Best Horror Movie of the Last 100 Years:Round One(1979 Pt 1)

[BrodietheSlayer]

ROUND ONE:

1919-1922-----Nosferatu
1923-1926-----The Phantom of the Opera
1927-1929-----The Man Who Laughs

1930-1932-----Frankenstein
1933-1934-----King Kong
1935-1936-----The Bride of Frankenstein
1937-1939-----Son of Frankenstein

1940-1941-----The Wolf Man
1942-1943-----Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
1944-1945-----The Monster Maker
1946-1949-----House of Horrors/Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (tie)

1950-1954-----Creature From the Black Lagoon
1955-1956-----Invasion of the Body Snatchers/Night of the Hunter (tie)
1957-----------The Curse of Frankenstein
1958-----------Dracula
1959-----------House on Haunted Hill

1960-----------Psycho
1961-----------The Pit and the Pendulum
1962-----------Carnival of Souls
1963-----------The Birds
1964-----------Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1965-----------Bloody Pit of Horror
1966-----------Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1967-----------IT!
1968-----------Night of the Living Dead/Rosemary's Baby (tie)
1969-----------Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

1970 (Part 1)--The Horror of Frankenstein
1970 (Part 2)--The Vampire Lovers
1971 (Part 1)--Daughters of Darkness
1971 (Part 2)--The Omega Man
1971 (Part 3)--Twitch of the Death Nerve
1972 (Part 1)--Blacula/Deathdream (tie)
1972 (Part 2)--The Last House on the Left
1972 (Part 3)--Tales From the Crypt
1973 (Part 1)--The Exorcist
1973 (Part 2)--The Wicker Man
1974 (Part 1)--Black Christmas
1974 (Part 2)--The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1975 (Part 1)--Jaws
1975 (Part 2)--The Rocky Horror Picture Show/The Terror of Mechagodzilla (tie)
1976 (Part 1)--Carrie
1976 (Part 2)--The Omen
1977 (Part 1)--The Hills Have Eyes
1977 (Part 2)--Suspiria
1978 (Part 1)--Halloween
1978 (Part 2)--Piranha

It's time to finish up the 1970's with 1979, or, at least the first half of horror/related movies from that year. Vote for your favorite movie from this part of this year, and, as always, explain your choice (if you like), as well as mention any other movies you might have seen on this list, below.

We will also accept Write in Votes (although, please mention it as such) for movies not included on the list I'm getting the choices off of. However, I will not remove any from the list (I can't by that point), so, if you want to make your case why a certain movie isn't a horror film, make it. Hell, you might end up swaying a few voters from going in that direction, but I can't/won't remove it from the list or DQ it.

[Duke Cameron]

Alien

[The 1Watcher Experience]

As much as I enjoyed Beyond the Darkness nothing is touching Alien. It will always be a sci-fi horror classic.

[Big DSR Energy]

I'm finally showing some love to David Cronenberg with THE BROOD. No disrespect to ALIEN, it's just THE BROOD gave me this weird, queasy feeling the first time I saw it. It's so messed up.

[Joker]

Amityville, The Brood and Driller Killer are all unique and interesting.

But it's Alien! Hard to vote against it.

BrodietheSlayer not sure if you are a member but Flickchart has a comprehensive list of horror movies in there charts that can be shown by year.

e.g: www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre=Horror&year=1979

[BrodietheSlayer]

Mar 7, 2019 6:17:54 GMT -5 Joker said:

Amityville, The Brood and Driller Killer are all unique and interesting.

But it's Alien! Hard to vote against it.

BrodietheSlayer not sure if you are a member but Flickchart has a comprehensive list of horror movies in there charts that can be shown by year.

e.g: www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre=Horror&year=1979

This will be great to double check my list...Thanks.

[BrodietheSlayer]

Couple Hours left on this one, and Alien is killing it. Still, always a chance....

[BrodietheSlayer]

Unsurprisingly, Alien burst through the collective chests of the other movies on this list, and will go on to the 2nd Round. I voted for this as well, as it is a pretty great mix of Sci Fi and Horror. Had Alien not been on this list, I would have went for The Brood, which is a deeply disturbing and messed up movie. It's kind of the point where David Cronenberg had really started to hit his Prime as a director.


Another messed up movie was Beyond The Darkness, which starts off somewhat normal, but just gets more disturbing and f***ed up as it goes.


The 79 remake of Dracula is pretty decent; definitely well cast, although, we can see Dracula heading back towards being the romantic lead he had been when played by Bela Lugosi vs. Christopher Lee's EVIL AS HELL Count.


The Amityville Horror was decent, but honestly, I thought 76's Burnt Offerings is a better Amityville movie than this one. Hell, the remake and Part 2 are better "haunted house" movies than this one. It's watchable, but nothing special.....other than Margot Kidder doing stretching exercises in skimpy clothes.


All righty then....let's finish up the 70's with the second half of 1979.