Friday, September 11, 2020

Murder gloves, Vampire Lesbians, and Bloody Weddings. The Horror of 1971

Welcome to the swinging seventies. Italian Giallo takes a stranglehold and the UKs Hammer brings on the sex. 1970 brings you stabby leather gloved killers, sexy vampire ladies in love, and maniac wedding crashers. 

1970


1. L'uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Directed by Dario Argento)
IMDB plot: An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder. He learns later that it's connected to an ongoing murder spree in the city, and decides to do his own investigation, despite being personally targeted by the killer.







2. The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker)
IMDB plot: Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.








3. Il Rosso Segno Della Follia aka Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Directed by Mario Bava)
IMDB plot: A cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma concerning the death of his mother.







Alright all you spooky little ghoulies. There you have 1970. See you tomorrow for 1971. xoxo

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