Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1654 Films to Buy & Rent
Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The (1974)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Frank Mills, Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake
- Short TV movie based on the ghost story by M. R. James. Michael Bryant stars as a scholar of Medieval history who finds the clue to hidden treasure…
Turn of the Screw (1974)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Megs Jenkins
- Skillfully laden with Gothic atmosphere, this TV presentation of Henry James' famous tale of possession at a remote country estate is fairly creepy…
Vampyres (1974)
- Dir. Joseph Larraz
Feat. Anulka , Marianne Morris
- Riding on a mini–wave of lesbian vampire movies, this English sexploitation pic turns up both the flesh and blood quotient on the ‘Hammer’…
Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…
- One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…
- Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell
- Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
Candy Snatchers, The (1973)
- Dir. Guerdon Trueblood
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza
- An unheralded gem of the 70's exploitation 'golden age', this subversive yet taut and surprisingly controlled abduction thriller concerns the brutal…
Carnal Violence (Torso) (1973)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Suzy Kendall, John Richardson
- Effective 'giallo' from the obscure but prolific dir. Sergio Martino (whose filmography covers everything from spaghetti westerns to cannibal…
Cauldron Of Death (Ricco) (1973)
- Dir. Tulio DeMicheli
Feat. Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo
- Masquerading as a B–grade horror, this is actually a melodramatic Italian revenge thriller concerning the son of a murdered mobster who is…
Deranged (1973)
- Dir. Alan Ormsby
Feat. Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
- Closely modelled on the exploits of Ed Gein (whose notoriety also inspired PSYCHO and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), Roberts Blossom is…