Top Ten for 1974

Overview coming soon.
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1974

Top 10

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1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★★★

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2. Cani arrabbiati (Rabid Dogs)

Italy / Mario Bava / ★★★1/2

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3. Homebodies

USA / Larry Yust / ★★★1/2

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4. Phase IV

UK, USA / Saul Bass / ★★★1/2

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5. It's Alive

USA / Larry Cohen / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Black Christmas / Canada / Bob Clark / ★★★1/2

7. Young Frankenstein / USA / Mel Brooks / ★★★1/2
8. Deranged / Canada, USA / Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby / ★★★1/2

9. Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter / UK / Brian Clemens / ★★★1/2
10. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti) / Italy, Spain / Jorge Grau /★★★

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Also seen:

- Abby / USA / William Girdler / ★★1/2
- Act of Vengeance (The Rape Squad) / USA / Bob Kelljan / ★★1/2
- Adam / Israel / Yona Day / ★1/2
- Aimilia, the Psychopath (Aimilia, i diestrammeni) / Greece / Pavlos Parashakis / ★1/2
- All in the Dim Cold Night (Qiu deng ye yu) / Taiwan / Feng-Pan Yao / ★★
- All the Kind Strangers (Evil in the Swamp) / USA [TV] / Burt Kennedy / ★★
- Antichrist, The (L'anticristo; The Tempter) / Italy / Alberto De Martino / ★★
- Axe (Lisa, Lisa) / USA / Frederick R. Friedel / ★★
- Beast Must Die, The (Black Werewolf) / UK / Paul Annett / ★★1/2
- Beyond Erotica (Lola; No es nada, mamá, sólo un juego) / Spain, Venezuela / José María Forqué / ★★1/2
- Beyond the Door (Chi sei?) / Italy, USA / Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto D'Ettore Piazzoli / ★1/2
- Blood / USA / Andy Milligan / SBIG

- Blood Reincarnation (Yinyang jie) / Hong Kong / Shan-Hsi Ting / ★★1/2
- Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (House of Psychotic Women; Los ojos azules de la muñeca rota) / Spain / Carlos Aured / ★★1/2

- Burning Hell, The / USA / Ron Ormond / SBIG

- Centerfold Girls, The / USA / John Peyser / ★★
- Chosen Survivors (Los sobrevivientes escogidos) / Mexico, USA / Sutton Roley / ★★
- Climax of Blue Power, A (Deviate in Blue) / USA [X] / Lee Frost / ★★1/2

- Corpse Eaters / Canada / Donald R. Passmore, Klaus Vetter / ★1/2

- Deathdream (Dead of Night) / Canada, UK / Bob Clark / ★★★

- Death Kiss (Eglima sto Kavouri) / Greece / Kostas Karagiannis / ★★1/2
- Devil's Female, The (Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen) / West Germany / Walter Boos / ★★

- Devil Times Five (The Horrible House on the Hill) / USA / Sean MacGregor / ★★★
- Devil Woman (She yao jing) / Hong Kong, Philippines / Felix Villar, Chi-Lien Yu / ★1/2

- Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula) / UK [TV] / Dan Curtis / ★★1/2

- Eerie Midnight Horror Show, The (L'ossessa) / Italy / Mario Gariazzo / ★★

- Evil of Dracula (Chi o suu bara) / Japan / Michio Yamamoto / ★★★
- Fangs (Holy Wednesday; Snakes) / USA / Arthur A. Names / ★★1/2

- Fire Down Below (Perverted Passion) / USA [X] / Ray Dennis Steckler / SBIG

- Fish with the Eyes of Gold, The (El pez de los ojos de oro) / Spain / Pedro L. Ramírez / ★1/2

- Flavia the Heretic (Flavia: Heretic Priestess; Flavia, la monaca musulmana) / France, Italy / Gianfranco Mingozzi / ★★

- Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette) / Italy / Dick Randall / ★1/2 

- Frightmare / UK / Pete Walker / ★★★
- From Beyond the Grave / UK / Kevin Connor / ★★★

