It's A Macabre World After All

List creator: JAuner Created on: September 14, 2005 - 12:35 PM PDT Description: "Weird and Wonderful Cinema from around the world." You'll get no Bergmans, Fellenis or Godards here. Inspired by Mondo Macabro the book and DVD label by Pete Tombs here's a list of strange horror, cult and exploitation films from across the globe.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Alucarda (1975)			Not Rated
Satanic orgies, girls arising naked from blood-filled coffins, nuns flailing themselves bloody and screaming, screaming, screaming. A singular and amazing bit of Mexi-trash.
	The Diabolical Doctor Z (1964)			Not Rated
Jess Franco's early 60s mad scientist feverdream. Makes no sense really, which is beautiful.
	Aswang (1994)
Filipino curses among Wisconsinites. Haven't seen it.
	The Living Corpse (1967)			Not Rated
Terrific Pakistani Dracula rip with brilliant gothic atomosphere. Lovely docu about S. Asian horror makes this a must see. Also try and track down MM's R2 release EL VAMPIRO for the Mexican version - it is incredible.
	Seven Women For Satan (1976)			Not Rated
Looking forward to this one, haven't seen it yet
	Blood of the Virgins (1967)			Not Rated
Brilliant latino pop-art gothic vampire nonesense from the director of THE CURIOUS DR HUMPP. Essential.
	Mill of the Stone Women (1960)			Not Rated
Creaky but visually stunning Italian gothic. A bared nipple makes this the first ever "erotic-horror" film, according to Tombs.
	Lady Terminator (1989)			Not Rated
Utterly insane Indonesion exploito weirdness. Uber-cheap special effects, buckets of blood and bullets, naked possesed chicks and silly mullets - it's all here. Miss this at your own peril. Hey GC where's DANGEROUS SEDUCTRESS? Now available to rent! Do it now!
	Crazy Love (1987)			Not Rated
snoooooze
	The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)
Fab "lost" giallo from the hack who gave us STARCRASH and CONTAMINATION. Stylish, stylish, stylish and totally illogical in the best giallo tradition.
	The Mansion of Madness (1972)			Not Rated
Another mind-splitter from the director of ALUCARDA, Juan Lopez Moctezuma, who was a friend and producer of Jodorowsky's first two films. The connection shows, though Moctezuma's films are more horror oriented but really no less weird. Look! GC picked it up! The power of The List!
	Clonus (1979)
Torn apart by MST3K, ripped off by THE ISLAND and unseen as yet by me.
	Panic Beats (1982)
Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy's directorial debut is gory, weird, silly and a whole heap of gothic fun
	Satanico Pandemonium (1975)			Not Rated
More deranged Mexican naughty nun madness
	French Sex Murders (1973)			Not Rated
Infamous giallo with a french Bogart impersonator. Only Mondo Macabro has the balls to release stuff like this, god bless 'em.
	Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay (1971)			Not Rated
Utterly beautiful and strange erotic horror fairy tale from France. Maybe the best of MM's releases so far. GC just picked this up! Rent it now!
	The Deathless Devil/Tarkan vs. the Vikings (1973)			Not Rated
I cannot wait for this. The first official DVD release of any Turkish cinema that I am aware of.
	For Your Height Only/Challenge of the Tiger (1979)			Not Rated
This one is getting re-released by MM, a Phillipino flick about a midget secret agent with a great rep among trash film lovers. Don't know anything about CHALLENG but I bet it's a lot of fun.
	Badi: The Turkish E.T. (1983)			Not Rated
Ah the Turkish rip-off, beautiful stupidity at it's beautiful, stupid best. Thank Pete Tombs for popularizing it with his book.
	Turkish Exorcist (1982)			Not Rated
	Turkish Star Trek (1973)			Not Rated
	Turkish Star Wars (1982)			Not Rated
	Turkish Superman (1983)			Not Rated
	Turkish Wizard of Oz (1969)			Not Rated
	At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1963)			Not Rated
The first of the " Ze Do Caixao" films and it totally rules. Made on scrapes of film for pennies, it's the kind of exploitation weirdness that only can come from the "third world".
	Awakening of the Beast (1969)			Not Rated
	This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1966)			Not Rated
Even better than the first one. A sex/horror existentialist masterpiece. Also many scantily-clad Brazillian chicks covered with real spiders or snakes. Cool.
	The Curious Dr. Humpp (1967)			Not Rated
Emilio Veirya's masterpiece of utter strangeness. Really you've never seen anything like this, I swear. Rent it now!
	Night of the Bloody Apes/Feast of Flesh (1968)			Not Rated
Mexican horror is just freaking weird. BLOODY APES is a fine and ridiculous example of this - real heart surgery footage, ape-faced rapists and shapely girl wrestlers make this a must-get-intoxicated-and-see. The second film is another weirdo winner from Emilo Veirya of DR HUMPP and BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS anti-fame.
	The Brainiac/The Witch's Mirror (1961)			Not Rated
Too bad this release got cancelled, it would've been nice to have both of these on one disc. More Mexican horror surreality.
	The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)			Not Rated
Jess Franco's first international success and a stone cold winner. Intense and weird from start to fin. One of the first of the Euro Erotic Horror boom of the 60s and 70s according to Pete Tombs' book 'Immoral Tales' another essential read.
	Succubus (1967)			Not Rated
	The Rape of the Vampire (1968)			Not Rated
Bizzaro and somewhat boring vampire-sex-art stuff from Jean Rollin.
	The Sidewalks of Bangkok (1984)			Not Rated
	Vampyres (1974)			Not Rated
One of the best vampire movies ever made. Savage and erotic. Dreamlike and bloody as hell.
	Fuego/The Female: Seventy Times Seven (1969)			Not Rated
Sexploitation from Argentina featuring the unholy shapeliness of Isebel Sarli.
	Gumnaam (1965)
There aren't any Bollywood horror films here so this will have to as an example. Pleasant Bolly nonesense with neat songs. As featured in the flick GHOST WORLD. See the documentary on the LIVING CORSPE dvd for more info on this fascinating subgenre of the world's largest film industry.
	The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1973)			Not Rated
This Hammer/ShawBros. collab will have to do as our Hong Kong horror. Haven't seen it. Track down BLACK MAGIC if you can. Southeast Asian witchcraft movies totally f---ing rule.
	Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)			Not Rated
	Virgins From Hell (1987)
	Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1970)			Not Rated