70s Doom gallery
A collection of films that I consider the quintessential 70s Doom films...movies with a strong atmosphere of dread, danger, and avocado accents.
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- DirectorJohn D. HancockStarsZohra LampertBarton HeymanKevin O'ConnorA recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.Ultra downbeat 70s doom where a fragile and likeable protagonist finds herself slowly losing her grip on reality, mostly due to the fact that her isolated new home is being haunted by a long-dead female vampire. Shivers!
- DirectorS.F. BrownriggStarsBill McGheeJessie Lee FultonRobert DracupA young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.Low budget madness about a small mental hospital where the patients are allowed to run amok with their delusions and fixations. A pretty young nurse joins the staff and learns the hard way that if you keep ignoring the warning signs, it's your own fault if you're in the asylum the day the lunatics take over.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsKaren BlackChristopher PlummerDonald PilonA police detective uncovers a sinister occult explanation behind the mysterious death of a heroin-addicted prostitute.Karen Black gives an excellent performance as a drug-addicted prostitute in this strong 70s Doom flick; rather than a horror flick, it's more of a drama with a sleazy setting and supernatural overtones. Highly recommended.
- DirectorMarc LawrenceStarsToni LawrenceJesse VintCatherine RossThe owner of a roadside diner and his new waitress kill people and feed them to a pen of 12 pigs.Incest victim Lynn goes homicidal and murders her pervy father, then escapes from the asylum and takes it on the lam at a remote farm; it just so happens the farmer is a loony bird who feeds corpses to the herd of pigs he keeps penned up there. Before long, Lynn is murdering the horny local men and the pigs have some good eatin'. Sordid and sick, don't let this movie's more common title ("Pigs") delude you into thinking it's a killer animal movie.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsBradford DillmanJoanna MilesRichard GillilandAn earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.An earthquake releases a hitherto-unseen breed of incendiary cockroaches from their underground environment. Before long, mad genius Bradford Dillman has bred them with ordinary cockroaches to create a superbreed of roaches that can set things on fire at will. And they do will it.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsJackie CooperAlex CordRichard JaeckelA group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. There, they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.A hallmark of the 70s Doom genre--nuclear holocaust--is only the beginning for the hapless people in this film. When they find themselves taking refuge in a high-tech underground bomb shelter, their so-called security is threatened by a horde of murderous vampire bats that invades the shelter from a nearby cave.
- DirectorDenis SandersStarsWilliam SmithAnitra FordVictoria VetriA powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.70s sexual politics run amok as an evil man-hating feminist devises a way to transform herself and other women into man-killing "Bee girls" that screw men to death. A 70s good time covered in marshmallow topping.
- DirectorEugenio MartínStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingAlberto de MendozaWhile on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing find trouble on the Trans-Siberian Express when a prehistoric caveman fossil Chris dug up in Tibet comes to life and starts draining the passengers of their brains. Although it's a period piece, the pervasively doomy atmosphere and day-glo gore are giveaways of this film's 70s Doom roots.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRay MillandSam ElliottJoan Van ArkA group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.This movie would be more appropriate for a killer-animals list if it were not for the nihilistic tone and overstated ecological message. Just don't expect it to make any sense when a group of the "ugly rich", conveniently isolated on a private Floridian island, find themselves surrounded by all sorts of reptiles, arachnids, and other normally harmless animals who wish them all sorts of harm. Our hero Sam Elliot displays some impressive trouser snake.
- DirectorSam O'SteenStarsStephen McHattiePatty DukeBroderick CrawfordHaving been adopted by the madam of a southwestern brothel, a now adult Adrian must cope with the fact that he's Satan's kid, and not living up to his expectations.Made for TV obscura plunges deeply into the 70s Doom pool, giving us a freaked-out acid trip of a film that continues the saga of Rosemary's Baby in a very loose way, reimagining the human son of Satan as a druggy, confused Jim Morrison type who just wants to figure out who he really is, man! Veers from 70s soap opera to sordid potboiler to TV thriller, sometimes within the same scene. Somehow forgets to be a horror film, but it doesn't matter, it would have failed miserably anyway. Watch it for the unbelievable atmosphere and nonsensical script.
