Top Ten for 1977

Overview coming soon.
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1977

Top 5

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1. Martin

USA / George A. Romero / ★★★★

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2. Suspiria

Italy / Dario Argento / ★★★1/2

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3. Eraserhead

USA / David Lynch / ★★★1/2

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4. The Hills Have Eyes

USA / Wes Craven / ★★★1/2

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5. Rabid

Canada / David Cronenberg / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Last Wave, The / Australia / Peter Weir / ★★★1/2
7. Bloodlust (Msquito der Schänder) / Switzerland / Marijan Vajda / ★★★1/2
8. Andy Warhol's Bad (Bad) / USA / Jed Johnson / ★★★1/2
9. Io Island (Ieodo Island; Iodo) / South Korea / Ki-young Kim / ★★★
10. Hotel Fear (Fear Hotel; Pensione paura) / Italy, Spain / Francesco Barilli / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Alice or the Last Escapade (Alice ou la dernière fugue) / France / Claude Chabrol / ★★1/2
- Alucarda (Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas) / Mexico / Juan López Moctezuma / ★★1/2
- Another Son of Sam (Hostages) / USA / Dave A. Adams / ★
- Ants! (It Happened at Lakewood Manor) / USA [TV] / Robert Scheerer / ★★

- Apaches / UK [short] / John Mackenzie / ★★★
- Beast in Heat, The (La bestia in calore) / Italy / Luigi Batzella / ★
- Cathy's Curse (Cauchemares) / Canada, France / Eddy Matalon / ★

- Child, The (Kill and Go Hide; Zombie Child) / USA / Robert Voskanian / ★★
- Claws / USA / Richard Bansbach and Robert E. Pearson / ★1/2
- Crazy Desires of a Murderer (I vizi morbosi di una governante) / Italy / Filippo Ratti / ★1/2

- Curse of the Black Widow (Love Trap) / USA [TV] / Dan Curtis / ★★
- Curse of the Dog God (Inugami no tatari) / Japan / Shunya Itô / ★★
- Dark Echoes (Dark Echo) / Austria, USA, Yugoslavia / George Robotham / ★★
- Day of the Animals (Something Is Out There) / USA / William Girdler / ★★1/2
- Dead of Night / USA [TV] / Dan Curtis / ★★1/2
- Death Bed: The Bed That Eats / USA / George Barry / ★★★
- Death Steps in the Dark (Passi di morte perduti nel buio) / Greece, Italy / Maurizio Pradeaux / ★★1/2
- Demon Seed / USA / Donald Cammell / ★★★
- Devil Inside Her, The / USA [X] / Zebedy Colt / ★★1/2
- Devil Strikes, The (Xie mo sha) / Hong Kong / Yee-Hung Lam / ★★
- Drive-In Massacre / USA / Stu Segall / ★1/2
- Eaten Alive (Legend of the Bayou) / USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★1/2
- Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali; Trap Them and Kill Them) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / ★★1/2
- Emanuelle Around the World (Confessions of Emanuelle; Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / ★★1/2
- Emanuelle in America (Brutal Nights) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / ★★
- Empire of the Ants / USA / Bert I. Gordon / ★★
- Eyes Behind the Wall (L'occhio dietro la parete) / Italy / Giuliano Petrelli / ★★★
- Fangs of the Cobra (Cobra Girl; Ren she shu) / Hong Kong / Chung Sun / ★★

- Gestapo's Last Orgy, The (L'ultima orgia del III Reich) / Italy / Cesare Caneva / ★★★
- Girl Hell (Yumeno Kyûsaku no shôjo jigoku) / Japan / Masaru Konuma / ★★★

