Your Favourite Horror Film from 1967

bizarre_eye@Cult Labs · #1 22nd April 2011, 06:21 PM

1967 was a year for some brilliant horror films, but which one is your favourite? What makes it special to you? When did you first see it? Would you recommend it to the uninitiated?

Sometimes it's a hard decision to just pick one film (even when you're limiting it to a single year!), but my favourite film of 1967 is...

The Fearless Vampire Killers Or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth are in My Neck - Roman Polanski

One of my favourite comedy horrors of all time, Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers is not 'laugh-out-loud' funny, but it never pretends to be. Not being a huge fan of horror comedy in general (very hard to pull off horror and comedy and make a decent film in my opinion; I'm more of a fan of dark comedy), TFVK relies more on dry wit, which works really well. The setting and mood of the film are in perfect balance with the comedy, and Polanski has created one of the finest films of the 1960s in TFVK, in my opinion.

Trailer:

Runners Up:
Circus of Terror
Frankenstein Created Woman
The Gruesome Twosome
The Mummy's Shroud
Night of the Big Heat
Quatermass and the Pit
The Sorcerers
Theatre of Death
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Torture Garden
The Touch of Her Flesh
Viy

Demdike@Cult Labs · #2 22nd April 2011, 06:45 PM

I wish that was me in the pic of Sharon Tate.
Check out the look in her eyes.

J.R. · #3 22nd April 2011, 09:33 PM

I'd like to say it's The Sex Killer, but that ould be a lie... I'd say Frankenstein Created Women.

Susan Denberg - hubba hubba!

Make Them Die Slowly · #4 22nd April 2011, 10:30 PM

"Quatermass and the Pit" for it's mix of folklore and sci-fi terrors. For me I see the film in a continuum that includes such works as ""Blood On Satan's Claw", "Psychomania", "The Wicker Man" and such 70s kids tv shows as "Children of the Stones", "Raven" and "The Owl Service".

Since I love Michael and Roberta Findlay's work so much I'm going to go for "The Touch of her Flesh" as my favourite from this year. I can't really explain fully why I like their body of work. I really like the full on sexual rage that runs through their films, a rage that both loves and hates sex. I also get the sense that deep in the heart of Michael Findlay a poet, however psychotic, was waiting to blossom. There is a weird experimental artiness to some of the Findlay's 60s films that at times transcends the general theme of go go dancers being killed in increasingly bizarre ways that for me make them stand head and shoulders above other more well known sexploiter film makers. Finally it does no harm that I have a fetish for rough as f*ck looking women with hairy armpits, bruised legs, big bums, way too much make up and massive beehive hair who like to go go dance!

bizarre_eye@Cult Labs · #5 22nd April 2011, 10:38 PM

Quatermass would have been my next choice - it almost reminds me of a classic Dr Who story.

As for the Findlay's, I haven't explored much of their work only the infamous 'Flesh' trilogy, which I enjoyed for what it was; low budget sleazy goodness!

J.R. · #6 22nd April 2011, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Quatermass would have been my next choice - it almost reminds me of a classic Dr Who story.

Yeah, Image of the Fendahl wears its Quatermass influences on its sleeve, methinks!!

Make Them Die Slowly · #7 22nd April 2011, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

As for the Findlay's, I haven't explored much of their work only the infamous 'Flesh' trilogy, which I enjoyed for what it was; low budget sleazy goodness!

Try "Take Me Naked", it's kind of low brow, beat poetry sexploitation.