From Let Sleeping Corpses Lie to Susperia, these are the best international horror movies from the '70s.
The shifting cinematic culture of the 1970s which saw audiences willing to embrace more confronting material saw the decade become something of a golden era for horror. 1973’s The Exorcist remains one of the most renowned films ever made, while the decade ended with Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien, but it wasn’t just American horror films that thrived through the decade.
9 'The Blood on Satan’s Claw' An unnerving supernatural horror film which also works as an eerie period thriller, The Blood on Satan’s Claw overcame its underwhelming release to become a minor cult classic. Set in 18th century England, it focuses on a small village where the discovery of a strange corpse inspires the youth to conduct disturbing rituals to contact the devil.
The joint production between Italy and West Germany was a critical success upon release and its legacy grew as Argento’s career flourished. It also served as the first installment of Argento’s thematically-connected “Animal Trilogy” consisting of The Cat o’ Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet which also stand as great international horror movies of the decade.
Its gradual building of suspense is rife with great visual terror, masterful editing, and a chilling score which brings to life the couple’s heartache with aplomb. It works to devastating effect as a family drama, but truly makes its mark as a beautifully haunting psychological horror which engulfs viewers from its opening moments.
4 'Deep Red' A coming-of-age in Dario Argento’s career as a masterful horror director, Deep Red is widely viewed to be the filmmaker’s first truly great movie. The film was a trademark offering from Argento, rich with the brutal gore, active camera work, and eye-catching style that would make him such a famous auteur in cinema.
2 'The Wicker Man' The iconic masterpiece of British folk horror, The Wicker Man is famous for its unrelenting eeriness which makes it one of the most unsettling movies ever made. The mysterious story follows an English police officer as he investigates the case of a missing girl on a remote Scottish island where the residents practice Celtic paganism.
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