An underrated horror film from directer Gary Sherman (Death Line), starring James Farentino as the sheriff of the small seaside town of Potters Buff, who is baffled by a series of bizarre, brutal killings that have recently occured. But he's even more baffled when the victims are seen casually walking around the town a few days later.

He begins to suspect the local mortician, played by Jack Albertson (who also played the Grandad in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) may somehow be involved in all these strange goings on, but is anyone in this town really who they appear to be?

Also starring Melody Anderson (Flash Gordon), the film was scripted by Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon, who also wrote Alien and Return of the Living Dead, and is actually quite a good horror film, with special effects by Stan Winston (Terminator).  Look out for horror veteran Robert Englund in a minor role as one of the psychotic townsfolk.

Another low budget horror film by director Tobe Hooper of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame, which was apparently based on a true story.

The plot revolves around a redneck motel owner (Neville Brand) who likes killing his patrons, then feeding them to his pet alligator in the swamp outside.

Marilyn Burns, who also appeared in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, gets tied up and terrorised all over again, whilst US TV actor Mel Ferrer has a role as one of the victims. Robert England also turns up in a small co-starring role as a chap named Buck, who opens the film with the line "My names Buck, and I'm ready to fuck" (a line Tarantino borrowed for Kill Bill).

Had previously been shown at the London film festival, but still earned a place on the "Nasties" list. Apparently, Hoopers 2000 film "Crocodile" was originally intended as a follow up of sorts to this film.

The film that started off all these sicko Italian cannibal flicks from the 70's and 80's was this 1972 offering from Umberto Lenzi (who would go on to direct another entry on the Nasties list, Cannibal Ferox).

Italian B-movie regular Ivan Rassimov plays a photographer who's out on location somewhere in the Philippines. After killing a guy in a bar brawl he flee's into the Jungle, only to get captured by a native cannibal tribe who initially string him up and torture him, then surprisingly initiate him into the tribe, rather like what happened in "A Man called Horse", whilst former TV presenter Me Me Lay plays the Chief's daughter.

Like all of Lenzi's cannibal flicks there's plenty of vile genuine animal butchery, including the top of a monkey's head being chopped off and its brains eaten. Lenzi re-used several scenes from this film for his other cannibal film "Eaten Alive", which surprisingly escaped inclusion from the list. Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov also starred together in that film, and again in Deadato's "Cannibal", which also surprisingly escaped inclusion.

An underground society of former Vietnam veterans go around executing criminals that escape justice. But one of them flips out and proceeds to start bumping off young women.

The friend of one of the victims helps the police track down the killer, leading to a mass police shootout that ensues during the films finale. Though I was a little surprised to hear the theme from the quiz show "Mastermind" being used for the end title music.

Directed by Peter Maris, the film should not be confused with the 1972 film of the same name by Renato Polselli or the 1987 film by Lamberto Bava.

There were two different covers issued for this release, the one pictured here being the more common.

A model gets kidnapped by a gang of thugs whilst working in South America, who take her into the jungle and demand a huge ransom. Unfortunately, a rather unconvincing cannibal tribe (made up largely of white people), capture her for themselves and offer her as a sacrifice to some strange devil-beast that inhabits the area (actually a naked black man, with a couple of ping-pong balls for eyes).

Enter Al Cliver from Zombie Flesh-Eaters, who goes into the jungle in true Indiana Jones style to try and rescue her from the kidnappers, the natives and the devil-beast, which he does (eventually).

Directed by Jess Franco, who's typically shoddy direction and editing do nothing help the awful, incoherent plot. There's a hilarious scene where Al Cliver "climbs" a rock face, in which he is actually crawling along some rocks with the camera turned on its side, and the fight scene between him and the naked devil-beast just has to be seen to be believed!!!!

Originally the title for this film was going to be "The Burning" until another film beat them to it. In this, Actor Dan Gimbaldi plays a young chap who was brutally abused by his mother as a child, who used to burn his arms over the gas stove.

Now working in a foundry, when he discovers his mother has died he flips out, burns her corpse in his fireproof basement, sticks a dress on it and puts it in a chair in her bedroom.

He then proceeds to start picking up and murdering tarty looking women who remind him of her, in the same manner.

The film undoubtedly borrows a few ideas from "Psycho" and is actually not a bad low budget horror movie. The film undoubtedly got included on the list owing to the graphic scenes of women being strung up naked and burned alive.

