#70's Horror

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BILLY LENZ FROM BLACK CHRISTMAS RENTRY GRAPHICS

credit for the fanart is listed on the image, PLEASE credit me if you use them.

for day 1 of @essthereal 's event, christmas/green and red! Ill be honest I was stuck for a bit because I dont like christmas nor green and red but then I remembered one of my fav characters is from a christmas movie, even if its horror :3

- fairy lights dividers are by benkeibear

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Images (Robert Altman, 1972)

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September 29: Black Christmas (1974, Bob Clark)

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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

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So I was going to make a post jokingly saying that my brand of masculinity and how I identify with it is doing the Leatherface chainsaw dance from the end of TCM1, but it got me thinking about why I adore that scene so much.

Behind the scenes trivia aside (yes I know most people say it was A: Gunnar Hansen elated to be done filming or B: Psyching himself up to yeet the chainsaw and finally be rid of carrying it, but the fact is Tobe Hooper consciously chose to keep it in and saw narrative merit in doing so) I think you can break it down to a few elements.

First of all, and it's been said a lot, for as manic and terrifying as it is its oddly beautiful. Leatherface, an emotionally and developmentally stunted serial killer and cannibal dressed up in his suit, silhouetted against the rising morning sun, the silence of the dawning day held hostage and in awe to the chorus of the saw, we may know he's just madly thrashing about in frustration that Sally got away but in that moment there is something deeply alluring and unsettling that entrances us: humanity.

I like to highlight when talking about why Leatherface is, while maybe not my favourite slasher overall, the one I find the scariest, that unlike the embodiment of evil that is Michael, the stone-cold no-selling of Jason or the cartoonish villainy of Freddy, Leatherface may not be real but he could be, and I think it's that disturbing reality that makes the chainsaw dance so awe inspiring; we see in that moment a grim facsimile of humanity, of the kinship we may not believe Leatherface and the Sawyers belong to but do.

Maybe that's why Texas Chainsaw is known for really, thematically, setting a lot of its scares in broad daylight; The Sawyers aren't a bunch of boogeymen who only come out at night, they rise with the bloody morning sun just like you or I, all to the sound of the saw.

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Don’t Open the Door! - S. F. Brownrigg - 1974 - USA

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Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli RT: 72% A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

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There are, in fact, many benefits to being a marine biologist - I'm just not sure how many are here.

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If you like horror movies and you have a SHUDDER Network you really owe it to yourself to watch a movie called Beyond the Door.

When I was around 5:00 or 6:00 my parents went to see it with me at a drive-in movie assuming that I was going to sleep in the backseat the entire time. I really don't know how much I slept or how much I saw but I will always remember that title because it gave me nightmares for months.

Ever since then for basically 40 something years I have been trying to track that movie down because I remember the title and nothing else. Finally I found it on Shudder and it is the cheesiest most gloriously '70s horror movie ever. If nothing else watch it for the cheesy effects and then unknown soundtrack!!

It's sort of like the Exorcist and The Omen and Rosemary's Baby all put together. But infinitely cheaper production values.

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Art by Alan Penn Berkeley | Instagram

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I Just Watched 1976's Carrie For the First Time. //SPOILERS, I GUESS//

I really liked it! It wasn't what I expected. Coming from a time where slasher films come out every 1-2 years and have oversaturated the market, I expected Carrie killing her classmates to be 2/3rds of the film. I didn't realize it was all going to be saved for the very end. With that, it made the movie feel more like a tragedy and less like a horror. Carrie didn't even get to survive in the end and torment more assholes, what the fuck? Also, why was that one teen girl the only one who got to make it out alive? Why couldn't the teacher? She was the only one on Carrie's side the entire time...

Very brief summary: Carrie's in the locker room when she has a first period. She walks out of the lockers and starts screaming asking everyone to help her, to which the girls respond by throwing pads and laughing at her. The gym teacher walks in and scolds them all, aftward giving Carrie a week off from the gym. Carrie is sent home and is shunned by her religious mother, who never told her about periods and is now telling her to pray and ask for forgiveness. The gym teacher punishes the rest of the girls by giving them a week-long detention for intense workouts. Some bitch, whose name I forgot says she's not going to take it and storms off. Another girl, who resented the way she treated Carrie asks her boyfriend to ask her to the prom. He does, and naturally, Carrie thinks it's a joke and so does the gym teacher, who scolds them. Carrie does, however, turn around and accept his invitation. She sews herself a nice dress and is once again scolded by her mother, but she uses her supernatural powers to subdue her (Did I forget to mention that? She has powers! So far though, she only used them to break things and push her mother).

Afterward, she heads out to the prom and has what's likely the best night of her life she's complimented on her looks, dances with a handsome boy, and even wins prom queen! However, little did she know, the prom queen bit was part of stupid bitches' plan. See, earlier she and her boyfriend killed a bunch of pigs to poor pig's blood on Carrie while she was on stage. Unfortunately, for them, their plans come to fruition and Carrie is humiliated, despite the best efforts of the guilty girl and the gym teacher, but she does not take that disrespect. She locks everyone in the building using her powers, sprays them in water, and then lights the place on fire. She makes it outside where the stupid bitch and her boyfriend are and then blows up their car. After all that, she takes a bath, asks for the comfort of her mother who then tries to kill her, turns the tables by killing her mother, then kills herself by lighting the house on fire. The movie ends with the guilty girl having a nightmare about Carrie.

May I just point out, as a Zoomer whose part of a generation where our periods keep coming sooner and sooner, it was hard for me to imagine someone's first period being in high school. Especially senior year of high school, but I suppose that is a lot of people's experience.

This is probably because I'm stupid, but I didn't realize that the guilty girl and her boyfriend had good intentions til the end. I already went into the movie thinking this was a revenge flick. I didn't realize innocent people were going to get hurt. As far as the mother goes with her dying in the Jesus pose, I have no clue what that's meant to hint at other than being a sign of cruel fate. Of her "dying for Carrie's sins" only for Carrie to die along with her.

Here are some minor interpretations that I had: I feel like at the moment with the pig's blood, most of the laughing was in her head. I noticed that I first, it was only the girl with the ugly baseball cap pointing and laughing. Everyone else was disappointed. It was only when the words of her mother started circling her head, did everyone start to laugh. I like that a lot actually, because that's realistic. If I went to my prom and someone got covered in blood, I'd curse and be like "Who tf did this?" That's not funny, dude. teenagers are cruel but most of them aren't that cruel.

It also shows the state Carrie was in when that happened to her. She thought she was an unloveable, ugly, laughingstock with far too much lust in her. That last part is more subconscious, though. When she came home, her mother started talking about...Her relationship with Carrie's father, to me, reigned not only as obvious foreshadowing but as a metaphor for molestation. The scene starts with her mother rubbing up and down her legs, giving details on her endeavors with Carrie's father. Knives and other sharp objects

Are seen as phallic-like in Freudian theory (unfortunately. This is a trope I have mixed feelings on but that's a different conversation together). So her stabbing her after that speech felt like an implication. Afterward, Carrie used her powers to run several knives into her mother in order to protect herself while her mother moaned.

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The Haunting of Julia (Richard Loncraine, 1977)

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September 28: Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)

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San Diego prepares for the March 26, 1977 filming of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes at San Diego Stadium.