Best "video nasty" Movies of All Time

56 movies found (page 1/2):

SS Experiment Love Camp(1976)

1h 34min | Horror, War

2.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.

Directed by Sergio Garrone - With Attilio Dottesio, Maurizio Reti, Giorgio Cerioni, Carolyn De Fonseca

Cannibal Holocaust(1980)

1h 35min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 686 votes)

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Directed by Ruggero Deodato - With Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile, ...

Day of the Woman(1978)

1h 41min | Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 243 votes)

After a young writer is brutally gang-raped and left for dead by four men, she systematically hunts them down one by one to exact a terrible vengeance.

Directed by Meir Zarchi - With Camille Keaton

The Beyond(1981)

1h 28min | Horror

3.5/5 (with 253 votes)

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Veronica Lazăr, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John, Al Cliver, ...

The House by the Cemetery(1981)

1h 27min | Horror

3.1/5 (with 156 votes)

After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his research and moves his family from New York City to the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza, Dagmar Lassander, Giampaolo Saccarola, ...

The Last House on the Left(1972)

1h 24min | Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 275 votes)

Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

Directed by Wes Craven - With Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Martin Kove, ...

Tenebre(1982)

1h 41min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 243 votes)

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Directed by Dario Argento - With Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Mirella D'Angelo, Veronica Lario, Ania Pieroni, ...

Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979)

1h 31min | Horror

3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving on the island are Anne and reporter Peter West who are looking for Anne's missing father. The pair soon find themselves under attack from the zombies.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Stefania D'Amario, ...

Inferno(1980)

1h 47min | Horror, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 246 votes)

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

Directed by Dario Argento - With Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, Alida Valli, Gabriele Lavia, ...

The Burning(1981)

1h 31min | Horror

3.1/5 (with 157 votes)

A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.

Directed by Tony Maylam - With Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, Holly Hunter, ...

Cannibal Ferox(1981)

1h 33min | Adventure, Horror

2.7/5 (with 108 votes)

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Directed by Umberto Lenzi - With Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Robert Kerman, Zora Kerova, Lorraine De Selle, Perry Pirkanen, John Bartha, ...

Happy Birthday to Me(1981)

1h 50min | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

3.0/5 (with 75 votes)

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Sharon Acker, Frances Hyland, Tracey E. Bregman, Lisa Langlois, ...

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Evilspeak(1981)

1h 33min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 39 votes)

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Directed by Eric Weston - With Clint Howard, R. G. Armstrong, Don Stark, Charles Tyner, Hamilton Camp, Lenny Montana, ...

A Bay of Blood(1971)

1h 25min | Horror, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 157 votes)

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

Directed by Mario Bava - With Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Laura Betti, Claudio Volonté, Leopoldo Trieste, Isa Miranda, ...

The Toolbox Murders(1978)

1h 33min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 45 votes)

No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.

Directed by Dennis Donnelly - With Wesley Eure, Tim Donnelly, Aneta Corsaut, Pamelyn Ferdin, Cameron Mitchell, Don Diamond, ...

Alice, Sweet Alice(1976)

1h 48min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 104 votes)

Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

Directed by Alfred Sole - With Linda Miller, Lillian Roth, Alphonso DeNoble, Brooke Shields

Slave of the Cannibal God(1978)

1h 39min | Adventure, Horror

2.7/5 (with 38 votes)

A 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.

Directed by Sergio Martino - With Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina, Franco Fantasia

Faces of Death(1978)

1h 45min | Horror

2.1/5 (with 67 votes)

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Directed by John Alan Schwartz

House on the Edge of the Park(1980)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 53 votes)

Alex is a darkly sinister thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he cuts her off, gets out of his car, and runs into hers where he throws her into the back seat and proceeds to savagely rape her before strangling her to death. He takes her locket as a trophy to another one of his many killings.

Directed by Ruggero Deodato - With David Hess, Annie Belle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lorraine De Selle, Brigitte Petronio

Night of the Zombies(1980)

1h 39min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 51 votes)

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.

Directed by Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso - With Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo, Bruno Boni, Víctor Israel, Antonio Molino Rojo, Gennarino Pappagalli, ...

Anthropophagous(1980)

1h 32min | Horror, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 65 votes)

Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.

Directed by Joe D'Amato - With George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Serena Grandi, Saverio Vallone, Margaret Mazzantini, ...

Censor(2021)

1h 24min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 143 votes)

Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled movies she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.

Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond - With Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin

Dead & Buried(1981)

1h 34min | Horror, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 113 votes)

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.

Directed by Gary Sherman - With James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Robert Englund, Lisa Blount, Michael Currie, ...

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue(1974)

1h 35min | Science Fiction, Horror

3.2/5 (with 82 votes)

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.

Directed by Jorge Grau - With Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso, Giorgio Trestini, Vera Drudi, Vicente Vega, ...

Eaten Alive(1976)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 71 votes)

A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

Directed by Tobe Hooper - With Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns, William Finley, Stuart Whitman, ...

Invasion of the Flesh Hunters(1980)

1h 36min | Horror, Crime, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 37 votes)

Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.

Directed by Antonio Margheriti - With John Saxon, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis, Renzo Marignano, Tony King, Laura Dean, ...

Man from Deep River(1972)

1h 33min | Adventure, Horror

3.0/5 (with 29 votes)

A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.

Directed by Umberto Lenzi - With Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Luciano Martino

Contamination(1980)

1h 35min | Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror

2.6/5 (with 48 votes)

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Directed by Luigi Cozzi - With Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Gisela Hahn, Carlo De Mejo, Carlo Monni, Marino Masè, ...

Devil Hunter(1980)

1h 42min | Horror

2.2/5 (with 14 votes)

The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her off into the jungle from where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, little knowing what horrors Laura is enduring in the meantime in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthristy world. Laura's rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors - but also the horrifying lust for blood of a primitive and cruel god.

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Ursula Buchfellner, Al Cliver, Antonio Mayáns, Werner Pochath, Gisela Hahn, Muriel Montossey, ...

Blood Feast(1963)

1h 7min | Horror

2.4/5 (with 71 votes)

In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis - With Connie Mason, Mal Arnold, Herschell Gordon Lewis, William Kerwin

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