Top Ten for 1972

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1972

Top 5

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1. A Warning to the Curious

UK [TV] / Lawrence Gordon Clark / ★★★★

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2. Private Parts

USA / Paul Bartel / ★★★1/2

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3. La cabina (The Telephone Box)

Spain [TV] [short] / Antonio Mercero / ★★★1/2

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4. Images

UK, USA / Robert Altman / ★★★1/2

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5. Frenzy

UK / Alfred Hitchcock / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Night Stalker, The / USA [TV] / John Llewellyn Moxey / ★★★1/2

7. Exorcism, The ("Dead of Night" series) / UK [TV] / Don Taylor / ★★★1/2
8. Other, The / USA / Robert Mulligan / ★★★1/2

9. You'll Like My Mother / USA / Lamont Johnson / ★★★1/2

10. Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si sevizia un paperino) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★★1/2

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Also seen:

- A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services (A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...) / Italy / Demofilo Fidani / ★★
- All the Colors of the Dark (Tutti i colori del buio) / Italy, Spain / Sergio Martino / ★★★
- Arcana / Italy / Giulio Questi / ★★

- Arousers, The (A Kiss from Eddie; Sweet Kill) / USA / Curtis Hanson /
- Asylum (House of Crazies; House on the Strand) / UK / Roy Ward Baker / ★★★
- Asylum of Satan / USA / William Girdler / ★1/2

- Blacula / USA / William Crain / ★★★

- Blood Freak (Blood Freaks) / USA / Brad F. Grinter / SBIG

- Body Shop, The (Doctor Gore) / USA / Pat Patterson /
- Bride from Hell, The (Gui xin niang) / Hong Kong / Hsu Chiang Chou / ★1/2
- Bride's Initiation, The (Dracula and the Dirty Old Witch) / USA [TV] / Duncan Stewart / ★

- Case of the Bloody Iris, The (Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?) / Italy / Giuliano Carnimeo / ★1/2

- Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things / USA / Bob Clark / ★★1/2
- Corpse Hunter (Pemburu Mayat) / Indonesia / Kurnaen Suhardiman / ★★
- Crimes of the Black Cat (Sette scialli di seta gialla) / Italy / Sergio Pastore / ★★1/2

- Cut-Throats Nine (Condenados a vivir) / Spain / Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent / ★★1/2
- Daddy's Deadly Darling (Pigs) / USA / Marc Lawrence / ★★

- Daughter of Dracula (La fille de Dracula) / France, Portugal / Jesus Franco / ★
- Daughters of Satan / Philippines, USA / Hollingsworth Morse / ★★

- Death Walks at Midnight (Cry Out in Terror; La morte accarezza a mezzanotte) / Italy, Spain / Luciano Ercoli / ★★
- Delirium (Crime; Death at the Villa; Delirio caldo) / Italy / Renato Polselli / ★1/2

- Demon, The (Oni) / Japan [short] / Kihachiro Kawamoto / ★★1/2
- Demons of the Mind (Blood Evil; Nightmare of Terror) / UK / Peter Sykes / ★★★

- Devil's Lover, The (L'amante del demonio; Lucifera, Demon Lover) / Italy / Paolo Lombardo / ★★

- Diabolical Shudder (Escalofrío diabólico) / Spain / George Martin / ★★
- Die Sister, Die! (The Companion) / USA / Randall Hood / ★★1/2
- Doomwatch (Island of the Ghouls) / UK / Peter Sasdy / ★★1/2
- Dracula A.D. 1972 (Dracula Today) / UK / Alan Gibson / ★★
- Endless Night (Agatha Christie's Endless Night) / UK / Sidney Gilliat / ★★

- Evil Come Evil Go / USA / Walt Davis / ★★1/2

- Frogs / USA / George McCowan / ★★1/2

- Garden of the Dead (Tomb of the Undead) / USA / John Hayes / ★★
- Gargoyles / USA [TV] / B.W.L. Norton / ★★1/2
- Girls on the Road (Hot Summer Week) / USA / Thomas J. Schmidt / ★★

- God's Sentence (Sentença de Deus) / Brazil [short] / Ivan Cardoso / NO STARS!