A psychotic wildman is stalking the Utah woodlands, preying on teenage backpackers, nerdy birdwatchers, overweight tourists as they huff up the hillside and pretty much any other passer-by that happens to blunder into his neck of the woods.

Some of the more entertaining scenes include some guy having his arm ripped off, then beaten to death with the soggy end and another guy in a wheelchair, who having managed to push himself up a steep trail to the top of a hill, is swiftly decapitated by the maniac's machete.

Eventually, the wildman is hunted down by the extremely obese (in other words, fat git) Sheriff, and dealt some extremely vengeful treatment by 2 of the survivors.

I'm not certain whether the humour in this was intentional or not, but I found much of this an absolute scream.

A couple of young adults, cursed to eternal life as vampires, go around disembowelling people who enter the national park they inhabit, eating their entrails in order to stay looking young.

When a chance to rid themselves of the curse by sacrificing a young virgin during a 12000 year planetary alignment cycle, one of them goes to father a young girl by seducing scream queen Linnea Quigley (of "Return of the Living Dead" fame). Intending to sacrifice the daughter when the time is right.

There's also something about a locket the daughter is wearing that can make people explode (eh?). Crappy special effects, bad acting and inept direction are the order of the day here. The film is made (barely) watchable, only by Linnea Quigley who, as per the usual, ends up getting her kit off.

The lunatics take over the asylum when the chief doctor is beheaded by one of the inmates after his unorthodox methods of treating the patients goes horribly wrong.

The lady impersonating the director subsequently implements some new treatment methods of her own, involving acts of sadism on the fellow inmates, which only inspires them to start killing each other. As matters escalate, one of the newly arrived nurses at the sanitarium begins to suspect the cheif Doctor isn't who she says she is.

Directed by S.F.Brownrigg, I couldn't help but wonder if the writers had read the Edgar Allen Poe tale "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" when they penned this, as it had a similar theme. It's not quite "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" or "Ninth Configuration", but proved to be extremely popular at American drive-ins when released back in 1973, although personally, I found this to be quite dull.

Arguably the most infamous of the video nasties, owing to the fact that this title was one of, if not THE main culprit, for kick starting the whole nasties furore by the media, owing to its lurid title and graphic box art.

This early offering by the now mainstream director Abel Ferra (Bad Lieutenant) centres around a struggling artist (played by the director himself, under the pseudonym Jimmie Laine), who is being driven to distraction by the punk band next door. Eventually he flips out and decides to clear the streets of homeless low life's by means of a cordless power drill.

Watchable, though relatively boring and unremarkable, this was really more of an "arty" sort of movie than a horror picture, with the killings only making up a fraction of the films running time.

Better known these days for directing those Spiderman films starring Toby McGuire, director Sam Riami's first cinematic venture was this cult shocker about a group of teens holed up in a woodland cabin, trying to fend off the evil spirits unleashed by an ancient book.

Each one becomes possessed and has to be killed in turn by the sole survivor Bruce Campbell. Although the film held an 18 certificate for it's cinema release and the fact that the video was of the edited cinema version, it was still subject to numerous police seizures when it appeared on the DPP's Video Nasties list.

The scene where the woods seemingly come alive and one of the female victims is apparently "raped" by a tree branch is probably what got this film into trouble, though the police failed to secure convictions on any of the prosecutions.  

The film spawned 2 sequels "Evil Dead 2" (1987) and "Army of Darkness" (1993) along with a much maligned remake in 2014. A spin-off TV series in 2015 wisely ignored the remake and picked up from the original trilogy.

Clint Howard of "Gentle Ben" fame (and the brother of Ron Howard) stars as a poor sod at a Military Academy whose always being picked on by the other cadets because of his obsession with computers.

He finally gets his revenge when he discovers a book on black magic, which after copying it onto his hard drive, allows him to do all sorts of weird stuff including summoning up packs of man eating pigs

Dog lovers won't like the scene where his puppy is murdered by some of the sadistic cadets, but the scene where a female tutor is attacked in the bath by pigs was highly amusing.

A novelist (Udo Kier) hires a quiet British country house so that he can work on finishing his latest novel. His agent arranges for a secretary to stay with him, in order to speed up its completion (played by Linda Hayden).

