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Subgenre Sampler
Frankenstein (1973)- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson - Little–known TV dramatisation of the Mary Shelley classic is perhaps the most faithful of all versions in concentrating mostly on the monster's…
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Alan Ormsby - This grisly cult horror concerns a film director (Ormsby) and his would–be crew who take off to a spooky island and play scary games with each…
Deathdream (Dead of Night) (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. John Marley, Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin - A presumed–dead Vietnam vet returns to avenge the family (Marley and Carlin, the couple in John Cassavetes' Faces, playing much the same roles)…
Fright (1972)- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Honor Blackman, Susan George, Dennis Waterman… - A 'babysitter in peril' suspenser set around the menacing of Blackman by an escaped mental patient. Not bad as a precursor to the 'slasher' genre.
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)- Dir. Amando De Ossorio
Feat. Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon - Savage 13th Century Templars are resurrected in modern times to exact revenge on young nymphs. The Redemption label redeems another trashy bloodlust…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing - The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
Horror of Frankenstein (1970)- Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates - Camped–up, silly Hammer, in which Ralph Bates' Baron becomes murderously obsessive.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones - Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967)- Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor - The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966)- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell - Reasonably classy Hammer offering about a Cornish mine–operator who uses zombies as a workforce in his tin mine. Good misty atmospherics, with…
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