All-Time Favorit 60s/70s Horror Movie

[FlashHarry]

Poll question: All-Time Favorit 60s/70s Horror Movie

Now, we're talkin' horror, not slasher (though, I suppose, they could intersect.)

I'm sure I left out a ton of great Hammer horror flicks, in addition to strange lesbian vampire movies from Italy and France. But we're talkin' mainstream here...

[Khephra]

1. The Shining was made in 1980

I don't know if that should be included.

[FlashHarry]

14. Well... as it was released in May of '80...

...it was filmed in '79--and it definitely has a 70s sensibility. :)

[maveric]

2. Rosemary's Baby still creeps me out!

Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Mia Farrow.... Great cast, great flick!

[samsingh]

3. wasn't Psyco made in the 60's?

[FlashHarry]

20. Dude! It's on the list!

Made in '60.

[nini]

4. when was Night of the Living Dead out?

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[Individualist]

5. The Haunting

starring Julie Harris.

[mojowork_n]

6. Just to expand your frame of reference, a little...

I couldn't (and didn't) go to see *any* horror movie in the 60's or the 70's because of a horror movie I saw in the 50's...

It was at a neighborhood theatre and I don't think my dad and 20-some-years-older cousin knew what they were getting into when they brought me in. (Maybe they thought it was some sort of contemporary 'Scaramouche'.)

I didn't speak a word of English. I was 4 years old. I saw "The Fly". The Vincent Price original...

It was the first cinema experience I ever had, and I still remember being vividly enchanted by the huge figures moving and flashing and turning on the big screen. I was trying real hard to figure out what the story was, totally captivated...

Then all of a sudden, I was out of my chair, on the floor, crouching behind the seat in front of me, hiding from that monster with the hideous head, screaming at the top of my lungs.

I've never actually seen the whole movie (or the Jeff Goldblum/Gina Davis remake), but I finally caught part of the end, on TV, sometime in the 90's....

Generally speaking, I've never been a very big fan of horror movies, as a genre.

[devilgrrl]

7. Night of the Living Dead - 60's/Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 70's

The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby are also great horror flicks as well.

[mitchum]

8. Yep, those are the ones!

[Skip Intro]

25. Another for Night of the Living Dead (Its Alive gets mention)

NOTLD still creeps me out, as do all of the sequels.

I saw its alive at about 13, talked my dad into taking me to see it. Scared the f*** out of me!

But then again, so did "Legend of Boggy Creek"

[BurtWorm]

26. Night of the Living Dead

scared the living shit out of me. (Flight of the Living Shit?)

[flamingyouth]

28. Night of the Living Dead

[qwertyMike]

9. The Wicker Man

Being re-made with Nic. Cage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[devilgrrl]

11. Nicolas f***ing Cage...

can you believe that shit? If his accent in 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' is any indication of what we're in for when he plays a Scot - we're in for one BAD!!! movie.

BTW, The Wicker Man is a great pic, see the DVD if you have a chance, it has some great features including a documentary featuring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt.

[mitchum]

21. Is he gonna wear the same wig that Christopher Lee wore...

in the original?
What a great movie. Watched it again just a couple of weeks ago. One of my old professors composed that score (and never told me) Who in the hell is gonna pull off the Britt Ekland role? She was certainly in her...ahem...prime in that movie. I can't think of any current contenders.

[Skip Intro]

24. Wow, didn't know that was a movie, it was a recent Maiden song, too

I'll have to find it - the movie.

[Dookus]

10. TROG

About a mean, ancient scary monster, played by Joan Crawford.

Oh, and there was a caveman in it, too.

[Cleve Steamer]

12. Dawn of the Dead

Runner-up: Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[papau]

13. Why not THEM from the 50's - Great ants take over flick!

:-)

[FlashHarry]

15. 50s? Hell, you could do a whole poll on William Castle films!

[1monster]

16. You left out THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!!!

Now that was truely a horror movie!

It was way after midnight when I left the movie theatre after seeing Rocky and his gang. And it was raining as I drove home... :scared:

[FlashHarry]

17. Ugh.

I guess it was pretty cool when I was in high school... The biggest mistake they made was releasing it on video. Without the crowd, it's a really, really bad movie.

[NightTrain]

18. The Exorcist is still the scariest film I've ever seen!

It's been years since I last saw it, but I still have an occasional nightmare. Which just goes to show you that psychological terror is far more frightening than slice-and-dice!

[FlashHarry]

19. I bought the DVD and haven't had the guts to watch it...

Oh, I've seen the movie. I love it. I just don't know if I want to watch it alone. (I didn't get 'the version you've never seen,' by the way. I like the original. Plus, the extra scenes are still in there as extras.)

Interestingly, I've got a movie buff friend who is a lapsed Catholic and won't ever watch it. Just the thought of it freaks him out too much!

[David Zephyr]

22. Invasion of the Body Snatchers Was from the 1950's

but I had to vote for it anyway.

Rosemary's Baby is my second choice.

[FlashHarry]

23. Actually, I was talking about the remake with Sutherland, et al.

[HEyHEY]

27. Just saw texas Chainsaw massacre for the first time

eeewww