29 Classic Horror Films from the 1970s Terrorize the Criterion Channel This October – Bloody Disgusting

The Criterion Channel is celebrating Halloween this year by bringing us back to the 1970s, with 29 horror films from the 70s headed to the streaming service next month!

Criterion teases the lineup, In the 1970s, everything was wilder, weirder, and more far-outand horror movies were no exception. In North America, a new generation of maverick directors like Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), George A. Romero (The Crazies), Wes Craven (The Hills Have Eyes), Brian De Palma (Sisters), and David Cronenberg (The Brood) responded to the decades heightened political anxieties and Vietnam Warera sense of disillusionment by pushing the genres psychological intensity and visceral violence to shocking new heights. Across the Atlantic, Britains legendary Hammer Films continued to serve up old-school gothic spine-tinglers (The Vampire Lovers), while auteurs like Nicolas Roeg (Dont Look Now) wedded spellbinding terror to art-house experimentation.

Bringing together some of the decades most iconic slashers, chillers, and killer thrillers alongside low-budget cult rarities (Lets Scare Jessica to Death, Deathdream) and camp-tastic oddities (Trog, Theater of Blood), this tour through the 1970s nightmare realm is a veritable blood feast of perverse pleasures from a time when gore, grime, and sleaze found a permanent home in horror.

The following 70s horror films will be arriving on Sunday, October 4:

Thanks to Criterion Cast for the heads up.

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29 Classic Horror Films from the 1970s Terrorize the Criterion Channel This October - Bloody Disgusting

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero