Author Topic: 1970s Horror Films (Read 8475 times)

DarianCastle · « **on:** July 11, 2016, 12:38:18 AM »

Night Child - 1975
Evictor's - 1970
It's Alive - 1976

DarianCastle · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2016, 12:39:36 AM »

Audrey Rose - 1977
Silent Scream - 1979

erik1925 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2016, 12:00:55 AM »

French 1P for Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

DarianCastle · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2017, 08:17:25 PM »

Some of my latest posters, really happy with the Alice sweet Alice poster. I'd really love to have a long hallway full of nothing but slasher posters. Alice sweet Alice is sort of a forgotten slasher with tons of catholic imagery which made it somewhat controversial.

Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
The Creature from Boggy Creek (1972)

Damomac · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2017, 02:06:40 AM »

Some nice pick ups there - The Evictor's is one of my fav posters i own ,fantastic art - i have never seen the film though

Monster_A_GoGo · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2017, 05:39:04 PM »

Darian! Here you are. I was wondering whatever happened to my fellow male nurse. I guess i just have not been looking at the right threads and not seeing you. Great start you've got going. Bravo!

DarianCastle · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2017, 10:13:01 PM »

I'm still here, i've had to slow down a bit in the collecting but i'm still at it. The posters i want now are starting to cost more as i go after more desirable ones. I'm also paying more attention to condition these days. How are things with you?

Monster_A_GoGo · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2017, 11:29:42 PM »

Hi Darian. Thing are okay. I visited your YouTube page / watched some of your videos. I left a note or two on your poster vids (and I also quite agree that the best thing about THE FOREST is the poster! Ha!). I'm looking forward to seeing updates. I completely get it about looking for more desirable/ better condition stuff. I'm going through boxes even as I write this making piles to keep, sell on eBay or send to auction---LOTS of junk and/or duplicates and/or shoddy condition stuff. (I have been collecting a LOT longer than you). Better condition and more exciting posters---that's always a plus, but always requires more $$$.
How long have you been a nurse? I think it's super duper groovy there is another male nurse on here. Ha!

CHEERS and happy collecting.

DarianCastle · « **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2017, 09:12:33 PM »

Hey

I've been a nurse about 6-7 years now. I sort of did it on a whim, i was getting older and wasn't going anywhere fast. I was working retail and not loving it at all. My dad is a nurse too and it treated him pretty well so i went for it. Most my co-workers are women and they actually like having a guy around, breaks up the monotony they say. Odd as it may seem, when a bunch of women work together and get stressed, drama follows. Im using their words.

I finally found something i've been looking for a while now, sort of. I got another german horror poster for "De Lift". I wanted the american version, but this german one is pretty cool. It's the same art i wanted so its all good.

DarianCastle · « **Reply #9 on:** April 09, 2017, 11:56:12 PM »

Ruby - 1977

DarianCastle · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2017, 11:56:47 PM »

Holy Terror / Alice Sweet Alice - 1976: I can't tell you how cool it is to collect posters for the same movie but with different names.

erik1925 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 10, 2017, 12:57:55 AM »

Very cool Darian... do you know anything about why the title was changed? And I agree... its very neat to hve these kinds of posters showing both release names.

I like this one a lot, too:

Monster_A_GoGo · « **Reply #12 on:** April 10, 2017, 01:40:55 AM »

Bravo Darian! Your collection is growing nicely.

