The Monster's Den: Favorite Horror/Sci-Fi Films of 1976
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Join Pete Pardo, Chris Alo, and Dave LaGreca as they pick their Top 10 films of 1976. #1976
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Great show! I live in Texarkana, TX, setting for The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Growing up here I knew a bunch of people who had Phantom Killer stories. And as a bonus, Fouke Ark, home of the Boggy Creek Monster, is only about 20 miles southeast of here.
1. Assault on Precinct 13
2. The Omen
3. The Town That Dreaded Sundown
4. Massacre at Central High
5. Carrie
6. The Eagle Has Landed
7. Burnt Offerings
8. The Tenant
9. Futureworld
10. Logan's Run
Great freaking pics ,Assault on precinct 13,Kim Richards buying ice cream and getting shot,I had never seen anything like that at 8 yrs old,until Jaws,then we got the kid on the raft,loved horror since.
@@robertparks7233 It's so underated, a creepy movie and I love the scene when the power goes out and you just see the shadows running around outside in the dark. The scene with Kim Richards shocked me too, it's an awesome lower budget film!
Nice to see The Tenant make someone’s list, love that movie…very high on the creepy factor, Siouxsie and The Banshees wrote a song about it.
Massacre at Central High and Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw are both great films I've watched because of Mr. Alo's recommendations from 1976. Thank you sir, especially for Central High. As you said, the greatest beach scene in the history of cinema, there's no doubt about it!
Great episode , guys, and extra enjoyable with Dave LaGreca making an appearance. Personal top two for ‘76 were Carrie and The Omen. The ending of Carrie made me jump out of my seat for the second time in the 70s (the first was Jaws) and The Omen just gave me the willies in general. Thanks again.
I used to go see all the horror movies back in the day but, I somehow missed a few of the ones you guys love. Love these Monsters Den videos.
Another great episode as usual. Best show on TH-cam.
This year thing has now created dozens of more future episodes you guys can do. Great idea. I got a lot of movies to check out now. I’m going to throw in THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS. Creepy film with such a great atmosphere and a claustrophobic ending.
"The House with Laughing Windows" is indeed a cool creepy flick. How do you hear about these bizarre cinematic gems? 😉
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@@marclahn7072 Some strange demonic presence from Millville introduced me. A combination of rosaries and Metamucil to rid myself of it.
Haha! Demonic indeed! 😈
*So funny though, I was going to do my own Top 10 after watching this, with THWLW as one of the ten, and very first comment I see at the top was yours! Too cool.
I actually think it's awesome that you brought this one to the attention of others. As you said, it's a very cool fillum! 🎬
Cool Burton too.
@@marclahn7072 It definitely is a cool film, I watched it on TH-cam. Don’t think an English dub was ever made for this one. Hoping a blu ray surfaces at some point.
Logans run is great, just watched it the other day.. Love the cast and Blu-ray!! I saw Grizzly at the drive-in with my parents, it was part of a double feature like all drive-in movies were.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) still creeps me out
1. The Omen
2. Logan's Run
3. Carrie
4. The Man Who Fell to Earth
5. King Kong
6. The Eagle Has Landed
Well, The Omen, obviously; saw it on TV when... easily in 1981 or 82 (9/10 years old) had nightmares for a month haha! And didn't skip one sunday mass that month 😆 thanks for the show! 🍺🍺
(Edited) it was 1983, in "Noches de Gala" in channel 4
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane was a really great thriller from that year.
Saw Carrie @ the drive-in with my parents, I was 7. My first rated R (unless A Star is Born came out first) movie, iirc. The ending had me sleeping at the foot of my parents bed for a few months.
Wasn't Bad Ronald out around this time? I know it was a TV movie, but that one creeped me out too.
I think we can all agree that 1976 was one hell of a year for horror and sci-fi: Carrie, The Omen, Logan's Run and The Man Who Fell to Earth in a single year simply does not happen anymore. They really don't make them like they used to.
Being such a dog lover, Chris would LOVE the 1973 TV movie "Trapped"
James Brolin gets trapped in a department store with security Dobermans and has to survive the night.
