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Plop yourself down on the sofa and play one of the films listed below—selected after painstaking effort by the highly-skilled PCS team. There's a little bit of everything, and too much of most things. And, if you want to know more before you make your choice, click selected links for a review of each film by someone who appreciates it, too.
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Campy & Kitsch flicks

*Big Bad Mama (1974)
*Black Sheep (2006)
*Blacula (1972)
*Bloody Mama (1970)
*Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
*Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
*Chatterbox (1977)
*Deadly Weapons
(1974) [scroll down page]
*Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
*Dolemite (1975)
*Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988)
*Empire of the Ants (1977)
*Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
*Frankenhooker (1990)
*For Y'ur Height Only (1981)
*Leprechaun 5: In the Hood (2000)
*Mommie Dearest (1981)
*Motel Hell (1980)
*Mother's Day (1980)
*Scum of the Earth (1963)
*Sextette (1977)
*Story of Ricky (1991)
*The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
*The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
*The Killer Condom (1996)
*The Loved One (1965)
*The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
*Visitor Q (2001)
*Watermelon Man (1970)
*What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
*Xanadu (1980)

Horror flicks

*Audition (1999)
*Basket Case (1982)
*Beyond the Darkness (1979)
*Blood Feast (1963)
*Burnt Offerings (1976)
*Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
*Cemetery Man (1994)
*Creepshow (1982)
*Cube (1997)
*Dead Alive (1992)
*Demons (1985)
*Freaks (1932)
*House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
*Maniac (1980)
*Night of the Living Dead (1968)
*Phantasm (1979)
*Pieces (1982)
*Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
*Re-Animator (1985)
*Seconds (1966)
*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
*The Baby (1973)
*The Bad Seed (1956)
*The Evil Dead (1981)
*The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
*The House by the Cemetery (1981)
*The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
*The Stepford Wives (1975)
*The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
*Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
*Zombie (1979)

Not for the Kiddies

*A Serbian Film (2010)Advisory
*Alice in Wonderland (1976)Advisory
*Evil Come Evil Go (1972)Advisory
*Erotic Adventures of Candy (1978)Advisory
*Fairy Tales (1978)Advisory
*Ilsa Series
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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
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Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977)
*Irreversible (2002)
*Nekromantik I and II (1988 and 1991)Advisory
*Russ Meyer's "Up!" (1976)Advisory
*Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)Advisory
*Score (1972)
Advisory
*The Disco Dolls in Hot Skin (1978)Advisory
*The Opening of Misty Beethoven
(1976)Advisory
Drama & Action flicks

*A Clockwork Orange (1970)
*Addio Africa / Goodbye Africa (1966)
*Addio Zio Tom / Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
*Bad Girls Go to Hell
(1965) [scroll down page]
*Barb Wire (1996)
*Blue Velvet (1986)
*Cruel Intentions (1999)
*Death Wish (1974)
*Happiness (1998)
*Ms. 45 (1981)
*Network (1976)
*Requiem for a Dream (2000)
*The Candy Snatchers (1973)
*The Doom Generation (1995)
*The Rapture (1991)
*Thriller: A Cruel Picture
(1973)

Comedy flicks

*Airplane (1980)
*Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
*8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
*Fargo (2014)
*Foul Play (1978)
*Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
*Harold & Maude (1971)
*Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
*Jawbreaker (1999)
*Muriel's Wedding (1994)
*National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
*9 to 5 (1980)
*Office Space (1999)
*Poor White Trash (2000)
*Roger & Me (1989)
*Serial Mom (1994)
*The Money Pit (1986)
*The Out-of-Towners (1970)
*The Ref (1994)
*Waiting for Guffman (1996)

Gay-Themed flicks

*Another Gay Movie (2006)
*Ben & Arthur (2002)
*Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
*Bully (2001)
*But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
*Chuck & Buck (2000)
*Eating Out (2004)
*Edge of Seventeen
(1998)
*Girls Will Be Girls (2003)
*Jeffrey (1995)
*King Cobra (2016)
*L.I.E. (2001)
*Longtime Companion (1989)
*Mandragora (1997)
*Sordid Lives (2000)
*The Children's Hour (1961)
*The Gay Deceivers (1969)
*The Mudge Boy (2003)
*The Opposite of Sex (1998)
*Were the World Mine (2008)