Top Ten for 1988

Overview coming soon.
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1988

Top 5

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1. Brain Damage

USA / Frank Henenlotter / ★★★1/2

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2. Beetlejuice

USA / Tim Burton / ★★★1/2

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3. Sommarens tolv månader

(The Twelve Months of the Summer)

Sweden [TV] / Richard Hobert / ★★★1/2

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4. Apartment Zero

Argentina, UK / Martin Donovan / ★★★1/2

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5. Pin

Canada / Sandor Stern / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Discarnates, The (Ijin-tachi to no natsu) / Japan / Nobuhiko Ôbayashi / ★★★1/2

7. Vanishing, The (Spoorloos) / France, Netherlands / George Sluizer / ★★★

8. Night of the Demons / USA / Kevin S. Tenney / ★★★
9. Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (Ginî piggu: Manhôru no naka no ningyo) / Japan / Hideshi Hino / ★★★
10. Men Behind the Sun (Hei tai yang 731) / China, Hong Kong / Tun Fei Mou / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Alice (Neco z Alenky) / Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, WG / Jan Svankmajer / ★★1/2

- American Scream, The / USA / Mitchell Linden /
- AR-15: Relentless Command (AR-15: Comando implacable) / Mexico / Alejandro Todd / ★★
- Bad Dreams / USA / Andrew Fleming /
- Black Magic (Santet; Witchcraft) / Indonesia / Sisworo Gautama Putra / ★★1/2

- Black Roses / Canada, USA / John Fasano /
- Blob, The / USA / Chuck Russell / ★★★
- Blood Call (Life Gamble 23; Xue Call ji) / Hong Kong / Oli Nicole, Lu Tung / ★1/2

- Blood Delirium (Delirio di sangue) / Italy / Sergio Bergonzelli / ★★★
- Blood Relations / Canada, USA / Graeme Campbell / ★★1/2
- Blood Screams (The Bloody Monks) / Mexico, USA / Glenn Gebhard /
- Bloodstained Painting (Lukisan Berlumur Darah) / Indonesia / Torro Margens / ★★

- Brain, The / Canada / Ed Hunt / ★★1/2

- Brainsucker, The (Brain Sucker) / USA [SOV] / Herb Robins / NO STARS!
- Bride of Deimos: The Orchid Suite (Deimos no Hanayome: Ran no Kumikyoku) / Japan / Rintaro / ★★1/2

- Broken Glass (Glerbrot) / Iceland [TV] / Kristín Jóhannesdóttir / ★★

- Butts Motel / USA [SOV] [X] / Scotty Fox / ★★
- Cameron's Closet / UK, USA / Armand Mastroianni /
- Cannibal Curse (Chu nu jiang; Curse) / Hong Kong, Philippines / Yeung Kong / ★1/2

- Carrier, The / USA / Nathan J. White / ★★★
- Cellar Dweller / USA / John Carl Buechler / ★★
- Cheerleader Camp (Bloody Pom Poms) / USA / John Quinn /
- Child's Play / USA / Tom Holland / ★★★
- Critters 2 (Critters 2: The Main Course) / USA / Mick Garris / ★★
- Crocodile Fury (Sorceress of the Deep) / Hong Kong, Thailand / "Ted Kingsbrook" / SBIG

- Curse of the Queerwolf / USA [Super 8] [filmed in 1986] / Mark Pirro / ★1/2

- Dawn of an Evil Millennium / USA [short] / Damon Packard / ★★
- Deadly Dreams / USA / Kristine Peterson / ★★
- Dead Mate (Grave Robbers) / USA / Straw Weisman /
- Dead Ringers / Canada, USA / David Cronenberg / ★★★
- Death by Dialogue (Evil Nightmare) / USA / Thomas Dewier / ★1/2
- Death Faces (Dying: Last Seconds of Life) / UK [doc] / Countess Victoria Bloodhart /
- Death Nurse 2 / USA [SOV] / Nick Millard /
- Death Row Diner / USA [SOV] / B. Dennis Wood /
- Demon Monkey (Siluman Kera) / Indonesia / M. Abnar Romli / ★★1/2

