Best Horror Film of 1972 (part 23 of a series)

Sorry in advance to everything that isnt last house on the left

tempted to vote "The Legend of Boggy Creek" due to the tangential MST3K connection

and im sure there will be some blood feast voters out there and i wish i could join you but

(also some amazing names in this poll - would like to know more about Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? and Don't Torture a Duckling in particular)

The Gore Gore Girls was a complete disappointment btw

"Don't Torture A Duckling" is not at all about what you might hope, based on the name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Torture_a_Duckling

oh wait dont torture a duckling is a fulci right? ive heard good things xpost

Horror Express FTW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoever_Slew_Auntie_Roo%3F

lol I saw where this was going within the first two sentences of the synopsis

love the other

This year seems to be made up of things I have on my to-watch list. On first scan through I'm actually tempted to vote for Asylum, of all things.

Yeah, a lot of stuff here I've been meaning to see... Vampire Circus, The Other, Hungry Wives.

oh hahahaha i missed Night of the Lepus on first scan - so bad its...just bad

uncut vampire circus is streaming on that there netflix you got there

yep, been in my queue for a while. I'll have to watch that one before the poll closes.

I would vote for christopher lee's moustache in horror express

Yeah, Vampire Circus is one. Have been meaning to watch Blood Feast and Don't Torture a Duckling for a while now. Would also really like to see Night of the Lepus just so I've seen it. A few other names I recognise from our film club discussions.

lol

Lewis said of the film, "I've often referred to Blood Feast as a Walt Whitman poem. It's no good, but it was the first of its type."

Season of the Witch is my favorite Romero film and that is saying something. It's only peripherally in this genre, but it is terrifying

whoops, wrong blood feast

HGL's was '63, this one is some italian thing

Yeh, I made that assumption but checked on imdb - fortunately both are ones I wanted to see.

it's a giallo, surprise surprise

the whole thing is on youtube, which is awesome if you speak italian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljjU-y3mYLY

the red queen kills 7 times is a much better title than blood feast

trailer lols @ 1:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i72CNAfv33Q

Never been a huge fan of Last House tbh. A lot of great alternatives here, thankfully.

Asylum
The Blood Spattered Bride
The Case of Bloody Iris
Don't Torture a Duckling
Hungry Wives (aka Season of the Witch)
Images
Tales from the Crypt

Will probably end up voting for Crypt, tho. My favorite of the Amicus anthologies.

feel like all the gialli cancel one another out. they are all quite solid but not a one of these is exemplary. and the best of them, like Duckling and Solange, are just too damn logy.

LHOTL is unpleasant and ground-breaking but, sorry, not very good.

that leaves TFTC and Asylum, both among Amicus' best, which i'll admit gave me pause. couldn't split the vote.

Horror Express, esp. if you can catch a good quality print (look for Image's EuroShock Collection DVD) is everything i personally want from a horror movie: zippy, zesty, inventive, and a little insane.

Very, very tough to pick between the gialli. I'm a huge Edwige Fenech fan so All The Colours Of The Dark is a real option but Who Saw Her Die? is a superb film.

I can finally vote for my beloved Andy Milligan and his two remarkable 1972 features aren't even here! Grrrrr. Really folks, get thee to The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! and, esp., The Man with Two Heads. Truly horrifying beasts, they surpass anything here in their relentless, exhausting misanthropy. Haters, you have a brother in Milligan.

And where's Blood Freak, Brad F. Grinter's morality tale of a Nam vet who becomes a turkey monster after smoking pot? Features tons of Jesus Crispy sermonizing and ends hilariously with the narrator (Grinter himself, I believe) collapsing in a fit of coughing due to too many cigarettes.

And where's The Night of a Thousand Cats? Pieceacrap but fun to watch with friends/kitties.

Also, unrelated, but if y'all haven't seen Alucarda yet, just do it tonight!

Hey horror experts! I always thought Halloween kicked off that odious slasher trend of killing off the characters who have sex. But I recently saw the godawful The Flesh and Blood Show and apparently that bullshit was going on as early as 1972. Anything earlier? And can one link it to Halloween in any meaningful way?

Janet Leigh in Psycho, for one

Anything earlier?

uh, everything earlier? Dracula etc

altho yeah I guess that isn't slasher, but the sex = death theme is very central to horror and predates film by a considerable margin

>Blood Freak, Brad F. Grinter's morality tale of a Nam vet who becomes a turkey monster after smoking pot?

oh my god, I've seen that. it is amazing. a good guy falls in with hippies, and the combination of smoking pot and an experimental chemically-infused turkey renders him hopelessly addicted to drinking the blood of other pot smokers. the 'turkey monster' costume is a rubber mask and a feather lei tucked into his sweater. MUST SEE.

best use of a IRL amputee ever.

Sorry, Kevin - I had all three of those films you mentioned on my original list, but was forced to pare the poll down to 50 choices. I obv haven't seen all of these, so I was forced to use IMDB's ratings as a reference. I was honestly blown away by how many horror movies came out this year.

Oh it's kewl. No biggie. Love that you do these polls.

And yeah, looking for more slasher than horror, i.e. the serial punishment for being sexual. Arbogast certainly doesn't fit here.

all you need to see from 'night of the lepus':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZHReqKRvonE

ha. oops. working hard here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xulXFB3-A3c

Surprised to say that I've never seen Last House. When I did the big independent study in university circa 1984, things like Last House were harder to see--it wasn't playing reps, and I don't remember seeing it in video stores. As time passed, and availability became easier, I lost any desire to see it. I don't think I could handle it today.

Isn't Blood Feast '63 or thereabouts? Is it a remake of the H.G. Lewis film?

