The BBFC weren't too happy with Harvey Keitel's crack guzzling NYPD officer in Abel Ferrara's warped, but brilliant thriller. Thanks to a gambling addiction, Keitel is in serious debut to the Mafia. When a nun is raped and murdered, he spots an opportunity to redeem himself, in the eyes of both God and the mob. Ferrara doesn't so much flirt with the extremes of taste and emotion as molest them but, thanks to Keitel's miraculous performance, he gets his message across.

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Girls just want to have fun in this nihilistic, groundbreaking French feminist rape revenge odyssey. After being gang-raped, Manu (Anderson) murders her brother and boyfriend, before going on the run with prostitute Nadine (Bach), who has just killed her nagging flatmate. The two girls go in search of boys to shag and kill. Carefully calculated to shock, Baise-Moi disgusted and provoked its native French audience. The controversy is not solely confined to the scenes of explicit sex: the real taboo being broken here is the consensual attitude to rape (Manu submits placidly to being raped).

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It may have a low budget, but this original (and excellent) sick horror slasher directed by schlock king Frank Henenlotter delivers big laughs. Former Siamese twin Duane Bradley (Van Hentenryck), who carries his hideously deformed sibling Belial around in a big basket, is out for revenge on the doctors who separated the pair in childhood. This naturally involves setting murderous, mutant bro on them in increasingly imaginative and visceral fashion. Frequently revolting but creative and very funny, this was successful enough to spawn two sequels. The revolting Belial is one of the nastiest things you'll ever see.

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