Manborg (2011)

Years after the last battle of the Hell Wars, in which the armies of earth fell against the nazi-cyborg-demon armies of Hell, a fallen human soldier wakes as a cyborg. 
Captured by the demons, he and the gang of resistance fighters he is imprisoned with may together be one last hope for humanity... if they can survive futuristic gladiatorial combat in the arena know as The Terrorocticon. 

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Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzalez, and Sylvester and Tweety Pie, have run-ins with Witch Hazel, Haunted Hotels, and a certain Dr. Jykle and his famous potion.

Shadow: Dead Riot (2006)

Sentenced to death by lethal injection, serial killer and rapist Shadow (Horror icon Tony "Candyman" Todd) prepares himself by sharpening his teeth, and carving arcane symbols into his body. During his execution there is a riot, and the bodies of all the inmates killed that day are thrown into a mass grave on the prison grounds.

20 years later the prison is now a private one used to house female inmates, and run a shady research program.

Shortly after the arrival of tough new inmate Solitaire, blood is accidentally spilled on the mass grave... and Shadow's curse is finally complete.

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Prologue aside, the movie's first act is every inch the women's-prison exploitation movie, complete with an unnecessary and gratuitous group-shower scene, cat-fights, a (male) prison doctor who obtains drugs for the inmates in exchange for 'favours', and a (female) guard who coerces prisoners into sexual relations in exchange for protection - something which the governess apparently knows about and is disapproving of... but not disapproving enough to start disciplinary procedures of any kind.

I saw quite enough women-in-prison movies when I was watching the Video Nasties list, and I'm not a fan; coupled with the lousy production, lazy writing, and sub-par acting, I was more than ready to hate this movie.

But at around the half way point, something changes; when the ridiculously bad mutant-baby, and army of zombies shows up, and the details of the research program become clear, things go so batshit crazy that the shoddy production (right down to Tony Todd's laughable dreadlocks), Halloween-outfit grade costumes, and film-school special effect become part of the fun.

By the final act, when the film finally becomes the over-the-top kung-fu women vs zombies movie you never knew you needed, my disdain had completely dissipated.

Yes, it's badly made, terribly scripted, and just out right stupid; but if you can ride out the uncomfortable exploitation of the first half hour or so, and look past the over-lit and over-saturated look captured so poorly on consumer grade digital video, it becomes just the right kind of batshit crazy shitty-movie... and you'll have a riot.

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Pathology (2008)

A medical student, Teddy (Heroes' Milo Ventimiglia) is accepted onto the nations leading forensic pathology program.

He is quickly inducted into a secret society of some of the class' leading students; a society who exist to test their skills with a game.

The game is simple; each member, in turn, tries to create the perfect, untraceable, murder; Then they put it into practice, and the other players must try to determine a cause of death. 

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Scared Shrekless (2010)

Fed up with the Ogres never being scared of anything, the rest of the Far Far Away gang challenge Shrek to a scary-story contest, with the last to flee in terror being crowned The King Of Halloween.

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Stitches (2009)

aka, Sutures

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A group of freinds, most of them medical students, head out to a rented house in the middle of nowhere on vacation, Where they are hunted down by a mysterious man.
They wake up in an underground bunker, which is being used as an illegal medical school,, where kidnap victims are given diseases or injuries, and the students of the underground school are tasked with stabilising them. Succeed or fail, once the victims are finished with, they are harvested for organs.

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Jackyll + Hyde (2006)

Medical student, Henry "J" Jackyll, believes he can invent a drug to change a parent's personality for the better.
Refused help from his university due to his drug's illegal ingredients, he decides to experiment on himself.
Under the influence of the drug, he becomes violent and predatory.
Soon, he starts to slowly lose control of his life, as he become addicted to the drug, and his alter ego takes over more and more.

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The Tingler (1959)

Pathologist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) notices that in subjects terrified at the moment of death, the lower vertebrae are often shattered, he discovers that the tingling at the base of the spine during moment of fear is caused by a parasite... one which can only be dispelled by screaming.
Eventually, a Tingler escapes into a movie theatre; During the initial cinema run, it escaped into the theatre that you were in, thanks to William Castle's innovative 'process', Percepto!

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Frankenweenie (2012)

Victror is a child science-wizz and amatur film-maker; when his best freind, his dog Sparky, is run over, Victor digs him up, and brings him back to life.
With the school science fair coming up, it isn't long before the other kids are trying to reanimate animals using Victor's technology... Unfortunately, Sparky's return is a bit of a fluke, and the other animals all come back as monsters.

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The Box (2009)

The Lewises wake one morning to find a package on their doorstep.
Inside the package is a wooden box, with a red button on top of it, shielded by a locked glass dome.
Later, a Mr Steward comes to give them the key to the dome, and explain the box's purpose.
They are to keep the box for 24 hours, after which Mr Steward will call again to collect it.
If at any point during that 24 hours, the button is pushed, 2 things will happen; Mr Steward will give them $1 million when he collects the box, and someone they do not know will die...

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Monster Brawl.

For the first time ever, 8 monsters are brought together to wrestle to the death, and determine the undisputed 'Monster Brawl Heavyweight Champion'.

Wrestling! Monsters! Jimmy 'The Mouth of the South' Heart... As himself!

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The Human Centipede (First Segment)

A Mad surgeon creates a human centipede from 3 kidnapped tourists.

If you havn't hered about this film yet, and don't know how one makes a Human Centipede, have a study of this diagram, I'll wait...

Properly grossed out? - good!

I put off watching this movie for aaaaaaaagggggggggggges, as I'm not into 'challenging' myself the way I used to be when I was a teenager, but I decided to bite the bullet and 'force it down' for Shocktober...