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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.
I Spit on Your Grave
I was going to include that, but it was 1978. And Last House on the Left is almost the same movie.
oops I was thinking 70's. I missed the 1975 cutoff.
Does Jaws count as horror?
Does Jaws count as horror?
It does to me. I believe that seeing that movie way too young is what put me off horror for life. I thought about it everytime I swam at the lake house growing up. And that's freshwater!
yes! Now I need to watch it again.
The Last House on the Left
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