Tuesday 13 October 2009

GCSE Film Studies : Horror Movies Timeline 5


1960s Horror Movies

'Night of the Living Dead'


Perhaps no decade had more seminal, acclaimed horror films than the '60s. Reflecting the social revolution of the era, the movies were more edgy, featuring controversial levels of violence (Blood Feast, Witchfinder General) and sexuality (Repulsion). Films like Peeping Tom and Psycho were precursors to the slasher movies of the coming decades, while George Romero's Night of the Living Dead changed the face of zombie movies forever. Horror luminaries of the time included Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, The Birds), Vincent Price (13 Ghosts, The Fall of the House of Usher, Witchfinder General), Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs), Roman Polanski (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby) and Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath).
1960: 13 Ghosts
1960: Black Sunday
1960: Eyes Without a Face
1960: The Fall of the House of Usher
1960: The Little Shop of Horrors
1960: Peeping Tom
1960: Psycho
1960: Village of the Damned
1961: The Innocents
1962: Carnival of Souls
1962: Mondo Cane
1962: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
1963: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
1963: The Birds
1963: Black Sabbath
1963: Blood Feast
1963: The Haunting
1964: Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964: Kwaidan
1964: Two Thousand Maniacs
1965: Dr Terror's House of Horrors
1965: Repulsion
1968: The Rape of the Vampire
1968: Night of the Living Dead
1968: Rosemary's Baby
1968: Spider Baby
1968: Witchfinder General