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.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
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Strega - Aug 11, 2008 10:17:27 am PDT #7576 of 10000
Laga - Aug 11, 2008 11:03:01 am PDT #7577 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I Spit on Your Grave
Strega - Aug 11, 2008 11:48:10 am PDT #7578 of 10000
I was going to include that, but it was 1978. And Last House on the Left is almost the same movie.
Laga - Aug 11, 2008 11:50:29 am PDT #7579 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
oops I was thinking 70's. I missed the 1975 cutoff.
Theodosia - Aug 11, 2008 11:51:00 am PDT #7580 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Does Jaws count as horror?
megan walker - Aug 11, 2008 11:56:35 am PDT #7581 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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!
Laga - Aug 11, 2008 11:57:12 am PDT #7582 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
yes! Now I need to watch it again.
Glamcookie - Aug 11, 2008 12:11:05 pm PDT #7583 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
The Last House on the Left
t shudder
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 11, 2008 2:15:58 pm PDT #7584 of 10000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
I watched Sunshine last night. I have to agree with everyone else that it's good until it stops being good.
Yes, really. Such potential. Such a fine story for 80% of the movie. Such a bloody nonsensical waste.
To a lesser degree this could also be said of Doomsday which manages to be gory fun with a relatively cohesive but strained storyline, which then just flushes it down the loo and decides to wrap things up as if everyone making it was kind of late for the last bus home. No meaningful narrative or emotional resolution in the thing.
Kevin - Aug 11, 2008 2:20:24 pm PDT #7585 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Doomsday... Yeah. It's like a live action Reaver movie. I really like the director - he made one of my favourite horror movies, The Descent, which cares about it's characters and is AWESOME - but the last bit of Doomsday is pretty rubbish.