After suffering a nervous breakdown, a washed-up horror-film actor agrees to do a TV-series based on his old screen creation, the monstrous “Dr. Death.” Soon the cast and crew of the series begin dying in mysterious ways.
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Horror History: Wednesday, December 26, 1973: The Exorcist was released in theaters
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 26, 1973: The Exorcist was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 3, 1973: Blackenstein was released in theaters
A bona-fide classic of the “blaxploitation” era! A Vietnam veteran has lost his arms and legs when he stepped on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with the vet’s fiance) switches his DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 3, 1973: Blackenstein was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, July 12, 1973: Lon Chaney, Jr. passed away
Horror History: Wednesday, June 27, 1973: Scream Blacula Scream was released in theaters
Blacula, back in the world of the living by means of voodoo, is now loose with an insatiable bloodlust on a small community in the Louisiana backcountry.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 27, 1973: Scream Blacula Scream was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1973: The Legend of Hell House was released in theaters
A millionaire hires a team of paranormal investigators to determine whether his newly acquired mansion is haunted.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1973: The Legend of Hell House was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, April 5, 1973: Theatre of Blood was released in theaters
Vincent Price is a crazed Shakespearean actor who adds murder to his repertoire when he takes gruesome revenge on the critics who slighted him.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, April 5, 1973: Theatre of Blood was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 30, 1973: The Vault of Horror was released in theaters
Five unsuspecting hotel guests step into an elevator, which leads them into an underground vault. Trapped with no way out, each guest shares a gruesome tale of an encounter with death. But as the stories unfold, the men begin to suspect that their presence in the vault is no coincidence, and that the only way out…is death. Starring Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Denholm Elliott (Raiders Of The Lost Ark), Curt Jurgens (The Mephisto Waltz) and Michael Craig (Mysterious Island), this ferociously entertaining film is a worthy sequel to Tales From The Crypt!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 30, 1973: The Vault of Horror was released in theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, March 27, 1973: Sisters was released in theaters
Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters’ insidious sibling bond.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, March 27, 1973: Sisters was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 16, 1973: The Crazies was released in theaters
Its code name is ‘Trixie,’ an experimental government germ weapon that leaves its victims either dead or irreversibly insane. When the virus is accidentally unleashed in Evans City, Pennsylvania, the small community becomes a war zone of panicked military, desperate scientists and gentle neighbors turned homicidal maniacs.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 16, 1973: The Crazies was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1972: Dracula A.D. 1972 was released in US theaters
While England swings, the immortal blood sucker finds jaded psychedelic-era kids are ideal victims. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing again face off in a Hammer Studio frightfest.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1972: Dracula A.D. 1972 was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1972: Asylum was released in US theaters
When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) arrives at the Dunsmoor Asylum for the incurably insane, he expects to be interviewed by asylum director Dr. Starr. Instead he is met by Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who explains that Dr. Starr had suffered a mental breakdown and now is one of the patients. Dr. Rutherford decides that if Martin can deduce which one is really Dr. Starr, then he will be given the position. Is it Bonnie (Barbara Parkins), whose affair with a married man turns murderous? Is it Bruno (Barry Morse), a hardluck tailor visited by a mysterious stranger (Peter Cushing) with a blueprint and very special fabric for an unusual suit? Is it Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), accused of murdering her brother and her nurse but insisting that her friend Lucy (Britt Ekland) was responsible; Or is it Dr. Byron (Herbert Lom) who claims the ability to transfer collecting?
