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The thing about Mark of the Devil, Black Christmas & The Town That Dreaded Sundown is that you were scared sh!$less before you even had your hand in the popcorn. And you stayed that way the entire movie & long after.
Mark of the Devil was hailed at the time as being "The most horrific movie ever made".
Black Christmas was Rated X (Not for Sex) in some countries around the globe (U.K. for one). When I saw it in Wisconsin on its original release date it was Rated X. Later tamed to an R in the U.S I believe. Stayed X in the U.K. It also inspired John Carpenter to write Halloween. In fact many critics say that you can't see Halloween without 1st seeing Black Christmas because all of the inspiration came from it. Camera angles, mood, certain themes, etc...
I think there are only two from the seventies. The shining and The Exorcist. In my opinion, I think that the Exorcist is the scariest movie of all time.
I agree with you 100% SlickRick ......on both picks and the Exorcist being the scariest.
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Psycho
The Wicker Man
The first half of Halloween. (Once the sun goes down, the movie just gets silly.)
ALIEN
The Exorcist
JAWS (one of the best films of the '70s period)
Jaws 2. Completely inferior to the original, but still fun.
Carrie
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 version with Michael York and Burt Lancaster)
The Omen.
The Shining and Carpenter's version of The Thing are indeed great movies, but both of them came out in the '80s.
Yes; the suspense in that was unbearable!
When Tom Skerritt was down in that air shaft, I thought I would come out of my skin!
And don't forget The Stepford Wives; that was like watching my first marraige. Really scary.
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