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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Top Ten for 1982


Overview coming soon.
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1982
Top 5
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USA / Frank Henenlotter / ★★1/2
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2. Litan
France / Jean-Pierre Mocky / ★★1/2
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3. Eating Raoul
USA / Paul Bartel / ★★1/2
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USA / William Asher / ★★1/2
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USA / John Carpenter / ★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Tenebrae (TenebreUnsane) / Italy / Dario Argento / ★★
7. Poltergeist / USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★
8. Fan, The (Der Fan; Trance) / West Germany / Eckhart Schmidt / ★★
9. Variola Vera / Czechoslovakia / Goran Marković / ★★
10. Brimstone & Treacle / UK / Richard Loncraine / ★★

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Also seen:

- Alone in the Dark / USA / Jack Sholder / ★★
- Amityville II: The Possession / Italy, Mexico, USA / Damiano Damiani / 
- Android / USA / Aaron Lipstadt / ★★
- Beast Within, The / USA / Philippe Mora / 1/2
- Being Captured (Baby Sitter; Il nano erotico) / Italy / Alberto Cavallone / ★★
- Beyond Reason (Mati) / USA / Telly Savalas / ★★
- Black Candles (Los ritos sexuales del diablo) / Spain / José Ramón Larraz / ★★
Black Room, The / USA / Elly Kenner, Norman Thaddeus Vane / ★★
- Blood Link (Extrasensorial; The Link) / Italy, USA, West Germany / Alberto De Martino / ★★1/2
- Blood Song (Dream Slayer) / USA / Alan J. Levi / 
Bloody Sect (Secta siniestra) / Spain / Ignacio F. Iquino / SBIG
- Boardinghouse (Housegeist) / USA / Johnn Wintergate / SBIG
- Boogeyman, The / USA [short] / Jeffrey C. Schiro /
- Caligula: The Untold Story (Caligola: La storia mai raccontata) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / 
- Cat People / USA / Paul Schrader /
Class of 1984 (Guerrilla High) / Canada / Mark L. Lester / ★★
Creepshow / USA / George A. Romero / ★★
Crocodile Therakwad (Khun Chang Khun Paen Prab Jorrakay Thaen Kward) / Thailand / Neramit, Sompote Saengduenchai / ★★1/2
- Curse of Evil (Xie zhou) / Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★1/2
- Curse of the Screaming Dead, The / USA / Tony Malanowski / NO STARS!
Cute Devil (Kawaii Akuma) / Japan [TV] / Nobuhiko Ôbayashi / ★★1/2
- Deadly Eyes (The Rats) / Canada / Robert Clouse /
- Demon Rage (Fury of the Succubus; Satan's Mistress) / USA / James Polakof /
- Devil Returns (Jing hun feng yu ye) / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Richard Chen /
Dracula vs. Demon / UK [short] / Brian Davies, Tom Maylott / NO STARS!
Early Frost (Chilling) / Australia / Geoffrey Brown, David Hannay, Brian McDuffie / 1/2
- Entity, The / USA / Sidney J. Furie / ★★
Expensive Tastes (Hua jie) / Hong Kong / Fan Ho / ★★1/2
Exposed to Danger (Leng yan sha ji) / Hong KongTaiwan / Chia-Yun Yang / ★★1/2
- Fair Game (Desolation Angels) / Australia / Christopher Fitchett / ★★1/2
- Fall of the House of Usher, The (Zánik domu Usheru) / Czechoslovakia [short] / Jan Svankmajer /
Firefist of Incredible Dragon (Solimsa jucheongwidong) / Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan / Jong-seong Kim / ★★
- Friday the 13th Part III / USA / Steve Miner / ★★1/2
- Girls Nite Out / USA / Robert Deubel / 
