Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Don't Mess with Texas, Canadian Christmas Killers, and Spanish Murder Gloves. The Horrors of 1974.

Welcome to the year of my birth. In addition to my rising from the grave, it was a great year for horror. A year of deranged killers on the loose. A bunch of crazy kids went into the horribly hot dirt and dust of Texas and almost killed each other making one of the most frightening horror films of all time. I can't hear or see a chainsaw without thinking of creepy cannibals wearing other people's faces. Also, one of my favorite slashers of all time happens to be a Christmas movie. Here's some advice, always check your attic if all of your roommates are dissappearing. My third fave of 1974 totally out of left field. One of the best non-Italian giallo films. Someone is building up their pretty eyeball collection. Get ready for some Spanish murder glove.

1974

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Directed by Tobe Hooper)

IMDB plot: Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths and must survive the terrors of Leatherface and his family.

2. Black Christmas (Directed by Bob Clark)

IMDB plot: During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

3. Los Ojos Azules de la Muñeca Rota aka Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (Directed by Carlos Aured)

IMDB plot: An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.