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 Horror of Frankenstein -
****(1970)Scars of Dracula -
****(1971)Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb -
***(1971)Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde -
****(1971)Fright -
***(1971)Lust for a Vampire -
****(1972)Demons of the Mind -
****(1972)Fear in the Night -
***(1972)Straight on Till Morning -
****(1973)Don’t Look Now -
****(1973)The Wicker Man -
***(1976)To the Devil a Daughter -
****(1979)Murder by Decree
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