I almost forgot about this one saw it when it aired and I remember it being pretty intense!
loved Logan's run!!! just watch out for those blasters
Chris never fails to crack me up..lmao
1. Oiwa’s Vengeful Ghost.
2. To The Devil A Daughter.
3. Carrie.
4. The Omen.
5. Futureworld.
The very year I was hatched wasn't aware just how many of these were that year alone I have 90% of the films listed in my blu ray collection. Glad to see Satan's Slave and Alice Sweet Alice getting some love great films. Very enjoyable episode perhaps some more key year episodes to follow would be nice.
The Omen is my #1 of 1976 and my all time favorite movie soundtrack
Love this segment of SOT! Have you ever considered ranking Spanish exploitation B-movie maestro Jesse Franco horror films?
I've seen VERY few of them unfortunately
@@seaoftranquilityprog Thought his films would be right in the 'King's' wheelhouse!
Massacre At Central High is a lot of fun, glad to see that one make it high up on Chris’ list. I wouldn’t put it ahead of Carrie personally, but I love it too. And yes, Alice Sweet Alice has always been sorely underrated…GREAT movie! Saw someone else mention Polanski’s The Tenant in the comments, that would be right up there for me too.
Ive got a good list here, but instead, I need to tell CHRIS (who I love in general) to grow the hell up (!) and start loving Dogs!
Dogs are incredible. So loving, loyal, truly your best friend...and they bring a sense of peace and contentment to your life, environment and home.
Me? I dont care if 14 dogs bit me when I was a kid. So, really, man, get that crap out of your head. One bad dog (or most likely one "ignored, abused and unloved" dog), does NOT mean they're all like that. Its up to you to be mature and wise. Offer that good self to them. They'll pick up on the cool, smart humans.
I (and my wife), obviously LOVE dogs. They make me wish life was 300 years long.
Next I'll do my '76 list...or not. I also love the 1970s, so I probably will
Marc
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I debated buying Burnt Offerings last weekend. Maybe I'll go pick it up now.
Eaten alive is fukn RAD! Burnt offerings omen classic, Logan's run yes! Squirm I've only seen the MST3K version which Is hysterical! A lot of these are under my radar thanks for the turn on especially Dogs which I gotta find now. Loaned my town that dreaded sun down copy to a "friend" years ago never seen it since. lesson learned 😋
Massacre at central high. Cheesy but good.
" Three of our classmates were just murdered! Let's go to the beach!".
46:12 My jaw dropped when Chris Alo talked about "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea". For decades if I mentioned this movie to fans of horror or just general movie buffs of my age range, I would just get blanks stares. No one today seems to remember that it existed...or perhaps they blocked it out after years of psychotherapy? "F--ked" up dosen't even do justice to how disturbing this movie actually is - and the disturbing factor only gets deeper upon second viewing. And the movie has perhaps the most evil child character ever committed to film, and it's NOT the kid who hides inside a wall to watch his mom undress and walk around naked (or occasionally masturbate. It's actually one of the Oedipus kid's friends that shows himself to be a complete sociopath who needs a life sentence without parole, and quick! What's the most weird about this movie is that at the time it was in theaters it was advertised to look like a ROMANCE flick, with no warning about the Oedipus/murder story line or a very sick scene of animal cruelty, among other weirdness. And if you've never seen the movie's theatrical poster, Goggle it. Some of the strangest looking cartoonish 70s artwork ever for a movie poster, and it doesn't fit the movie in any way imaginable. It's like they knew they had a movie on their hands that was unsellable to the general public, so they "re-imagined" it for the adverts.
Here are a few of my favourites.
Futureworld
Satan's Slave
The Tenant
Schizo
The little girl who lives down the lane
I'm surprised that no one mentioned Larry Cohen's God Told Me To. 4K coming soon from Blue Underground!
I’ve never seen it actually…but I will be buying that new 4K!
Bloodsucking Freaks was pretty vicious.
I'm going to check out several of these. I'll mention Bloodsucking Freaks.
Food of the gods is classic,with Margorie Gortner,the creep from eartquake
Massacre at Central High is one of the greatest films ever made.
The Bad Seed is perhaps one of the first children gone bad flicks from 1956. More pschological thriller than horror but very well made/acted and disturbing.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane.
Logan's Run . Doesn't get old.
LOL!
I see what u did there!
Cross Of Iron is another great 76 movie; horrors of war section.
"Heathers" borrowed quite a bit from "Massacre at Central High".
Yes, good point!!
Hey Pete, how about an episode of top 5 William Castle films?