However, this turns out to be a big mistake when she reveals that she has actually come to kill him for stealing the manuscript for his last novel from her husband, which drove him to suicide.

The housekeeper, Kiers girlfriend (played by 70's sex superstar Fiona Richmond) and 2 local thugs all meet horrific ends as Hayden goes on her killing spree.

This film probably got noticed for its rape scene where Hayden apparently seems to enjoy the act halfway through, much like the rape scene in Straw Dogs. Look out for Brush Strokes star Karl Howman as one of the village thugs.

This 1979 US video is supposed to be a documentary on the study of death. But in actuality, the film is a vastly faked exploitation pic, narrated by the aptly named Dr Gross (in reality, actor Michael Carr).

Originally made for the Japanese market, the film features slaughterhouse footage (Bleeeuurrrghhh!!!), stock footage of road accidents and airline disasters, but the rest of the film, including the scenes of animal attacks, are in fact staged and in some places quite badly, although this doesn't stop you from cringing in disgust at some of them.

This video had actually been cut by the UK distributors Atlantis Video by about 35 minutes, but that didn't stop it from being included on the DPP's hit list. The US distributors also filmed a further 3 "Faces of Death" films, as well as a "Worst of" special and a documentary entitled "Faces of Death : Fact or Fiction". A German distribution company also released a "Faces of Death parts 5 & 6", which featured rehashed footage from the other films and were exclusive to mainland Europe.

A mean trashy exploitation pic about 3 convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister.

There's a few nasty scene's, particularly where a young child is blugeoned by one of the thugs and an attempted rape, though the rest of the film isn't much better, as the ministers family are repeatedly terrorised by the thugs and forced to listen to their constant racial diatribes, though most cinema prints of this movie tended to miss out some of the nastier moments.

In the end the minister turns the tables on the 3 convicts and gives them their just desserts. The film was actually marketed in some US city areas as a story promoting black empowerment, though it seemed like little more than a rather violent episode of "Love thy Neighbour".

A group of hippy degenerates have been growing marijuana plants in a Pittsburgh forest, when the FBI have the whole area sprayed with an experimental herbicide.

Enter John Amplas (a regular in George Romero's earlier films) as an FBI agent intent on busting the dope dealing "flower power" followers, only to find that the herbicide has turned the once peaceful hippies into flesh eating zombies.

Gore galore follows, as passers by are hacked up by the undead stoners who've gone out on a flesh hunt. The UK version was apparently lacking the epilogue seen in the original, in which one of the FBI agents quits his job after the ordeal then drives off to see his family.

Horror B-movie actor Udo Kier, who also starred in Expose, plays the part of Dr Frankenstein who in this version is married to his own sister and has necrophiliac tendencies. This bloody, tongue-in-cheek, gore fest has the doctor building a couple of monsters who he hopes will breed and create a master race.

A half descent film, with excessive gore and outrageous performances by the cast, the film was shot back to back with Warhol's even gorier "Blood for Dracula" which surprisingly, didn't make the list. Mary Shelly must be turning in her grave.

Directed by Paul Morrisey and the unaccredited Antonio Margheriti (who also directed Cannibal Apocalypse), this movie was originally filmed in 3-D and produced by Andy Warhol.

A couple of university lecturers start secretly conducting cryogenic experiments on their students with grim results. Killing them, holding them in suspended animation, then attempting to revive them later.

The operation works, but (literally) turns them into cold blooded killers. As their subjects go on murderous rampages, whilst a bungling detective struggles to investigate the lecturters extra curricular activites.

One for lovers of bad movies only, with its dodgy acting, bad dubbing and duff effects, though there's very little gore, apart from a syringe being very falsely stabbed into someone's eye.

Some of the soundtrack was also used in the film "Don't go in the Woods" which also made the nasties list.

Director Tobe Hooper's second entry on the Nasties list (though ironically, his infamous Texas Chainsaw Massacre somehow escaped inclusion). The story for this one centres around a group of teenagers who decide to break into a carnival fun house and spend the night there for a bit of fun.

They find very few laughs however, as they spend the film being chased around by a knife wielding freak from the carnival.

It is widely believed the film ended up on the list by mistake, as it may have been confused with "The Last House on Dead End Street" which was also known as "The Funhouse", although that film never found it's way onto the list.

The pre-cert video was slightly shorter than the cinema version, which missed out a couple of dialogue scenes, but was otherwise uncut.