12 Extreme Horror Movies You Need To See Before You Die

10. A Bay Of Blood (1971)

Also known as Bloodbath, Carnage and, confusingly, Last House On The Left II, Mario Bava€™s classic was reviled on its release, with even Christopher Lee voicing his concern at the picture€™s content. Under its American title, Twitch Of The Death Nerve, the film found its audience in Drive-ins and grindhouses, where it played for years. It€™s the archetypal slasher film where people are stalked and murdered in a remote mansion by a barely-seen killer, but later films such as Friday The 13th would do away with Bava€™s convoluted plot and instead concentrate on the grisly murders, which Bay Of Blood has in abundance. In all, 13 characters meet their end in the film, making it Bava€™s most violent picture. Of particular interest to fans of Friday The 13th Part II will be the machete to the face and the young lovers who are impaled mid-coitus, both of which it reuses.