Pastor Pete Peters was an evangelical Bible-thumping right-wing racist, who described himself as a "has-been cowboy wannabe preacher".  He became the pastor of LaPorte Church of Christ in LaPorte, Colorado and established the Scriptures for America, which was an outreach ministry that operated through short-wave radio, and mail order. Pastor Pete wrote a number of books and pamphlets. Through which he promoted his wacko white supremacist Christian Identity theology.

One of the most well known pieces of perverted propaganda that Pastor Pete produced was the short 12 page pamphlet, entitled The Bible: Handbook For Survivalists, Racists (used in his twisted mind as a positive term), Tax Protestors, Militants And Right-Wing Extremists. He claims in the pamphlet that of those aforementioned people, who he saw as being much maligned by the establishment, were actually supported and condoned by his reading of The Bible.

He writes in the pamphlet, "This writing is to present the truth of God's word and to expose a false and evil humanistic, Judeo-Christian, dangerous theology which attempts to malign and destroy Godly Survivalists, Racists, Tax Protestors, Militants And Right-Wing Extremists." Yup, old Pastor Pete was as crazy a Christian as they come. He proclaimed that Europeans comprise the twelve lost tribes of Israel and that contemporary Jews are satanic impostors. And he'd often tell listeners on his radio shows that, "the Bible says it's okay to kill homosexuals." Luckily Pastor Pete died and went to Hell in 2011.

The infamously controversial platform game, that was so much a blatant rip-off of Super Mario Bros. that the original Commodore 64 cover art declared "The brothers are history". The Great Giana Sisters was a German computer game from 1987 developed by Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. It's similarities to the famous Nintendo platformer were so great that urban myths developed around lawsuits being filed by Nintendo, against the makers of the copy-cat game. Originally released on the Commodore 64, it was ported across to the Amiga and Atari ST, as well as the Amstrad CPC and the MSX2. However a planned Sinclair Spectrum version never saw the light of day, supposedly due to legal pressures. Due to the controversy around the game, it has gained a cult status among retro gaming fans, and it rated as one of the best ever C64 games.

The game has two playable characters, the "sisters" Giana and Maria.  The game background and general style looks very similar to Super Mario Bros.  However in the game play, instead of collecting mushrooms from blocks, the sisters gather brightly-coloured balls from blocks.  After collecting the power balls, the characters do not grow large (like in Mario), but instead their hairstyle changes into Mohawks.  Allowing the characters to break blocks, a feature of both games.

Also known as Thriller - A Cruel Picture (Thriller – en grym film in Swedish), is a controversial Swedish exploitation film, that was the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino when he made Kill Bill. A brutal rape and revenge saga, it was originally banned in Sweden and the USA on release, only allowed to be shown after major cuts were made to the film, including the removal of the infamous hardcore sex scene.

A sex trafficked and brutalised prostitute takes revenge on those who have wronged her. Muted after after being raped as a child, and forced into heroin addiction and pimped out by a man she meets. She is blinded in one eye by her pimp for refusing to take a client. She eventually escapes, and begins to take bloody revenge on the men who have taken her life from her.

The film stars 70s porn starlet Christina Lindberg, who had starred in the even more controversial Swedish exploitation porn film, Dairy Of A Rape in 1971. A film that was pretty much banned in all countries. 

Despite its full on exploitation credentials They Call Her One Eye is actually a above average revenge thriller. It is slow paced and actually carefully handled. It's easy to see why Tarantino fell in love with this film and paid heavy homage to it in Kill Bill. It has become an absolute classic of cult cinema. And although it isn't a film you would go back to time and time again, it is a must watch for anyone that claims to be a fan of cult cinema.

At the height of the atomic age, encouraging kid to play with radioactive materials seemed all the rage. There was the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab, where literally kids were handed radioactive materials to play with. Then there were board games like Uranium Rush, which encouraged kids to get out to "them thar hills" and go prospecting for uranium themselves. Through some comic books, kids could even order their ever own Geiger counter, to use to find radioactive materials with.

This involves plugging in an electric "Geiger counter" into the holes in the gaming board, that produces a buzzing sound if uranium is discovered. The claim is then sold to the federal government for $50,000. Players alternate turns until all claims have been staked and the person with the most money is declared the winner. An exciting electronic board game for all the family, from the crazy days of the Atomic Age.

The Beyond (AKA Seven Doors of Death) is a bloody gore filled cult horror film by Italian director Lucio Fulci. Considered by some to be the second movie in Fulci's unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy (which includes City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery). It was initially released heavily cut in the UK and USA.

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana called the Seven Doors Hotel, where after a strange series of "supernatural" incidents, she discovers that the hotel was built over an entrance to Hell. The movie has gained a cult following not only because it is a classic example of Italian horror of the period, but also for the bloody over-the-top scenes strung together by a thin plot. The Beyond isn't a movie you watch for a cleverly conceived narrative plot, it a movie you watch for the set piece gory death scenes. Not more no less, this movie doesn't pretend to be anything more or deliver anything less than somewhat hammy schlock gore, by today's standards. But that is exactly what makes it the cult classic that it is. Zombies, Hell and a nod to Lovecraft. What more could you want?

