The Death King AKA Der Todesking
(1990) 80 min
Rated: NR (gore, suicide, nudity, mutilation, human corpse decay, fish death)
Country: Germany
Director: Jörg Buttgereit
Starring: Nicolas Petche, Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★☆
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death. Throughout a time-lapse video of a human corpse rotting is shown.
Impetigore
AKA Perempuan tanah jahanam
(2019) 106 min
Rated: NR (gore, nudity, sex)
Country: Indonesia
Director: Joko Anwar
Starring: Tara Basro, Ario Bayu, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★☆
A girl and her best friend realize that she might have inherited a huge house in a remote village in Indonesia and the two decide to visit the village to reclaim it.
Spirits of the Dead A.K.A Tales of Mystery
A.K.A. Histoires extraordinaires A.K.A. Tre passi nel delirio
(1968) 121 min
Rated: R (Blood, Nudity)
Country: France | Italy
Director: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Starring: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Peter Fonda, Terence Stamp
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Three horror stories based on works by Edgar Allen Poe.
The Night Eats the World AKA
La nuit a dévoré le monde
(2018) 93 min
Rated: TV-14 (Gore, implied cat death)
Country: France
Director: Dominique Rocher
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
A man falls asleep and awakes to find the world has been taken over by zombies.
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Grave (original title)
(2016) 99 min
Rated: R (gore, nudity, sex, animal corpses)
Country: France | Belgium | Italy
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★★
A young woman enters veterinary school and develops a taste for flesh.
Midsommar
(2019) 147 min | 171 min (Director’s Cut)
Rated: R (gore, nudity, sex)
Country: USA | Sweden
Director: Ari Aster
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, and Will Poulter.
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★★
Several young Americans take a trip to a secluded village in Sweden to witness their traditional 90-year summer festival.
The Girl with All the Gifts
(2016) 111 Min.
Rated: R (gore)
Country: USA | UK
Director: Colm McCarthy
Starring: Sennia Nanua, Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★☆
A special girl struggles to survive in the aftermath of a London zombie outbreak.
Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer
(1986) 83 Min.
Rated: Unrated (Gore, rape, corpse dismemberment)
Director: John McNaughton
Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★☆
Drifter Henry meets up with his friend Otis to go on a killing spree.
