Your Favourite Horror Film from 1977 3 Attachment(s) 1977 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 1977 is... Martin - George A. Romero A fantastic modern take on the Vampire mythos, Martin is one of Romero's finest films. Not your atypical vampire film, it is more about Martin's struggle with his thirst, and the conflicts between himself and his deeply religious uncle who believes Martin to be 'cursed' and a 'nosferatu'. Brilliantly original, and almost poetic, Martin is probably not most people's favourite horror film form '77, but it certainly is mine. Trailer: Runners Up: Eraserhead Hausu The Hills Have Eyes Hitch-Hike The Last House on Dead End Street Suspiria |
Martin is a classic movie, but the best horror film from 1977 is, without a shadow of a doubt (in my mind anyway), Dario Argento's tour de force of psychological horror: Suspiria. |
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Michael Winner's The Sentinel for me, outrageous fun (and spooky in parts too).I've always found Suspiria overrated, and Martin a bit boring. |
:) Vampix, your being quite annoying. Always listing films i haven't seen - The Sentinel and oddly Invasion of the Body Snatchers. |
You have to see both, they're brilliant! :nod: |
MARTIN,SUSPIRIA are both brilliant films,but this is easy for me-the best film of this year is easily Craven's take on Sawney Bean and his tribe,THE HILLS HAVE EYES. Gritty violent and raw,this takes some beating. The caves where Sawney Bean frequented are down the Ayrshire coast on the road to Stranraer. Not far from a certain mod on here......:shocked: :lol: Other good 'uns from this year are; Wiederhorn's SHOCK WAVES Hooper's DEATH TRAP/EATEN ALIVE Cronenberg's RABID Anderson's ORCA THE KILLER WHALE and of course Boorman's EXORCIST II:THE HERETIC :lol: |
I completely forgot about Rabid -- it's such an unusual movie and I'm no idea how Cronenberg elicited such a great performance from Marilyn Chambers. Looking back, it's not on the same level as films like Videodrome, The Fly or, particularly, Dead Ringers, but it's unforgettable and a 'body horror' classic. |
Yep, The Sentinel is a great film. :nod: Not a fan of The Exorcist II, though. ;) |
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Despite me being a huge Argento fan, it's the original "The Hills Have Eyes" for me- again a title which comes with a healthy dose of 80's video nostalgia.:popcorn: Now here's a curious anecdote you might have heard before: For some strange reason the mutants got changed into ALIENS in the original German dub, which provides some unforgettably cheesy dialogues but strangly enough doesn't hurt the film's impact in the slightest. That last shot of the film before the screen gets red is one of my all time fave finales in the whole genre!:rockon: But I also like: Hitch-Hike The Last House on Dead End Street Suspiria |
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Excellent - THE HILLS HAVE ALIEN EYES |
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It might be a bit heretic, but I like "Hills '77" best WITH its "70's alien dub" intact :rockon:, even though newer (post remake) German DVDs offer an alternate, faithful dub.:nod: Those who own the ABUK SE of "Hills" can take a peak at the German trailer- "alien references" included.:loco::popcorn: |
Well Michael Berryman is rather Alien looking mate!:happy: EXORCIST II THE HERETIC isn't that bad! |
My favourite from this year is...Rituals.Extremely creepy survival horror that puts Deliverance to shame.Runner-ups are Suspiria,The Sentinel & The Hills Have Eyes.Waiting for my copy of Code Red's DVD of Rituals,should be mine any day now.So far all VHS and DVD copies have been crap,but that's gonna change,me hopes. |
Rituals was one of the many DVDs (and BDs) that have been delivered this week and is in the queue to be part of my evening's viewing. I've read nothing but good things so it's something I'm really looking forward to. |
Susperia Gotta go with "Susperia". Few films resonate throughout the genre the way Argento's masterpiece does. The opening sequence alone is worth the price of admission. "Susperia" is one of those films that works by engaging the senses on so many levels. The sumptuous colors, the eerie music, the dizzying unreality of the world it creates make it one of the most influential films of the genre regardless of year or decade. |
The mighty Suspiria, not only is it visually stunning, not only does it have one of the best openings ever, but it hands down has the best score ever put on film. |
Eraserhead, Martin, Rabid, Hausu, Rituals...all these films ought to be in with excellent chances of taking the crown...unfortunately for them, this is the year of Suspiria. And there are very few films that can compare with Suspiria in my book. |
Has to be my second favourite horror film - Suspiria (what a nightmarish fairytale). Runner ups The Hills Have Eyes Rabid The Sentinel |
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I will give Suspiria another look sometime as i found it quite mediocre when i first saw it some years ago. Maybe I was expecting too much... The Sentinel as some mentioned is just awful, really awful :doh: |
Oof, between Martin and Suspiria, that's a bloody tricky one :mmph: ... ... I'm going with Martin cuz I saw it first . . . |
my fave is bava's shock. |
The Sentinel Bava's Shock Suspiria Axe, aka Lisa, Lisa Martin |
Martin IS brilliant! |
Zombie Flesh Eaters Zombie Creeping Flesh Cannibal Ferox Cannibal Holocaust. |
suspiria/eraserhead/hausu Hausu is my favorite of these three though, trippy shiz:rockon: |
Eraserhead, Suspiria, The Hills Have Eyes and Rabid |
Night of the demon 1957 The Shinning Dawn of the Dead 1978 The Devil Rides Out |
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...and he appears to like the Simpsons spoof version of The Shining ;) . . . |
Got 2 be suspiria, but love Hausu & Martin too. :pop2: |
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Martin George A Romero tried something quite different from the run of the mill vampire movies of the time and boy did it work. https://horrorpediadotcom.files.word...mero-title.gif |
My favorite horror film from 1977 is also my favorite horror film of all time....Dario Argentos Suspiria. |
i would say rabid, but looks from this a few good ones that year, never seen or heard of the possessed from that year anyone seen it? https://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...7j0l5.5341j0j7 |
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