Nov 2019
Do you ever wonder coming across an old horror movie which looks like original for the its time but you'll find out is is generally unknown? A movie that predates the better known classics by some years. usually they are obscure as they didn't really got much advertising or they got a limited release in theatre (perhaps not screening at all in the mainstream ones).
The ones that spring to mind:
Spider Baby (1967): Well it is said the filming started in 1964 which probably explains why it is rather tame for the time it was released. Possibly the first deranged family going with cannibalistic desires predating the Texas Chainsaw Massacre by quite a few years.
Olga's Girls: a series of movies in 1964-1965 starring Audrey Campbell as the warden of the bordello. It's comparable to the later WIP movies; There is quite a bit of torture around predating the Ilsa movies also by a good amount of years.
Flesh Eaters (1964): Of course there has been lots of sci-fi horror flicks and all kind of monster movies however this kind of flesh eating creatures devouring humans to the bone was at that point quite new. Add to this there is a few graphic scenes which could pass for gore. Not sure where I have read it but it might have been a finished product in 1962 so in that case it would predate Blood Feast of HG Lewis.
The Defilers (1965): It wasn't the first roughie as there was Scum of The Earth from HG Lewis 2 years earlier. Scum was tame on the sexual violence and had IIRC no nudity. Defilers on the other hand must have been the first where a couple of guys kidnap a girl and use her as sex slave. Another 5 years before we got to see Wes Craven's last house on the left and in the 60s there had been plenty of roughies who didn't really hold back on the sexual violence.
A Bay of Blood (1971): Well maybe not that obscure and there certainly where movies before that could be defines as slashers. However it did add some elements of the modern slashers like for example body count is more important than a profound story or character development, gratuitous nudity and of course POV kills.
Any others?
The ones that spring to mind:
Spider Baby (1967): Well it is said the filming started in 1964 which probably explains why it is rather tame for the time it was released. Possibly the first deranged family going with cannibalistic desires predating the Texas Chainsaw Massacre by quite a few years.
Olga's Girls: a series of movies in 1964-1965 starring Audrey Campbell as the warden of the bordello. It's comparable to the later WIP movies; There is quite a bit of torture around predating the Ilsa movies also by a good amount of years.
Flesh Eaters (1964): Of course there has been lots of sci-fi horror flicks and all kind of monster movies however this kind of flesh eating creatures devouring humans to the bone was at that point quite new. Add to this there is a few graphic scenes which could pass for gore. Not sure where I have read it but it might have been a finished product in 1962 so in that case it would predate Blood Feast of HG Lewis.
The Defilers (1965): It wasn't the first roughie as there was Scum of The Earth from HG Lewis 2 years earlier. Scum was tame on the sexual violence and had IIRC no nudity. Defilers on the other hand must have been the first where a couple of guys kidnap a girl and use her as sex slave. Another 5 years before we got to see Wes Craven's last house on the left and in the 60s there had been plenty of roughies who didn't really hold back on the sexual violence.
A Bay of Blood (1971): Well maybe not that obscure and there certainly where movies before that could be defines as slashers. However it did add some elements of the modern slashers like for example body count is more important than a profound story or character development, gratuitous nudity and of course POV kills.
Any others?