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1972: Asylum was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1972: Grave of the Vampire was released in theaters
A vampire attacks a couple in a graveyard, brutally raping the woman. The child born feeds only on the blood of his mother, until she dies from anemia. As the child grows into adulthood, he curses his heritage.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1972: Grave of the Vampire was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, October 11, 1972: Countess Dracula was released in US theaters
In medieval Europe aging Countess Elisabeth rules harshly with the help of lover Captain Dobi. Finding that washing in the blood of young girls makes her young again she gets Dobi to start abducting likely candidates.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 11, 1972: Countess Dracula was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 22, 1972: The Gore Gore Girls was released in theaters
Strippers at a sleazy club are being mutilated at an alarming rate.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 22, 1972: The Gore Gore Girls was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, August 30, 1972: The Last House on the Left was released in theaters
Two girls are tortured and left to die after they become captives of four prison escapees. The merciless criminals end up in the house of one of the girls and the mother tortures and kills them.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 30, 1972: The Last House on the Left was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 25, 1972: Blacula was released in theaters
In 1780, African Prince Mamuwalde pays a visit to Count Dracula seeking his support in ending the slave trade. Instead, the count transforms him into a vampire! In LA nearly two centuries later Mamuwalde emerges from his coffin as “Blacula!”
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 25, 1972: Blacula was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1972: Beware! The Blob was released in theaters
The Blob returns,more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Larry Hagman (who also directed), Burgess Meredith, Dick Van Patten, Robert Walker and Shelly Berman, add to the fun. A geologist (Godfrey Cambridge) unwittingly brings home an unusual frozen piece of debris from the North Pole. But when it accidentally thaws, the hungrier-than-ever blood-red Blob comes to life again, consuming nearly everyone in its path and terrorizing the town. No one is safe as it crawls into a bowling alley and oozes its way across an ice rink, becoming grotesquely bloated with the blood of its victims. Can this bizarre creature ever be stopped?!
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1972: Beware! The Blob was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 9, 1972: Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things was released in theaters
Actors led by Alan Ormsby go to a graveyard on a remote island to perform a Satanic Ritual. The ritual works and soon the dead are walking about and eating the flesh of their victims.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 9, 1972: Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 17, 1972: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? was released in US theaters
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre “Hansel and Gretel” twist.
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Malevolent frogs proliferate at a country residence.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 10, 1972: Frogs was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, March 9, 1972: Tales from the Crypt was released in theaters
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, March 9, 1972: Tales from the Crypt was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, September 2, 1971: Lust For a Vampire was released in US theaters
A mysterious man performs the rites of black magic bringing the notorious female vampire Carmilla Karnstein back to life. Looking to quench her bloodlust for the fairer sex, she enrolls at an exclusive girl’s school as the young debutante Mircalla (Yutte Stensgaard), and begins to feast on her fellow students as well as indulging in her unholy desires for a teacher.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, September 2, 1971: Lust For a Vampire was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 27, 1971: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death was released in theaters
An ex-mental patient lives with her husband in an old farmhouse, with the undead for neighbors.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 27, 1971: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 30, 1971: What’s the Matter with Helen? was released in theaters
Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters star in this stylish shocker set in 1930s Hollywood about two women who come to Tinseltown to start an idyllic new life and end up in a terrifying nightmare.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 30, 1971: What’s the Matter with Helen? was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 18, 1971: Willard was released in theaters
A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 18, 1971: Willard was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, June 17, 1971: The Horror of Frankenstein was released in US theaters
On the sudden death of his father, young Victor Frankenstein inherits his title, his castle and his taste for grisly experiments.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, June 17, 1971: The Horror of Frankenstein was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 11, 1971: The Mephisto Waltz was released in theaters
Alan Alda’s character is a music journalist whose career as a piano player came to an end when his debut concert received undeservedly scathing reviews.
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Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1971: The Cat o’ Nine Tails was released in US theaters
When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò, who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1971: The Cat o’ Nine Tails was released in US theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, May 18, 1971: The Abominable Dr. Phibes was released in theaters
Love means never having to say you’re ugly.
One by one, Vincent Price kills off a team of doctors who failed to save his wife on the operating table. Due to injury in an auto accident, Phibes has no face or voice. He devises gruesome ends for the doctors, each death patterned after one of the plagues brought down on Ramses in ancient Egypt — from bats to locusts.
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