Now at Flashbak, my look at the five worst monsters of the horror films of the seventies.
Here's a snippet, and url: (http://flashbak.com/the-5-worst-monsters-of-the-1970s-horror-film-19033/):
"In
the 1970s, the horror film underwent a dramatic transition in terms of monsters. Hammer Studios’ Dracula and Frankenstein
series were ending their long reign on the silver screen and a new breed of
monster -- slashers like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees -- waited in the
wings for the next evolution of the format.
In
this time of shifting fears and shifting expectations, new monsters rose to
fill the void at the cinema, and some were very effectively-crafted. This was
the era, after all, that first presented audiences with terrors like the
demonically-possessed Linda Blair in The Exorcist (1973) and Leatherface
in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).
Yet
for every big screen monster that proved absolutely terrifying, there was
another that, oppositely, proved…absolutely
dreadful.
Inspiring
fear in absolutely no one, are these: the five worst horror movie monsters of
the 1970s."
My gosh we must have been terribly naïve as children in the 1970s.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the same case with Doctor Who in the 70s.
I found these monsters to be quite terrifying.
I mean, I'm sorry but that mutant bear in Prophecy was truly frightening as a child. Some of the monsters had a similar effect on Who when I was a kid.
Today, not so. I was kind of interested in seeing Prophecy again but I'm thinking twice. huh.
Luckily, I only managed to see 2 of those 5 movies. Lepus and Spider Invasion. Bleh and Bleh.
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