- Demonwarp (Demon Warp; Transmutation) / USA / Emmett Alston / ★★1/2

- Destroyer (The Edison Effect; Shadow of Death) / USA / Robert Kirk / ★★1/2

- Devil Sorcery (Ban xian jiang) / Hong Kong / Do Gong-Yue / ★1/2
- Dial: Help (Love Threat; Minaccia d'amore) / Italy / Ruggero Deodato /
- Diamond Ninja Force (Ghost Ninja) / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Godfrey Ho /
- Don't Panic (Dimensiones ocultas) / Mexico / Rubén Galindo Jr. / ★1/2

- Edwin Parker / USA [short] / Todd Sheets / NO STARS!

- Edge of the Axe (Al filo del hacha) / Spain, USA / José Ramón Larraz / ★★

- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark / USA / James Signorelli / ★★★
- Evil Clutch (Il bosco 1; Horror Queen) / Italy / Andreas Marfori / ★★
- Evil Dead Trap (Shiryô no wana) / Japan / Toshiharu Ikeda / ★★1/2
- Fair Game (Mamba) / Italy / Mario Orfini /
- Farewell (Adeus) / Brazil [animated short] / Céu D´Ellia / ★★★

- Fatal Pulse / USA / Anthony J. Christopher / ★1/2
- Feather Pillow (Almohadón de plumas) / Uruguay [SOV] / Ricardo Islas / ★★1/2

- 555 / USA [SOV] / Wally Koz / ★1/2
- Flesh Eating Mothers / USA / James Aviles Martin / ★★1/2
- Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood / USA / John Carl Buechler / ★★1/2
- Fright Night Part 2 / USA / Tommy Lee Wallace /
- Ghostess with the Mostess, The / USA [SOV] [X] / Alex de Renzy / ★★
- Ghoulies II / USA / Albert Band / ★★
- Gone But Not Forgotten / USA [short] [SOV] / Todd Sheets / NO STARS!

- Gotta Quarter? / USA [short] / Todd Sheets / NO STARS!

- Grotesque / USA / Joe Tornatore /
- Hackers, The / USA [SOV] / John Duncan / ★★
- Hack-O'Lantern (Halloween Night) / USA / Jag Mundhra / ★★
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers / USA / Dwight H. Little / ★★
- Haunted Cop Shop II, The (Meng gui xue tang) / Hong Kong / Jeffrey Lau / ★★
- Headhunter / South Africa, USA / Francis Schaeffer / ★★
- Heart of Midnight / USA / Matthew Chapman / ★★
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II / UK, USA / Tony Randel / ★★1/2
- Hobgoblins / USA / Rick Sloane / ★

- Hollow Gate (Hollowgate) / USA / Ray Di Zazzo / ★★
- Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★★★

- Hollywood's New Blood / USA / James Shyman /
- Hostile Takeover (The Devastator; Office Party) / Canada / George Mihalka / ★★1/2
- Howling IV: The Original Nightmare / South Africa, UK / John Hough / ★1/2
- Invisible Kid, The / USA / Avery Crounse /
- Iced (Blizzard of Blood) / USA / Jeff Kwitny /
- I Saw What You Did / USA [TV] / Fred Walton / ★★1/2
- Jack's Back / USA / Rowdy Herrington /
- Jogger, The  / USA [short] / Robert Resnikoff) / ★★1/2

- Judgement Day (The Third Hand) / Philippines, USA / Ferde Grofé, Jr. /

- Jungle Heat (Rimba panas) / Indonesia / Ratno Timoer /
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space / USA / Stephen Chiodo / ★★★
- Kiss, The / Canada, USA / Pen Densham / ★★
- Lair of the White Worm, The / UK / Ken Russell / ★★1/2
- Last Slumber Party, The / USA / Stephen Tyler / SBIG
- Lurkers / USA / Roberta Findlay / ★★
- Magic of Spell (Tao da liang da xian shen wei) / Taiwan / Chung-Hsing Chao / ★★★

