Sunday, September 20, 2020

Free Face Hugs, Tall Man with Killer Balls, Sharks Fighting Zombies. The Horrors of 1979.

Welcome fiends to the last year of seventies horror. In space, no one can hear you scream. Unless of course you are in the same spaceship as them while aliens rip them apart. Then yes, you'll hear all the screaming. 1979 was a good year for space horror and weird horror. How do you think Phantasm was pitched as a film? "There's an undertaker from space and he's stealing people's essence and turning them into creeping little Jawas and there's flying metal balls that drill into people's head. Oh yeah, the hero will be a guitar playing hippie ice cream man. Nice! Then you get the goriest zombie film ever from Italy where a zombie fights a shark. Hell yeah.

1979

1. Alien (Directed by Ridley Scott)

IMDB plot: After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

2. Phantasm (Directed by Don Coscarelli)

IMDB plot: A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

3. Zombi 2 aka Zombie (Directed by Lucio Fulci)

IMDB plot:Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Bonus Films!!! 1979 had so many good horror films that I couldn't leave these creepers out. I was born in Queens New York and even though it was a 45 minute drive to Amityville, Long Island I remember thinking it was right near where I lived and the demons or the ghosts of the dead family members that Ronald Defeo killed in that house were going to get me.

The Amityville Horror (Directed by Stuart Rosenberg)

IMDB plot: Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Also, here's a film to watch if you're ever thinking about having kids.

The Brood (Directed by David Cronenberg)

IMDB plot: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.