Beware! the Blob is absolutely one of the funniest, worst, strangest movies ever made. No budget whatsoever, no actual script (it was largely ad-libbed), no real special effects. Has to be seen to be believed.

Not to mention directed by Larry Hagman.

the original Blob fucked my shit up when I was younger

the scene when it oozed into the movie theater gave me nightmares

beware! the blob features Dick Van Patten ad-libbing the following chant for a troop of boy scouts: "1, 2, 3! We're going on a hike! 1, 2, 3! We're going on a hike!"

that sounds like an entirely different stripe of nightmare fodder

In Finland, it was subtitled "Hey! We're hiking!"

Isn't Blood Feast '63 or thereabouts? Is it a remake of the H.G. Lewis film?

― clemenza, Thursday, May 5, 2011 2:45 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

read thread plz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhVb-1W-MA

the whole thing is on YouTube. it is really the case that absolutely everybody involved with it is on acid. it's "bad," but is to my mind on a whole different plane than a lot of other "watch this, it's terrible" bad movies. it's frankly shocking.

oh my god

I repeat for good measure: "oh my god"

starring Marlene Clark from Ganja and Hess as the love interest of Godfrey Cambridge from Watermelon Man!

wow!

Gerrit Graham ... Joe, Ape-Suited Party Guest
Danny Goldman ... Bearded Teenager
Dick Van Patten ... Scoutmaster Adleman
Tiger Joe Marsh ... The Naked Turk

Brb just added Beware! The Blob to top of Netflix instant queue.

since we're giving shout outs to the more hilarious entries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A

uh

well maybe not "hilarious", but.... something

I think by the end of shooting those two must have been common-law married

If memory serves, Ray Milland's first line after he wakes up from the operation is, "Is this some kind of a joke?"

*insert Lost Weekend joke*

Brb just added Beware! The Blob to top of Netflix instant queue.

I guarantee that this shit will change your life. Like, you think, I have seen shitty movies, how far past all that can it be? But honestly nothing can prepare you for Beware! the Blob. It delivers the goods.

have you seen I Accidentally Domed Your Son? because that movie is seriously the worst thing I have ever seen

oh hahahaha i missed Night of the Lepus on first scan - so bad its...just bad

― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Thursday, May 5, 2011 9:24 AM (2 hours ago)

Night of the Lepus is one of my favorite movies ever! The rabbits look so non-threatening, it's adorable.

have you seen I Accidentally Domed Your Son? because that movie is seriously the worst thing I have ever seen

no but I just watched the trailer & it looks right up my alley

last seconds of beware! the blob trailer killing me

sorry, son of blob

it's the same thing

the fact that it's the same thing within the same trailer is part of what is killing me

the original Blob fucked my shit up when I was younger

the scene when it oozed into the movie theater gave me nightmares

― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Thursday, May 5, 2011 2:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

dude me too! the fuckin o.g. Blob is terrifying

have you seen I Accidentally Domed Your Son? because that movie is seriously the worst thing I have ever seen

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, May 5, 2011 8:40 PM (Yesterday)

Where's the thread of liveblogging this? Jjj & FB, I think, though did you do it too, DJP?

iirc

John Justen and Fluffy Bear will watch it.

oh shit Beware! The Blob is streaming on Netflix

When I was little and living in California, I snuck over to my friend Darrel's house across the street/cul-de-sac to see "The Legend of Boggy Creek." For years afterwards it (and "Count Yorga, Vampire") gave me nightmares. About two months ago I finally got around to watching them both for the first time since I was 5, and a) not only are they both not remotely scare but b) "The Legend of Boggy Creek" might be one of the most boring, inept, least scary movies I've ever seen. It starts out with, no shit, five minutes of nature shots and this boy running through a field. He finally reaches a bar or house or something and says he saw something out in the swamps or whatever. And then the movie shows him running all the way back through the field!

Did I mention it's narrated like a documentary?

"Night of the Lupus" is the killer bunny movie with the guy from Star Trek right? Forest Kelly? And "Frogs," that's the one set on a plantation where frogs (and reptiles) turn again the rich people? Might be the only movie I can remember with someone being attacked by a turtle. Very ... slowly ...

Holy shit aero I am watching "Beware! The Blob" on Netflix right now and OMG even the opening credits are just . . . THRILL TO FOOTAGE OF FROLICKING KITTEN with jaunty synth music THAT INCLUDES CAT-MEOW NOISES. Please tell me the whole movie is like this.

Also please tell me the "Randy Stonehill" mentioned in the credits is the contemporary Christian artist of the same name.

Godfrey Cambridge is drinking an entire six-pack of Schlitz out of a giant vase. This is the greatest movie ever.

Also, why is he staying in a tent in his living room???!

Don't Torture a Duckling?
Don't Torture a Duckling.

runners up:
Beware! The Blob
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The Happiness Cage
The Possession of Joel Delaney
I Dismember Mama
You'll Like My Mother

These are on my to watch list, gotta go for The Last House on the Left out of the ones I have seen, and not the shitty cut DVD I bought by accident.

The Case of Bloody Iris
Don't Torture a Duckling
The Gore Gore Girls
Night of the Lepus
What Have You Done to Solange?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I put my vote in for the great "Horror Express". Lee, Cushing AND Telly Savalas? And one of the coolest aliens/Missing Links ever? love that movie.

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

This is as good a thread as any to bump by friend Jason's upcoming treatise on the New Horror of the '70s: http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Value-Eccentric-Outsiders-Nightmares/dp/1594203024

Sort of a "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls" for the '70s horror set, though not as salacious. He likens it to Mark Harris's "Pictures at a Revolution."

that looks sweet!

It's a good read so far. Not tawdry, very nuts and bolts, in a fundamentally good way.

oooh!

man, that looks like a great read