70's British Horror Films

Nothing But the Night is out on a German dvd - I got it a while ago although the packaging was trying to tell me it was The Uncanny.

The German company cocked up and released both films with identical covers
 
Here's a new one I found today that i'd never heard of

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1969) aka Girly

and here are the keyworRAB in the movie forum search thing for it :

female-nudity | mini-skirt | axe | axe-murder | insanity | killer | psychopath | maniac | villainess | murder | nanny | childhood | cult-favorite | decapitation | female-killer | female-psychopath | female-criminal |

so it's not like "The Railway Children" I suspect
 
I have all those on dvd except Dead of Night , but I do have a US tv movie of that name produced by reliable 70's horror man Dan Curtis.
It was made in 1977 and is out on US dvd
 
Rules are made to be broken;)
Shame I mentioned so many films from other decades , mind:o

Er.....I need to start watching films again soon!
 
Theatre of Blood (Robert Morley eating poodles:D)
The Devil Rides Out (1967 I think)
The Omen
Dracula AD 1972
The Abominable Dr Phibes

...does anyone know what the film was that has a blind Donald Pleasance selling matches? I'm sure Peter Cushing and David Warner are in it.

Not really a horror film but I love a spooky 40s film called 'Hangover Square'.
 
Wow yes, I'd forgotten all about Pete Walker when browsing this thread (God I loved Redemption video as a teenager wanting to be corrupted). As exploitation-like as both titles may be in concept and execution, House Of Whipcord really does come off as a very good film, all the more for subverting the cheap sleaziness conjured up by its title.

I haven't seen any of Walker's other 70s Brit-exploiters, which include equally lurid titles such as The Flesh & Blood Show, House Of Mortal Sin and Die Screaming, Marianne. Interestingly, RABM and The Comeback were shown on British TV in the gloomy past of the censor-happy 70s and 80s.

Another great but now 'lost' 70s British horror: Spanish director Jose Larraz's 1973 film 'Symptoms', starring Angela Pleasance (daughter of Donald). It's a superb psychological thriller, of the rare 'daylit' variety, set in a gothic pile in menacing English countryside and paying more than slight homage to Repulsion.
 
there was a Jenny Agutter film where she was a schoolgirl in a Catholic school - and a serial killer? saw it on TV.

yup, good film. Had to read several of the IMBD reviews before anyone actually said what the plot was :)

B/w? EDIT ooh no - it's in colour I see - must have been all the night scenes (or I had a bw tv)
 
Some favorite 60's - 70's horror of mine -

The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Skull
Blood on Satans Claw
Night of the Big Heat
From Beyond The Grave
The Creeping Flesh
The Quatermass Xperiment
 
Dance of the Vampires I know the first one as - brilliant, with Aflie Bass as a Jewish vampire - crucifix time - boy, did you choose der wrong vampire........

Jack MacGowran was such a great actor
 
well I enjoyed "And Soon The Darkness" a lot. Thanks for that.

though it was obvious who it wasn't and who it was, and no real sense that it was going to be Dark Soon either.

But the Hot Pants were sensational
 
I love And Soon The Darkness. The irony being of course that it's never dark! The film mainly takes place in broad daylight and so, locationally, It has such an atmosphere of brooding isolated menace. It instills a kind of agoraphobia in me, because everything is so idyllic and quiet for miles around, that I do believe 'anything can happen'. It's really technically well-made in terms of atmosphere.

Plus I loved the script's cruelty of Karen Dotrice's parting shot to her, then-unbenowknst-to-her doomed, friend following an innocent tiff between them: "Bon bloody voyage!
 
Anecdote about The Monster Club: comic book artist John Bolton created the artwork used in the movie, including the portrait of the Shadmok, which was his own creation.
He was as amazed as anyone when the producers found an actor (James Laurenson) who more or less matched the painting.:)
 
And Soon the Darkness and Dr Jekyll /Sister Hyde both made by Brian Clemens who went on to make Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter then The New Avengers and The Professionals.

It took until earlier this year for him to appear in the Honours list
 
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