It's GHOUL SUMMER - what are the most ghoulish movies ever made?

It's like if some rando, poorly produced jr. high civics class video got mixed up with The Evil Dead.

Cannibal Ferox is suitably skeevy but obv that's the point

Yeah, the live animal slaughter in lots of Italian mondo/cannibal movies def counts as gross displays of humanity. The rape culture aesthetics of things like New York Ripper, House on the Edge of the Park (or Last House on the Left, also starring David Hess), Don't Torture a Duckling, Straw Dogs etc are equally repugnant.

Straw Dogs rape scene is really strange and not of a piece w those others imo

I don't think this is the right forum or context to directly address that, but it's undeniable that SD was one of the main sources of the 'enjoyment of rape' trope common to lots of exploitative movies in the 1970s (just as the bodily mutilation in A Man Called Horse is one of the things that stands behind the Italian 'savage'/cannibal movie)

fair enough. I think it's a fundamental misreading of the scene but "influence" is a funny/slippery thing

Part of the limits of exploitation filmmaking is the way that it too often erases away any of the nuance and complexity of source material like SD or The Virgin Spring.

I wld highly recommend Stevie Simkin's long monograph on SD, btw:

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/straw-dogs-stevie-simkin/?K=9780230296701

ok sarah im going to watch goodbye uncle tom tonight. im pretty scared. the soundtrack is so ill tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQyJThgf8Y

Dogtooth.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Cat_in_the_hat.jpg

excellent choice

The Uncle Tom trailer is on Youtube and I just watched it. This is my last post as I am now going to step in front of a train.

Underrated ghoul:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/S%26Man.jpg

Justly rated:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Henryportrait.jpg

Shitty:
http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/8585/p8585_p_v7_aa.jpg