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Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1973)
The best low budget horror films tend to be the ones that play to the strengths of the creative forces behind them. In the case of “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things” those strengths are almost...
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Alien (1979)
British director Ridley Scott’s landmark 1979 sci-fi thriller Alien is about seven charmers stuck on a mining ship out in deep space with a creature that they unknowingly pick up while futzing around...
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Deliverance (1972)
If you love the experience of being well and truly scared whilst watching a movie – as opposed to appreciating classic horror from Hammer et al for its “kitsch” nature – then you’ll love Deliverance....
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Murrain by Nigel Kneale (1975 TV)
Although I had grown up with old VHS’s of Kneales masterpiece Quatermass, what led me to 1975′s TV play was one of his early short stories Jeremy in the Wind. Coming across the story in one of many...
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Swarm, The (1978)
First things first: let’s get over all the puns about The Swarm (1978) being history’s biggest ever B(ee) movie; a B-movie…about killer bees! So funny! However, since The Swarm had a budget of over...
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Bell From Hell, A (1973)
A young man named John is released from a mental asylum on parole, and vows revenge on his aunt and cousins who had falsely accused him of being insane in order to cheat him out of his inheritance....
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Beast Must Die, The (1974)
The Beast Must Die was produced in 1974 by Amicus – rather wonderfully described on the DVD cover as “the studio that dripped blood.” It is a classic in the “eccentric millionaire invites guests to...
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Las Vegas Serial Killer, The (1986)
Las Vegas Serial Killer was directed by the now late Ray Dennis Steckler , fondly remembered by cult film fans as Cash Flagg. He started making amateur movies in 1953 aged 15, filming them on an 8mm...
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Exorcist, The (1973)
The name of this film should, at the very least, lead you to assume there is some form of evil possession and exorcism (provided you haven’t been living under a rock or in a fallout shelter for the...
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Don’t Look Now (1973)
I was interested in watching Don’t Look Now as it often crops up in lists of popular horror movies, yet it doesn’t seem to have achieved the status of a classic. It is a film about loss, the landscape...
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