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[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by jiraffejustin

I haven't seen it, but judging from it's synopses I would say it's fine. And Giallo definitely counts, I am expecting it to be well represented.

It will be (and is!) in my list.

[Rondadoronron]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I'm a big Ferrara fan and have a real soft spot for The Driller Killer; despite it being marred slightly with the overuse of Tony Coca Cola and The Roosters.

The Shout is fantastic, but it has a lot of competition within this particular decade - my favourite where horror (and cinema in general) is concerned. At least it's above The Driller Killer

Hey noone knocks Tony and the Roosters,not on my watch.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rondadoronron

Hey noone knocks Tony and the Roosters,not on my watch.

I didn't have a problem with them as much as the overuse of them... sometimes it felt like The Tony Coca Cola Film Featuring The Driller Killer.

[Buboven]

Of what I have seen

1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. Black Christmas
3. Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
4. Piranha
5. Shivers
6. Bay of Blood
7. Clockwork Orange
8. Deranged
9. Don't Torture A Duckling
10. Zombie Flesh Eaters
11. Who Can Kill A Child?
12. Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell
13. Young Frankenstein
14. Invasion of The Body Snatchers
15. Legend of The 7 Golden Vampires
16. Blacula
17. Vampyres
18. Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
19. Blood From The Mummy's Tomb
20. Dr Jeckyll and Sister Hyde
21. Night of The Devils
22. Orca
23. Phase 4
24. The Crazies
25. Thriller: A Cruel Picture

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Here's my list from the original thread.


1- Taste the Blood of Dracula
2- Jaws
3- Suspiria
4- The Loreley's Grasp
5- Seven Deaths in the Cats Eyes
6- Blood on Satan's Claw
7- Halloween
8- Zombi 2
9- Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
10- Madhouse

11- The Wicker Man
12- Twins of Evil
13- Horror Express
14- Satan's Slave
15- Cry of the Banshee
16- The Return of the Evil Dead
17- The Case of the Scorpions Tale
18- The Omen
19- The Case of the Bloody Iris
20- Satan's Blood
21- And Now the Screaming Starts
22- The Shout
23- Waves of Lust
24- The Sister of Ursula
25- The Island of Doctor Moreau
26- French Sex Murders
27- Fascination
28- Lady Frankenstein
29- Death Walks on High Heels
30- Valerie and her week of Wonders
31- Strip Nude for your Killer
32- Horror Rises from the Tomb
33- Bluebeard
34- And Soon the Darkness
35- The Legend of Boggy Creek
36- Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
37- A Bay of Blood
38- The Girl in Room 2A
39- The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave
40- Mountain of the Cannibal God
41- Grapes of Death
42- The Nightcomers
43- The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
44- The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
45- Delirium
45- Crucible of Terror
47- Hitch Hike
48- The Iron Rose
49- The Demons
50- The Reincarnation of Isabel

51- The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
52- The Exorcist
53- The Demoniacs
54- Who Saw Her Die?,
55- Night of the Seagulls
56- Race with the Devil
57- Death Line
58- Don't Look Now
59- The Forbidden Photo'sof a Lady above Suspicion
60- The Vampire Lovers
61- Lust for a Vampire
62- Profondo Rosso
63- Vampyres
64- A Candle for the Devil
65- Daughters of Darkness
66- The Black Belly of the Tarantula
67- Lisa and the Devil
68- Beyond the Darkness
69- The Scars of Dracula
70- Requiem for a Vampire
71- In the Folds of the Flesh
72- The Devil's Nightmare
73- Invasion of the Bee Girls
74- From Beyond the Grave
75- A Lizard in a Womens Skin
76- To the Devil a Daughter
77- Baba Yaga
78- Seven Bloodstained Orchids
79- Dracula AD 1972
80- Tombs of the Blind Dead
81- Vampire Circus
82- Don't Torture a Duckling
83- Werewolf Shadow
84- Martin
85- Who Can Kill a Child?
86- Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly
87- The Fiend
88- Legend of the Witches
89- The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
90- Death Walks at Midnight
91- The Toolbox Murders
92- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
93- The Hunchback of the Morgue
94- The Beast Must Die
95- The Mephisto Waltz
96- Flavia the Heretic
97- Short Night of Glass Dolls
98- The Night of the Sorcerers
99- Tourist Trap
100- The Last House on the Left

To be honest, once you get out of the top ten you could just throw them up in the air and whichever order they land in really doesn't matter as i love them all.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Great list, Dem.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Great list, Dem.

Thanks B-E. Not sure if there's anything to add since i compiled it last year. I'll have a think tomorrow.

Putting them in order is a thankless task as each time i watch one it would take a step up the ladder.

It doesn't really matter i guess. I wouldn't want to lose any of them from my collection.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

I've also noticed that I'm still yet to see the films I hadn't seen from your list from the old poll, Dem...

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

The Nightcomers
Invasion of the Bee Girls (I seem to remember you posting some fantastic stills of this one, too)
Legend of the Witches

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Hopefully more people will start to post their lists (or alternatively justin could port them over from the old poll?)

Anyway, some fun potential topics based around our own lists to get the conversational juices flowing and bump this thread a little...

An under-appreciated '70s horror film that more people should see:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

53. Psychomania (1973)

"A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected..."

Hidden gem:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

82. A Woman Possessed (La papesse) (1975)

"Laurent, a seemingly normal young man, is looking to join a witches’ sect that resides in a forest near his house. The only thing is Laurent’s wife Aline also needs to join the sect in order to complete his initiation. Aline is understandably reluctant, so the sect’s heads design a series of events designed to break her down."

[Unreleased as far as I am aware but available to watch on the old 'Tube.]

A classic of the genre that every horror fan needs to see:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

10. Martin (1977)

"Martin (John Amplas) sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and niece in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic monochrome visions of vampiric seductions and torch-lit mobs, but it is impossible to tell how seriously he takes them."

[Rik]

I still need to finish mine, I'm up to 83 at the minute, and I wanna do a full 100