- Mask of Murder (The Investigator) / Canada, Sweden / Arne Mattsson / 
- Miss Magic (Lady Vampire; Ling huan xiao jie) / Hong Kong / Fung Hak-On / ★★
- Mister Designer (Gospodin oformitel) / Soviet Union / Oleg Teptsov / ★★★
- Mr. Vampire Saga 4 (Jiang shi shu shu) / Hong Kong / Ricky Lau / ★★1/2
- Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear / USA / George A. Romero / ★★★
- Moonlight Sonata, The (Kuutamosonaatti) / Finland / Olli Soinio / ★★
- Murder Secret, The (Non aver paura della zia Marta) / Italy / Mario Bianchi / ★★
- Nest, The / USA / Terence H. Winkless / ★★1/2
- Newlydeads, The / USA / Joseph Merhi / ★1/2
- Night Feeder / USA [SOV] / Jim Whiteaker / ★★

- Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A / USA / Renny Harlin / ★★
- Nightmare on Porn Street / USA [X] / Scotty Fox / ★★1/2
- Nightmare Sisters (Sorority Succubus Sisters) / USA / David DeCoteau / ★★1/2
- Night of the Beast, The (La noche de la bestia) / Mexico / Gilberto de Anda / ★1/2
- Night of the Sharks (La notte degli squali) / Italy / Tonino Ricci / 
- Night Wars / USA / David A. Prior /
- 976-EVIL (Horrorscope) / USA / Robert Englund / ★★

- Noisy Requiem, The (Tsuitô no zawameki) / Japan / Yoshihiko Matsui / ★★★

- No More Mr. Nice Guy (Freddy's Nightmares series) / USA [TV] / Tobe Hooper / ★1/2

- Nosferatu in Venice (Nosferatu a Venezia; Vampire in Venice) / Italy / Mario Caiano, Augusto Caminito, Luigi Cozzi, Klaus Kinski, Maurizio Lucidi /

- Nostril Picker, The (The Changer) / USA [not released until 1993] / Mark Nowicki / ★★

- Not of This Earth / USA / Jim Wynorski / ★★1/2
- Out of the Dark / USA / Michael Schroeder / ★★★
- Paperhouse / UK / Bernard Rose / ★★★
- Party Line / USA / William Webb /
- People Across the Lake, The / Canada, USA [TV] / Arthur Allan Seidelman / ★★
- Phantasm II / USA / Don Coscarelli / ★★1/2
- Phantom Brother / USA / William Szarka / ★1/2
- Phantom of Death (Un delitto poco comune) / Italy / Ruggero Deodato / ★★1/2
- Poltergeist III / USA / Gary Sherman / ★1/2
- Prime Evil / USA / Roberta Findlay / ★★
- Prince of Terror, The (Il maestro del terrore) / Italy [TV] / Lamberto Bava / ★★1/2
- Princess of Darkness / USA [X] / Ron Jeremy / NO STARS!

- Psychopath (Psikopat; Psikopat - Öp Beni Neriman) / Turkey / Bülent Pelit / ★

- Pulse / USA / Paul Golding /
- Pumpkinhead (Vengeance: The Demon) / USA / Stan Winston / ★★1/2
- Rabid Grannies (Les mémés cannibales) / Belgium, France, Netherlands / Emmanuel Kervyn / ★★1/2
- Rat Man (Quella villa in fondo al parco) / Italy / Giuliano Carnimeo / ★1/2
- Red Monks, The (I frati rossi) / Italy / Gianni Martucci / ★1/2
- Rejuvenator, The (Rejuvenatrix) / USA / Brian Thomas Jones / ★★★
- Remote Control / USA / Jeff Lieberman / ★★1/2
- Resurrection of Michael Myers, Part 2, The / Sweden [short] / Richard Holm, Henrik Wadling /
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes! / USA / John De Bello /
- Return of the Living Dead Part II / USA / Ken Wiederhorn / ★★
- Revenge of the Living Zombies (Flesh Eater) / USA / S. William Hinzman / ★★
- Revenge of the Tree Ghost (Lin tou jie) / Taiwan / Shan-Hsi Ting / ★★1/2

- Re-Wind (Abunômaru: Ingyaku; Celluloid Nightmares) / Japan / Hisayasu Satô / ★★★
- Robo Vampire / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Godfrey Ho / ★1/2
- Sanguinary Desires / USA [short] / Todd Sheets / NO STARS!

