Here they are... all 74 films that appeared on the Department of Public Prosecutions hit-list reviewed for your enjoyment. Most of the reviews are of a general nature as I haven't had the pleasure of viewing all of them yet, but I've tried to include as much information as possible regarding the plot synopsis, current availability and any alternate titles that apply.

ABSURD.

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" trilogy, this was filmed as a follow up to his earlier "Anthropophagus the Beast" (another entry on the nasties list). Italian B-movie actor George Eastman, a regular in D'Amato films, stars in the leading role, this time playing a mental patient who's on the run from his former doctor.

Having torn open his guts on a spiked fence, he's admitted to a local hospital where he quickly recovers, then goes on the 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. For me, the most disturbing part of this film was perhaps the police sergeant's uncanny resemblance to Robin Williams. Lookout for Europorn starlet Annie Belle who has a role in the film.
 

Italian director Joe D'Amato's second entry on the nasties list (filmed under his other pseudonym Aristide Massaccesi) was ironically 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 get devoured one-by-one, and there's one 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. Not overly gory, the killings are 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.

The "beast" of the title is a half man/half beast dwarf creature, 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 (and 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 give her to her own creature.
 

An Italian made Zombie film by genre director Lucio Fulci, with a plot "Borrowed" from Micheal Winners "The Sentinel". Fulci regular Catherine MacColl inherits a 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 David Warbeck, finally end up trying to shoot their way out of a zombie filled hospital.

This was one of three films directed by Lucio Fulci that got included on the nasties list, the other two being "House by the Cemetery" and "Zombie Flesh-Eaters". Strangely though, a fourth zombie film of his, "City of the Living Dead", somehow escaped inclusion.
 

BLOOD BATH.

Stalk and slash shocker by cult Italian director Mario Bava about a group of grasping relatives who all try to murder each other so that they might own a highly desirable country mansion.

Described as a perverse reworking of "La Ronde", the film plays as a bizarre black comedy, with people getting axes in the face and being repeatedly stabbed. Slasher film fans may notice that several killings bear uncanny resemblances to some of the deaths in the earlier Friday the 13th films.
 

One of the earliest gore movies ever to be produced was this tacky little 1963 film by the notorious Herschell Gordon Lewis. An insane Egyptian caterer 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 demise by taking a nosedive into 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 (but obviously wasn't hired for her acting abilities).
 

3 sisters and their husbands have to stay in their late fathers house overnight in order to inherit his fortunes, only to be attacked by a retarded lunatic named Colin (who???), 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 is actor Richard Romanus, who went on to star in Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets".
 

The pupils of a foreign language school on the Costa del Sol get bumped off in a series of bizarre killings carried out by a murderer in a Mickey Mouse mask, and no it isn't Walt Disney.

This truly awful movie, directed by the appalling Jess Franco, probably got included on the governments Nasties list because of its lurid mix of sex and Violence. This version was uncut, but the distributors also released a cut version.
 

A concentrated evil power coming from an evil mirror plays havoc with the inhabitants of a small American farming community, with scenes reminiscent of "The Exorcist" and "Halloween".

Directed by Ulli Lommel who also did "Tenderness of the wolves". Look out for John Carradine who has a small role as a Doctor.

A harmless prank on the 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, looking for revenge. Featuring special effects by the legendary Tom Savini, this low budget rip-off of Friday the 13th was directed by Tony Maylem, who went on to get himself fired from the Rutger Hauer Sci-Fi pic Split Second.

This had been edited to achieve an "X" certificate for a cinema release but due to a clerical error, the distributors Thorn-EMI issued the original uncut version by mistake. This was quickly withdrawn and replaced with the original cinema version but poor old Thorn-EMI where still prosecuted for it.
 

The former Vietnam vet's meet up with some of their old colleagues and go on the rampage looking for victims to munch on. The police retaliate chasing them into the sewers and blasting them with shotguns and flamethrowers. Unfortunately it turns out that cannibalism is actually a disease spread by biting, so the unfortunate victims who survived the ordeal end up joining ranks with their erstwhile attackers.

Directed by Antonio Marghareti, with cosmetic effects by Giannetto De Rossi who also worked on Zombie Flesh Eaters, this is one of the better, gorier video nasties.
 

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.

In this, 3 New York university students are venturing 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 on the natives next menu. Of course the (not so) special effects are all to obvious but then so are the sickening acts of repeated GENUINE animal mutilations.
 

Upon viewing the found footage they find that the film crew had brought about their own demise by pissing off the local tribes who subsequently ganged up on them and murdered the crew in the most brutal of fashions. The film has suffered several outrageous claims about being a snuff movie (which it isn't) although, as is the case with most cannibal capers, features gratuitous GENUINE animal butchery.

The distributors where successfully prosecuted for obscenity, even though they had cut out seven minutes of the more graphic footage. Deadato's other cannibal movie "Cannibal" (aka "Last Cannibal Wold", "Ultimo Mondo Cannibal", "Jungle Holocaust") surprisingly escaped inclusion from the list.
 

A slaughterhouse worker kills a cab driver in self defence, then decides to bump off his girlfriend who witnessed it, then goes on to kill his brother, his brothers wife, his father and a visiting prostitute. The scene with the meat clever in the face is obviously a plastic novelty and the gore is 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.
 

Shot on the same sets and filmed back-to-back with Jess Franco's White Cannibal Queen, this dull French made effort by director Allan Steve (AKA Julian Tabernero) is about a couple of small time crooks who kidnap a young rich kid then hole up at a friends house in the nearby jungle.

After one of them rapes their friends wife they are then 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 2 gangsters into their next meal.
 

An "El-Cheapo" rip off of Alien (Ridley Scott and James Cameron must shudder at the thought of this movie actually being titled Alien 2 in some territories) by Argentinean director Lewis Coates (Luigi Cozzi).

A Bug eyed alien blob, holed up in a Columbian coffee factory, is sending down alien eggs from Mars (actually painted balloons) which explode and shower bystanders with a sticky liquid that causes your stomach to swell up and explode in slow motion (animal guts everywhere).

Enter Ian McCulloch of Zombie Flesh Eaters fame who, with the help of Loise Marlea, brings the alien menace to a halt.