Top Ten for 1970

Overview coming soon.

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1970

Top 5

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1. The Honeymoon Killers

USA / Leonard Kastle / ★★★★

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2. Le boucher (The Butcher)

France, Italy / Claude Chabrol / ★★★1/2

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3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

(Valerie a týden divu)

Czechoslovakia / Jaromil Jires / ★★★

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4. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 
(L'uccello dalle piume di Cristallo)

Italy, West Germany / Dario Argento / ★★★

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5. Savage Intruder (Hollywood Horror House)

USA / Donald Wolfe / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. And Soon the Darkness / UK / Robert Fuest / ★★★

7. Girly (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly) / UK / Freddie Francis / ★★★
8. Panic (Pánico) / Mexico / Julián Soler / ★★★
9. Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion / Spain, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★★
10. Psycho Lover, The (The Loving Touch) / USA / Robert Vincent O'Neill / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Amazing Transplant, The (The Transplant) / USA / Doris Wishman / ★★
- And God Said to Cain... (E Dio disse a Caino...) / Italy, WG / Antonio Margheriti / ★★1/2

- Artistic Couple, An (Un couple d'artistes) / France [short] / Bruno Gantillon / ★★1/2

- Ashes of Doom / Canada [short] / Don Arioli and Grant Munro / ★★
- Assignment Terror (Los monstruos del terror) / Italy, Spain, West Germany / Tulio Demicheli / ★★
- Awakening of the Beast (O Ritual dos Sádicos) / Brazil / José Mojica Marins / ★★

- Beast in the Cellar, The (Are You Dying, Young Man?) / UK / James Kelley / ★★

- Blind Woman's Curse (Kaidan nobori ryû) / Japan / Teruo Ishii / ★★

- Body Beneath, The (The Vampire's Thirst) / UK / Andy Milligan / ★★

- Cold Head, The (La tête froide) / Belgium [short] / Patrick Hella / ★★

- Cry of the Banshee / UK / Gordon Hessler / ★★1/2
- Dead Don't Talk, The (Ölüler konusmaz ki) / Turkey / Yavuz Yalinkiliç / ★1/2

- Dorian Gray (Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray) / Italy, UK, West Germany / Massimo Dallamano / ★★1/2

- Dunwich Horror, The / USA / Daniel Haller / ★★1/2
- Erotic Adventures of Hansel and Gretel, The (Hänsel und Gretel verliefen sich im Wald) / West Germany / Franz Josef Gottlieb / ★★1/2

- Five Dolls for an August Moon (5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) / Italy / Mario Bava / ★★
- Goodbye Gemini (Twinsanity) / UK / Alan Gibson / ★★
- Guru, the Mad Monk (Garu, the Mad Monk) / USA / Andy Milligan / SBIG

- Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Il rosso segno della follia) / Italy, Spain / Mario Bava / ★★1/2

- Horror of Frankenstein, The / UK / Jimmy Sangster / ★★
- House That Would Not Die, The / USA [TV] / John Llewellyn Moxey / ★★

- How Awful About Allan / USA [TV] / Curtis Harrington / ★★
- I Drink Your Blood / USA / David A. Durston / ★★1/2
- Janie / USA / Jack Bravman / ★★
- Last Step Down, The (Even Devils Pray) / USA / Lawrence Ramport / ★
- Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (The Bear; Lokis. Rekopis profesora Wittembacha) / Poland / Janusz Majewski / ★★1/2

- Love, Vampire Style (Beiß mich, Liebling) / West Germany / Helmut Förnbacher / ★★
- Madam Satan (Madame Satan) / USA / Tom Gordon / SBIG

- Manopsychotisches Ballett / Austria [short] [X] / Otto Mühl / NO STARS!

- Mark of the Devil (Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält) / West Germany / Michael Armstrong / ★★1/2
- Multiple Maniacs / USA / John Waters / ★★★

- Night of the Blood Monster (Il trono di fuoco; The Bloody Judge) / Italy, Liechtenstein, Spain, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★

- Not Everything That Flies Is a Bird (Nije ptica sve sto leti) / Yugoslavia [animated short] / Borislav Šajtinac / ★★1/2

- Oh Sensibility / Austria [short] [X] / Kurt Kren and Otto Mühl / NO STARS!
- Ossuary, The (Kostnice) / Czechoslovakia [short] / Jan Svankmajer / ★★1/2

- Queens of Evil (Le regine) / France, Italy / Tonino Cervi / ★★1/2

- Revenge of Dr. X, The (Body of the Prey) / Japan, USA / Norman Thomson / SBIG
- Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters (Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos) / Mexico / Gilberto Martínez Solares / SBIG

- Santo vs. the Riders of Terror (Santo contra los jinetes del terror) / Mexico / Cardona / ★★

- Scars of Dracula / UK / Roy Ward Baker / ★★1/2

- Scream and Scream Again / UK / Gordon Hessler / ★★1/2
- Scream of the Demon Lover (Il castello dalle porte di fuoco) / Italy, Spain / Jose Luis Merino / ★★

- Sex and the Single Vampire / USA [X] / Modunk Phreezer / ★
- Sex Psycho (The Demon in Miss Jones; Widow Blue) / USA [X] / Walt Davis / SBIG

- Sex Ritual of the Occult (Ritual of the Occult) / USA / Robert Caramico / ★1/2
- Strangler, The (L'étrangleur) / France / Paul Vecchiali / ★★

- Taste the Blood of Dracula / UK / Peter Sasdy / ★★
- Torture Dungeon (Dungeon of Death) / USA / Andy Milligan / SBIG
- Trap (Piège) / France / Jacques Baratier / ★★

- Vampire Doll, The (Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu: Chi wo sû ningyô) / Japan / Michio Yamamoto / ★★1/2
- Vampire Lovers, The / UK / Roy Ward Baker / ★★1/2
- Weekend Murders, The (Concerto per pistola solista) / Italy / Michele Lupo / ★★★
- Wizard of Gore, The / USA / Herschell Gordon Lewis / ★1/2

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