Top Ten for 1986

Overview coming soon.
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1986

Top 5

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1. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

USA / John McNaughton / ★★★★

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2. In a Glass Cage (Tras el cristal)

Spain / Agustí Villaronga / ★★★1/2

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3. Aliens

UK, USA / James Cameron / ★★★1/2

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4. Little Shop of Horrors

USA / Frank Oz / ★★★1/2

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5. The Fly

Canada, UK, USA / David Cronenberg / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Seventh Curse, The (Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li) / Hong Kong / Ngai Choi Lam / ★★★
7. From Beyond / USA / Stuart Gordon / ★★★

8. Witchboard / USA / Kevin S. Tenney / ★★★

9. Hitcher, The / USA / Robert Harmon / ★★★
10. Dark of the Night (Mr. Wrong) / New Zealand / Gaylene Preston / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Abducted (Terror in the Forest) / Canada / Boon Collins / ★★1/2

- Abomination, The / USA / Bret McCormick / ★★
- Alien Predator (Cosmos mortal; The Falling) / Spain, USA / Deran Sarafian / ★1/2

- Angel of the Night / USA [X] / Richard Mailer / ★★1/2

- April Fool's Day / Canada, USA / Fred Walton / ★1/2
- Bad Girls Dormitory / USA / Tim Kincaid / SBIG

- Beautiful Sisters: Flesh Slaves (Bishimai nikudorei) / Japan / Katsuhiko Fujii / ★★1/2

- Beyond Death (Más allá de la muerte) / Spain / Sebastián D'Arbó / ★★1/2

- Blood Hook / USA / Jim Mallon / ★★

- Bloody Mansion of Death (Lanetli Kadinlar) / Turkey / Kadir Akgün / ★
- Blue Velvet / USA / David Lynch / ★★★
- Body Count (Camping del terrore) / Italy, USA / Ruggero Deodato / ★1/2

- Body Count (Bodycount) / Canada [TV] / Lionel Shenken / ★1/2
- Breeders / USA / Tim Kincaid / ★1/2

- Burp! / Netherlands [short] / Will Wissink / ★★

- Call Me Tonight (Koru mi tunaito) / Japan [anime] [short] / Tatsuya Okamoto / ★★

- Cassandra / Australia / Colin Eggleston / ★★

- Chopping Mall (Killbots; R.O.B.O.T.) / USA / Jim Wynorski / ★★

- Class of Nuke 'em High / USA / Richard W. Haines, Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman / ★★1/2

- Crawlspace / Italy, USA / David Schmoeller / ★★

- Critters / USA / Stephen Herek / ★★1/2

- Deadly Friend / USA / Wes Craven / ★★

- Dead Things / USA [short] / Todd Sheets / ★

- Deadtime Stories (Freaky Fairy Tales) / USA / Jeffrey Delman / ★★1/2

- Deliberate Stranger, The / USA [TV] / Marvin J. Chomsky / ★★★
- Demented Death Farm Massacre... The Movie / USA / Donn Davison and Fred Olen Ray / ★★

- Demon Queen / USA / Donald Farmer / ★

- Demons 2 (Dèmoni 2... L'incubo ritorna) / Italy / Lamberto Bava / ★★1/2

- Devil's Honey, The (Il miedo del diavolo) / Italy, Spain / Lucio Fulci / ★★1/2

- Dr. Sadismo's Theatre of the Macabre / USA [SOV] / Louis Ferriol / ★1/2
- Double Heat / USA [X] / David Michel / ★★
- Dreamaniac / USA / David DeCoteau / ★1/2
- Dream Hunter Rem II: Dream Demon at Seibishinjo High School (Dorimu hanta Remu II: Seibishinjo Gakuen no Yomu) / Japan [anime] / Seiji Okuda / ★★★
- Electric Blue 36 (Electric Blue: Young Vampires in Love) / UK, USA / Robert Veze / ★★
- Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (Bijo no harawata) / Japan / Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu / ★★
- Entrails of a Virgin (Shojo no harawata) / Japan / Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu / ★1/2
- Escape from Coral Cove (Tiu chut san woo hoi) / Hong Kong / Terrance Cheung Ga-Jan / ★★
- Escape from the Insane Asylum (Night of Terror) / USA / Felix Girard / NO STARS!
- Escapes / USA / David Steensland / ★1/2
- Evil in the Woods / USA / William J. Oates / ★1/2
- Evil Laugh / USA / Dominick Brascia / ★1/2

- First Vampire in China, The (Mao shan xiao tang) / Hong Kong / Ying Wong / ★★1/2
- Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives / USA / Tom McLoughlin / ★★
- Fright Night of the Living Dead / USA / Josh Eliot / ★1/2

- Ghost Snatchers, The (Bi gui zhuo) / Hong Kong / Ngai Choi Lam / ★★1/2

- Gimme Shelter (Yôsei Mamiko: mashô no yobigoe) / Japan / Hisayasu Satô / ★★1/2

- Goremet: Zombie Chef from Hell / USA / Don Swan / ★
- Gothic / UK / Ken Russell / ★★

- Graveyard Shift (Central Park Drifter) / Canada / Gerard Ciccoritti / ★★1/2

- Guinea Pig: He Never Dies (Ginî piggu 3: Senritsu! Shinanai otoko) / Japan / Masayuki Kusumi /  ★★