The nod to Lovecraft, and that this is often placed in the Lovecraftian genre of movies is pretty much down to the reference to the book of Eibon the movie, which appeared in several of Lovecraft's stories. In other ways it nods to Lovecraft in the blurring of the lines between realities, the realms of the living and the dead. However Fulci claimed that it was more a homage to surrealist French playwright Antonin Artaud, than to Lovecraft.

One of the most stunning, poignant, and up-lifting documentaries of recent years. Marwencol is a journey into the fantasy world of one man, Mark Hogancamp. Mark was almost beaten to death outside a bar in 2000. He spent 9 days in a coma and 40 days in hospital. Mark had suffered irreparable damage, having no memory of his previous life. So he created his own history, his own world, his own fantastic story, in 1/16th miniature. He built a WWII era Belgium town in his backyard, and played out stories featuring himself as a action figure, along with his friends, and even his attackers.

Mark beautifully photographed the scenes and scenarios he set-up. Eventually his photos were published, which lead to a gallery exhibition of his work in New York. Making Mark an over-night outside art sensation. The documentary tells Mark's story, the story of Marwencol, and the journey he took, both personal in dealing with his demons, and from the privacy of Marwencol to the bright lights of New York as an acclaimed artist. Making it one of my favourite documentaries ever about an outsider artist.

In 1995 the avant-garde multimedia and music giant eyeball wearing art collective, The Residents brought out a computer game. Bad Day On The Midway is a surreal, dark carnival of a game and multimedia experience. The game was published by inScape, who also published the darkly surreal Edgar Allan Poe game The Dark Eye, also in 1995.

The puzzle based serial killer murder mystery looks like it was spewed from the mind of David Lynch. Lynch was actually on-board at one point to develop the game into a TV series, after Ron Howard bought the rights. You start the game as Timmy, who has skipped violin lessons to go to the Midway. But you soon are able to switch characters, seeing through their eyes, becoming them.

You start the game as Timmy, and young lad who has skipped his violin lesson to go to the Midway. As you play the game, you can switch characters, literally able to see through their eyes, become them. The dated CGI is still creepy, and the characters more so. As embedded in the CGI are real live-action eyes and mouths, just to up the nightmarish quality of the gaming experience. Things twist, turn and randomly happen, and death is almost inevitable, all played out to The Residents soundtrack. 

This one is a real "what-the-hell?!" toy from Marx toy company. The company that brought you Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Released in 1970 Skinny Bones was a creepy construction kit, that allowed children to build a little freaky friend that same size as them. This cute-faced stick thin creature from the bowels of toy hell was part of a whole family of Bones abominations. There was Ginny Bones, the anorexic female counterpart of Skinny. They also had skinny pets. Skinny Bones had a badly neglected nag called Trom Bones (see what they did there?) And Ginny had an emaciated dog called Ham Bones. I assume that the parts of the Bones Family were all interchangeable, so that children could mix and match parts to create even more hideous monsters, to haunt their nightmares. And bring chills to any parent coming in the bedroom, to give their little cherub a kiss goodnight.

What you would do with either Skinny or Ginny bones after you had built them is a mystery. And as far as the tenuous educational value of, "the foot bones is connected to the ankle bone... etc..." Well I can see very little play value in the Bones Family, but years of counselling for owning this life-size plastic skeletal creep-fest was surely on the cards.  

Clip from America TV show Thrift Hunters, featuring Skinny Bones.

The King of Death, is a German experimental horror film by controversial film-maker Jörg Buttgereit, also known for his NEKRomantik films. The film covers themes of death and suicide, with seven separate segments spread over the seven days of the week. The segments are stitched together by footage of a body slowly rotting and consumed by maggots in time-lapse.

Part exploitation movie, part avant-garde arthouse, a thought provoking and at times disturbing film that will stay with you long after watching it. An uncompromising exploration of the cycle of life, which ultimately shows (though the decomposing corpse) that new life comes from death. The nearest example of a film like it, and themes it covers would be the 1990 experimental horror Begotten. Delivered in a cold, stark, detached style, der Todesking is a classic piece of cult European cinema. Not to everyone's taste, but a must see for anyone who appreciates experimental cinema at its best.

Other experimental Buttgereit movies that are worth checking out are 1993's darkly surreal serial killer film Schramm. 1986's Jesus - The Film, made in the exquisite corpse style in 35 segments by 22 individual film-makers in Germany, from 16mm film stock smuggled out of East Germany. More recently in 2010, he released Captain Berlin vs Hitler, a filming of his 2007 campy over-the-top and controversial stage-play. 

Came across a great site that is tallying the death counts in as many movies as it can. The appropriately named Movie Body Counts (www.moviebodycounts.com) has a huge number of movies in its database, and obviously has listed the top movie body counts.

They actually list off the top 101 movies, but once you get the top fifteen, the body counts drop off, and aren't anywhere near as impressive as the top movies. It's not surprising that war movies feature highly in the list, and in particular sword and sandals movies, especially those produced post-CGI age, when vast numbers of virtual soldiers are easily able to be slaughtered on screen. It's not a spoiler to say that the Lord Of The Rings movies feature prominently, with their over-the-top epic battle scenes. 

So here goes, in descending order, the current top ten movies with the highest death count.