Best Horror Film of 1975 (part 16 of a series)

jaws will win, but shivers is an all-time fav for me

trilogy of terror a TV movie btw

Kind of want to see Race with the Devil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqv6PIH_ymY

difficult to say: maybe Picnic at Hanging Rock, even if it is not a proper horror.

Race with the Devil scared me a lot; I saw it again recently, it is solid and Warren Oates is great.
watching Deep Red was a nightmarish experience when I was 11 or so. Shivers is excellent too.

Didn't realize Trilogy of Terror was a TV movie.

An awesome TV movie, but yeah...

lol @ Criminally Insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObUiZfNDRDg

loving these trailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6qv8tJqZU&feature=related

Autopsy is an excellent Italian shocker with an American lead actress. The Italian title is Macchie solari - "Sun Spots" - which makes more sense vis-à-vis the plot. The score is by Morricone.

great titles, but i've seen few of these films and liked only a small handful. odd in comparison with 1976, which coughed up a whole bunch of worthy candidates.

the beast (la bête) - crazy walerian borowczyk flick about french nobles and beastly passions. arty, porny, surreal and totally fucking bonkers. Plot Keywords: Ejaculation In Face | Panties | Sexual Desire | Fairy Tale | Labia odd that they don't mention giant, hairy monster dick. maybe it's implied.
black magic (jiang tou) - comically inept shaw brothers flick about curses and witchcraft, memorably grisly, but often dull
deep red (profondo rosso) - dario argento at full power, one of the best horror/thrillers of the 70s. worth watching for the camerawork and music alone.
the devil's rain - tiresome occult-themed TV movie, liberally studded with 2nd rate or falling stars (borgnine! shatner! lupino!)
jaws - well, it's jaws, right?
picnic at hanging rock - arty, dreamy australian flick about girls turning into birds and the confusion this causes. or does it???
pick up - trippy 70s exploitation featuring beautiful girls, randy rednecks, balloon-bearing clowns and next to no plot. unique, sexy and more ambitious than that snarky description makes it sound.
shivers (they came from within) - cronenberg flick about sex and pathology, naturally. like all of his early work, has a weird, clinical awkwardness that only adds to the creep. similar to rabid, and just as good, maybe better.

Went with "Race with the Devil" over "Shivers," but there are a whole lot of these I haven't seen.

NOOOOO how can I choose between Profondo Rosso and Shivers?

year of my birth. not a great year for non-Argento gialli. the sleazy Autopsy (Armando Crispino), dull Evil Eye (Mario Siciliano), almost transcendently nasty Night Train Murders (Aldo Lado), and thoroughly generic Eyeball (Umberto Lenzi) are all just okay. but then this was the year of DEEP RED, still the greatest giallo of them all (and my poll pick), so it's not a total loss.

someday we'll get a solid, scary adaptation of The Haephestus Plague that isn't quite so Kingdom of the Spiders-y. until then Bug will do. it's better than The Giant Spider Invasion, and the electronic soundtrack is great.

due for a re-watch of The Beast, but my initial impression (when i may have been much too young for such arthouse smut) was utter indifference.

Black Magic is colorful but dull. Shaw Brothers kicked it up a notch with the sequel, though, and they really hit psychotronic paydirt with Seeding of a Ghost(1983).

Nick Millard's non-porn movies, of which Criminally Insane and Satan's Black Wedding, may be the most famous, seem unwatchable. but i've watched - and dare i say enjoyed - both. the kitsch factor can't be disregarded. as an actress, Priscilla Alden is a trainwreck on two legs.

another great year for Satan, eh? only The Devil's Rain and Race are really worth anyone's time, though.

Jaws is a'ight, i guess. never been the biggest fan.

Seagulls is the last and second least of the Blind Dead movies.

seems like a huge stretch to call Picnic a horror. i'm going to pretend it isn't here.

should finally watch Brownrigg's Don't Open the Door. i've been sitting on it for months, and i'm a big Basement fan.

Inn of the Damned sounds interesting.

Code Red just reissued Massimo Dallamano's The Night Child (Il Medaglione Insanguinato). not my favorite subgenre, but i'll be checking it out on the strength of his gialli

Rana (frog monster), Poor Pretty Eddie (Leslie Uggams backwoods nightmare/rape-a-thon), Psychic Killer (astral-projecting revenge romp), Warlock Moon (log-cabin cannibals), Rattlers (guess), Trip with the Teacher (House on the Edge of the Park, on wheels) and The Love Butcher (psycho lothario a go-go) are of that special ilk of low-budget badness that could only be bred in the '70s.

not sure what to do with Shivers. the promise is there, the execution falls way short.

Oh I am so voting for Crazy Fat Ethel.

voted for deep red, btw - will likely finish second to jaws, ahead of shivers

depends on whether or not people consider picnic at hanging rock sufficiently horrific to vote for, i suppose.

of course you are. but you'll have to wait for the 1987 poll.

the devil's rain - tiresome occult-themed TV movie

the devil's rain actually not a TV movie

directed by robert fuest, who has one weird filmography

And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Wuthering Heights (1970)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
The Final Programme (1973)
The Devil's Rain (1975)
Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
The Big Stuffed Dog (1981)
Aphrodite (1982)

never made the connection between The Final Programme, the Phibes flix, and Devil's Rain - until now! Fuest did love his garish sets.

Picnic at Hanging Rock is an amazing film but it isn't a horror. I think I am going to go with Shivers over Profondo Rosso.

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weird, i've only ever seen the devil's rain on TV. assumed it must be a TV movie for some reason, maybe due to the cast and generally, clunky vibe. hides face in shame.

no worries, for many years I thought shock waves was a TV movie!

on a related note we should probably do a TV horror movies of the 70s poll, there are lots of great, or at least well-loved, ones. off the top of my head I can think of gargoyles, dark night of the scarecrow, don't be afraid of the dark, the bermuda depths, trilogy of terror, bad ronald, devil dog.

salem's lot

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This thread got me to research both Poor Pretty Eddie and The Love Butcher on youtube. Both o_O !!!

so only Mr Hal Jam saw Bug?

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