'War Stories'
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971).
Legend of Hell House (72) really freaked me out as a kid, but it didn't hold up the last time I watched it.
Just for the pop-culture refs, Willard (71) (well, that and the fun of seeing Ernest Borgnine eaten by rats).
Flesh for Frankenstein / Blood for Dracula (both 74) for practically inventing splatstick.
Carrie's a year too late, unfortunately.
What about Daughters of Darkness? Or the Karnstein Trilogy?
Do you have something against the golden age of lesbian vampire movies?
In that vein: 42 Horror Movies Everyone Should See.
I've only seen 6 movies on that list.
Do you have something against the golden age of lesbian vampire movies?
I'd go for Jean Rollin or Jess Franco for those.
Those were just off the top of my head (I mean if I was doing my list, instead of adding movies, Suspiria would be on it - but now that I think about it, that was 77, so it's off the list).
Which reminds me, I'd add Argento's Deep Red (74 or 75) to the list, but only the original cut of the movie, not the incoherent one that got released in the states back in the day.
42 Horror Movies Everyone Should See.
Not a terribly wide-ranging list. Definitely US-centric.
Burnt Offerings fucked me up as a kid. Fucked me right up. Nightmares for days.
Burnt Offerings fucked me up as a kid. Fucked me right up. Nightmares for days.
It's one of those horror movies that's famous for giving people nightmares long after they've seen it.
Burnt Offerings fucked me up as a kid. Fucked me right up. Nightmares for days.
Unfortunately, it doesn't hold up, at least not for me. That seems to happen with so many movies that scared me as a kid. I was gratified that The Haunting (which pre-Suspiria was my biggest horror-movie-trauma event) still managed to give me the creeps when I saw it.
Oh, and speaking of Suspiria, is this the dumbest idea ever? [link]
I always confuse Burnt Offerings with Harvest Home, I think because Bette Davis was in both of them, they both feature young couples, New England villages, etc.
Harvest Home didn't make a *great* TV movie, but man, the book was chilling.
Early 70s horror? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, people.
Also: The Last House on the Left. Theatre of Blood. And maybe High Plains Drifter; it's certainly more of a horror movie than it is a western.