Tag: 1970s

The 1970s made cinema for adults: paranoid, grainy, and unafraid of bad endings. This tag collects reviews of 1970s films, the decade when American movies took their biggest risks and banked their deepest classics.

1970s

Martin (1977)

June 6, 2026

Martin earns its 8 by asking a question that quietly dismantles the entire vampire genre. What if there is no such thing as a vampire, only a disturbed young man who believes he is one?

1970s

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

June 6, 2026

Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.

1970s

Blacula (1972)

June 6, 2026

William Marshall plays a tragic vampire prince with Shakespearean dignity in this landmark Black-led horror film. Is Blacula as silly as its title?

1970s

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

June 6, 2026

Count Yorga dropped an old-world vampire into 1970 Los Angeles and got there before the rest of the genre. The film also bears the marks of its origins.

1970s

Blood for Dracula (1974)

June 6, 2026

Paul Morrissey reimagines Dracula as a dying aristocrat starving for virgin blood in a changed world. The film's central joke is also its central tragedy.

1970s

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

June 6, 2026

Ingrid Pitt raises Hammer's adaptation of Carmilla into a melancholy gothic. There is real sorrow in the performance.

1970s

Salem’s Lot (1979)

June 6, 2026

Tobe Hooper made one of the finest TV horror productions ever, with a silent Nosferatu-style vampire and unforgettable scares. Salem's Lot earns its 7.5 as one of the finest pieces of television horror ever made and proof that the right…