America/Canada
---David Cronenberg
---George Romero
---Guillermo del Toro
---Sam Raimi
---Stuart Gordon
Europe
---Alejandro Amenabar
---Dario Argento
---Lucio Fulci
---Mario Bava
---Michele Soavi
---Jean Rollin
Britain
-1965-1970
-1971-1976
---Clive Barker
Asia
-1996-2002
---Hideo Nakata
---Toshiharu Ikeda
Links
---DVD's / Videos
---DVD Reviews
---Upcoming DVD's
---Books
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. . . Britain's horror practitioners proceeded to spice up their products considerably. From the blink-and-you'll-miss-them dabs of nudity in pictures like PEEPING TOM and DEVIL DOLL, British horror films were now progressing to exploitative details which would have been unimaginable only five years before. Hammer led the way with a film - their first of the 1970s - which was emblematic not only of relaxed censorship but also of the American desertion of Britain's sinking studios. Apart from a continuation of their Warner Bros liason for three final Draculas, THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, would be Hammer's last film to benefit from American finance; most subsequent films would be backed either by Rank or EMI. It also featured bare breasts galore and a voracious lesbian vampire! ---- - from English Gothic, 2000
. . . so it was left to the independents to find new directions, and there were plenty, some of them interesting, some of them just plain weird. But the contrast between the films of Peter Walker and Anthony Balch, and those of Tyburn, are so great as to warrant a chapter to themselves
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Books, Magazines
Ten Years of Terror: British Films of the 1970s |
| Below is a selected list of the films, along with the Director, Studio and links to Amazon.com and the IMDb. All films are listed alphabetically within their year of production and/or release. If this differs, I have generally gone for the former. |
| Title | Director | Studio | Source | IMDB |
| 1971 | ||||
| The Abominable Dr Phibes | Robert Fuest | AIP | DVD | IMDB |
| Blind Terror | Richard Fleischer | Genesis | VHS | IMDB |
| Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | Seth Holt | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| Burke and Hare | Vernon Sewell | Armitage | ??? | IMDB |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Hawk | DVD | IMDB |
| Crucible of Terror | Ted Hooker | Glendale | DVD | IMDB |
| Demons of the Mind | Peter Sykes | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| The Devils | Ken Russell | Russo | VHS | IMDB |
| Die Screaming, Marianne | Peter Walker | Peter Walker Film | DVD | IMDB |
| Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Roy Ward Baker | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| Endless Night | Sidney Gilliat | British Lion | DVD | IMDB |
| The Fiend | Robert Hartford-Davis | World Arts | VHS | IMDB |
| Fright | Peter Collinson | Fantale | DVD | IMDB |
| Hands of the Ripper | Peter Sasdy | Hammer | ??? | IMDB |
| The House in Nightmare Park | Peter Sykes | Extonation | ??? | IMDB |
| Macbeth | Roman Polanski | Playboy | DVD | IMDB |
| The Nightcomers | Michael Winner | Scimitar | ??? | IMDB |
| Night Hair Child | Andrea Bianchi | Leander | ??? | IMDB |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | Talent | DVD | IMDB |
| Twins of Evil | John Hough | Hammer | ??? | IMDB |
| Vampire Circus | Robert Young | Hammer | ??? | IMDB |
| Venom | Peter Sykes | Cupid | DVD | IMDB |
| Virgin Witch | Ray Austin | Univista | ??? | IMDB |
| What Became of Jack and Jill? | Bill Bain | Amicus | ??? | IMDB |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo | Curtis Harrington | Hemdale/AIP | ??? | IMDB |
| 1972 | ||||
| The Asphyx | Peter Newbrook | Glendale | DVD | IMDB |
| Asylum | Roy Ward Baker | Amicus | DVD | IMDB |
| Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter | Brian Clemens | Hammer | VHS | IMDB |
| The Creeping Flesh | Freddie Francis | Tigon | VHS | IMDB |
| Death Line | Gary Sherman | K-L | ??? | IMDB |
| Disciple of Death | Tom Parkinson | Chromage | ??? | IMDB |
| Doctor Phibes Rises Again | Robert Fuest | AIP | DVD | IMDB |
| Doomwatch | Peter Sasdy | Tigon | DVD | IMDB |
| Dracula AD 1972 | Alan Gibson | Hammer | VHS | IMDB |
| Fear in the Night | Jimmy Sangster | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| The Flesh and Blood Show | Peter Walker | Heritage | DVD | IMDB |
| Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Terence Fisher | Hammer | VHS | IMDB |
| Horror Express | Eugenio Martin | Granada | DVD | IMDB |
| Neither the Sea nor the Sand | Fred Burnley | Tigon | DVD | IMDB |
| Nothing but the Night | Peter Sasdy | Charlemagne | DVD | IMDB |
| Psychomania | Don Sharp | Benmar | DVD | IMDB |
| Straight on till morning | Peter Collinson | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| Tales from the Crypt | Freddie Francis | Amicus | VHS | IMDB |
| Tower of Evil | Jim O'Connolly | Grenadier | DVD | IMDB |
| 1973 | ||||
| . . . And Now the Screaming Starts | Roy Ward Baker | Amicus | DVD | IMDB |
| Dark Places | Don Sharp | Sedgley | VHS | IMDB |
| Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | Casey | VHS | IMDB |
| From Beyond the Grave | Kevin Connor | Amicus | VHS | IMDB |
| Horror Hospital | Antony Balch | Noteworthy | DVD | IMDB |
| Legend of Hell House | John Hough | Academy | DVD | IMDB |
| Madhouse | Jim Clark | Amicus | DVD | IMDB |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Alan Gibson | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| Scream and Die! | Jose Ramon Larraz | ??? | ??? | IMDB |
| Son of Dracula | Freddie Francis | Apple | DVD | IMDB |
| Tales that Witness Madness | Freddie Francis | Tyburn | VHS | IMDB |
| Theatre of Blood | Douglas Hickox | Cineman | DVD | IMDB |
| The Vault of Horror | Roy Ward Baker | Amicus | ??? | IMDB |
| The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | British Lion | DVD | IMDB |
| 1974 | ||||
| The Beast Must Die | Paul Annett | Amicus | DVD | IMDB |
| Craze | Freddie Francis | Herman Cohen | ??? | IMDB |
| Frightmare | Peter Walker | Heritage | DVD | IMDB |
| Ghost Story | Stephen Weeks | Stephen Weeks | DVD | IMDB |
| The Ghoul | Freddie Francis | Tyburn | DVD | IMDB |
| House of Whipcord | Pete Walker | Heritage | DVD | IMDB |
| The Legend of Seven Golden Vampires | Roy Ward Baker | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |
| The Legend of the Werewolf | Freddie Francis | Tyburn | DVD | IMDB |
| Mutations | Jack Cardiff | Getty | DVD | IMDB |
| Persecution | Don Chaffey | Tyburn | DVD | IMDB |
| Symptons | Jose Ramon Larraz | Finition | DVD | IMDB |
| Vampyres | Jose Ramon Larraz | ??? | DVD | IMDB |
| 1975 | ||||
| Expose | James Kenelm Clarke | Norfolk | DVD | IMDB |
| House of Mortal Sin | Peter Walker | Heritage | DVD | IMDB |
| 1976 | ||||
| The Devil's Men | Kostas Karayiannis | Getty | DVD | IMDB |
| Satan's Slave | Norman J Warren | Monumental | DVD | IMDB |
| Schizo | Peter Walker | Heritage | DVD | IMDB |
| To the Devil - a Daughter | Peter Sykes | Hammer | DVD | IMDB |