Here's a few films that I've watched recently and I felt deserved a recommendation. I'm sure I could come up with more, but these are the titles that are fresh in my mind.
Who Can Kill a Child? (aka ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?) (1976)
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Here's a fantastic, yet often overlooked film for you fans of evil kid movies.
A couple of English tourists on vacation on an island off the Spanish coast arrive to discover the island deserted, except for the children. The couple soon discover there isn't something right with the children, but can they do the unthinkable to escape?
Article on Twitch:
TIFF 2012 Feature: WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? Continues to Horrify
Pieces (aka Mil gritos tiene la noche) (1982)
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This is a Spanish slasher from the 80s with a Giallo feel.
It's kind of hard to get into the plot for this one because it's pretty incomprehensible at times, but it's one of Eli Roth's favorites (if that means anything to you, he does seem to have a lot of faves...). Basically it's about a slasher running around with a chainsaw on a college campus collecting body parts to finish a human jigsaw puzzle.
What sets this apart from the pack of 80s slashers is how ridiculous it is, yet serious at the exact same time. There's leaps of logic in this sucker that'll make your head spin. It also features perhaps the greatest spontaneous
scene in the history of cinema. Lots of fun!
Intruder (1989)
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Ignore the title on the poster, that's the film's working title and I couldn't find another. Anyway, this is one of the last 80s slashers.
The plot is pretty basic 80s formula. A night crew at a local supermaket are stalked and picked off one by one by an unknown slasher.
Made by Sam Raimi's Evil Dead buddies and featuring performances by Sam & Ted (a certain famous chin shows up for a cameo too), Intruder is a little rough around the edges (very low budget and a slow start), but once the red corn syrup starts flying, it's a great time. This one is notable for having some outstanding special effects by the early KNB EFX Group.
Review on Twitch:
INTRUDER: DIRECTOR'S CUT Blu-ray Review
Mother's Day (2010)
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So if anyone has seen Troma's original 1980 Mother's Day, it's a pretty standard hillbilly rapists in the woods type film like I Spit on Your Grave & The Last House on the Left. The remake is perhaps on of the loosest remakes I've ever seen. It ditches the whole rapists in the woods thing for more of a home invasion style movie.
Two sons return to their childhood home after a botched robbery only to find their mother (and psychotic leader) had lost the house and are forced to take the new occupants hostage while they try to get their mother to sort things out.
While this isn't the type of movie that'll change your life or anything, I thought it was one of the stronger recent horror movies and it had a fantastic performance from Rebecca De Mornay. Remake darlings Jaime King (My Bloody Vanentine and the upcoming Silent Night, Deadly Night remake) and Briana Evigan (Sorority Row) certainly didn't hurt things either.
Father's Day (2011)
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Father's Day is almost a mirror image of Hobo with a Shotgun. Both are born from fake trailers by Canadian filmmakers, both got studio assistance for a full length version, both are throwbacks to 80s VHS schlock (as opposed to the 70s throwback everyone else is doing now) and both are completely, batshit insane. Actually, that's not 100% accurate. Father's Day would actually have to scale it back a bit to be batshit insane. Is there a term for batshit insane amped up to eleven?
Ahab, a gruff-talking, eye-patched man begins a mission to extract revenge on the man who killed his father, Chris Fuchman (yes, it's pronounced the way you think it is), the Father's Day Killer. Ahab is soon joined by a priest and a street hustler on his quest to stop Fuchman and then things get *really* weird.
I'm not doing it justice here, but neither did the trailer so I don't feel so bad. I suggest skimming though the linked article on Twitch if you're interested in the crazy.
Article on Twitch:
TFW 2012: FATHER'S DAY 
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