70's horrors

[Powdered toast man]

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The Toolbox Murders is quite good(the Tobe Hooper remake isn't bad either) Another 70s' horror is The Corpse Grinders- and it's terrible!

[Wirral Writer]

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Yeah, saw that movie years ago. Forget it though.

[darren]

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another very good one is communion aka alice sweet alice from 76.

one id recommend.
was not expecting it to be as good as it was.

[Wirral Writer]

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I love Vincent too. There was another notoriously grisly scene in Theatre of Blood too, where Lionheart forces the poodle pie down poor Robert Morley's throat. Ugh! Still can't watch it to this day without feeling nauseous. Way ahead of its time, and even transcends movies like SAW for its sheer gross-out efffect.

[darren]

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a few other very good ones are.

scream of the wolf.
the stranger within.

both from 1974.

both are very good more so the stranger within very like xtro quite atmospheric.

[Wirral Writer]

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Being an ardent Hammer horror fan, I used to love watching the Christopher Lee Dracula films.

[darren]

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he did a lot of superb seventies horrors but i just cant watch them.
its his voice that puts me off.

but yes i love the antholigies.

Ive come to love and admire the work of Vincent Price in recent years. The films he made over here after his Roger Corman, Edgar Allen Poe years in hollywood are some unsung classics and worthy of greater appreciation. I'm thinking of films like The Abominable Doctor Phibes, Theatre of Blood and Madhouse to name a few. He was often unfairly criticised for being too tongue in cheek and "camping" up the roles, but I think he managed to balance the humour, tragedy and horror to perfection.
All too often these days it seems to be one gore shocker after another with no thought of character or development. For me the little humorous asides and charcterizations somehow make the horror sequences all the more intense and chilling when they come.
As an example....In theatre of blood, Price plays a washed up Shakesperean actor who returns from the dead to bump off all his worst critics in a series of chillingly apt Shakesperean vignettes. In one scene mirroring Cymbeline, he dispatches a critic, played by Arthur Lowe (Dad's Army), by drugging him and surgically beheading him as he sleeps next to his also drugged wife. Price does this to the music of Doctor Kildare, assisted by his Daughter in the nurse role, who dutifully passes him the surgical tools to perform the grim operation. Inevitably in the morning the wife awakes from her induced slumber, tries to wake her hubby and on shaking him, faints from abject terror as his severed head rolls off onto the floor like some grotesque football. You dont know whether to laugh or be sickened or both. Take a look you wont regret it. I promise you. Just dont blame me for the rather surreal nightmares that result. Sweet dreams....lol

[Shado66]

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Ive come to love and admire the work of Vincent Price in recent years. The films he made over here after his Roger Corman, Edgar Allen Poe years in hollywood are some unsung classics and worthy of greater appreciation. I'm thinking of films like The Abominable Doctor Phibes, Theatre of Blood and Madhouse to name a few. He was often unfairly criticised for being too tongue in cheek and "camping" up the roles, but I think he managed to balance the humour, tragedy and horror to perfection.
All too often these days it seems to be one gore shocker after another with no thought of character or development. For me the little humorous asides and charcterizations somehow make the horror sequences all the more intense and chilling when they come.
As an example....In theatre of blood, Price plays a washed up Shakesperean actor who returns from the dead to bump off all his worst critics in a series of chillingly apt Shakesperean vignettes. In one scene mirroring Cymbeline, he dispatches a critic, played by Arthur Lowe (Dad's Army), by drugging him and surgically beheading him as he sleeps next to his also drugged wife. Price does this to the music of Doctor Kildare, assisted by his Daughter in the nurse role, who dutifully passes him the surgical tools to perform the grim operation. Inevitably in the morning the wife awakes from her induced slumber, tries to wake her hubby and on shaking him, faints from abject terror as his severed head rolls off onto the floor like some grotesque football. You dont know whether to laugh or be sickened or both. Take a look you wont regret it. I promise you. Just dont blame me for the rather surreal nightmares that result. Sweet dreams....lol

[ann22]

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I loved the anthologies, Dr Terror's House of Horrors, From Beyond the Grave and The House that Dripped Blood. I'm bored with slasher films now but Halloween in its day was terrifying. Still enjoy it for the atmosphere and music. Loved Salem's Lot, though it's more a mini series than a movie and Jaws is one of my favourite films of all time...It's not a typical horror film but it came 3rd in the Channel 4's top 100 horror films.

[ann22]

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Some unintentionally funny horror, which used to be shown on TV a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8bHG4VB2w

This was brilliant. But hardly gets an airing either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfE_nescX0

I remember seeing and hearing trailers for this classic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEVY_lonKf4

A pretty good TV movie, which shouldn't have been remade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6ykIRi3_s

This trailer was better than the movie. But It still chills my spine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxgVoUL22s8

Last but not least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86jAuTQZ-E

Some great memories there...loved The Beast Must Die (remember the 'Werewolf break' halfway through?). The Horror Express gave me the creeps too and as for Magic. Imagine one of those sitting at the bottom of your bed!

[darren]

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ive never seen either believe it or not mate.

and ive the pre certs of both probably cut.

Another is death weekend saw it last night great show.

Nice to see the heroine diane, played by brenda vaccaro single handedly deals with the ones her terrorized her and her rich playboy friend in his house.
Must be at least 15 yrs since i last saw this until i saw it last night.

Yeah, I love Shivers, great flick.
But whenever I watch it I have to double bill it with Rabid.

[darren]

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devils rain is fantastic with william shatner and ernest borgnine.
satans triangle as well.
the haunting of julia as well.

Does anyone remember Alice, Sweet Alice AKA Communion?

I also like The Fog, Tourist Trap, Black Christmas, Legend of Hell House, The Shining, Frightmare, The Sentinel, Carrie, A Bay of Blood, Rabid, Asylum, Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, From Beyond The Grave,The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue, The Theatre of Blood, Deep Red, Lets Scare Jessica to Death, The Exorcist, and Race With The Devil.

The trouble is I don't have much time to watch them all. Currently trying to collect some cult films/TV Series. Maybe I might find the time when my kids fly the nest.

If anyone can give me some recommendations, perhaps some underated hidden gems then that would be great.

[moonvisage]

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One of my favourites,is Disciple of Death with Mike Raven.I have only recently watched it,as it was so difficult to find.I read an online review of it a year or so ago,which slagged it off,But,upon watching it myself,decided it was a decent enough movie and does not warrant much negativity.As a long term horror film fan,i can spot the little things in the movie associated with other horror films that Mike Raven has been in.It's as if Mike Raven made the film,and put loads of bits and pieces from his other films into this one.He wears the same hat he wore in Lust For a Vampire,and tries to dress and appear as Count Karnstein in different sections of the film.I really like what Mike Raven did with this film.

[chrisino]

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Does anyone remember Alice, Sweet Alice AKA Communion?

I also like The Fog, Tourist Trap, Black Christmas, Legend of Hell House, The Shining, Frightmare, The Sentinel, Carrie, A Bay of Blood, Rabid, Asylum, Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, From Beyond The Grave,The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue, The Theatre of Blood, Deep Red, Lets Scare Jessica to Death, The Exorcist, and Race With The Devil.

The trouble is I don't have much time to watch them all. Currently trying to collect some cult films/TV Series. Maybe I might find the time when my kids fly the nest.

If anyone can give me some recommendations, perhaps some underated hidden gems then that would be great.

[n3llyo]

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has anyone mentioned SQUIRM the "man eating "worm film from around 1978