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The Most Extreme Horror Movies from the 1960's
Posted On: 06/10/2007
Extreme horror movies experienced a popularity explosion in the 1970s and 80s but the roots of the
horror movie go much further back. The "
Extreme Horror Thru the Ages" features will take you back through the decades to give you an idea of what shocked movie goers back in the day. The most
extreme movies of the era have been picked for these pages. First up - The 60s...
Blood Feast (1963)
Blood Feast was one of the earliest horror movies to find itself on the
Video Nasties list and is often considered the first real gore (or splatter) movie. Blood feast is a low-budget horror movie about an Egyptian caterer whose favourite ingredient is the body parts of young maidens with the hopes that the sacrifices will bring back to life an ancient goddess of good and evil.
Blood Feast was the first horror movie to show graphic violent bloody murder in all of its gory glory and is famed for the scene where the murderer rips out a young woman's tongue. The movie is also infamous as the first movie to show people dying with their eyes open. Directed By:
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Dementia 13 (1963)
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Two Thousand Maniacs is a low-budget splatter movie directed by
Herschell Gordon Lewis. The movie is infamous for extreme gore and violence and has the appropriate tag line
An Entire Town Bathed In Pulsing Human Blood! Madmen Crazed For Carnage!. Six tourists are lured into a small southern town redneck inhabitants to be the guests of honor for the centennial celebration of the day Union troops destroyed the town. The tourists soon become separated and are forced to participate in various sick and twisted games which lead to their gory death. Directed By:
Herschell Gordon Lewis. Starring:
Gary Bakeman,
Connie Mason,
William Kerwin,
Ben Moore,
Jeffrey Allen.
The Flesh Eaters (1964)
The Flesh Eaters is a sci-fi/horror movie that contains moments of violence much more graphic and extreme than other movies of its time, making it one of the first ever gore films. A failed actress, her personal assistant, and their helicopter pilot are downed on a secluded isle where they meet a former Nazi scientist performing forbidden experiments that have resulted in the production of monstrous "flesh eaters" that can devour the skin off of screaming victims in mere seconds. Directed By:
Jack Curtis. Starring:
Warren Houston,
Arnold Drake,
Rita Floyd,
Christopher Drake (III),
Martin Kosleck.
Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Repulsion (1965)
Repulsion is a 1965 film directed by
Roman Polanski and is widely considered a masterpiece of the psychological thriller. Carol is a young Belgian virgin, who is both repelled and attracted by the idea of sex. When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend, Carol is left alone and becomes a slave of her own paranoid fears, unable to tell fantasy from reality, and begins to hallucinate which sends her on a violent killing spree. Directed By:
Roman Polanski. Starring:
John Fraser,
Yvonne Furneaux,
Helen Fraser,
Catherine Deneuve,
Hugh Futcher.
Rosemary's Baby (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby was one of the first effective psychological horror movies to hit the mainstream, relying on ambiguity, twisted characters and religious taboos rather than shock, horror and gore. Soon after moving into a creepy apartment, Rosemary (
Mia Farrow) and her husband begin to experience strange goings on and suspect that the strange couple next door have something to do with it. After a shocking nightmare in which Rosemary is raped by the devil she soon falls mysteriously pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her unborn child. Directed By:
Roman Polanski. Starring:
John Cassavetes,
Sidney Blackmer,
Mia Farrow,
Ruth Gordon,
Maurice Evans.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Naked You Die (1968)
Night of the Bloody Apes (1968)
Another horror movie to make the video nasty list,
Night of the Bloody Apes is a cheap Mexican horror movie about a mad Mexican scientist that ends up in a bloody situation when an ape-to-human heart transplant goes awry as the human takes on the characteristics of the donor and goes on a violent, bloodthirsty rampage. Directed By:
René Cardona. Starring:
Armando Silvestre,
Norma Lazareno.
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