Written by Amando de Ossorio Directed by Amando de Ossorio Starring Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon, Jose Thelman Released April 10, 1972 (Spain) RT 101 min. Home Video Blue Underground (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) In The Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), it’s not what the Knights Templar do when they’re dead…

Written by Joel Seria Directed by Joel Seria Starring Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Gerard Darrieu, Michel Robin Released April 5, 1971 (Cannes Film Festival) RT 102 min. Home Video Mondo Macabro (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Watching a lot of horror films, there have been times when they cease to shock me. Don’t get me…

Written by Lucile Laks Directed by Paolo Cavara Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet, Barbara Bach, Giancarlo Prete Released August 12, 1971 (Italy) RT 98 min. (uncut) Home Video Blue Underground (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) As much gialli as I’ve watched lately (Don’t Torture a Duckling, The Suspicious Death of a Minor, The…

Written by Dario Argento Directed by Dario Argento Starring Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho Released February 27, 1980 (Milan) RT 96 min. (?) Home Video VCI Entertainment (DVD, Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Once again, I’m not sure exactly which version of a foreign movie I just watched.  I’m…

Written by Yilmaz Tumturk Directed by Metin Erksan Starring Canan Perver, Cihan Unal, Meral Taygun, Agah Hun, Erol Amac RT 101 min. Home Video Telavista (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 2 (out of 10) Today’s movie takes us into a bizarre subgenre called “Turksploitation.”  Wikipedia defines turksploitation as “a tongue-in-cheek label given to a great number of unauthorized…

Written by Ian Sutherland Directed by Peter Carter Starring Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell Released July 21, 1977 (Canada) RT 100 min. Home Video Nostalgia Family (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10)Rituals (1977) is a refreshing pre-slasher horror film because its victims are not horny teenagers or scantily-clad women.  They’re middle-aged professional men.  Well, on…

Written by Ernesto Gastaldi Directed by Sergio Martino Starring Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Adolfo Caruso, Massimo Girotti Released August 12, 1975 (Italy) RT 100 min. Home Video Arrow Video Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) is an odd film to categorize, if, like me, you’re compelled to do that kind…

Written by Richard Robinson and Alan Caillou Directed by John “Bud” Cardos Starring William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, David McLean, Natasha Ryan US Premiere August 24, 1977 (San Francisco) RT 97 min. Home Video Shout! Factory Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Five years after the release of Frogs, the “Nature Gone Wild” or “Eco-Horror” film…

Written by Michael Crichton Directed by Michael Crichton Starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin US Release August 17, 1973 RT 88 min. Home Video Warner Brothers Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Twenty years before Steven Spielberg directed Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Crichton himself directed another movie about an amusement park gone wrong.…

Written by David Seltzer Directed by Richard Donner Starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton US Release June 25, 1976 RT 111 min. Home Video 20th Century Fox Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) One of my biggest disappointments rewatching movies from the 1970s has been the realization that…