Top Ten for 1982

Overview coming soon.

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1982

Top 5

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1. Basket Case

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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4. Night Warning

USA / William Asher / ★★★1/2

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5. The Thing

USA / John Carpenter / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Tenebrae (Tenebre; Unsane) / 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 Kong, Taiwan / 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 Lanterns; Ren 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 Magic; Bayi 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, Spain / Jesus 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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