- DirectorBud TownsendStarsLinda GillenJohn NealsonArthur SpaceCollege student Regina wins a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn, which is run by a friendly elderly couple, but it gradually becomes clear that something is amiss.Ditzy college girl Regina willingly allows herself to be kidnapped and whisked away to a "resort", which is actually a seaside mansion where the elderly proprietors and their grandson butcher the girls and serve them as dinner to the remaining, unsuspecting guests. By the time it's Regina's turn to be chow, she's belatedly figured it out and tries to save her rump before it ends up on somebody's plate. More satire than scary, this still has a unique 70s atmosphere all its own.
- DirectorLarry N. StoufferStarsPat CardiAustin StokerRosie HolotikA shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.Insane Jekyll/Hyde story pioneers the "revenge of the nerds" horror genre, presenting a pathetic teen protagonist who finds that his chemistry experiment transforms him into a raging, shaggy-faced killer. Bizarre camera angles, illogical situations and freaky set pieces all add up to a one-of-a-kind 70s Doomfest. Drink up.
- DirectorsWillard HuyckGloria KatzStarsMichael GreerMarianna HillJoy BangA young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.Somewhat of a zombie movie, this movie pulls out all the stops--not with the horror, but with the overbearing 70s atmosphere! The fashions and art direction are all kitsch, whereas the moody photography and erratic script help create an otherworldly experience. Best enjoyed under the influence of...something or other.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsJames BrolinKathleen LloydJohn MarleyA small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.Existential angst in the form of a malevolent black sedan that drives out of the desert all by itself, running down both the innocent and the guilty alike. Alcoholism, spousal abuse, broken families, and crisis of faith...pretty heavy stuff for a movie with such a whacked-out premise at its core.
- DirectorRay DantonStarsRobert QuarryBill EwingBrenda DicksonQuarry is a mysterious, articulate stranger who draws a cult like following of local hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them, as he is a vampire.Not really the most memorable film you could hope to see, but an excellent example of 70s Doom, with Robert Quarry as a vampire who sets himself up as a Manson-like guru for a group of drugged-out hippies.
- DirectorWilliam CrainStarsWilliam MarshallVonetta McGeeDenise NicholasAn 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.70s horror nirvana, as blaxploitation discovers classic monsters. Although "Count Yorga, Vampire" gets credit as the first movie to bring vampires into the modern era, "Blacula" is much more fun, and better, too. The film's downbeat ending firmly grounds it in the Doom genre, as nobody wins and the "good guys" end up being the bad guys after all.
- DirectorDavid E. DurstonStarsBhaskar Roy ChowdhuryJadin WongRhonda FultzA group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.A cult-like group of hippies descends on a small isolated town. After they terrorize the locals a little bit, a boy gets revenge by injecting their food with rabies, which really increases their antisocial characteristics. Yes, it's "The Crazies" before "The Crazies" existed, only it's better. Dig in to this movie's sleazeball atmosphere and prepare to be disoriented.
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsClarence ThomasBrooke AdamsLuke HalpinVisitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.Soggy Nazi zombies menace a group of tourists on a small yacht, marooning them on an island and then emerging from the sea to assassinate them one by one. The low budget gets a big boost from the appearance of cult favorites Brooke Adams, John Carradine and Peter Cushing, not to mention the great zombie makeup by Alan Ormsby.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsAlan OrmsbyValerie MamchesJeff GillenSix friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.A troupe of helplessly 70s small time actors find themselves stranded on a small island surrounded by the living dead. How this comes to happen is one of the most convoluted situations you could hope to see, but it's full of stunning low-budget imagery, including some of the best zombie makeups to ever grace a living dead movie. It's slow and talky, but once it gets going, it's Doom galore!