- Ghost Galleon, The (El buque maldito) / Spain / Amando de Ossorio / ★1/2

- Hand That Feeds the Dead, The (La mano che nutre la morte) / Italy, Turkey / Sergio Garrone / ★★1/2

- Haunted: The Ferryman / UK [TV] / John Irvin / ★★

- Horror Hall of Fame, The / USA [TV] / Charles Braverman / ★★1/2

- Horror High (Twisted Brain) / USA / Larry N. Stouffer / 

- I Hate My Body (Odio mi cuerpo) / Spain, Switzerland / León Klimovsky / ★★★

- Impulse / USA / William Grefe / ★★1/2
- I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill (Thriller series) / UK [TV] / Shaun O'Riordan / ★★★

- Kill Barbara with Panic (Patayin mo sa sindak si Barbara) / Philippines / Celso Ad. Castillo / ★★★
- Killdozer / USA [TV] / Jerry London /
- Killer in Every Corner, A (Thriller series) / UK [TV] / Malcolm Taylor / ★★

- Killer Snakes, The (She sha shou) / Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★1/2

- Knife for the Ladies (Silent Sentence) / USA / Larry G. Spangler / ★★

- Last Bride of Salem ("The ABC Afternoon Playbreak" series) / USA [TV] / Tom Donovan / ★★1/2
- Lifespan / Belgium, Netherlands, UK, USA / Alexander Whitelaw / 

- Loreley's Grasp, The (Las garras de Lorelei) / Spain / Amando de Ossorio /
- Lorna... the Exorcist (Les possédées du diable) / France / Jesus Franco / ★★★

- Macabre Legends of the Colony (Leyendas macabras...) / Mexico / Arturo Martínez / ★1/2

- Madhouse / UK, USA / Jim Clark / ★★1/2
- Mania / Italy / Renato Polselli / ★1/2

- Night of the Skull (La noche de los asesinos) / Spain / Jesus Franco / ★★
- Night of the Sorcerers, The (La noche de los brujos) / Spain / Amando de Ossorio / ★1/2
- Poor White Trash Part II (Scum of the Earth) / USA / S.F. Brownrigg / ★★1/2
- Puzzle (L'uomo senza memoria; Man Without a Memory) / Italy / Duccio Tessari / ★★
- Refuge of Fear (El refugio del miedo) / Spain / José Ulloa / ★★1/2

- Revenge of the Crying Woman (La venganza de la llorona) / Mexico / Miguel Delgado / ★1/2

- Screamer (Thriller: Screamer) / UK [TV] / Shaun O'Riordan / ★★1/2

- Seizure / Canada, USA / Oliver Stone / ★★
- Shanks / USA / William Castle / ★★★

- Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine, The (Le scomunicate di San Valentino) / Italy / Sergio Grieco / ★★1/2
- Snake Girl, The (Teeda Sok Puos) / Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan / Kuang Hui / ★★1/2
- Sugar Hill (The Zombies of Sugar Hill) / USA / Paul Maslansky / ★★★

- Swamp of the Ravens (El pantano de los cuervos) / Ecuador, Spain / Manuel Caño / ★★

- Sweet Movie / Canada, France, West Germany / Dusan Makavejev / ★★★
- Symptoms (Blood Virgin) / Belgium, UK / José Ramón Larraz / ★★1/2

- Thirsty Dead, The (Blood Hunt) / Philippines, USA / Terry Becker / ★★

- Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The / UK [TV] / Lawrence Gordon Clark / ★★★
- Vampire's Night Orgy, The (La orgía nocturna de los vampiros) / Italy, Spain / León Klimovsky / ★★1/2
- Vampyres (Blood Hunger; Daughters of Dracula) / Spain, UK / José Ramón Larraz / ★★

- Violated! (The Hollywood Ripper; The Rapist) / USA / Albert Zugsmith / ★★1/2

- Voodoo Black Exorcist (Vudú sangriento) / Spain / Manuel Caño /
- What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (The Coed Murders; La polizia chiede aiuto) / Italy / Massimo Dallamano / ★★1/2
- Wolf Girl, The (Lang nu) / Taiwan, Thailand / Tung Man Chan, Kuang Hui / ★★

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