A selection of British Horror Films of the 1970s. He inveigles his way into the lives of experimental musician Anthony Fielding (John Hurt) and his wife Rachel (Susannah York), embarking on an emotionless affair with her and memorably demonstrating his power to him on a remote Devon beach.The story is told in flashback, related by Crossley to one ‘Robert Graves’ (Tim Curry) at a hospital cricket match. Otherwise, a too-clever-by-half conjuring trick. Fun though it undeniably is, there was never any danger of Vampyres getting shown on the Croisette.Pete Walker made a string of confrontational horror films throughout the decade, starting with the censor-baiting House of Whipcord in 1974. Hammer had been flirting with lesbian vampires since 1970’s The Vampire Lovers, but even their more transgressive efforts looked terribly coy compared to the frankness of Larraz’s film. The Last Horror Movie. His best were perhaps the harrowing women-in-prison thriller The BBFC were not at all amused with its graphic sex and savage violence, reducing both dramatically. Some of these experiments failed badly but Peter Sykes’ Demons of the Mind was one of the more interesting successes. Case in point was the work of director Pete Walker, who made a string of gritty, exploitative horror outings with some interesting social and anti-authority themes lurking underneath their unpleasant surfaces. Thankfully the Frankenstein series went out in some style with this, the sixth sequel to the film that began their cycle of gothic horrors, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).Peter Cushing – sporting an alarming bouffant – was back as the baron (taking back the role from Ralph Bates, who did a terrible job in The Horror of Frankenstein) and just as crucially Terence Fisher was back in the director’s chair. Meanwhile, Lee is perfect as his unpleasant half-brother and Lorna Heilbron, the victim of another’s madness in Symptoms, goes impressively insane herself here as Cushing’s daughter, driven over the edge after her father injects her with a serum derived from the blood of “the Evil One”. FAB, 2001 - Horror films - 336 pages. 0 Reviews. Given the subject matter it’s appropriate that this was the first British film with a Dolby soundtrack and Skolimowski makes stunning use of the technology, particularly during the aforementioned beach scene. Desperate for food for himself and his dying wife, ‘The Man’ ventures out to Russell Square station to abduct unwary commuters for his larder… Pleasence is given a run for his money by Hugh Armstrong as the cannibalistic survivor, his only words (“Mind the doors”) being used to express a greater array of emotion than most of the supporting cast can muster. Possibly the scariest film ever made - if watched on a VHS tape posted to you by the maker of the film. Filter list by studio. Those wanting to dig deeper should refer to Jonathan Rigby’s definitive study of the British horror film, English Gothic.As the new decade dawned, Hammer were looking to spread their wings and were willing to try new ideas. Tales from the Crypt is arguably the better known, but the best is this, the seventh and final entry in the series.
It all takes a while to get going but culminates in an unexpectedly moving finale that does indeed bring the story full circle. With 48 full-colour pages. Skolimowski isn’t telling (the ending is satisfyingly ambiguous) and the film is all the more disquieting for his reluctance. Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska are the titular undead, luring passers-by to their rambling mansion, draining them first sexually, then of blood.The film owes more to French sex-vampire specialist Jean Rollin than it does to Terence Fisher. - Hotdog (Book of the Month)Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970sTen Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970s Documenting the heyday of independent horror film production in Britain, 'Ten Years of Terror' is an encyclopaedic record of this era featuring a stunning selection of film stills and truly great promotional artwork. Set in an English country house, where a neurotic woman (Angela Pleasence) has invited her girlfriend to stay, it’s a slow burner but…The restoration of José Larraz’s Symptoms, now made available on BFI Blu-ray/DVD, returns a lost gem to the British horror canon. British horror cinema during the 1970s was more than just the fading Hammer and Amicus brands. The restoration of José Larraz’s Symptoms, now made available on BFI Blu-ray/DVD, returns a lost gem to the British horror canon. The experiment was deemed a failure by distributors EMI, who unceremoniously dumped it onto the wrong end of a double bill with the altogether less interesting Tower of Evil.Boasting a wonderful performance by Angela Pleasence’s dad Donald as a no-nonsense copper, this grisly gem tells of the last survivors of a Victorian tunnelling disaster who are living in the labyrinthine depths of the modern-day London underground network.
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