1970s
Plot: you are what you eat… or what he puts into his sausages. Lo strangolatore di Vienna (or The Strangler Of Vienna, released internationally as the more sensational sounding The Mad Butcher Of Vienna - or simply The Mad Butcher - and in North America as Meat Is Meat) is
1970s
Plot: nobleman is having a mental breakdown, or is he possessed by a demon? Byleth (Il demone dell'incesto) (or Byleth – The Demon Of Incest, simply Byleth hereafter) is a curio in the pantheon of Italian gothic horror that has remained remarkably minor and elusive despite having all the
1970s
Plot: disabled morgue worker will stop at nothing to resurrect his lost love. The Spanish Lon Chaney, Paul Naschy, is rightly associated with horror and the macabre as that was his genre of choice. Through out his long career he played most, if not all, of the Universal Classic Monsters.
1970s
Plot: not all is well behind the white picket fences in suburban Reykjavík. Art is bound to and reflective of the time it was produced in. As such certain things can only be made under specific circumstances or only in certain time periods. Cinema of the 1970s is particularly wicked
1970s
Plot: girls in a Parisian brothel are brutally murdered by unseen assailant. Even for those in the know of such things director Ferdinando Merighi is a nobody. Judging from the company he kept it’s not exactly a surprise. His association as assistant director to legendary hack Alfonso Brescia is
1970s
Plot: Only one agent can stop a cartel from bankrupting several Asian countries. Singapore never quite etched out a regional cinematic industry the way the Chinese mainland and the more Western inclined Hong Kong did. Like the nearby Taiwan the country often joined in co-productions but never developed much of
1970s
Plot: onward Christian psychos! When Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left (1972) he couldn’t possibly have foreseen the sheer deluge of imitations it would spawn almost overnight. Interestingly, most of these imitations tended to come from Italy. There was only one Grecian but it was so
1970s
Plot: female shape-shifting snake avenges the death of her lover. Nagin (or Female Serpent) is a bona fide classic from the Golden Age of Hindi horror and a thinly-veiled reworking of a French arthouse favourite from the decade before. Decked out with a star-studded cast including Yogeeta Bali, Mumtaz, Femina
1970s
Plot: some siblings scheme, others kill for their inheritance... Just like you don’t need to go to Texas for a good chainsaw massacre, likewise you don’t need to go to Argentina or Mexico to have something resembling a 90-minute pilot to a very deranged unproduced telenovella. Blood Mania
1970s
Plot: journalist and his wife explore French countryside and find witches. La Notte dei Dannati (or The Night Of the Damned, alternatively Il Castello dei Saint Lambert or The Castle of Saint Lambert – and Les nuits sexuelles or Night of the Sexual Demons when it was presented at Cannes Film
1970s
Plot: one hot summer, a lot of beautiful people, romance for everyone. Muriel Catalá made a splash with the World War II drama The Savior (1971). That much was certain. It bombarded her to an instant sex symbol and she was primed to become an international star. If her debut
1970s
Plot: busload of migrant workers is terrorized by vampires in a remote village. A good title can mean a great deal of things. It can make or break your movie, or function as a succint summary of its premise. Ostensibly the worse fate that can befall a horror feature is