- Haunts / USA / Herb Freed / ★★★
- Hausu (House) / Japan / Nobuhiko Obayashi / ★★1/2
- Hellish Flesh (Inferno Carnal) / Brazil / José Mojica Marins / ★★
- Hitch Hike (Autostop rosso sangue) / Italy / Pasquale Festa Campanile / ★★1/2
- Hollywood Meatcleaver Massacre (Evil Force) / USA / Evan Lee /
- Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (Greta - Haus ohne Männer) / Switzerland, USA, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★1/2
- Island of Death (Ta paidia tou Diavolou) / Greece / Nico Mastorakis / ★★
- Island of Dr. Moreau, The / USA / Don Taylor / ★★1/2
- Jungle Holocaust (Ultimo mondo cannibale) / Italy / Ruggero Deodato / ★★★
- Kingdom of the Spiders / USA / John 'Bud' Cardos / ★★★
- Last House on Dead End Street, The / USA / Roger Watkins / ★★
- Night of the Walking Dead (El extraño amor de los vampiros; Strange Love of the Vampires) / Spain / León Klimovsky /  ★★★

- Night Terror (Night Drive) / USA [TV] / E.W. Swackhamer / ★★1/2
- Nine Guests for a Crime (Nove ospiti per un delitto) / Italy / Ferdinando Baldi / ★★
- Obsessed (Anna Obsessed) / USA [X] / Martin & Martin / ★★1/2
- Old Lock, The (Gu cuo ye yu; Jiu suo) / Taiwan / Feng-Pan Yao / ★★1/2

- Orca / Italy, USA / Michael Anderson / ★★
- Picnic (Pick Nick; Picknick) / Netherlands [short] / Dick Maas / ★★1/2

- Planet of Dinosaurs (Planet of the Dinosaurs) / USA / James K. Shea / ★★
- Rituals (The Creeper) / Canada, USA / Peter Carter / ★★1/2
- Ruby (Blood Ruby) / USA / Curtis Harrington / ★★1/2
- Satanic Sisters (Die teuflischen Schwestern; Sexy Sisters) / Switzerland / Jesus Franco / ★★1/2
- Satan's Cheerleaders / USA / Greydon Clark / ★★
- Scalpel (False Face) / USA / John Grissmer / ★★★
- Sentinel, The / USA / Michael Winner / ★★1/2
- Shock (Beyond the Door II; Schock) / Italy / Mario Bava / ★★★

- Shock Waves (Almost Human; Death Corps) / USA / Ken Wiederhorn / ★★★
- Sisters of Death (Death Trap) / USA / Joseph Mazzuca / ★★
- Snowbeast / USA [TV] / Herb Wallerstein / ★★
- Spectre / UK [TV] / Clive Donner / ★1/2
- Spell, The / USA [TV] / Lee Philips / ★1/2
- SS Camp: Women's Hell (SS Lager 5: L'inferno delle donne) / Italy / Sergio Garrone / ★★
- SS Girls (Casa privata per le SS) / Italy / Bruno Mattei / ★1/2
- Stigma ("Ghost Story for Christmas" series) / UK [TV] [short] / Lawrence Gordon Clark / ★★1/2
- Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver, The / USA [TV] / Dan Curtis / ★★
- Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo / USA [TV] / Stuart Hagmann / ★1/2
- Tentacles (Tentacoli) / Italy, USA / Ovidio G. Assonitis / ★1/2
- Three Dangerous Ladies (Classics Dark and Dangerous) / Canada, UK [TV] / Robert Fuest, Alvin Rakoff, Don Thompson / ★1/2
- Three Days in November (Tres días de noviembre) / Spain / León Klimovsky / ★★

- Tintorera (Killer Shark; Tiger Shark) / Mexico, UK / René Cardona Jr. / ★
- Voodoo Passion (Der Ruf der blonden Göttin) / Switzerland / Jesus Franco / ★1/2
- Warlock of the Battlefield (Tuo gu gui jian lang yan) / Taiwan / Hsing-Lai Wang / ★★★
- Watch Me When I Kill (Il gatto dagli occhi di giada) / Italy / Antonio Bido / ★★
- White Buffalo, The (Hunt to Kill) / USA / J. Lee Thompson / ★★1/2

- Worm Eaters, The / USA / Herb Robins / NO STARS!

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