There's no room left in hell, so the dead walk the earth in George A Romero's second zombie masterpiece. Zombies now outnumber the living and it's looking pretty bleak for society. Fleeing in a stolen helicopter, a group of people decide to hideout in a shopping mall in the hope that they can outlast the plague. Romero uses the set-up to pose questions about a mindless, consumer led society, in which the dead behave in a very similar way to the living. Pile on some fantastically gory, well-realised effects care of former Vietnam combat photographer Tom Savini and this is both a fine straight-up horror and an archly sly satire.

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Zombie master George A Romero rounds off his classic trilogy with a typically understated gore fest. Zombies, now in the ascendant, outnumber humans by 400,000 to one. A group of grotesque scientists (protected by an edgy military) desperately try to find an antidote to the nightmare, experimenting on captured creatures, hoping to subdue them. Work out your own historical or social analogy of that!

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Few directors have maintained a career more dedicated to artistic excess than Ken Russell and this is an excellent example of the man's extraordinary aesthetic. Cheerfully indecent throughout, The Devils finds room for masturbating nuns, plague-ridden corpses, orgiastic religious ecstasy and a characteristically huge performance by Oliver Reed. Scandalously, the censors cut the film to pieces - the BBFC were rather unimpressed by the ‘rape of Christ' scene. Mark Kermode may have rediscovered the lost footage but, so far, the studios have been unwilling to re-released the film uncut.

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Home Improvement meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in one of the original, and funniest, video nasties. The film's grisly reputation, while not entirely unwarranted (there's one particularly graphic moment), ignores a macabre sense of humour and what appears to be Ferrara's own conviction: that modern urban life is worthless and many living it are quite, quite mad. Banned for years in Britain, it was branded as one of the original video nasties.

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