Top Ten for 1969

Overview coming soon.
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1969

Top 5

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1. The Cremator (Spalovac mrtvol)

Czechoslovakia / Juraj Herz / ★★★1/2

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2. The Man Who Thought Life (Manden der tænkte ting)

Denmark / Jens Ravn / ★★★1/2

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3. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

USA / Mark Robson / ★★★1/2

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4. The House That Screamed (La residencia)

Spain / Narciso Ibáñez Serrador / ★★★

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5. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

USA / Lee H. Katzin / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Horrors of Malformed Men (Kyôfu kikei ningen) / Japan / Teruo Ishii / ★★★

7. Book of Stone, The (El libra de piedra) / Mexico / Carlos Enrique Taboada / ★★★
8. Frightened Woman, The (Femina ridens) / Italy / Piero Schivazappa / ★★★
9. Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema) / Brazil / Júlio Bressane / ★★★

10. Love and Crime (Meiji, Taishô, Shôwa: Ryôki onna hanzai-shi) / Japan / Teruo Ishii / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Attack of the Monsters (Gamera tai daiakuju Giron) / Japan / Noriaki Yuasa / ★★1/2
- Bewitched (Embrujada) / Argentina, Brazil / Armando Bo / ★★

- Blood of Dracula's Castle (Dracula's Castle) / USA / Al Adamson / ★★
- Bloodthirsy Fairy, The (La fée sanguinaire) / Belgium [short] / Roland Lethem / ★★1/2
- Curious Dr. Humpp, The (La venganza del sexo) / Argentina / Emilio Vieyra / ★★1/2

- Darkness at Blaisedon, A (Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisdon) / USA [TV] / Lela Swift / ★★
- Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) / USA / William Edwards / ★
- Driving Miss Daisy Crazy / USA [short] / Michael Findlay? / ★★
- Exquisite Cadaver, The (Las crueles) / Spain / Vicente Aranda / ★★★

- Invocation of My Demon Brother / USA [short] / Kenneth Anger / ★★1/2
- It's Alive! / USA [TV] / Larry Buchanan / ★
- Love Camp 7 (Nazi Love Camp 7) / USA / Lee Frost / ★★

- Madame Death (La señora Muerte) / Mexico / Jaime Salvador / ★★1/2
- Mad Room, The / USA / Bernard Girard / ★★1/2
- Marquis de Sade's "Justine" (Deadly Sanctuary) / Italy, Liechtenstein, USA, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★1/2
- Nightmare in Wax / USA / Bud Townsend / ★★
- Night of the Bloody Apes (La horripilante bestia humana) / Mexico / René Cardona / ★★1/2

- 99 Women (Der heiße Tod) / Italy, Liechtenstein, Spain, UK, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★
- Oblong Box, The / UK / Gordon Hessler / ★★1/2
- Paranoia (Orgasmo; Une folle envie d'aimer) / France, Italy / Umberto Lenzi / ★★1/2

- Raw Passions (Luo xie) / Hong Kong / Chen Lo / ★★1/2

- Sadistic Hypnotist, The (Wanda: The Sadistic Hypnotist) / USA / Greg Corarito / ★1/2

- Santo in 'The Treasure of Dracula' (Santo en El tesoro de Drácula) / Mexico / René Cardona / ★★

- Scream Baby Scream (Nightmare House) / USA / Joseph Adler / NO STARS!
- Ultimate Degenerate, The (The Degenerate) / USA / Michael Findlay / ★★1/2

- Vampire Girls, The (Las vampiras; The Vampires) / Mexico / Federico Curiel / ★★

- Venus in Furs (Paroxismus) / Italy, UK, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★1/2

- Walls Have Eyes, The / USA / Steve Hawkes / NO STARS!

- Witchmaker, The (The Legend of Witch Hollow) / USA / William O. Brown / ★★

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