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

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I haven't seen a lot of these, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Trilogy of Terror.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Jaws 5
Deep Red 3
Race with the Devil 2
Trilogy of Terror 2
Criminally Insane 2
Shivers (They Came from Within) 2
The Milpitas Monster 1
The Possessed 1
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1
The Beast 1
Satan’s Children 0
Pick-up 0
Warlock Moon 0
Poor Pretty Eddie 0
Psychic Killer 0
Trip with the Teacher 0
Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake 0
Rattlers 0
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud 0
Sharon’s Baby 0
Satan’s Black Wedding 0
Night of the Seagulls 0
The Night Child 0
Autopsy 0
Black Magic (Jiang tou) 0
Bug 0
The Devil’s Rain 0
Evil Eye 0
Exorcismo 0
Eyeball 0
Don’t Open the Door 0
Garden of Death 0
The Ghoul 0
The Giant Spider Invasion 0
Inn of the Damned 0
Last Stop on the Night Train 0
The Love Butcher 0
Asylum of Satan 0
The Wicked Caresses of Satan 0


Darin, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

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

lil butterball (the baste god) (Edward III), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

trilogy of terror a TV movie btw

lil butterball (the baste god) (Edward III), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

Kind of want to see Race with the Devil.

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

Darin, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

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

Darin, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

An awesome TV movie, but yeah...

The animal magnetism of Tim Pawlenty (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ Criminally Insane

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

Darin, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

loving these trailers

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

Darin, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:43 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Josefa, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

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.

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:49 (fifteen years ago)

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

Brad C., Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

NOOOOO how can I choose between Profondo Rosso and Shivers?

emil.y, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

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.

silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

Oh I am so voting for Crazy Fat Ethel.

Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

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

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

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

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

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

silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

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)

attack of the krampii (Edward III), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

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.

emil.y, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww150/pwnturmom/clap.gif

attack of the krampii (Edward III), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

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.

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

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.

attack of the krampii (Edward III), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:43 (fifteen years ago)

salem's lot

Darin, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 13 December 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

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

He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

so only Mr Hal Jam saw Bug?

http://www.screenslate.com/features/752

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2018 18:38 (seven years ago)


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