Top Ten for 1971

Overview coming soon.
_______________________________________________________________________

1971

Top 5

* * * * * * * * * *

1. Let's Scare Jessica to Death

USA / John D. Hancock / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

2. 10 Rillington Place

UK / Richard Fleischer / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

3. Reazione a catena (Bay of Blood)

Italy / Mario Bava / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

4. The Devils

UK / Ken Russell / ★★★1/2

* * * * * * * * * *

5. The Beguiled

USA / Don Siegel / ★★★1/2

_______________________________________________________________________

Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Duel / USA [TV] / Steven Spielberg / ★★★1/2

7. Abominable Dr. Phibes, The / UK / Robert Fuest / ★★★
8. Brotherhood of Satan, The / USA / Bernard McEveety / ★★★
9. Night Visitor, The (Lunatic) / Sweden, USA / László Benedek / ★★★
10. Woman of Fire (Hwanyeo) / South Korea / Ki-young Kim / ★★★

_______________________________________________________________________

Also seen:

- Beyond Love and Evil (La philosophie dans le boudoir) / France / Jacques Scandelari /
- Blood and Lace / USA / Philip S. Gilbert /
- Blood on Satan's Claw (Satan's Skin) / UK / Piers Haggard / ★★★
- Brain of Blood (The Creature's Revenge; The Oozing Skull) / USA / Al Adamson /
- Case of the Scorpion's Tail, The (La coda dello scorpione; The Scorpion's Tail) / Italy, Spain / Sergio Martino / ★★
- Cat O' Nine Tails, The (Il gatto a nove code) / France, Italy, West Germany / Dario Argento /
- Corpse Grinders, The / USA / Ted V. Mikels /
- Countess Dracula / UK / Peter Sasdy /
- Crucible of Horror (The Corpse; The Velvet House) / UK / Viktors Ritelis /
- Death by Invitation / USA / Ken Friedman) / ★★

- Death Walks on High Heels (La morte cammina con i tacchi alti) / Italy, Spain / Luciano Ercoli /
- Devil's Nightmare, The (La plus longue nuit du diable) / Belgium, Italy / Jean Brismée / ★★★
- Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal) / France / Joël Séria / 
- Feast of Satan, The (Las amantes del diablo) / Italy, Spain / José María Elorrieta /
- Fifth Cord, The (Giornata nera per l'ariete) / Italy / Luigi Bazzoni /
- Five Desperate Women / USA [TV] / Ted Post /
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 mosche di velluto grigio) / France, Italy / Dario Argento / ★★★
- Fourth Victim, The (La última señora Anderson) / Italy, Spain / Eugenio Martín /
- Fright / UK / Peter Collinson /
- Geek, The / USA [X] / Director Unknown /
- Ghostly Face, The (Pandji Tengkorak) / HK, Indonesia / Taiwan / A. Harris, S-C Yang /
- Glass Ceiling, The (El techo de cristal) / Spain / Eloy de la Iglesia / ★★★
- Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? / USA / Laurence Merrick /
- Hands of the Ripper / UK / Peter Sasdy /
- Headless Eyes, The (Bloodthirsty Butcher) / USA / Kent Bateman /
- Horny Vampire, The / USA [X] / Ray Dennis Steckler /
- House That Dripped Blood, The / UK / Peter Duffell / ★★★
- Jabberwocky (Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta) / Czechoslovakia [short] / Jan Svankmajer
- Laboratory of Fear (Le laboratoire de l'angoisse) / France [short] / Patrice Leconte /
- Lady Frankenstein (La figlia di Frankenstein) / Italy / Mel Welles / ★★1/2
- Lake of Dracula (Noroi no yakata: Chi o suu me) / Japan / Michio Yamamoto / ★★

- Little Game, A / USA [TV] / Paul Wendkos / ★★1/2

- Mad Butcher, The (Lo strangolatore di Vienna) / Italy, West Germany / Guido Zurli /
- Malpertuis (The Legend of Doom House) / Belgium, France, WG / Harry Kümel / ★★1/2
- Masque of the Red Death (Maska crvene smrti) / Yugoslavia [short] / Branko Ranitović, Pavao Štalter / ★★★

- Mephisto Waltz, The / USA / Paul Wendkos /
- Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The (La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba) / Italy / Emilio Miraglia / ★★1/2
- Night God Screamed, The (Scream) / USA / Lee Madden / ★★★
- Play Misty for Me / USA / Clint Eastwood / ★★★
- Requiem for a Vampire (Vierges et vampires) / France / Jean Rollin /
- Revenge (There Once Was a Woman) / USA [TV] / Jud Taylor /
- Sacrilege / USA [X] / Ray Dennis Steckler /
- 7 Murders for Scotland Yard (Jack el destripador de Londres; Jack the Mangler of London) / Italy, Spain / José Luis Madrid /
- Sex of the Devil (Il sesso del diavolo; Trittico) / Italy / Oscar Brazzi /
- Slaughter Hotel (La bestia uccide a sangue freddo) / Italy / Fernando Di Leo /
- Snake People (La muerte viviente) / Mexico, USA / Jack Hill, Juan Ibáñez /
- Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things / USA / Thomas Casey /
- Stalls of Barchester, The / UK [TV] / Lawrence Gordon Clark / ★★1/2
- Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The (Blade of the Ripper; Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh) / Italy, Spain / Sergio Martino / ★★★
- Straw Dogs / UK, USA / Sam Peckinpah / ★★★1/2
- Takers, The / USA / Carl Monson / ★1/2
- Terror at Orgy Castle / USA / Zoltan G. Spencer / ★1/2
- Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman, The (La noche de Walpurgis) / Spain, West Germany / León Klimovsky / ★★
- Zaat (Blood Waters of Dr. Z) / USA / Don Barton / ★
- Zero in and Scream / USA / Lee Frost / ★1/2

- Zodiac Killer, The / USA / Tom Hanson / ★★

_______________________________________________________________________

< Back to 1970                      Continue to 1972 >