Top Ten for 1973

Overview coming soon.
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1973

Top 5

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1. The Exorcist

USA / William Friedkin / ★★★1/2

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2. The Wicker Man

UK / Robin Hardy / ★★★1/2

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3. Die Zartlichkeit der Wolfe

(The Tenderness of Wolves)

West Germany / Ulli Lommel / ★★★1/2

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4. Westworld

USA / Michael Crichton / ★★★1/2

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5. The Night Strangler

USA [TV] / Dan Curtis / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Cold Night's Death, A (The Chill Factor) / USA [TV] / Jerrold Freedman / ★★★1/2

7. Return, The / UK [short] / Sture Rydman) / ★★★1/2
8. Amusement Park, The / USA ["official" release in 2019] / George A. Romero / ★★★

9. Eugenie de Sade (Eugénie) / France, Liechtenstein / Jesus Franco / ★★★

10. Sisters / USA / Brian De Palma / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein) / France, Italy, USA / Paul Morrissey /
- Arnold / USA / Georg Fenady /
- Asphyx, The (The Horror of Death) / UK / Peter Newbrook / ★★★

- Baby, The / USA / Ted Post / ★★★

- Bamboo House of Dolls, The (Nu ji zhong ying) / Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★1/2

- Bell from Hell, A (La campana del infierno) / France, Spain / Claudio Guerín / ★★1/2
- Beyond Atlantis (Sea Creatures) / Philippines, USA / Eddie Romero / ★1/2

- Black Snake (Dutchess of Doom; Slaves; Sweet Suzy) / USA / Russ Meyer / ★★
- Candy Snatchers, The / USA / Guerdon Trueblood / ★★★

- Cannibal Man, The (La semana del asesino) / Spain / Eloy de la Iglesia / ★★★

- Carnation Killer, The (Thriller: The Colour of Blood) / UK [TV] / Robert Tronson / ★★1/2

- Cat Creature, The / USA [TV] / Curtis Harrington / ★★1/2

- Come Deadly / USA [X] / Gil Kenston / ★1/2
- Crazies, The (Code Name Trixie) / USA / George A. Romero / ★★★

- Creeping Flesh, The / UK / Freddie Francis / ★★1/2
- Curse of the Devil (El retorno de Walpurgis) / Mexico, Spain / Carlos Aured / 

- Deadly Triangle, The (El juego del adulterio) / Spain / Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent /
- Death Smiled at Murder (La morte ha sorriso all'assassino) / Italy / Joe D'Amato /
- Demons, The (Les démons; Sex Demons) / France, Portugal / Jesus Franco /
- Devil in Miss Jones, The / USA [X] / Gerard Damiano / ★★★1/2
- Devil's Due (Giving the Devil His Due) / USA [X] / Ernest Danna / 

- Devil's Wedding Night, The (Il plenilunio delle vergini) / Italy / Luigi Batzella / ★1/2
- Doll, The ("La porta sul buio" series) / Italy [TV] / Mario Foglietti / 

- Don't Look in the Basement (The Forgotten) / USA / S.F. Brownrigg / ★★1/2

- Don't Look Now / Italy, UK / Nicolas Roeg / ★★
- Dracula Saga, The (La saga de los Drácula) / Spain / León Klimovsky / ★★★
- Dracula's Great Love (El gran amor del conde Drácula) / Spain / Javier Aguirre / 

- Dying Room Only / USA [TV] / Philip Leacock /
- Encounter with the Unknown / USA / Harry Thomason /
- Eyewitness ("La porta sul buio" series) / Italy [TV] / Roberto Pariante / 

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

- Flower with the Deadly Sting, The (Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio; The Flower with Petals of Steel) / Italy, Spain / Gianfranco Piccioli / ★★
- Ghost of Guts Eater (Krasue Sao) / Thailand / Sanit Kosaroth / ★★

- Ghost of Terror, The (El espectro del terror) / Spain / José María Elorrieta / ★★
- Godmonster of Indian Flats / USA / Fredric Hobbs / 

- Hanging Woman, The (La orgía de los muertos) / Italy, Spain / José Luis Merino /
- High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft / USA [X] / Beau Buchanan /
- Horror at 37,000 Feet, The / USA [TV] / David Lowell Rich / 

- Horror Hospital (Computer Killers) / UK / Anthony Balch / 

- Horror of the Wolf (Ôkami no monshô) / Japan / Masashi Matsumoto / ★★★

- Horror Rises from the Tomb (El espanto surge de la tumba) / Spain / Carlos Aured / ★★1/2
- Hostages of Lust (Island of Sin; To nisi tis amartias) / Greece / Kostas Doukas /
- House That Cried Murder, The / Canada, USA / Jean-Marie Pélissié / ★★★

- Hunchback of the Morgue, The (El jorobado de la Morgue) / Spain / Javier Aguirre / ★★★
- Invasion of the Bee Girls (Graveyard Tramps) / USA / Denis Sanders / ★★★

