A former Nazi POW camp commandant is cleared of war crimes, but dealt some suitably gory revenge by one of his former female prisoners who he had tortured and made his sex slave during the war.

There are some nasty flashback scene's involving skulls being crushed with rifle butts and people being lowered screaming into vats of acid.

Gore fans will not be disappointed with this one (well the uncut version anyway), which features numerous throat slashing and decapitations although this version had already been pre-cut to remove a decapitation scene.
 

Directed by Ruggero Deodato, the man who brought us Cannibal Holocaust, this film takes its inspiration from "Last House on the Left" and even stars its main bad guy David Hess in a similar roll as a crazed rapist, along with "Ferox" star John Morghen (his THIRD appearance on the list). With a cast like that, you can tell what sort of a pic this is going to be.

Hess and Morghen gate crash a party full of yuppies and spend the best part of the film terrorising them. This is quite a nasty Italian film, particularly the scenes where Hess is slicing a women's body with a razor, although exploitation fans will undoubtedly enjoy it. Rest assured he does get his come-uppance at the films end. Also stars Morghen's "Ferox" co-star Lorraine De-Selle and European porn star Annie Bell (the second film on the list she features in, and who was obviously not hired her acting abilities).
 

A nightclub singer, Linda Haynes, is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to the loony bin. There she is subjected to the bizarre psychological experiments of the resident mad doctor, played by Geoffrey Lewis (Orville from "Every which way but loose" and "Any which way you can").

Strange animals appear in her cell at night, along with giant bugs and spiders. Eventually she escapes, and gives the doctor a taste of his own medicine.
 

Apparently this one was based on the real life murder trial of Peter Demeter, an estate agent from Toronto

The story is told in a series of confusing flashbacks that makes you wonder as to whether the film is set in the present or the past. The film may have appeared on the DPP's list because of the video sleeve text which says "For those who like their sex with a lot of violence", although this is extremely misleading as the violence is presented in a very abstract way.
 

Dario Argento's follow up to "Suspiria". The tenants of a New York apartment block meet a grisly demise after coming across a book which chronicles the exploits of an evil trio called "The Three Mothers" who rule the underworld.

The brother of one of the victims, Leigh McCloskey, does a little investigating and discovers the horrible secrets housed in the apartments. Apparently one scene that caused a lot of aggravation with the censors was that of a cat eating a mouse (what?). Haven't they ever seen "Tom & Jerry" ? SEE MAIN REVIEW
 

Set on the island of Myconos, this is one film that didn't do the Greek tourist board any favours. A young couple, Chris and Celia, arrive on a Greek island for a winter break and decide to spend their holiday killing and torturing the local sexual deviants.

This film is one that would offend the whole of the "Politically Correct" lobby as it depicts scene's of beastiality, incest, torture and homophobia. One amusing scene is where Chris invades a gay party wielding a sword. Originally released under the aptly named title "Island of Perversion".
 

An extremely brutal and shocking film about a young author who is attacked and repeatedly raped by 3 young local rednecks and their retarded friend whilst holidaying in the countryside. Cammille Keaton (grand-niece of Buster) stars in the lead role of the poor victim who following the assault, goes on a quest for revenge and hangs, castrates and chops the 4 attackers to death in retribution.

This is another one of the films that kicked off the "Video Nasties" furore by the media, owing to the extremely lengthy gang rapes which are depicted with gritty realism and are almost unwatchable. However, the scene's where she kills her attackers for their misdeeds appear almost comical, particularly when she hangs the retarded guy from a tree which was so ridiculous the whole scene appeared unintentionally funny.
 

If your a devout Catholic, the chances are you probably won't like this low budget film starring the ageing former screen sexpot "Anita Ekberg", but then the same is also true if your a devout horror fan. This lurid tale concerns a dope taking nun who goes around bonking, and then killing, the inmates of the local loony bin where she works.

Inmates are bashed over the head, thrown out of windows, strangled, kicked and stuck with pins before mother superior brings things to a halt by slipping her a poisoned chalice. Sounds more entertaining than it actually is.
 

