10 More Horror Movies Everyone Wished Were Way Crazier

6. Final Exam

Final Exam 1981
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In 1980s Britain, moral panic about horror movies and their effect on the nation's youth led to dozens of low-budget horrors being given the now infamous label of "video nasty".

Films such as The Last House on the Left, I Spit On Your Grave, and Cannibal Holocaust all passed into legend as too depraved for human consumption, which ironically made them even more appealing.

Nowadays, video nasties have a special place in horror history, so imagine how deflated you'd be to watch this one and be bored to tears.

Final Exam from 1981 is set on a high school campus and gives a cast of teens the task of evading a mysterious killer before they all go home for the summer. As well as being highly derivative of other slashers from the time, Final Exam isn't half as scary or bloody as those ones, and yet it was still somehow banned as a video nasty, in the same category as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes.

If you're expecting something on the same level as those two, then prepare to be disappointed.

 
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