Mardi Gras Massacre | 1978 | USA | Jack Weis

Featuring such delights as hands being lopped off and still-beating hearts removed from chests, Jack Weis' splatter sleazefest focuses on a businessman who attends the Mardi Gras festival to seek out prostitutes, sacrificing them on his own purpose -built altar. With bumbling cops on the case, just how many girls will be lost to the weirdo before he gets his just desserts. Essentially a remake of 1963's Blood Feast, the film encountered trouble when Gold Star and Derann released uncut copies on VHS in the UK. Despite the film being quite amateur in style and not terribly convincing, it's presumably the film's lack of defenders that led to the successful prosecution.