The 1970s was a decade of great cinema across all genres, but it is horror that cast the longest shadow across cinema screens during those years. Studio blockbusters such as The Exorcist and Jaws; independent record-breakers like Halloween and The Amityville Horror; transgressive masterpieces and cult classics as unrepeatable as The Last House on the Left and Eraserhead – the 1970s had every sort of scare you might dare to dream of.
Across five nights, FilmFear gives you a sense of what made the Seventies so terrifying with a line-up of essential horror films of the decade. Some you may already know and love, others may come as a surprise – we even have a Mystery ‘70s Movie for those who really don’t like to know what comes next.
We do have one brand-new film for you: Rupert Russell’s stranger-than-fiction true-crime documentary that uses a real-life ritualistic killing to explore how darkness spread into all corners of the 1970s. It also explores the origins of 1973 folk-horror favourite The Wicker Man, which is where our story will begin on 29th October…
Presented in partnership with Film4.
