BAD (or GOOD) 1970s HORROR MOVIES you LOVE with (or without) redeeming value!!

[JaseSF]

The Land That Time Forgot
The People That Time Forgot - surprisingly fun fare!



Not the 70s but 1968's The Lost Continent keeps coming to my mind in association with these other films being named in this thread for some reason.

[retrorussell]

For an actually good performance by Shatner, and



For showing a kid getting killed!  Not something you see too often in film!

[Skull]

For showing a kid getting killed!  Not something you see too often in film!

It's very sad that William Girdler died so young in a helicopter accident... He did understand horror and his first movie Three on a Meathook (1972) inspired The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) [although I believe he never seen the credit] He gave us such films as Abby (1974), Grizzly (1976), Day of the Animals (1977) and The Manitou (1978) all great films from the 1970's... Sometimes I'd wonder if he was still alive how much Horror would of changed in the 1980's... I do believe [because he did Manitou] William Girdler would be directing Poltergeist (1982) and Tobe Hooper would finish Venom (1981)

[RCMerchant]

The only reason I might love it is because it was on USA, and cable in the '80s gives me nice, warm, fuzzy feelings of nostalgia..

Why have I never heard of this? Why must I now see it?  

Thanks-now I have another on my 'MUST SEE' list!  

I find all 3 Black Magic movies quite fun :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sgQHS5wgZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6WK-415e8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ov7ElxdzIU

AND MORE i HAVE TO SEE! i LOVE THIS FORUM!!! 

[RCMerchant]

For showing a kid getting killed!  Not something you see too often in film!

It's very sad that William Girdler died so young in a helicopter accident... He did understand horror and his first movie Three on a Meathook (1972) inspired The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) [although I believe he never seen the credit] He gave us such films as Abby (1974), Grizzly (1976), Day of the Animals (1977) and The Manitou (1978) all great films from the 1970's... Sometimes I'd wonder if he was still alive how much Horror would of changed in the 1980's... I do believe [because he did Manitou] William Girdler would be directing Poltergeist (1982) and Tobe Hooper would finish Venom (1981)

He also did the incomprehensible-(but still fun! ) ASYLUM OF SATAN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXN-CkWGnLo

[lester1/2jr]

agree on Black Magic.  that is one of my favorite movies of all time.  All thes ekung fu stars who are so cool they don't even need kung fu to make an awesome movie.  some people prefer the sequal because it's gorier but I like the original because it's too funky.

[Skull]

agree on Black Magic.  that is one of my favorite movies of all time.  All thes ekung fu stars who are so cool they don't even need kung fu to make an awesome movie.  some people prefer the sequal because it's gorier but I like the original because it's too funky.

hehe... It either shows you have good taste in movies or your almost my twin :)

[Nukie 2]

I recall seeing this ad late night-on channel uhf 28 outta Southbend Indiania-late at nite-on Double Creature Feature. NEEDED to see it! And did too! At the Strand in Paw Paw-in 1972!


Onna double bill with KING KONG ESCAPES (an older Japenese monster fest!). I was 10 years old.

YOG! MONSTER FROM SPACE!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G3bY8KtbSI

See the giant lobster battle the giant squid over whose the main-course best!

The only reason I might love it is because it was on USA, and cable in the '80s gives me nice, warm, fuzzy feelings of nostalgia..

"Rana", oh, that's such a black-woman's name!

[Rev. Powell]

agree on Black Magic.  that is one of my favorite movies of all time.  All thes ekung fu stars who are so cool they don't even need kung fu to make an awesome movie.  some people prefer the sequal because it's gorier but I like the original because it's too funky.

hehe... It either shows you have good taste in movies or your almost my twin :)

I love BLACK MAGIC too but I didn't think it was appropriate for a thread about movies with "little redeeming value...."  It's a well-made and very original movie.  I'd say it's even a "good movie." 

[Allhallowsday]

agree on Black Magic.  that is one of my favorite movies of all time.  All thes ekung fu stars who are so cool they don't even need kung fu to make an awesome movie.  some people prefer the sequal because it's gorier but I like the original because it's too funky.

hehe... It either shows you have good taste in movies or your almost my twin :)

I love BLACK MAGIC too but I didn't think it was appropriate for a thread about movies with "little redeeming value...."  It's a well-made and very original movie.  I'd say it's even a "good movie." 

We can certainly talk about good movies in this thread; I'll even doctor the thread title if it eases your discomfit a bit.  For example, I think BLACK CHRISTMAS is a good movie, which I have mentioned.  A movie may also be "good" but "bad" for you... 

[Skull]

Good... Bad... The difference is what mainstream thinks... lol

Most of the movies listed were very good to fun so I thought Black Magic fits... I also think anybody that likes "Kill Bill" will find Black Magic so much better [as we as many Shaw Brothers movies]... Oh! Quentin Tarantino the 90's is so over... The schoolgirl in Kill Bill reminds me of the psycho girl in Louis Gossett Jr's The Punisher (hehe)... really nothing super new... although the one in The Punisher was so much better ~ actually I really like the 1989 version more then the 2000 movie (rambling like an old man)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W_iu2AQ1kU

[retrorussell]

Twitch Of The Death Nerve!
I love it because everyone kills each other!



Also,
Zombie because of the unashamedly gory moments.  Yum!

[Leah]

Track of the Moon beast- it's hard for me to explain, but it's like a love-hatred type thing when it comes to this movie.

[RCMerchant]

DEATHRACE 2000!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7T1mzD8nc

KING KONG '76-it's cheeze!

(But....the more I watch it-the more It's a guilty pleasure!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aanYNjjoCQo

[Allhallowsday]

THE WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1971 aka LA NOCHE DE WALPURGIS ~ stars PAUL NASCHY)  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRmT5h8dUvg  

Wish I could find a clip on youtube of THE VAMPIRE PEOPLE a Philippine movie mess which is either 1964 or 1966 (and Sinister Cinema's dvd is in my Amazon cart) but I first saw it late night in the early 1970s probably on the CBS Late Movie... mississippigoddam was that wonderfully bad!!!  

TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1971 ~ LA NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO)  I'd probably love this film, and its lesser sequel (both of which I own) for the incredible cheeze factor, implausibility, great atmosphere, and revolting exploitation, but it still resonates as one of the worst internet forum experiences I've had.  I had posted a mocking criticism that'd be welcomed on this site, but at that forum I was insulted personally by a member and subsequently criticized by the webmaster (a good guy and member of this site - who doesn't post much) to which I responded by throwing down the gauntlet challenging all comers (big mistake on my part) and was subsequently thrown off of the now defunct Scifilm forum.  Those boys just did not want to hear how rotten this movie is... and it is rotten!!  I was later reinstated at Scifilm, but that had stung.  If you haven't seen TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD and love bad movies, this might be the KING of bad movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcbfKZSvI0