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Ogroff (1983)
Possibly the worst film I've ever seen
Everything about this is so incompetent it's hilarious. The editing is atrocious and looks like it was done by a mental patient with safety scissors. Everything is shot in wide coverage so there's a lot of 10-15 second long shots of people running towards the camera. The whole film resolves around chase scenes that have all the dramatic tension of an episode of Who's The Boss. The big bad villain just looks like a dumpy hobo and is less scary. Not to mention that it badly and blatantly rips off The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That said: it's hilariously bad. Like, Manos: The Hands of Fate level bad, and in fact the camera work and editing is very similar.
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981)
Probably the most hardcore "dope movie" ever
So much so that it's kind of difficult to watch. I dare anyone to point to a more viscerally awful withdrawal scene than the one in this film. You can't really top vomiting blood on your last hit of dope and caring more about the fact that you ruined your last hit. The tacked-on happy ending was a bit lame, though. The real Christiane never kicked dope and has ruined her liver from hep-C and is still on methadone to this day...
Night Train to Terror (1985)
What else could you want?
I just saw Bull from Night Court knock a dude's head off with a baseball bat. This is everything you could possibly want from a 1980s indie horror film.
Manson (2009)
Historically important if nothing else
If you're a student of Mansonalia like I am, this isn't going to teach you anything new, and it's basically verbatim reciting Bugliosi's "innocent little Linda Kasabian" narrative - Bugliosi even appears here to say the same things you've heard him say in every other documentary. However, there's one important thing that makes this stand out: it's the only appearance of the real Linda Kasabian in a documentary and likely the only one that will ever be. Catherine "Gypsy" Share also shows up, but that's hardly unique, "token Manson associate in documentaries" seems to be her gig now. Would I recommend it? Yes, if you're a Manson completist and the idea of "Kasabian's only ever appearance" is even important to you, otherwise no.