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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Most user comments based on French edit (possible spoilers)
Most of the user comments which I concur with are based on the French version produced by Eurocine. This is a Spanish film written, photographed and directed by Franco that was re-edited for its French and English versions by Eurocine which included adding the footage from THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF as well as the whole subplot with Usher's daughter and Morpho in the contemporary part of the film (Vernon and protagonist Antonio Mayans never share the screen with the two French actors). The Spanish version features Vernon recollecting or imagining murdering a number of women. I don't understand Spanish and there are no subtitles on the version I saw but its an atmospheric mood piece that is far easier to watch than the French/English version (though even that version plays better on DVD in French with English subtitles). I'm rating it a 5 because I don't know how well it will hold up with an English translation but it looks better made and conceived than the Eurocine cut. Even though it was made in 1983 (well after the other Franco's death) around the same time as some of his explicit Golden Films productions, there is no nudity and little on screen bloodshed but it shows that Lina Romay can definitely act when clothed.
Revenge of the Boogeyman (1983)
Not bad, actually... (spoilers)
A reflexive horror film that predates any of those tired SCREAM films. Not only do we get the best scenes from the first film (well, most of them) and then we're introduced to some cliché obnoxious (but still engaging) "Hollywood-types" only for them to be gorily killed (by toothbrush, by shaving cream, by hedge-clippers, by tail-pipe, etc). And in the end, the most obnoxious of the survivors gets done away with satisfyingly.
This is a body-count film in the most cynical sense. The film-makers know who the "bodies" are and they make sure that YOU know who they are long before they get killed and that you want them to get killed.