12 WTF Horror Films You Need To See Before You Die

12. Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky (1991)

Part monster movie, part prison drama, part martial arts movie and part messed-up strange – make that a lot messed-up strange – Riki-Oh is a genre-hopping assault on good taste that, like a septic tank explosion, must be seen to be believed. Too ludicrously excessive to be taken as anything other than a romp, it exists solely to snap bones, spray blood and give you a good time, and you can’t say fairer than that.

Ricky is a student of Chi Gung, a “mystical kung-fu style” that involves tearing off jaws, gouging out eyes and hacking off limbs, which comes in handy when he’s imprisoned for slaughtering his girlfriend’s killers. The corrupt governors want to recruit him for their opium business, but when Ricky refuses, the warden hires an army of thugs to torture him. One of these fellas is so tough that, rather than admit defeat, he disembowels himself and starts strangling Ricky with his intestines.

The warden’s patience has its limits, however, and after watching Ricky be a fly in the ointment, he decides to transform himself into a (hilariously unconvincing) monster for their final showdown. Prison Break, this is not.