Top Ten for 1975

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1975

Top 5

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1. Jaws

USA / Steven Spielberg / ★★★1/2

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2. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

(Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom)

France, Italy / Pier Paolo Pasolini / ★★★1/2

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3. Profondo rosso (Deep Red)

Italy / Dario Argento / ★★★1/2

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4. Picnic at Hanging Rock

Australia / Peter Weir / ★★★

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5. The Stepford Wives

USA / Bryan Forbes / ★★★ 

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Nazareno Cruz & the Wolf (Nazareno Cruz y el lobo) / Argentina / Leonardo Favio / ★★★
7. Night of the Seagulls, The (La noche de las gaviotas) / Spain / Amando de Ossorio / ★★★
8. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS / Canada, USA / Don Edmonds / ★★★
9. Killer is Not Alone, The (El asesino no está solo) / Spain / Jesús García de Dueñas / ★★★

10. Trilogy of Terror / USA [TV] / Dan Curtis / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Ash Tree, The / UK [short] [TV] / Lawrence Gordon Clark / ★★1/2
- Blacker Than the Night (Más negro que la noche) / Mexico / Carlos Enrique Taboada / ★★1/2
- Black Magic (Jiang tou) / Hong Kong / Meng Hua Ho / ★★1/2
- Bruka, Queen of Evil (She tou ren) / Hong Kong, Philippines / Felix Villar, Chi-Lien Yu / ★★1/2

- Bug / USA / Jeannot Szwarc / ★★1/2

- Criminally Insane (Crazy Fat Ethel) / USA / Nick Millard / ★★
- Death of a Hoodlum (Muerte de un quinqui) / Spain / León Klimovsky / ★★1/2
- Devil's Exorcist, The (El juego del diablo) / Spain / Jorge Darnell / ★★1/2
- Devil's Horse, The (El caballo del diablo) / Mexico / Federico Curiel / ★★

- Devil Within Her, The (I Don't Want to Be Born; Sharon's Baby) / UK / Peter Sasdy / ★

- Don't Open the Door! / USA / S.F. Brownrigg / ★★

- Emanuelle's Revenge (Emanuelle e Françoise (Le sorelline)) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / ★
- Erotic Games of a Respectable Family (Giochi erotici di una famiglia per bene) / Italy / Enzo Matassi / ★★1/2
- Evil Eye (Malocchio) / Italy, Mexico, Spain / Mario Siciliano / ★1/2

- Exorcismo (Exorcism) / Spain / Juan Bosch / NO STARS!
- Eyeball (Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro) / Italy, Spain / Umberto Lenzi / ★1/2

- Female Vampire (La comtesse noire) / Belgium, France / Jesus Franco / ★1/2

- Frozen Scream / USA / Frank Roach / NO STARS!

- Haunted Turkish Bathhouse, A (Bakeneko Toruko furo) / Japan / Kazuhiko Yamaguchi / ★★1/2

- Have a Nice Weekend / USA / Michael Walters / ★
- Hot Nights of Linda, The (Les nuits brûlantes de Linda) / France, Italy / Jesus Franco / ★★

- Intruder, The / USA [wide release in 2017] / Chris Robinson / ★1/2

- Intrusion, The / USA [X] / Arthur Nouveau / ★★
- Killer Must Kill Again, The (L'assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora) / France, Italy / Luigi Cozzi / ★★
- Leonor / France, Italy, Spain / Juan Luis Buñuel / ★★1/2

- Magic Curse, The (Cui hua du jiang tou; Insa yeomu) / Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan / Yeong-sun Kwon, Chin-Ku Lu, Wen Po Tu / ★★1/2 

- Mondo Magic (Magia nuda) / Italy [doc] / Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni and Guido Guerrasio / ★★1/2

- Mrs. Amworth / Canada, UK, USA [TV] [short] / Alvin Rakoff / ★★
- Murrain (Against the Crowd: Murrain) / UK [TV] / John Cooper / ★★1/2

- Next Victim, The (Thriller: The Next Victim) / UK [TV] / James Ormerod / ★★1/2 

- Night Child, The (Il medaglione insanguinato) / Italy / Massimo Dallamano / ★★1/2

- Night of the Howling Beast (La maldición de la bestia) / Spain / Miguel Iglesias / ★★1/2

- Night Train Murders (L'ultimo treno della notte) / Italy / Aldo Lado / ★★
- Passengers, The (Los pasajeros) / Spain / José Antonio Barrero / ★★1/2
- Pick-up / USA / Bernard Hirschenson / ★★1/2
- Police Are Blundering in the Dark, The (La polizia brancola...) / Italy / Elio Palumbo / ★1/2

- Possessed, The (Gui tai; Kun pi) / Hong Kong, Thailand / Lung Hsiao, Li Wei / ★★1/2
- Race With the Devil / USA / Jack Starrett / ★★1/2
- Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake (Croaked) / USA / Bill Rebane / ★1/2

- Remodelled Beauty, A (Jeonghyeongmi-in) / South Korea / Il-ho Jang / ★★1/2

- Satan's Children / USA / Joe Wiezycki / ★

- School of Death (El colegio de la muerte) / Spain / Pedro Luis Ramírez / ★★

- Shivers (Frissons; They Came from Within) / Canada / David Cronenberg / ★★1/2
- Slashed Dreams (Sunburst) / USA / James Polakof / ★1/2
- Spiritual Boxer, The (Shen da) / Hong Kong / Chia-Liang Liu / ★★★
- Strip Nude for Your Killer (Nude per l'assassino) / Italy / Andrea Bianchi / ★1/2
- Suicide Cult (The Astrologer) / USA / James Glickenhaus / ★1/2
- Voodoo Sexy (Il pavone nero; The Black Peacock) / Italy / Osvaldo Civirani / ★1/2
- Wedding Trough (The Pig Fucking Movie; Vase de noces) / Belgium / Thierry Zéno / ★★
- Wolf Guy (Urufu gai: Moero ôkami-otoko) / Japan / Kazuhiko Yamaguchi / ★★1/2

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