- Godzilla vs. Gigan (Chikyû kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan) / Japan / Jun Fukuda / ★★

- Gore Gore Girls, The (Blood Orgy) / USA / Herschell Gordon Lewis / ★★★
- Grave of the Vampire (Seed of Terror) / USA / John Hayes / ★★★

- Home for the Holidays (Deadly Desires) / USA [TV] / John Llewellyn Moxey / ★★
- Horrible Murders, The (Korkunç tecavüz) / Turkey / Ertem Göreç / ★
- Horror Express (Pánico en el Transiberiano) / Spain, UK / Eugenio Martín / ★★★
- House of the Living Dead (La casa de las muertas vivientes) / Italy, Spain / Alfonso Balcázar / ★
- Justine de Sade / Canada, France, Italy / Claude Pierson / ★★1/2

- Knife of Ice (Il coltello di ghiaccio) / Italy, Spain / Umberto Lenzi / ★1/2

- Last House on the Left, The / USA / Wes Craven / ★★★
- Legend of Boggy Creek, The / USA / Charles B. Pierce / ★★★
- Man and the Snake, The / UK [short] / Sture Rydman / ★★★

- Man from Deep River (Il paese del sesso selvaggio) / Italy / Umberto Lenzi / ★★★

- Man with Two Heads, The (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Blood) / USA / Andy Milligan / ★

- Monk, The (Le moine) / France, Italy, West Germany / Adonis Kyrou / ★★1/2

- Moon of the Wolf / USA [TV] / Daniel Petrie / ★★

- Morbo (Morbidness) / Spain / Gonzalo Suárez / ★★★1/2
- Mummies of Guanajuato, The (Las momias de Guanajuato) / Mexico / Federico Curiel / ★★

- Murder Mansion, The (La mansión de la niebla) / Italy, Spain / F. Lara Polop / ★★★

- My Dear Killer (Mio caro assassino) / Italy, Spain / Tonino Valerii / ★★

- Necromancy (A Life for a Life) / USA / Bert I. Gordon / ★★
- Night of the Devils (La notte dei diavoli) / Italy, Spain / Giorgio Ferroni / ★★★
- Night of the Lepus / USA / William F. Claxton / ★
- Oval Portrait, The (El retrato ovalado) / Mexico, USA / Rogelio A. González / ★1/2

- Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!, The / USA / Andy Milligan / ★1/2
- Red Headed Corpse, The (La rossa dalla pelle che scotta) / Italy / Renzo Russo / ★★1/2

- Red Queen Kills 7 Times, The (La dama rossa uccide sette volte) / Italy, West Germany / Emilio P. Miraglia / ★★
- Season of the Witch (Hungry Wives; Jack's Wife) / USA / George A. Romero / ★★★

- Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso) / Italy, West Germany / Umberto Lenzi / ★★
- Silent Night, Bloody Night (Night of the Dark Full Moon) / USA / Theodore Gershuny / ★★★
- Something Evil / USA [TV] / Steven Spielberg / ★★1/2
- Straight On Till Morning (Dressed for Death; The Victim) / UK / Peter Collinson /

- Tales from the Crypt / UK / Freddie Francis / ★★1/2

- Terror at Orgy Castle / USA / Zoltan G. Spencer / ★1/2

- Terror on the Menu (The Folks at Red Wolf Inn) / USA / Bud Townsend / ★★1/2

- Thing With Two Heads, The / USA / Lee Frost / ★★

- Thirsty for Love, Sex and Murder (Aska susayanlar seks ve cinayet) / Turkey / Mehmet Aslan / ★★

- Three on a Meathook (3 on a Meathook) / USA / William Girdler / ★★
- Tombs of the Blind Dead (La noche del terror ciego) / Portugal, Spain / Amando de Ossorio / ★★1/2
- Tower of Evil (Beyond the Fog; Horror on Snape Island) / UK, USA / Jim O'Connolly / ★★
- Tragic Ceremony (Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea) / Italy, Spain / Riccardo Freda / ★★

- Vampire Circus / UK / Robert Young / ★★★

- Voices of Desire / USA / Chuck Vincent / ★★
- What Have You Done to Solange? (Cosa avete fatto a Solange?; Terror in the Woods) / Italy, West Germany / Massimo Dallamano / ★★1/2

- Who Saw Her Die? (Chi l'ha vista morire?) / Italy, West Germany / Aldo Lado / ★1/2

- Witches Mountain, The (El monte de las brujas) / Spain / Raúl Artigot / ★1/2

- Woman Hunt, The (The Highest Bidder) / Philippines, USA / Eddie Romero / ★1/2
- Wrong Way / USA / Ray Williams / 

- Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave) / Italy / Sergio Martino / ★★★

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