- Guzoo (Guzoo: Kami ni misuterareshi mono - Part I) / Japan / Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu / ★★
- Hallucinations / USA [SOV] / John Polonia, Mark Polonia, Todd Michael Smith / ★★
- Hatchet (Ax; Balta) / Turkey / Cevat Okçugil / ★
- Haunted Honeymoon / USA / Gene Wilder / ★

- Horrible Horror / USA [doc] / David Bergman / ★★1/2
- Hour of Fear, The (A Hora do Medo) / Brazil / Francisco Cavalcanti, José Mojica Marins / ★1/2

- House / USA / Steve Miner / ★★1/2
- Hunter's Blood / USA / Robert C. Hughes / ★★

- I Like Bats (Lubie nietoperze) / Poland / Grzegorz Warchol / ★★

- In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro / Kenya, UK / Raju Patel / ★★

- Into the Darkness (The Mannequin Killer) / UK / David Kent-Watson / ★★

- Invaders from Mars / USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★
- Killer Party (The April Fool) / USA / William Fruet / ★★
- King Kong Lives / USA / John Guillerman / ★
- Las Vegas Serial Killer (Hollywood Strangler in Las Vegas) / USA / Ray Dennis Steckler / ★

- Lipstick and Blood / UK [SOV] / Lindsay Shonteff / ★1/2

- Little Master (Little Ancestor; Xiao zu zong) / Taiwan / Li Kuo Yang / ★★1/2

- Magic of the Universe (Salamamgkero) / Philippines / Tata Esteban / ★★

- Mania / Canada / Paul Lynch, David M. Robertson and John Sheppard / ★★1/2
- Mark of Cain (Identity Crisis) / Canada / Bruce Pittman / ★★1/2

- Maximum Overdrive / USA / Stephen King / ★
- Midnight Horror (Midnight Killer; Morirai a mezzanotte) / Italy / Lamberto Bava / ★★
- Mr. Vampire II (Jiang shi jia zu: Jiang shi xian sheng xu ji) / Hong Kong / Ricky Lau / ★★

- Momoco Wonderland: Strange House (Momoko wandârando sutorenji hausu) / Japan [short] / Hikari Hayakawa / ★

- Mountaintop Motel Massacre (Mountain Top Motel) / USA / Jim McCullough Sr. / ★★
- My Hobbies Include... Rape! (Hobby Mou... o viasmos!) / Greece / Dimitris Vogiatzis / ★
- Neon Maniacs / USA / Joseph Mangine / ★1/2

- Nightmare Weekend / France, UK, USA / Henry Sala / SBIG
- Night of the Creeps / USA / Fred Dekker / ★★★

- Night Ripper! / USA / Jeff Hathcock / ★1/2

- Nomads / USA / John McTiernan / ★★

- Ozone! Attack of the Red Redneck Mutants / USA / Matt Devlen / ★1/2

- Poltergeist II: The Other Side / USA / Brian Gibson / ★★1/2

- Psycho III / USA / Anthony Perkins / ★★1/2

- Rawhead Rex / Ireland, UK, USA / George Pavlou / ★★1/2

- Roller Blade / USA / Donald G. Jackson / SBIG

- Roots Search (Roots Search: Shokushin buttai X) / Japan [anime] / Hisashi Sugai / ★★

- Satan's Bed (Batas Impian Renjang Setan) / Indonesia / H. Tjut Djalil / SBIG

- Scream Greats, Vol. 1 / USA [doc] / Damon Santostefano / ★★1/2
- Scream Greats, Vol. 2 / USA [doc] / Damon Santostefano / ★★
- Screamtime / UK, USA / Michael Armstrong and Stanley A. Long / ★★1/2
- Seven Vampires, The (As Sete Vampiras) / Brazil / Ivan Cardoso / ★★
- Sex with a Stranger / USA [X] / Chris Monte / ★★

- Shadows Run Black / USA / Howard Heard / ★

- Slaughter High / UK / George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten / ★★1/2
- Sorority House Massacre / USA / Carol Frank / ★1/2

- Spookies / USA / Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner and Eugenie Joseph / ★★1/2

- Spooky Spooky (Gui meng jiao) / Hong Kong / Sammo Hung and Wei Don Lo / ★★★
- Supernaturals, The / USA / Armand Mastroianni / ★1/2

- Terror on Alcatraz / USA / Philip Marcus / ★★

- TerrorVision / USA / Ted Nicolaou / ★★
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Part 2, The / USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★1/2

- Tomb, The / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★1/2
- Troll / Italy, USA / John Carl Buechler / ★1/2

- Truth or Dare?... A Critical Madness / USA / Tim Ritter / ★★1/2
- Vamp / USA / Richard Wenk / ★★

- Vicious Lips (Lunar Madness; Pleasure Planet) / USA / Albert Pyun / ★★
- Violence Jack: Slumking (Baiorensu jakku: haremu bonba) / Japan / Osamu Kamijô / ★1/2

- Virgins from Hell (Perawan di Sarang Sindikat) / Indonesia / Ackyl Anwari / SBIG

- Wraith, The (Interceptor; Phantom) / Canada, USA / Mike Marvin / ★★

- Zero Boys, The / USA / Nico Mastorakis / ★★

- Zombiethon / USA [partial compilation] / Ken Dixon / ★★1/2

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