ALICE SWEET ALICE (a.k.a. Communion / Holy Terror) **** USA 1976 Dir: Alfred Sole. 106 mins A startling American giallo with an unforgettable first reel. Disturbed, basement dwelling 12 year old Alice (then-19 year old Paula Sheppard in a remarkable performance), who traps insects in jars for fun and resents…
Browsing: 1970s Horror
Following their highly acclaimed release on Limited Edition Blu-ray, Second Sight is delighted to announce classic Amicus horrors ASYLUM and THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD are set to arrive as Standard Edition Blu-rays, complete with a slew of special features and new reversible sleeve artwork created by Graham Humphreys on…
ASYLUM **** UK 1972 Dir: Roy Ward Baker. 88 mins Played darker and more for straight chills than most of Amicus’ horror anthologies, this stand-out entry from the studio is rich with writer Robert Bloch’s malevolent sense of humour. The wraparound story – later cloned for the non-Amicus TALES THAT…
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD **** UK 1971 Dir: Peter Duffell. 97 mins Despite the title (director Duffell favoured DEATH AND THE MAIDEN), this is an unfashionably bloodless 1970 horror film and also one of Amicus’ best anthologies. Robert Bloch’s script is ripe with self-referential humour, beginning with the framing…
Indicator dives into the dark recesses of British horror cinema of the 1970s to unleash the 1978 horror THE LEGACY. Written by the late, great Jimmy Sangster (The Revenge of Frankenstein, Taste of Fear), this supernatural riff on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is a gruesome, hugely entertaining…