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THE BAT WHISPERS

A silly mystery/comedy from 1930 that’s an absolute stunner from a photographic standpoint, with bold expressionistic visuals and wildly innovative camerawork.  It was also the alleged inspiration for Batman

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BAD TIMING

A love it or hate it exercise that’s been described as “a sick movie made by sick people for sick people”…by its own distributor!

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BAD TASTE

Peter Jackson’s premiere film was this rude, crude and hilariously gross no-budget splatfest. It’s puerile, exploitive, stupid as shit, and (in my eyes at least) irresistible.

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BAD GUY

It’s a rare film that contains something to offend absolutely everybody, but BAD GUY manages it.  It’s an unlikely love story many will claim—and have claimed—is misogynistic, and they’re probably right

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BABY BLOOD

A pretty incredible 1990 French horrorfest boasting a highly respectable gore quotient, stylish direction and a strong lead performance by newcomer Emmanuelle Escourrou

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STORY OF THE EYE

Those of you who read this short novel as the “erotic classic” it’s commonly classified as may be disappointed, if not totally bewildered

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THE STRANGE TALE OF PANORAMA ISLAND

Very likely the magnum opus of Japan’s ero-guro master Suehiro Maruo (of MR. ARAHSI’S AMAZING FREAK SHOW, ULTRA-GASH INFERNO and many other sickies), this an absolutely stunning manga adapted from Edogawa Rampo’s 1926 novella

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STRUWWELPETER

Originally published in Germany in 1845, STRUWWELPETER is a collection of rhymes describing various horrible misfortunes that befall misbehaving kids

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THE SUBJUGATED BEAST

THE SUBJUGATED BEAST is said to be Ryan’s most overtly sadistic novel, and seeing as how Ryan is (in John Pelan’s words) the “Godmother of Splatterpunk,” that claim is not to be taken lightly

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