70's horrors

[Donald the Great]

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This is appropriate for the Yuletide season.

Slasher produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by A. Roy Moore. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder and John Saxon. The story concerns a group of sorority sisters who receive threatening phone calls and are eventually stalked and murdered by a deranged killer during the Christmas season.

[zabadak]

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Dark Star, 1974, directed by John Carpenter and co-written by John o'bannon, low budget but fun to watch,a little masterpiece.

Great film (I would call it sci-fi, not horror though...) - Dan O'Bannon also wrote Alien.

[angliaknight]

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Shivers, Cronenberg's very unpleasant early film, aka The parasite murders, even its title shivers can be taken in many ways, "iv'e got the shivers" or "i just felt a shiver down my spine" or "i'm shivering" , every time i hear someone say these things i think of that film.

[staffslad]

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Dark Star, 1974, directed by John Carpenter and co-written by John o'bannon, low budget but fun to watch,a little masterpiece.

Agree that Dark Star is a good one. For such a miniscule budget, Carpenter et al did very well in producing a decent looking and entertaining film.

Another from 1974 is Shivers, including that infamous bath scene.

One of Romero's less well known films from 1973, The Crazies. It was remade about a decade or so ago, but imo the original is the best.

[angliaknight]

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Dark Star, 1974, directed by John Carpenter and co-written by John o'bannon, low budget but fun to watch,a little masterpiece.

[Donald the Great]

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I have a preference for psycho thrillers. One of the best and most obscure ones is The Godsend with Angela Pleasence. Anyone seen this?

[angliaknight]

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Not sure this was '70s material but one of the few real shock-u-mentaries which was banned for years in the U.S for years, chilling narration by Chuck riley and proud to have all real footage with nothing staged is "THE KILLING OF AMERICA" which you can see on Youtube, an astonishing film, well made and groundbreaking, still packs a punch today, you have been warned.

[zabadak]

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Night Hair Child was the one with child actor Mark Lester as a disturbed schoolboy. Death Line is pretty good--very grimy and sleazy in that 70s way. The two Dr Phibes films are very enjoyable and inventive imo. Films like those were where Vincent Price really excelled--Theatre of Blood was another. He could let himself go a bit and seemed to really enjoy that kind of role.

Yeah - Death Line is a hoot!

[staffslad]

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WHOOPS?....wrong film, sorry. It is called Death Line NOT Night Hair Child

Night Hair Child was the one with child actor Mark Lester as a disturbed schoolboy. Death Line is pretty good--very grimy and sleazy in that 70s way. The two Dr Phibes films are very enjoyable and inventive imo. Films like those were where Vincent Price really excelled--Theatre of Blood was another. He could let himself go a bit and seemed to really enjoy that kind of role.

[Diver1]

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Around 1971/72
Dr Phibes........the abominable Dr Phibes and Dr Phibes Rides again ( I think ). Scared me witless
also Night Hair Child......about a bloke/mutant who lived in a disused Tube Station on the London Underground and all he could say was 'Mind the Gap'. On the rare occasions I go to London if I go on the Tube it still freaks me out

WHOOPS?....wrong film, sorry. It is called Death Line NOT Night Hair Child

[Diver1]

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Around 1971/72
Dr Phibes........the abominable Dr Phibes and Dr Phibes Rides again ( I think ). Scared me witless
also Night Hair Child......about a bloke/mutant who lived in a disused Tube Station on the London Underground and all he could say was 'Mind the Gap'. On the rare occasions I go to London if I go on the Tube it still freaks me out

[angliaknight]

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The Gore Gore Girls from 1972 with probably nobody you've heard of, including me. HG Lewis splatter film about someone killing go-go dancers.

Horror Hospital from 1973 with robin Askwith. Gory goings-on in a very strange medical facility.[/QUOTE]
Yes H.G.L. Lewis, i had the pleasure of meeting him years ago at a horror film convention, what a gentleman. he was talking about the low budget roadshow movies he and David Friedkin made in the early '60s and Blood Feast was on the police video nasties list in the early '80s!!!.Before the Gore Gore Girls he turned out Color me blood red, 2000 maniacs, Wizard of gore and the amazing Gruesome twosome, they all made money, check 'em out.

[branny]

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Love both Dr Phibes movies. Ingenious deaths in both.

The first "AA" cert i saw at the cinema was a 70s horror. A b movie called The Incredible melting man. Very tongue in cheek.

Some of my other favourites have already been mentioned. Horror express, a good anthology and Alien.

[Joe Chung]

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I always liked Countess Dracula, not for the horror but for Ingrid Pitt, she was a real vixen in it.

I remember it well, my grandmother had it on vhs!

[staffslad]

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The Premature Burial is one of the Poe adaptations produced by AIP in the 60s. Most starred Vincent Price, but I believe he had other commitments when Premature Burial was filmed, hence Ray Milland stepping in instead.