"It seemed like the perfect solution to an unwanted pregnancy… marry the heir to a wealthy estate, deceive his dying mother, give them the baby when it's born. But things are never as easy as they seem when your new family has a taste for the blood of the unborn."

Directed by Barry Polterman and Wrye Martin. Starring: Norman Moses, Tina Ona Paukstellis, John Kishline, Flora Coker, Victor Delorenzo"

"Conveys terror through nuance and details as well as selective splatter moments. if you only see one mutant baby movie this year, we strongly recommend you opt for Aswang" New York Daily News

“This film is nasty. My kinda flick...check it out" Joe Bob Briggs

The plot: A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance. In keeping with the best traditions of the European sexy horror film genre, A BELL FROM HELL features attractive nude women hanging from ropes in a bell tower.

Upon returning from the asylum where he was unjustly committed, a sick, demented man rapes his cousins and yanks out his aunt's eyeballs without remorse. Note: This release has been restored to a new, never-before-seen version of the film.

Starring Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, Maribel Martin.

"Soon he is overcome with rage, murdering innocent young women and anyone else who infringes on the privacy of his estate! The legendary Joe D'Amato's most infamous movie, it features an acclaimed score by the Italian rock band, Goblin. Available for the first time ever completely uncut!!"

Cast: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto, Anna Cardini

Good-girl Olivia Hussey and bad-girl Margot Kidder (pre-Lois Lane) star as sorority house dwelling coeds celebrating the holiday season with their sorority sisters. (SCTV's Andrea Martin is one of the girls… how weird is that?) Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls intrude. Soon it's clear that a psychopath is in the house stalking them.

Director Bob Clark had an odd career, starting out with horror like this movie and Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972), and the respected MURDER BY DECREE. Then he hit it big financially with the utterly egregious PORKY'S movies. Afterwards, as if re-inspired from above, he returned to Christmas with the marvelous comedy CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)

Sandra Sinclair is taking a bath when a madman with a machete abruptly borrows one of her legs. The killer, Fuad Ramses (Scum of the Earth’s Mal Arnold with absurd painted on, eyebrows), is then hired by Mrs. Fremont (who’s supposed to be affluent but wears thrift store rejects) to cater a party for her daughter, Connie Mason (“Playboy’s Favorite Playmate!”). “Have you ever had an Egyptian feast?” Fuad practically spits in her face. The feast prepared with the brains of a gal making out on the beach, a tongue yanked out of the mouth of Miss Astrid Olsen, and some other assorted other body parts including a leg and two breasts cooked in a pizza oven. One of the two heroes on the killer's trail couldn’t remember his lines so reads them off the palm of his hand. Catching everyone by surprise, Blood Feast was an enormous grind house hit. From the original 35mm negative. With William Kerwin, Connie Mason, Mal Arnold, Sandra Sinclair

"A bunch of young swingers are on holiday in the mountains. One night their van breaks down. They seek shelter in an old abandoned lodge. It's a night none of them will ever forget…"

Directed by Emilio Vieyra. Starring Ricardo Bauleo, Susana Beltran, Gloria Prat, Rolo Puente, Walter Kliche

To see how prudish and constrictive we've gotten in thirty years just watch the tour de force opening credits sequence that sets us up for the movie's first shock. It's an unapologetically voyeuristic (as all movies are at heart) dream-like camera glide through a steam filled girl's locker room. DePalma makes ironic use of pin-up conventions of healthy sexual vibrancy as set-up for the subsequent scene of the body as a source of shame and horror and the revelation that the darling girls are actually as vicious as beasts. What jumps out at us today is the scene's wholesome tone. It's a non-judgmental parody… a parody that wouldn't be the least bit ashamed to be the thing itself. There's no "death at the banquet" tonal reminder that we're supposed to be ashamed to be in the theatre.

The whole movie is unabashedly sexy, particularly when compared to today's films… Betty Buckley is bustin' out sexy. Nancy Allen is sexy. P. J. Soles is sexy. John Travolta is sexy. In proper poltergeist fashion Carrie's terrible powers spring from her sexual development, but it is not sex that's wicked. Her desire to have a boyfriend is normal. Only when twisted between religion and society–her mother's demented religious teachings and her peer's sick social/sexual hazing–does it explode. (This is one teen horror film where it makes perfect sense for the kids having sex to be the victims. It's not judgment, it's jealousy.)

Highly influential movie. One can say CARRIE is just a synthesis of Hitchcock or a synthesis of Italian horror movies but it is CARRIE's particular synthesis has been accepted as THE model for the modern Hollywood horror film.

Random note for serious film nuts: De Palma had a little fun here by recreating the lesbian school mistress torture by calisthenics sequence from Pabst's 1929 "Diary of a Young Girl."