Tag Archives: 70s Horror

In 1977 – nearly 3 1/2 years after the release of The Exorcist (1973) and just a few months before its impossibly awful sequel – came Audrey Rose. Based on Frank De Felitta’s pulpy best-seller (“The novel of reincarnation”), it had a great cast and ...

Made for TV horror movies from the seventies have an undeniably distinct charm. I mean who can forget the sleek sinister tension that builds from story to story in the wonderful Karen Black vehicle TRILOGY OF TERROR (1975), or the ...

Much-loved and much-discussed, The Exorcist (1973) undeniably remains one of cinema’s most treasured films. Not only one of the most successful motion pictures ever made and a classic of the horror genre, this demonic chiller also helped usher in a ...

Dear Reader, even though I’m someone who is frequently accused of being a hateful contrarian, there is a lot—really an embarrassing amount—of love in my heart. Sometimes this love might seem misguided, as in the case of my obsession with ...

In the land of the killers, the mother’s boy will be king. That said, it takes a special kind to really stand out. In Irvin Berwick’s 1977 horror-that-could-have-been-ripped- straight-from- the-headlines film, Hitch Hike to Hell, we get a killer and a situation ...

“Baby, this is going to be the shortest phone call in Bell Telephone’s history.” Earlier this year, I wrote about Vinegar Syndrome’s fabulous Blu-ray release of Dolemite (1975), the first film from comedian and all-around greatest-ever-human, Rudy Ray Moore. While ...

Thanks in no small part to affectionate coverage in Stephen Thrower’s book Nightmare U.S.A., Pigs (1973) has been facing reappraisal as one of the dreamy independent art-horror sleepers of the 1970s, placing it alongside such idiosyncratic gems as Messiah Of Evil, ...

When commentators discuss the horror output of Hammer Studios there tends to be a distinction, between their ‘classic’ pre-seventies output, and then their latter ‘experimental’ period that began around the early seventies and lasted until the studio’s hiatus in 1979.  ...