Tag Archives: 1976

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want more than to have children. When Katherine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family of three takes a summer vacation at an enormous mansion in the hopes of relaxing but instead finds themselves in the grip of a nightmare as several horrific events threatens to destroy them. REVIEW: Burnt Offerings (1976) is Dan Curtis’s film adaptation of the 1973 novel of the same name by the late Robert …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree. REVIEW: I knew pretty much nothing about The Witch Who Came from the Sea  (1976) before I saw it so I went into it totally blind as I didn’t have a clue what it was about (to be honest I had …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across. REVIEW: Master of the Flying Guillotine, which is a sequel to the One Armed Boxer, takes …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Christopher and Celia are enjoying a vacation on the Greek island of Mykonos. Disgusted by what he perceives to be rampant immorality among the locals, Christopher embarks on a crusade to purge the island of its perversions, and Celia is only too happy to lend a hand. After numerous acts of humiliation, rape and murder, they …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mysterious man recruits occult book author John Verney to protect his daughter from a cabal of Satanists. Verney is surprised to discover that the woman he’s protecting happens to be a sheltered nun with little experience in the secular world. The Satanists quickly discover the nun’s whereabouts and set out to kidnap her as part …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults REVIEW: It’s always been kind of a joke in reference to not only horror movies, but mainstream cinema in general: no matter what, you pretty much always know there will be two survivors at the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Hollywood actor returns to his hometown to investigate his sister’s suicide. But he discovers she may actually have been murdered and all the clues point to a cursed church and it’s mysterious priest. REVIEW: I recently worked a particularly spooky night shift with the locations department of a television series. Due to a broken door …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A struggling writer moves out to the country to work on his second novel and decides to hire a secretary to help him type it out. Unfortunately it isn’t long before the people around him start dropping like flies and he realizes that he may be next. REVIEW: I wasn’t that familiar with The House on …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mondo film from 1976, This Violent World gives the viewer an inside look at violent traditions and practices from around the world. REVIEW: Mondo films have a long history, filled with bizarre footage and social commentary. This Violent World carries on that “proud” tradition, contrasting the violence in the natural world with the violence committed by mankind. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young actress throws herself into her work, unwittingly becoming a terrorist in the process. REVIEW: The film opens with a young actress sitting in a bathtub, listening to her director’s instructions through a radio/recording device. Hamdias, the mysterious director, has gone missing for the time being, but has recorded his direction for her to practice …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “The story of Carrie White, a girl brought up, almost in isolation, by her psychotically religious mother Margaret. After an embarrassing incident in the showers causes her fellow pupils to tease Carrie ruthlessly, her teacher Miss Desjardin disciplines them severely. Determined to have revenge, the other students hatch a plot against Carrie, which turns horribly wrong …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An anthology film consisting of five different episodes of violation, torture and genital mutilation throughout Japanese history. REVIEW: Cruel History of Women’s Torture, under any of its similar monikers and literal translations of the original Japanese title, treads a similar path to Teruo Ishii’s notorious The Joy of Torture (1968). Both films adopt the portmanteau structure …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel. REVIEW: “Eaten Alive” is director Tobe Hooper’s 1977 follow up to “The Texas …