70's Horror Film Fans................

Just watching "The Mutations" from 1973. Donald Pleasance with all-purpose Eastern European accent and compulsory planklike US lead.
Plus assorted midgets, circus acts, Tom Baker and several gorgeous girls to be turned into plant/human hybriRAB.
Tragically overlooked at the Oscars.:cry:
 
Blood On Satans Claw was available as a standalone release and was also included in one of those Anchor Bay coffin sets (the Tigon one IIRC).

It seems that Satanic Rites fell into the public domain in the US hence lots of crap bootleg dvd releases of it.

The only decent release on dvd I know of is a US Anchor Bay disc in dvd's early days.

The UK VHS release has 1 second cut out and that version was shown on the BBC a while back.

Its a bit crap though
 
I sold mine as soon as I saw dvd.

Back then Laserdiscs were still worth selling.

But except for a very few unreleased on dvd LD's are worthless.

Nice packaging though
 
I decided I would rather spend my money on films I didn't already have. :)

LaserDisc has a picture quality that is still very good compared to DVD (which could be due to my aging tv, I suppose) and a large number of discs have 5.1 DD sound.

In fact, Dolby Digital was chosen as the standard audio carrier for DVD as there were so many DD encoded LaserDiscs in circulation.

The only drawback is the running time meaning that on longer films you have to change the disc part way through.
 
My most watched horror DVD has got to be "Return of The Living Dead" the mix of horror and extremely dark humour makes it a strong fave. My most watched DVD is a comedy with Val Kilmer called "Top Secret" and it has a cameo star who is better known for horror. The star in question is Peter Cushing.

My fave horror stars are still Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, Cushings gaunt face was perfectly suited to the genre and Prices voice should've been declared a national treasure. I think I must've seen almost every movie they have ever been in and thats a helluva lot of films.
 
I'd probably be close behind you there, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price were like my childhood heroes, yes I was quite a dark child, lol

I already have a big collection of horror movies but only recently discovered things like the Amicus box set were available, my intention is to collect all the hammer generation horror movies :)
 
I loved all those old films. I remember seeing a 'Tales from the Crypt' type of film years ago, can't remember the exactly title, it involved a man who had a cat who used to eat people's heaRAB and also a piano that came to life, sounRAB ridiculous but I was scared out of my wits (think Vincent Price was in it).

One of my favourite old 70's/80's shockers was a film called Susperia and also Rabid, that was super-gory!
 
I know there is a film out now called the Sentinal......Anybody remember the 70's film...with the woman sitting in the window??? She had to be replaced????

I believe that was also called the Sentinal!!
 
Ta-da - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076683/ ! :D

Count me in on the Bring Back Friday Night Horror gang team committee type thing.

Not sure if it's a 70s or 80s film but can anyone think of the title of a film where an American couple vist this old English mansion and things get a bit weird so they try to escape, but the road just keeps leading them back to the house. For some reason I always think it's called The Changeling but that's the one with George C Scott.

Edit: Ahh, think it's The Legacy.
 
I remember paying money to see it. I probably didn't realise it was a Michael Winner movie in my innocence.
It didn't make much sense but it was quite scary in parts. Cristina Raines and Ava Gardner as I recall.:)
 
Suspiria is an awesome movie from Dario Argento made in 1977.
It was the film that put him on the map in the UK after it was released on video.

Rabid was an early David Cronenberg movie starring porn starlet Marilyn Chambers.

Both of those movies were far removed from the traditional horror films of Amicus and Hammer
 
Well, my understanding was that the developers of DVD wanted to go with the superior DTS audio, but the reality was that there were a lot more DD decoders in use in the US than there were DTS. (This is the same reason that US broadcasters adopted DD as the standard audio carrier for digital tv broadcasts.)

The use of MPEG audio in Europe was also advocated by the EU as it was developed by Phillips. However, this idea was abandoned when Phillips were unable to provide the appropriate encoders in sufficient numbers to the Hollywood studios in time for the proposed launch date.

I didn't get involved in LaserDisc until 1993 so asume that I've always had the benefit of new prints, but before I went widescreen, I could not tell the difference in picture quality between LaserDisc and DVD. Even now, I still think the picture quality of LaserDisc compares well to DVD.
 
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