Programmed October 2020

70's Horror

In the 1970s, everything was wilder, weirder, and more far-out—and horror movies were no exception. In North America, a new generation of maverick directors like Tobe Hooper ( The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ), George A. Romero ( The Crazies ), Wes Craven ( The Hills Have Eyes ), Brian De Palma ( Sisters ), and David Cronenberg ( The Brood ) responded to the decade’s heightened political anxieties and Vietnam War–era sense of disillusionment by pushing the genre’s psychological intensity and visceral violence to shocking new heights. Across the Atlantic, Britain’s legendary Hammer Films continued to serve up old-school gothic spine-tinglers ( The Vampire Lovers ), while auteurs like Nicolas Roeg ( Don’t Look Now ) wedded spellbinding terror to art-house experimentation. Bringing together some of the decade’s most iconic slashers, chillers, and…