It's time for the newest movie minute marathon. What better to celebrate the changing of leaves, the longer nights, the inevitable approach of trick-or-treaters soon to be at our door, than with a batch of gruesome and grisly horror movies.
You may or may not be familiar with the fact that the 70's marks the birth of a new kind of on-screen teenager in american cinema. I'm talking about the kind of teenager that is arguably the best kind of all. A set-up, a plot device, for gore and mayhem. The 70's saw more teenagers slain on screen from telikinetic 'she-devils', masked knife wielding lunatics, and mutant flesh-eating zombies than from all war movies combined.
The 70's however, also brought some interesting horror aueters from around the world that are worth noting as well. This marathon will focus on 70's horror from around the world, some well known, others not so much. The line-up is as follows:
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - (Italy) - Dario Argento
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - (US) - Tobe Hooper
The Wicker Man - (GB) - Robin Hardy
Don't Look Now - (G.B./Italy) - Nicolas Roeg
Dawn of the Dead - (US) - George A. Romero
Let the gore begin!
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