20 Most Insanely Depraved Movie Moments From The Video Nasty Era

20. Donny And His Torture Shack - Don’t Go In The House (1979)

Don’t Go In The House is the first (alphabetically) in a line of “Don’t” warnings on the Video Nasty list. In the film, Donny Kohler (Dan Grimaldi) is a loner, living with his mother in a grand yet creepy mansion.

One day Donny comes home to find his mother has passed away, but instead of calling the hospital or getting the body removed, he celebrates, as you do, by constructing an indoor furnace/torture chamber. He then proceeds to lure unsuspecting young women over to his place to roast them alive.

Donny's first victim is a florist named Kathy (Johanna Brushay). Befriending the harmless-looking man, Kathy escorts Donny back to his mother's house, where he knocks her unconscious, strips her naked, and chains her arms and legs to the ceiling and floor of his makeshift steel room. Ignoring Kathy's screaming pleas for mercy, he burns her to death with a flamethrower. And it's not a pretty sight.