There aren’t too many movie like Robert Fuest’s The Abominable Dr Phibes and anyone who has sampled its psychotropic delights will probably agree with me
Tag: 1970s
Airport (1970) – Review
While The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are rightly considered the mack daddies of the disaster movie genre, essentially creating the building blocks of
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) – Review
What makes a serious filmmaker want to remake a stone cold classic? Is it hubris; the assumption that they can better something that was just
Baron Blood (1972) – Review
When it comes to delivering the atmospheric goods to a horror film, Mario Bava stands as a true pioneer. Whether he was beating the likes
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) – Review
It helps to have rather a loose grasp of sanity when it comes to crafting a horror oddity, but when it comes to the kind
The Last House On The Left (1972) – Review
For those who solely know Wes Craven for his work on the Scream franchise, be warned, back in his days as a fledgling filmmaker, the
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) – Review
You know that feeling when you sit down to watch a movie that you’ve taken for granted since forever and you suddenly say to yourself
From Beyond The Grave (1974) – Review
Since 1965, the anthology movies of Amicus Productions had been providing us with movie after movie of grim karma and numerous things returning from the
The Vault Of Horror (1973) – Review
When you think of comic book adaptations, your brain can’t help but zip to the modern, gargantuan complexities of connected superhero universes or even the
Asylum (1972) – Review
Almost imperceptibly, the landscape of horror was changing. With the 60s now comfortably in the review mirror, a cadre of hungry directors are now poised
The House That Dripped Blood (1971) – Review
After a slow start (for a 60s horror studio at least), what would eventually become known as Amicus Productions portmanteau series finally shifted into a
Tales From The Crypt (1972) – Review
No one could quite line ’em up and knock ’em down like an EC Comics story, those gloriously nasty comic book morality tales that hit
The Devil’s Rain (1975) – Review
Oh sure, the horror subgenre known as Satanic Panic may have made a bit of a resurgence in the last couple of years with Exorcist
The Return Of Count Yorga (1971) – Review
In the annals of iconic Vampire beings, there’s only a few big names that truly stand out. There’s Count Orlork of course; there’s obviously the
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) – Review
Thanks to the iconic efforts of both Universal Studios and Hammer, the domain of the Vampire had comfortably been established since the 30s as lush
Frenzy (1972) – Review
Alfred Hitchcock is usually considered the purveyor of the classy thriller, giving his complex scenarios an air of respectability regardless of having his movies packed
Foxy Brown (1974) – Review
In 1973, actress Pam Grier and director Jack Hill poured some Coffy onto the blaxploitation genre with awesomely sleazy results as socially conscious nurse, Flower
Coffy (1973) – Review
70s exploitation cinema is nothing to fuck around with. If you’re of a nervous disposition and prefer your heroes more clean cut and virtuous, then
Tourist Trap (1979) – Review
The 70s certainly knew how to hold it’s own when it came to the realms of weird-ass horror. Don Coscerelli’s gloriously trippy Phantasm effortlessly turned
When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth (1970) – Review
Hammer obviously still saw gold in the whole prehistoric fantasy thing after the sight of Raquel Welch fleeing stop-motion thunder lizards in One Million Years
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