include one person getting offed with a pair of shears, another is strung up from a light fitting whilst another is strapped to a bench and decapitated by a giant circular saw.

This truly awful movie, the first of one of several titles on the list directed by the appalling Jess Franco, probably got included on the governments Nasties list because of its lurid depictions of women being killed.

This version was uncut, but the distributors also released a cut version.

Not to be confused with the 2005 film of the same name, a concentrated evil power coming from an evil mirror plays havoc with a family living in a small American farming community.

Cheerfully ripping off "The Amityville Horror", "The Exorcist" and "Halloween", some of the more interesting scenes include a couple getting skewered through the throat whilst kissing and one of the characters stabbing herself with a pair of scissors. Whilst veteran horror actor John Carradine turns up in a small role as a Doctor.

Directed by Ulli Lommel who also did the 1973 film "Tenderness of the Wolves", this 1980 film spawned a couple of sequels "Revenge of the Bogeyman" in 1983, which also made the nasties list, and "Return of the the Boogeyman" in 1993.

A prank on the mean old caretaker at a summer camp seriously backfires (literally) and he becomes horribly burned and disfigured. He returns to the camp 5 years later with his trusty shears and proceeds to carve his way through the staff and teens.

Essentially a low budget rip-off of Friday the 13th, the film isn't quite in that same calibre, but features some interesting kill scenes, such as where Cropsey jumps out of a canoe and massacres a bunch of kids on a raft.

The Burning was notable for being the movie that launched Mirimax pictures and featured early performances from Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander and Fisher Stevens. With special effects by Tom Savini and a soundtrack by YES keyboardist Rick Wakeman. Director Tony Maylem went on to get himself fired from the Rutger Hauer Sci-Fi pic "Split Second".

Unlike most of the other cannibal films on this list, this one is set in the US city of Atlanta as opposed to the Amazon jungle. This one concerns a group of former Vietnam war POW's, played by Horror/Sci-fi veteran John Saxon, Video Nasty regular John Morghen and Blaxploitation actor Tony King, who return home with a craving for human flesh.

The group subsequently go on the rampage in the city, looking for victims to munch on. But unfortunately, it turns out that cannibalism is actually a disease spread by biting, so the unfortunate victims who survive the ordeal end up joining ranks with their erstwhile attackers. Before being chased into the sewers by the police, who blast them with shotguns and flamethrowers.

Directed by Antonio Marghareti, with cosmetic effects by Giannetto De Rossi who also worked on Zombie Flesh-Eaters, this is definitely one of the more fun video nasties, with some great gory action scenes, including one where John Morghen gets a hole blasted in his torso.

Arguably the nastiest of all the video nasties was this offering by Italian director Umberto Lenzi, which is apparently in the Guinness book of Records for being banned in 31 countries.

3 New York university students venture into the Columbian jungle, when they cross paths with a couple of drug dealers, one of which being the illustrious John Morghen (the second film on the list in which he appears), who have been running amok with the local cannibal tribe.

Not splitting any hairs about who is and isn't involved with Mr Morghen, all parties concerned find themselves being served up as the natives next meal. John Morghen has a very delicate part of his anatomy forcibly removed, whilst Zero Kerova (who suffered a similarly gory demise in "The New York Ripper") is strung up with hooks through her breasts. However the worst parts are the sickening acts of repeated genuine animal mutilations.

One of the better cannibal flicks, by rival genre director Ruggero Deadato, in which a search and rescue team (lead by porn star Robert Kerman) head into the Columbian jungle in search of a missing film crew, only to find their remains and their stock of film that they had shot about the last remaining cannibal tribes.

Upon viewing the found footage, they find that the film crew had brought about their own demise by pissing off the local tribes in order to catch some sensational footage, only for them to gang up and murder the crew in the most brutal of fashions.

For the most part, this is actually a very good jungle adventure film, which some have said was the pre-cursor to the modern "found footage" style film. It has suffered several outrageous claims about being a snuff movie over the years (which it isn't) although, as is the case with most cannibal capers, features gratuitous GENUINE animal butchery which is rather vile.

The distributors where successfully prosecuted for obscenity for releasing this, though strangely, Deadato's other cannibal movie "Cannibal" (AKA "Last Cannibal Wold", "Ultimo Mondo Cannibal", "Jungle Holocaust") surprisingly escaped inclusion from the list.

A low budget Spanish film, in which a slaughterhouse worker kills a cab driver in self defence, then decides to bump off his girlfriend who witnessed it to cover up his crime. As his family, and others, get suspicious, the killings escalate as he tries to keep his original crime quiet.

He subsequently goes on to kill his brother, his brother's wife, his father and even a visiting prostitute in the process, before disposing of them at the slaughterhouse where he works.

The film isn't really that gory, aside from some slaughterhouse footage at the start of the film. The scene with the meat clever in the face is obviously a plastic novelty and the gore effects overall are quite unconvincing.

Would probably have never been included in the governments nasties list if it hadn't used the word "cannibal" in its title, which is probably why it got noticed in the first place.

Another film that only got included due to having the word "cannibal" in the title, this dull French made effort by director Allan Steve (AKA Julian Tabernero) is about a couple of small time crooks who kidnap a young girl, hoping to blackmail her rich parents.

Hiding out at a friends house in the jungle, they outstay their welcome after one of them decides to rape their friend's wife, so are forced to high tail it deeper into the jungle, after he tips off the authorities as to their whereabouts. They are then captured by a local cannibal tribe, sporting extremely dodgy hairstyles (and also appear to be wearing watches and wedding rings), who adopt the young girl as their own but turn the gangsters into their next meal.

Shot back-to-back with Jess Franco's "White Cannibal Queen" (AKA "Cannibals"), using the same sets, same extras and even re-using some of the same footage, the film proves even more inept than Franco's film, which somehow escaped inclusion on the list. The natives were made up of white, pot bellied, Spaniards who can be seen wearing training shoes on their feet and underpants under their loin cloths. The scenes of disembowelment were all too obviously a close up of a pigs carcass, and in one scene you can clearly see a road in the background of the tribal village, with cars driving past.

An El-Cheapo rip off of "Alien" by Italian director Lewis Coates (Luigi Cozzi), in which the authorities discover a boat load of alien eggs (actually painted balloons) on board an abadoned cargo vessel. Which blow up in peoples faces, causing their stomaches to swell up and explode.

It turns out these eggs have come from a giant alien octopus, which is holed up in a columbian coffee factory, after being brought down from mars on a previous space expedition.

Enter Ian McCulloch of "Zombie Flesh Eaters" fame who, with the help of Loise Marlea, heads on over to South-America and brings the alien menace to a halt. Not to be confused with the similarly themed "Alien Terror" (Alien Sulla Terra/Alien on Earth), which escaped inclusion.