Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1654 Films to Buy & Rent
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…
- Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
Homebodies (1974)
- Dir. Larry Yust
Feat. Douglas Fowley, Ruth McDevitt, Frances Fuller
- A blackly humourous yarn about a group of retired tenants who are willing to go to extremes to prevent eviction. Inventive genre pic belies its low…
Inn of the Damned (1974)
- Dir. Terry Bourke
Feat. Dame Judith Anderson, Lionel Long
- An unusual hybrid of Western and horror mystery set in 1890s Australia around an isolated hostel run by a vengeful Austrian (!) couple. Arriving into…
It's Alive (1974)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. John Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan
- A mutant child is born and goes on a murderous rampage while the parents try to come to grips with their 'baby'. With just enough…
It's Alive Collection (It's Alive, It Lives Again, It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive) (1974-1987)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
- All three of Larry Cohen's tongue–in–cheek horror films in one box–set.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975)
- Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
- Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Fusion of Hammer horror and martial arts spectacle follows Peter Cushing's Van Helsen to China where he discovers ol' fangface lurking behind an…
Madhouse (1974)
- Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…
- British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974)
- Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…