- Scarecrows / USA / William Wesley / ★★1/2
- Scorpion Thunderbolt (Snake) / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Godfrey Ho, Cheng-Ying Lai / SBIG
- Serpent and the Rainbow, The / USA / Wes Craven / ★★★
- Shadowed Mind, The / Australia, South Africa / Cedric Sundström / ★★1/2

- Shadows of Blood / Netherlands / Sydney Ling / SBIG
- Slaughterhouse Rock / USA / Dimitri Logothetis / ★1/2
- Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers / USA / Michael A. Simpson / ★★1/2
- Slime City / USA / Greg Lamberson / ★★
- Slugs: The Movie (Slugs, muerte viscosa) / Spain, USA / Juan Piquer Simón / ★★1/2
- Someone's Watching Me (Biri beni gözlüyor) / Turkey / Ömer Ugur / ★
- Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (The Imp) / USA / David DeCoteau / ★★★
- Spider Labyrinth, The (Il nido del ragno) / Italy / Gianfranco Giagni / ★★★
- Spooked! / USA [X] / John Kolopanis / ★

- Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (Hard focus: Nusumi-giki) / Japan / Hisayasu Satô / ★★1/2

- They Live / USA / John Carpenter / ★★★
- 13th Floor, The / Australia / Chris Roache / ★★

- Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (Terror Serpent) / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Godfrey Ho /
- Tiyanak (Goblin; Monster Baby) / Phillipines / Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes / ★★★
- Touch of Death (Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★
- Troma's War (Club War; 1,000 Ways to Die) / USA / Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman / ★★1/2
- Twice Dead / USA / Bert L. Dragin / ★★
- Twisted Nightmare (Ancient Evil) / USA / Paul Hunt and Charles Philip Moore / ★1/2

- Understudy: Graveyard Shift II, The / Canada / Gerard Ciccoritti /
- Undertaker, The / USA / Franco De Stefanino /
- Uninvited / USA / Greydon Clark /
- Unnamable, The / USA / Jean-Paul Ouellette /
- Vampire on Bikini Beach (Vampires on Bikini Beach) / USA / Jerry Brady /
- Vampires (Abadon) / USA / Len Anthony /
- Vicious (To Make a Killing; Wild Boys) / Australia / Karl Zwicky / ★★★
- Violence Jack: Evil Town (Baiorensu jakku: jigoku-gai) / Japan / Ichirô Itano / ★★★

- Watchers / USA / Jon Hess / ★★
- Waxwork / UK, USA, West Germany / Anthony Hickox / ★★
- Wewe Gombel / Indonesia / B.Z. Kadaryono / ★

- Whispering Soul (Bisikin Arwah; Whisper of the Dead) / Indonesia / Jopi Burnama / ★★1/2

- Whoever Sows Hate Will Reap Disaster (Siapa Menabur Benci Akan Menuai Bencana) / Indonesia / Ackyl Anwari / ★★
- Witchcraft / USA / Robert Spera / ★1/2
- Witchery (La casa 4 (Witchcraft); Witchcraft) / Italy / Fabrizio Laurenti / ★★
- Witch's Daughter, The (Putri Kunti'anak) / Indonesia / Atok Suharto / ★★

- Woman in a Box 2 (Hako no naka no onna II) / Japan / Masaru Konuma / ★★★

- Woodchipper Massacre / USA / Jon McBride / ★1/2
- Zombie 3 (Zombi 3; Zombie Flesh Eaters 2) / Italy / Claudio Fragasso, Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei /

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