I always liked Omen II better, but I only own Omen on Blu-ray.. It spawned a huge thing with naming kids Damien and calling bad kids Damien. Carrie is so great too, also the same thing happened with the name thing, I've always owed this too.
The Omen my #1. Logan's Run #2.
I've just started watching 'Who Can Kill A Child?' The documentary footage interspersed with the opening credits is the most horrific 8 minutes I've watched for a very long time. Utterly devastating. Truly truly awful.
Yeah the documentary footage was some of what was cut from the original US release. That part is definitely horrific, but it does not come up again later in the film. I usually fast forward past that myself.
@@chrisalo2989 yeah. Think that will be what I do in future. Its important footage. But harrowing. There was another scene with documentary film with a monk performing self-immolation on a small TV screen when they were buying camera film in a small shop. Interestingly just after the guy mentions Mao's death and communists taking over in Thailand. Mao didn't die until September 1976 and IMDB shows the release date as April 1976. He'd been ill and had a couple of heart attacks so maybe a good guess! Leftists were kicked out of power in Thailand in October 1976. Not sure the monk footage was from Thailand. Think Vietnam.
That aside what an interesting film. Thought it was a good choice to make the kids look so normal. Not scruffy, unkempt and out of control like Lord Of The Flies.
The Spanish town the island stuff was filmed in reminded me a lot of the kind of Mexican village you'd get in a Magnificent Seven type film. Of course Yul Brynner & co. didn't have M-60 submachine guns.
The woman looks so much like Carrie when she is screaming 'the baby inside me is killing me! He's one of them.' Then the blood pouring down her legs. Like the shower scene in Carrie.
Oh & the bloke who plays the father Antonio Iranzo could play the Wolf Man with only 5 minutes in make up.
The answer to the important question. Who can kill a child? Me! If they are like these little bastards
You need to get Tarantino as a guest on one of these shows!
It's always been musical guests solely on SoT so it's probably not so realistic a possibility, I think someone like say a Caroline Munro might be a much more likely guest on TMD, that is if Pete would ever consider inviting film guests on here.
Great show guys. Quite a few movies that you mentioned I haven't seen before, I will definitely check them out.
2 movies that I really like from 1976 that weren't mentioned are
The man who fell to earth with David Bowie and candy Clark.
The boy in the plastic bubble with John Travolta and Robert reed.
When you guys buy movies/CD's online, do you always buy new or used also?
Both
Yep, same!
the Town that Dreaded Sundown was a cheap film with big name actors Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine and Dawn Wells
and the rest were unknown actors not sure if it was meant to be a Mystery, Crime Drama or Horror movie
it was based on real events and while some of the unknown actors weren't great the plot was still good.
Who Can Kill a Child sounds like Lord of the Flies/Battle Royal
APE great choice see Ape vanquish giant snake.
Too Bad Claws couldn't make the Cut as it came out in 1977 lol
Logan's Run!
Grizzly!
Burnt Offerings did nothing for me.
and the chauffeur? I thought he looked like Ric Ocasek.
I can't be creeped out if I keep hearing "Shake It Up" every time I see him...
Polanski's The Tenant !!!!
Fantastic film. Very creepy.👀
Glad you mentioned this! I almost forgot about it.
Squirm!
Love that film
My favorite of the Apartment Trilogy, greatest psychological horror I've ever seen.
Controversially (!), I think "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" is pretty lousy. They do the same kind of goofy comedy for no reason in it that they do in "The Last House on the Left."
I'd go:
1. Carrie
2. The Omen
3. Alice, Sweet Alice (it's great)
4. Eaten Alive (wacky stuff)
5. Burnt Offerings
Pete, you should shave the sides of your head like Dave does. Would look great on you too considering you have very similar hair.
I could Google those films of 1976 and give a fake expert opinion .
No fun in that…the fun is actually watching them.
A movie i saw in the eighties about an island with women brutally killing men . The men who goes on a vacation trip to this island are basically rapist and they are allured into vacationing to this island with gorgeos women (who was abused and raped in the main land) its name is similar to pretty kill...etc . I could not find that movie if somebody nows please tell me it is an exploitation cheesy movie i am not sure is it made in the 70's or 80's 😊
1. Carrie
2. The Omen
3. Burnt Offerings
4. Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
5. Alice, Sweet Alice