If you’ve ever thought, “Hey, I really want to watch a film about a vampire artist in Mexico who spends most of her time stabbing people and drinking their blood… but also make it dull,” then Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) is the movie for you. Directed by Juan López Moctezuma and starring Cristina Ferrare, … Read More ““Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary” (1975) – A Slasher That’s More of a Snoozer Than a Scream” »
Lèvres de sang (or Lips of Blood) is a film that claims to be a vampire story but spends most of its time being the cinematic equivalent of a bad dream you can’t wake up from — a dream filled with beautiful women, a château, and a plot that refuses to make any sense. Directed … Read More ““Lèvres de sang” (1975) – A Vampire Film with More Whispers Than Bites” »
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) is a film that truly dares to ask the question, “How far can we push depravity before people actually start to turn off the movie?” Directed by Don Edmonds, this Nazi exploitation (or “Nazisploitation,” if you prefer a more technical term) film is about as subtle as a … Read More ““Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (1975) – A Horrifically Exploitative Exercise in Tastelessness” »
The Devil’s Rain (1975) is the kind of movie that dares you to ask: “Is this horror or just a really bizarre religious fever dream?” Directed by Robert Fuest, this cult classic (in the sense that “cult classic” sometimes just means “a movie people remember for how odd it was”) delivers a mix of Satanic … Read More ““The Devil’s Rain” (1975) – A Satanic Soap Opera With More Melting Than Meaning” »
Children of the Corn, but Without the Corn (or the Fun) Who Can Kill a Child? promises a tense moral dilemma, but instead delivers a 90-minute sunburn with intermittent screaming. Director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador starts with a heavy-handed documentary montage of war atrocities against children—a grim, sobering choice that suggests this might be a serious … Read More “Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) – Bad Review with Dark Humor” »
A Phantom Stalks Texarkana Charles B. Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown isn’t just a regional horror flick—it’s a love letter to small-town paranoia and the kind of campfire story that makes you want to double-check the locks. Loosely based on the real-life 1946 “Phantom Killer” case, the film leans on a documentary-style narration that … Read More “The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) – Low-Budget Terror with a High Body Count” »
Welcome to Fly Creek, Where the Ground Bites Back If The Birds made you side-eye pigeons, Squirm will have you staring at your garden soil like it’s plotting your murder. Writer-director Jeff Lieberman takes a simple “nature gone bad” premise and wriggles it into something both absurd and unnervingly effective: what if a lightning storm … Read More “Squirm (1976) – Southern Hospitality Meets Slimy Hostility” »
House of Whipcord (1974) is a grim, unsettling journey into the world of exploitation cinema, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Directed by Pete Walker, this British thriller, often categorized as an “exploitation horror” film, sets out to shock, disturb, and provoke with its themes of sadism, authority, and moral corruption. While it’s … Read More “The Savage Bees (1976) – Mardi Gras, Mayhem, and Mother Nature’s Little Psychopaths” »
When Gregory Peck Met the Antichrist There’s something inherently delightful—if “delightful” is the right word—about watching a cinematic heavyweight like Gregory Peck commit wholeheartedly to a film where his five-year-old son might be the spawn of Satan. The Omen walks that fine line between classy thriller and outrageous pulp, managing to be both unnervingly tense … Read More “The Omen (1976) – The Devil Wears Short Pants” »
From Cult Classic to Cult Catastrophe The original Rosemary’s Baby was a masterclass in psychological horror. This made-for-TV sequel, on the other hand, is like finding out your favorite gourmet restaurant is now serving microwaved burritos out of a gas station. The tension, the subtlety, the creeping dread—gone. In their place: a three-part mini-slog featuring … Read More “Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (1976) – The Sequel Nobody Asked For” »