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch / USA / Tommy Lee Wallace / ★★1/2
He Lives By Night (Ye jing hun) / Hong Kong / Po-Chih Leong / ★★
- Hell Has No Boundary (Mo jie) / Hong Kong / Richard Yeung Kuen / ★★1/2
House in the Woods, The (Haplos) / Philippines / Antonio Jose Perez / ★★1/2
Human Lanterns (Human Skin LanternsRen pi deng long) / Hong Kong / Chung Sun / ★★
Invitation to Hell / UK / Michael J. Murphy / ★★
- Island of Blood (Scared Alive; Whodunit?) / USA / William T. Naud / 
- It Came from Hollywood / USA [compilation] / Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt / 1/2
- Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again / USA / Jerry Belson / ★★
Karma Punishment (Hukum karma) / Indonesia / Jimmy Atmaja / ★★1/2
- Last Horror Film, The (Fanatic; Maniac II: Love to Kill) / USA / David Winters / ★★1/2
Living Dead Girl, The (La morte vivante) / France, USA / Jean Rollin / ★★1/2
- Madman (Madman Marz) / USA / Joe Giannone / 1/2
- Manhattan Baby (Eye of the Evil Dead; Il malocchio) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / 
Marianna (Bin mei) / Hong Kong, Philippines / Pak Tong Cheuk / ★★
- Midnight (Backwoods Massacre) / USA / John A. Russo / 
Miracle Baby (Baby MagicBayi ajaib) / Indonesia / Tindra Rengat / SBIG
- New York Ripper, The (Lo squartatore di New York) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★
Next of Kin (Hell House) / Australia, New Zealand / Tony Williams / ★★
- Night Beast (Nightbeast; Terror from the Unknown) / USA / Don Dohler /
Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon (Kangofu nikki: Kemonojimita gogo) / Japan / Naosuke Kurosawa / ★★
Oasis of the Zombies (La tumba de los muertos vivientes) / France, SpainJesus Franco / 
- Pandemonium (Tuesday the 12th) / USA / Alfred Sole /
- Panic (Bakterion; Monster of Blood) / Italy, Spain / Tonino Ricci / 
- Parasite / USA / Charles Band / 
- Pieces (Mil gritos tiene la noche) / Italy, Puerto Rico, Spain, USA / Juan Piquer Simón / SBIG
- Psychophobia (El ser; The Being) / Spain / Sebastián D'Arbó / ★★1/2
Queen of Black Magic (Ratu ilmu hitam) / Indonesia / Lilik Sudjio / ★★
Q: The Winged Serpent / USA / Larry Cohen / ★★
Ravishing of Frank N. Stein, The (Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein) / Switzerland [short] / Georges Schwizgebel / ★★
- Reincarnation of Sex, The (A Reencarnação do Sexo) / Brazil / Luiz Castellini / ★★
- Scorpion with Two Tails (Assassinio al cimitero etrusco) / France, Italy / Sergio Martino / 1/2
- Seduction, The / USA / David Schmoeller / 1/2
Sender, The / UK / Roger Christian / ★★
Sheriff's Strange Son, The (El extraño hijo del Sheriff) / Mexico / Fernando Durán Roja / ★★
- Slayer, The (Nightmare Island) / USA / J.S. Cardone / ★★1/2
Slumber Party Massacre, The / USA / Amy Jones / ★★
- Snake Queen, The (Nyi blorong) / Indonesia, Japan / Sisworo Gautama Putra / ★★
Special Silencers (Serbuan Halilintar) / Indonesia / Arizal / 
- Straight Jacket (Dark Sanity) / USA / Martin Green / 1/2
- Superstition (The House of Mary; The Witch) / Canada / James W. Roberson / 1/2
- Swamp Thing / USA / Wes Craven / ★★1/2
Trick or Treats / USA / Gary Graver / 
- Vincent / USA [short] / Tim Burton / ★★
- Visiting Hours (The Fright; Get Well Soon) / Canada / Jean-Claude Lord / ★★
- Wolf Devil Woman (Lang nu bai mo; Wolfen Queen) / Taiwan / Pearl Chang / SBIG
- Xtro / UK, USA / Harry Bromley Davenport / ★★1/2

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