I remember seeing the horror film Tower of Evil at the flicks. I went with my older Brother in the Seventies. It was part of a double bill and was the B-feature. Like many B-movies I liked it the most.
Tower of Evil starred Robin Askwith and Jack Watson among many others and revolved around an ancient and malevolent Egyptian or Arabic artifact buried on an island, where a group of unwitting visitors fall foul of the cursed place. I'm doing this from memory so it's as foggy as the film's beginning, which included a rowing boat mooring up and two sailors stumbling across a severed hand on the way to a lighthouse. One of the young buff twenty somethings in the film, always wearing a T-shirt, was called Gump or Bron or something similar. I loved Tower of Evil.
Another film I saw in the late Seventies was Rabid, an early shocker from Canada's body horror king David Cronenberg. I took my girlfriend Janet. Rabid was the main event.
The flick was typical Cronenberg and I enjoyed it a lot more than Janet did. She did cling on to me though, which was nice. The story was basically about a parasitic armpit tusk that siphons blood. It emerges on the film's protagonist, a young long-haired girl in leather, during a skin graft after a motorcycle accident. Her boyfriend is also treated but does not develop the underarm horn. Alas, virtually everyone in the hospital succumbs to the parasite passed on by the girl, turning them into crazed patients, surgeons and porters hell-bent on being nasty. Parasites are Cronenberg's best mates and yukky body fluids his chosen tipple, as we saw in Stereo, Shivers and Scanners. The setting was typical Cronenscape; a remote clinic called keloid on a lonely freeway during a frigid Canadian winter. The droning music added to the contagious gloom and leaving the cinema we felt jittery, cold and armpitty.
Which horror films did you see at the flicks in the Seventies?