Another one of many Italian exploitation films that borrowed its plot from Wes Cravens "Last House on the Left" was this 1975 offering by Aldo Lado. This film concerns a couple of psycho's, played by Gianfranco di Grassi and Flavio Bucci, who with the help of Macha Meril from "Deep Red" terrorise then murder a couple of young girls on a night train.

At the end of their journey they unwittingly check into the house of one of the girls parents who subsequently discover what they have done, then dish out some rather painful vengeance on them. Look out for Irene Miracle who plays one of the young girl victims, who also starred in "Inferno" and "Midnight Express".
 

The video packaging claims that this film is based on fact, but the plot is so far fetched you would have a hard time believing that. Set in a Nazi "Love Camp" that services the needs of front line officers, this is actually a very poor film, done in the same sleazy vein as "Isla - She Wolf of the SS".

2 young WAC officers go undercover as POW's in the prison camp hoping to get some information from a scientist that's being held there, before being sprung out by the French resistance. Unfortunately things go wrong with the break out and they end up overstaying their welcome and being subjected to the same indignities as the other inmates.

Producers R.W. Cresse and David Freidman turn up as 2 of the Nazi officers, that appear more interested in inflicting softcore gropings than hardcore torturing.
 

An early exploitation pic by "Nightmare on Elm Street" director Wes Craven and "Friday the 13th" crew Sean Cunningham and Steve Miner. Two schoolgirls call in at a dope house hoping to buy some marijuana, but instead fall victim to the Illustrious David Hess and his friends.

The girls are then subjected to various forms of sexual humiliation, before being tortured with a razor, raped disembowelled and shot. They dump the bodies in a nearby park, but end up running from the police. They hold up in a nearby house, that just happens to be the home of one of the girls parents. After discovering what the 2 have done, the rest of the film is spent showing the parents inflicting similar torture onto Hess and his friend in revenge, by means of axe, chainsaw, throat slashing and castration.

This release was uncut in terms of gore, but missed out a 5 minute scene of the 2 goofy cops trying to hitch a ride on a chicken truck. Martin Kove, who went on to star in 80's cop show "Cagney and Lacey" and the film "The Karate Kid", has a small role as the Sheriff's deputy.
 

Another Italian zombie pic, this time by director Jorge Grau. Set in The Lake District in England, Ray Lovelock stars as a bearded Hippy art dealer who gets blamed for a spate of murders that were actually committed by zombies that have been reactivated by an experimental pest control device that uses sonic waves.

In one of the more interesting scenes, the zombies take over the hospital and proceed to eat the patients.

Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideously deformed twin sister that resides in the local loony bin. She escapes to spring a surprise birthday party for Julia by murdering all the party guests with the help of a giant killer Alsatian dog, which gets it's come-uppance "Driller Killer" style, in a scene that will offend most animal lovers.

NOT to be confused with the Peter Cushing/Vincent Price horror film of the same name, or the 2004 film with Lance Henricksen. Features music by Riz Ortelli, who composed the score to "Cannibal Holocaust".
 

A serial killer in a welders mask stalks the streets of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festivals, and proceeds to mutilate hapless prostitutes in a plot that was obviously borrowed from "Blood Feast". One interesting gore scene is where one of his victims has her stomach split open and bloody organs pulled out from within, but this effect is repeated so many times it loses it's impact, particularly as the torso used is so obviously made of latex.

This really is a tediously boring film to sit through and the acting is diabolical (of course), particularly that of Laura Misch, a Playboy pin up, who plays the heroine.
 

The story for this film is a sort-of reverse of the plot from "Psycho", whereby an over protective aunt, played by Susan Tyrell, gets a jealous of her nephews girlfriends so goes around murdering them in order to keep him around. This film was probably included because of its portrayal of a semi-incestuous relationship between herself and the young orphaned nephew she'd been raising as her own.

Directed by William Asher, who also directed a lot of the old "I Love Lucy" TV show episodes, the film shows some entertainingly gory moments near the end, but mostly plays as a psychological thriller. A young Bill Paxton (of "Aliens", "Near Dark" and "Twister" fame) has a small role as a high school 'jock', and character actor Bo Svenson ("Delta Force", "Kill Bill 2") plays the investigating detective.
 