- It Happened at Nightmare Inn (Una vela para el diablo) / Spain / Eugenio Martín /
- It's No Good for a Man to Be Alone (No es bueno que el hombre esté solo) / Spain / Pedro Olea / 

- Killing Kind, The / USA / Curtis Harrington / ★★★

- Kiss Me, Kill Me (Baba Yaga) / France, Italy / Corrado Farina / 

- Legend of Blood Castle, The (Ceremonia sangrienta) / Italy, Spain / Jorge Grau /
- Legend of Hell House, The / UK / John Hough / ★★1/2

- Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural / USA / Richard Blackburn / ★★★
- Leptirica (The She-Butterfly) / Yugoslavia [TV] / Djordje Kadijevic / ★★

- Let's Play Dead (Schoolgirls in Chains) / USA / Donald M. Jones /
- Lost Hearts / UK [TV] [short] / Lawrence Gordon Clark /
- Love Brides of the Blood Mummy (El secreto de la momia egipcia) / France, Spain / Alejandro Martí / ★1/2

- Love Me Deadly / USA / Jacques Lacerte / ★★1/2

- Mansion of Madness (La mansión de la locura) / Mexico / Juan López Moctezuma / ★★

- Mark of the Devil, Part II / UK, West Germany / Adrian Hoven / ★★

- Massage Parlor Murders! (Massage Parlor Hookers) / USA / Chester Fox, Alex Stevens / ★

- Messiah of Evil (Dead People) / USA / Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz / ★★★
- Midnight Intruders (The Wife) / USA / Gary Graver / ★1/2
- Mummy's Revenge, The (La venganza de la momia) / Spain / Carlos Aured / ★★1/2
- Murder in a Blue World (Clockwork Terror; Una gota de sangre para morir amando) / France, Spain / Eloy de la Iglesia / ★★1/2

- Neighbor, The ("La porta sul buio" series) / Italy [TV] / Luigi Cozzi / ★★★
- No One Heard the Scream (Nadie oyó gritar) / Spain / Eloy de la Iglesia / ★★★1/2
- Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) / UK / Peter Sasdy / ★★1/2

- Please Don't Eat My Mother (Sexpot Swingers) / USA / Carl Monson / ★1/2
- Point of Terror / USA / Alex Nicol / ★★
- Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) / USA / Victor Luminera / NO STARS!
- Psychomania (The Death Wheelers) / UK / Don Sharp / ★★1/2
- Raw Meat (Death Line) / UK / Gary Sherman / ★★1/2

- Return of the Evil Dead (El ataque de los muertos sin ojos) / Spain / Amando de Ossorio / ★★
- Run Stranger Run (Happy Mother's Day, Love George) / Switzerland, USA / Darren McGavin / ★★★

- Santo & Blue Demon vs. Dracula & the Wolf Man (Santo y Blue Demon vs Drácula y el Hombre Lobo) / Mexico / Miguel M. Delgado / ★★1/2

- Scream Bloody Murder (Claw of Terror) / USA / Marc B. Ray / ★★
- Severed Arm, The / USA / Thomas S. Alderman / ★★1/2

- Sex Victims, The / UK [short] / Derek Robbins / ★1/2

- Sexy Cat / Spain / Julio Pérez Tabernero / ★★

- Sinful Dwarf, The (Dværgen) / Denmark, USA / Vidal Raski / ★★1/2
- Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff, The (Los ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff) / Spain / Jesus Franco / ★★1/2

- Someone at the Top of the Stairs ("Thriller" series) / UK [TV] / John Sichel / ★★1/2

- Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, The (Lonely Water) / UK [short] / John Mackenzie / ★★★
- Sssssss / USA / Bernard L. Kowalski / ★★★

- Sugar Cookies (Love Me My Way) / USA / Theodore Gershuny / ★★

- Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Kyôfu joshikôkô: bôkô rinchi kyôshitsu) / Japan / Noribumi Suzuki / ★★

- Terror in the Wax Museum / USA / Georg Fenady / ★★
- Terror on the Beach / USA [TV] / Paul Wendkos / ★★★
- Theatre of Blood / UK / Douglas Hickox / ★★★

- Thief in the Night, A / USA / Donald W. Thompson / ★1/2

- Three on a Meathook / USA / William Girdler / ★★
- Thriller: A Cruel Picture (Thriller - en grym film) / Sweden / Bo Arne Vibenius / ★★1/2

- Vengeance of the Zombies (La rebelión de las muertas) / Spain / León Klimovsky / ★★
- Virgin Among the Living Dead, A (La nuit des étoiles filantes; Zombie 4) / Belgium, France, Italy, Liechtenstein / Jesus Franco / ★★★
- Virgin's Music (Devicanska svirka; Song of Virgins) / Yugoslavia / Djordje Kadijevic / ★★★
- Wednesday Children, The / USA / Robert D. West / ★1/2

- Werewolf of Washington, The / USA / Milton Moses Ginsberg / ★★

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