Set on a remote island where vacationers have abandoned their unwanted pet dogs, The Pack shows man’s inhumanity coming back to haunt him.
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Horror History: Monday, October 3, 1977: Salò was released in US theaters
The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini (Mamma Roma), Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
Read more “Horror History: Monday, October 3, 1977: Salò was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 22, 1977: The Hills Have Eyes was released in theaters
The Carters are an all-American family on their way to California when their car breaks down far from civilization in the remote southwestern desert.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 22, 1977: The Hills Have Eyes was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, July 15, 1977: Shock Waves was released in theaters
In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers – un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the Allies – and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 15, 1977: Shock Waves was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 29, 1977: Empire of the Ants was released in theaters
Vacationers on an isolated island find themselves at the mercy of voracious ants that have become giant mutants after feasting on a leaking barrel of radioactive waste. From a story by H.G. Wells.
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Horror History: Thursday, June 23, 1977: Ruby was released in theaters
Sixteen years after Ruby’s gangster boyfriend was shot and killed, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she owns.
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It is 4 years since Regan s exorcism, and something mysterious is happening again. Father Lamont tries to help, but is finding it difficult.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 17, 1977: Exorcist II: The Heretic was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1977: Day of the Animals was released in theaters
A film that saw the glut of 70s ensemble disaster movies and thought “I could do that for way cheaper!” Guaranteed to delight both fans of animals and twenty four hour intervals of the earth’s rotation. This feature is a parody and contains the original movie combined with a comedic commentary by Mike, Kevin and Bill from RiffTrax (formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000).
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The Starlight, a decrepit hotel run by Judd (Neville Brand), receives few customers. Perhaps it’s the remote location in the Texas bayous or the man-eating crocodile in the backyard. But one steamy night finds the Starlight visited by a runaway prostitute (Roberta Collins, Death Race 2000), a young couple (Marilyn Burns and William Finley) and their child (Kyle Richards, Halloween), a dying father and his daughter (Mel Ferrer and Crystin Sinclaire), and sex-obsessed Buck (Robert Englund, A Nightmare on Elm Street), all of whom will experience an unforgettable night of terror.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1977: Eaten Alive was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1977: The Car was released in theaters
A small town is disturbed when a murderous car wreaks havoc by viciously mowing down innocent victims and Sheriff Wade Parent is the only one that can stop it
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1977: The Car was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, April 6, 1977: Audrey Rose was released in theaters
A happily married couple (Marsha Mason and John Beck) find their lives thrown into frightening disruption when a stranger (Anthony Hopkins) appears at their door claiming that their adopted 12-year-old daughter (Susan Swift) contains the reincarnated spirit of his little girl. Although their daughter has been acting a little strange of late, they dismiss Hopkins as a crackpot. Then “things” start happening, and Hopkins keeps reappearing as a menacing figure, which has a deepening influence on the girl and an increasingly terrifying effect on the family. This haunting, psychological horror film was directed by a master of the genre: Robert Wise (The Haunting).
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, April 6, 1977: Audrey Rose was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, March 19, 1977: Eraserhead was released in theaters
In David Lynch’s “dream of dark and troubling things,” Henry is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a series of strange encounters with the beautiful girl across the hall and the woman living in his radiator.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, March 19, 1977: Eraserhead was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, February 11, 1977: The Sentinel was released in theaters
When a beautiful model rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize the unspeakable horrors that await her behind its mysterious doors.
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The documentary-style story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946–leaving no less than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught…
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After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister becomes the main suspect.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 13, 1976: Alice, Sweet Alice was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, November 3, 1976: Carrie was released in theaters
Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King takes on new life as a teenage horror story unveils the existence of a tortured and anguished high school outcast. Carrie, a telekinetic teenager, unleashes her wrath after years of torment from an overbearing mother and constant cruelty from her classmates. The result of her rage is horrifying.
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Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant run a show in which they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the audience see as a magic trick is actually real.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 3, 1976: Bloodsucking Freaks was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 22, 1976: God Told Me To was released in theaters
A rooftop sniper guns down 14 pedestrians on the streets of New York City. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And each of these unlikely killers makes the same dying confession: “God told me to.”
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 22, 1976: God Told Me To was released in theaters”Horror History: Monday, October 18, 1976: Burnt Offerings was released in US theaters
In the great tradition of haunted house chillers comes this frightening tale of the supernatural set in a sprawling old country mansion.
Read more “Horror History: Monday, October 18, 1976: Burnt Offerings was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, August 25, 1976: J.D.’s Revenge was released in theaters
The story begins in New Orleans in 1942, with black crime kingpin J.D. Walker (David McKnight) shot dead on Bourbon Street. Cut to the present when clean-cut college student Ike (Glynn E. Turman) falls under the malevolent influence of the ghostly gangster. As he begins to exhibit J.D.’s boisterous, violent traits, Ike seeks out a local minister (Louis Gossett, Jr.) to exact his revenge.
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Satan’s son has arrived on Earth and He’s not about to let human parents get in the way. When his wife Katherine’s (Lee Remick) pregnancy ends in a stillbirth in a Rome hospital, U.S. diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) substitutes another baby, whose mother died.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 25, 1976: The Omen was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1976: Grizzly was released in theaters
It’s 18 feet tall, over 2000 pounds, and not content to forage through trash cans. When a killer grizzly terrorizes a state park rampaging for human prey, the ranger and his men must stop the ensuing slaughter. The most dangerous jaws on land, Grizzly was the highest-grossing independent film of 1976 and remains a cult favorite today.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1976: Grizzly was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, August 7, 1975: The Devil’s Rain was released in theaters
Heaven Help Us When the Devil’s Rain! Patriarch Steve Preston goes missing and worried mom Emma (Ida Lupino) sends eldest son Mark (William Shatner) in search for his father. Suddenly, a dying, eyeless Steve returns and demands that the family: “Give Corbis what belongs to him!” before dissolving into a gelatinous meltdown. Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) is a Satanic priest hell-bent on recovering a valuable book listing the names of those who sold their souls to the devil…a book that resides with the Preston family. Mark refuses to hand it over and puts up a brave fight, only to wind up an unwilling sacrifice. Occult expert, Dr. Richards (Eddie Albert) and Mark’s younger brother, Tom (Tom Skerritt) plot to free the Prestons and destroy The Devil’s Rain, a bottle containing the souls of those already damned. The battle rages as the elixir is released and a bloody rain of devilry and malevolence is loosed upon a screaming, melting world.
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Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Lara Parker, and Loretta Swit star in this high-octane horror-thriller about two couples who encounter a vicious, murderous Satanic cult while on vacation in Texas.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 27, 1975: Race with the Devil was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 20, 1975: Jaws was released in theaters
Academy Award-winner Steven Spielberg directs one of the most influential and gripping adventures in film history about the hunt of a deadly great white shark.
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Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women. Written by Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour et al.).
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During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
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Five youths on a weekend getaway fall prey to a depraved family of cannibals in Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece of subversive horror, now featuring a 4k digital transfer and all-new surround sound mix supervised by the director.
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When a young girl mysteriously disappears, police sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not at all what it seems.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 7, 1974: The Wicker Man was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 12, 1974: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell was released in theaters
Last of the Hammer Frankenstein films, this one deals with the Baron hiding out in an insane asylum, so that he may continue his experiments with reanimating the dead, along with inmate Dr. Helder, who has been institutionalized for conducting such experiments.
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