Jeff, although i do not know the reasons for ALICE SWEET ALICE/HOLY TERROR's name changes specifically, wasn't it fairly common practice to change names of flicks and play them under different titles on the drive in circuits to fool people into paying to see the same old movies thinking they were new? Think P.T. Barnum---"There's a sucker born every minute." For example, there is a movie that is probably known best under a re-title of "PIGS", started off life as "DADDY'S DEADLY DARLING". It was also known as "Roadside Torture Chamber" and "Horror Farm" before it came out as "PIGS". Other examples--THE INCREDIBLE TORTURE SHOW re-titled itself BLOOD-SUCKING FREAKS, Tobe Hooper's EATEN ALIVE was also released as STARLIGHT SLAUGHTER and HORROR HOTEL. It happened a LOT back in the day...

erik1925 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 10, 2017, 02:02:15 AM »

Shawn, I could see doing that kind of promo, but to do a new design, layout, new art/text and print all new posters with a different title sure comes with a cost. So I guess it could be, but, working in post production, I know that every nickel is counted and accounted for (sometimes at the expense of other line items).. so re-printing and re-creating new artwork ( a new ad campaign) would come with a definite cost.

I'd love to know for sure, the "ins and outs" of this particular flicker's marketing campaign. It adds another interesting layer to our hobby and how it all works.

Monster_A_GoGo · « **Reply #14 on:** April 10, 2017, 04:27:38 PM »

Jeff, I think it has to do with Brooke Shields. ASA was released many times under its original title. Once Brooke Shields hit it big, it was dusted off and re-released (with a new title to fool people into thinking it was a completely new film ) it, promoting Brooke as the star. Brooke is only a very young child in the movie---way younger than she was in PRETTY BABY.

erik1925 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 10, 2017, 06:48:29 PM »

Al make sense to me. Thanks for the info, Shawn.

DarianCastle · « **Reply #16 on:** April 10, 2017, 11:37:09 PM »

It's original title was Communion, yet another title. I have the movie and it's full of catholic imagery and it's pretty cool. It's lumped in with the slasher films but i'm not sure i'd really call it a slasher.

There are numerous horror movie with alternate titles for various reasons. The one that is said to have the most alternate titles is: "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie AKA Do Not Profane the Sleep of the Dead AKA The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window."

Another one closer to my heart is Killbots AKA Chopping Mall. When Killbots was originally released it did very poorly. So, they made a new poster to make it look like a slasher which was all the craze at the time and gave it the incredibly misleading name "Chopping Mall". On the second go it did much better. I have both of those poster too, cool stuff.

erik1925 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 21, 2018, 12:57:30 PM »

View From the Loft (1974)

okiehawker · « **Reply #18 on:** July 21, 2018, 05:21:27 PM »

Quote from: erik1925 on July 21, 2018, 12:57:30 PM

View From the Loft (1974)

Truly weird nose bleed poster, Jeff. And/or, is it eye bleed? Okie

erik1925 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 02, 2018, 07:38:38 PM »

BEYOND THE DOOR (1974)

Monster_A_GoGo · « **Reply #20 on:** September 04, 2018, 01:59:44 PM »

I kind of like that VIEW FROM THE LOFT, Jeff. Something creepy cool about. I’m not so wild about the BEYOND THE DOOR poster, probably because I prefer the US and made-in-Italy -for_English -speaking -countries posters I already have. But, BEYOND THE DOOR is a guilty pleasure face o’mine. Where is that poster from? Never seen it before. Thanks for sharing both. Cheers

erik1925 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 04, 2018, 02:13:37 PM »

Hey Shawn, the BEYOND THE DOOR is a Spanish poster. Art bu Jano.

I really like the other poster you're talking about, too, for the movie. And that and this both outshone the dull US OS, imho, that was done in just that sepia color. And the art was just so-so for me on the US poster, too.

And the LOFT poster is Yugoslavian, even though all in English. Weird, I know..

And yeah, they could have done more, rather than leaving all that black empty space in the lower part of the poster... but I think Jano did a good job on the possessed face of Juliet Mills - red eyes and all.

erik1925 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 19, 2018, 12:54:21 PM »

HORROR EXPRESS (1972)

(German A1)

Monster_A_GoGo · « **Reply #23 on:** September 19, 2018, 05:34:10 PM »

I love this HORROR EXPRESS. I need one. Groovy good for you getting one.

erik1925 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 08, 2018, 05:24:20 PM »

IT'S ALIVE (1976RR)

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