A former sex offender is released from a mental asylum, supposedly cured, only to be triggered off again after visiting a peep show. Remembering how he killed his parents with an axe after finding them engaged in a bondage session, he subsequently goes on to menace a poor single parent and her 3 kids.

There's some spectacular gore, which was supervised by SFX wizard Tom Savini, but the whole film is too seedy and lurid for most people's liking. The film was included in the list because of it's mix of hardcore violence and explicit sex (such things were a strict no-no at the BBFC), in fact the distributor was actually prosecuted and jailed for 6 months as the film was 60 seconds longer than the cinema version. Poor sod!
 

Not to be confused with any of the "Planet of the Apes" movies (and no, Roddy MacDowell does not appear in it), this low budget Mexican horror film is about a surgeon who tries to save his son from a fatal disease by giving him a heart transplant using a Gorilla heart. His son then becomes deformed and mutated, as he sprouts excessive facial hair and takes on the characteristics of the organs donor.

He escapes and goes on a bloody rampage, featuring some of most unconvincing gore effects, including a scalping which is nothing more than a wig being pulled off a bald headed man. Probably got the DPP's attention because of the graphic open heart surgery inserted in the ape operation scenes.
 

A somewhat bizarre entry into the DPP's hit list (but then that's true of most of these films) was this unconvincingly graphic outing by director James Wasson.

An American Bigfoot/Yeti creature goes around the woodlands, ripping peoples arms out of their sockets and beating them to death with the soggy ends. A Yeti hunting party sets out to find the creature and are unfortunately successful, as they get their throats cut, faces fried and then disembowelled and whipped with their own intestines in slow motion (great stuff)!

Not to be confused with the old black and white film of the same name, the movie is ludicrously funny, particularly in one scene where a passing motorcyclist stops to answer the call of nature and inadvertently pee's all over the creature who's hiding in the bushes, and gets his wedding tackle removed in a tearfully painful, but funny scene.

A surreal horror tale by art house director "Andrjez Zulawski". Set in Berlin during World War 3 "Isabelle Adjani" and "Sam Neill" (of Omen 3, Event Horizon and Jurassic Park fame) star as a couple who's marriage is on the rocks. Adjani claims to have a lover but Neill returns home one day to find her making love instead to a slimy octopus creature.

Realising she's not mad after all, he decides an impromptu divorce is in order. There's some exceptional gore, including where Adjani slices into her own neck with an electric carving knife and a scene where she has a miscarriage on the Metro which is quite yucky, but nothing that hardened gore hounds can't handle.
 

The same production team that went on to bring us such turkeys as "The Power" and "Kindred" made this equally awful slasher film about a group of students who volunteer to clear out a derelict college building prior to its demolition, but end up falling prey to a psychopathic killer who's squatting in the building.

The poor kids are garrotted, beaten with spiked clubs, and dismembered, but the gore is relatively unconvincing given the films low budget. Daphne Zuniga, who appeared in "The Fly 2" and played Princess Vespa in the sci-fi comic spoof "Spaceballs", appears in a minor role.
 

I was quite surprised to see well known 70's film star Stacey Keach and former Bond girl Ursella Andress in a cannibal film, but nether the less here it is! This particular flick is set in New Guinea, where Keach is helping Andress search the jungle for her missing husband, although they're also secretly looking for Uranium deposits.

They are later joined by Claudio Cassilenni, then get captured by a local cannibal tribe called the Pooka (Puker?) who find them worshipping her husband's decomposed remains, as they can hear his giger counter ticking and believe it to be his heart still working. There's one or two nasty scene's of animal killing, including a turtle being fed to a crocodile and an iguana being split open, but Andress fans will undoubtedly enjoy the scene where she is tied up, stripped naked, and painted with goo!

Please note that several of the gore scenes from this film were later "borrowed" (ie ripped off) by Umberto Lenzi and re-used in his film "Eaten Alive" (aka "Emerald Jungle", "Mangiati Vivi") which surprisingly didn't make the list.