There’s much more to British horror than the films of the justifiably popular Hammer studios – the Seventies was the heyday of truly independent film production in Britain and this decade marked the peak of creativity for the genre.
Notable British horror films as highlighted in Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970s (FAB Press, 2001), edited by Harvey Fenton and David Flint.
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****(1970)And Soon the Darkness -
***(1970)The Ballad of Tam Lin -
***(1970)Cry of the Banshee -
***(1970)Fragment of Fear -
***(1970)Goodbye Gemini -
***(1970)The Horror of Frankenstein -
***(1970)Legend of the Witches -
***(1970)The Man Who Haunted Himself -
***(1970)Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly -
***(1970)Scars of Dracula -
***(1970)Scream and Scream Again -
**(1970)Secrets of Sex -
***(1970)Taste the Blood of Dracula -
***(1970)Trog -
***(1970)The Vampire Lovers -
***(1971)10 Rillington Place -
***(1971)The Abominable Dr. Phibes -
***(1971)Assault -
***(1971)The Beast in the Cellar -
***(1971)Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb -
****(1971)The Blood on Satan’s Claw -
*(1971)A Clockwork Orange -
***(1971)Countess Dracula -
***(1971)Crucible of Horror -
***(1971)Crucible of Terror -
*(1971)The Devils -
***(1971)Die Screaming Marianne -
***(1971)Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde -
****(1971)Fright -
***(1971)Hands of the Ripper -
***(1971)The House That Dripped Blood -
***(1971)I, Monster -
***(1971)Incense for the Damned -
***(1971)Lust for a Vampire -
***(1971)Macbeth -
**(1971)The Night Digger -
***(1971)The Nightcomers -
***(1971)Revenge -
***(1971)See No Evil -
***(1971)Straw Dogs -
***(1971)Twins of Evil -
***(1971)Venom -
***(1972)The Asphyx -
****(1972)Asylum -
***(1972)Burke & Hare -
****(1972)Death Line -
***(1972)Demons of the Mind -
***(1972)Doomwatch -
***(1972)Dr. Phibes Rises Again -
***(1972)Dracula A.D. 1972 -
****(1972)Endless Night -
***(1972)Fear in the Night -
***(1972)The Fiend -
***(1972)The Flesh and Blood Show -
***(1972)Frenzy -
***(1972)Horror Express -
***(1972)Neither the Sea Nor the Sand -
***(1972)Straight on Till Morning -
***(1972)Tales from the Crypt -
***(1972)Tower of Evil -
***(1972)Vampire Circus -
***(1972)Virgin Witch -
*(1972)What Became of Jack and Jill? -
***(1972)What the Peeper Saw -
***(1972)Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? -
***(1973)And Now the Screaming Starts! -
***(1973)The Creeping Flesh -
****(1973)Don’t Look Now -
***(1973)Frankenstein: The True Story -
***(1973)Horror Hospital -
***(1973)The House in Nightmare Park -
***(1973)The House That Vanished -
***(1973)The Legend of Hell House -
**(1973)Nothing But the Night -
***(1973)Psychomania -
***(1973)The Satanic Rites of Dracula -
***(1973)The Sinful Dwarf -
***(1973)Tales That Witness Madness -
***(1973)Theatre of Blood -
***(1973)The Vault of Horror -
***(1973)Voices -
****(1973)The Wicker Man -
***(1974)The Beast Must Die -
**(1974)Blue Blood -
****(1974)Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter -
***(1974)Craze -
***(1974)Dark Places -
***(1974)Dracula -
***(1974)Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell -
***(1974)Frightmare -
***(1974)From Beyond the Grave -
***(1974)Ghost Story -
***(1974)House of Whipcord -
***(1974)The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires -
***(1974)Madhouse -
***(1974)The Mutations -
***(1974)Old Dracula -
*(1974)Persecution -
*(1974)Son of Dracula -
***(1974)Symptoms -
***(1974)Vampyres -
*(1975)The Ghoul -
***(1975)I Don’t Want to Be Born -
*(1975)Legend of the Werewolf -
*(1975)The Lifetaker -
*(1975)The Rocky Horror Picture Show -
**(1975)The Spiral Staircase -
***(1976)The Devil’s Men -
*(1976)Diversions -
***(1976)Exposé -
*(1976)Face of Darkness -
***(1976)House of Mortal Sin -
***(1976)The Omen -
**(1976)Queen Kong -
***(1976)Satan’s Slave -
***(1976)Schizo -
***(1976)To the Devil a Daughter -
*(1976)Whispers of Fear
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***(1977)The Black Panther -
*(1977)The Brute -
****(1977)Full Circle -
***(1977)Holocaust 2000 -
***(1977)Prey -
***(1977)The Uncanny -
***(1978)Absolution -
**(1978)The Cat and the Canary -
***(1978)The Comeback -
***(1978)The Hound of the Baskervilles -
***(1978)Killer’s Moon -
***(1978)The Legacy -
***(1978)The Medusa Touch -
***(1978)The Playbirds -
***(1978)The Shout -
***(1978)Terror -
****(1979)Alien -
***(1979)Dominique -
***(1979)Dracula -
****(1979)Murder by Decree -
***(1980)The Godsend -
***(1980)Saturn 3 -
*(1981)The Secret of Seagull Island
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