"What eerie 1973 British film that tells the story of an upright Christian police officer investigating the disappearance of a young girl has been called by a film magazine as ""The Citizen Kane of Horror Movies""?"
"by critics. Film magazine ""Cinefantastique"" described it as ""The ""Citizen Kane"" of horror movies"", and in 2004 ""Total Film"" magazine named ""The Wicker Man"" the sixth greatest British film of all time. It also won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, the burning Wicker Man scene was No. 45 on Bravo's ""100 Scariest Movie Moments"", and during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony the film was included as part of a sequence that celebrated British cinema. In 2013, a copy of the original U.S. theatrical version was digitally restored and released. In 1989, Shaffer wrote a script treatment"
"is going on, and not just coincidental deaths. The dead psychiatrist's supervisor, Sir Mark Ashley (Peter Cushing), agrees to help the police with the hopes of finding the truth behind the mysterious happenings. Nothing but the Night Nothing But the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Three wealthy trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, their deaths resembling suicides. But after a mysterious bus accident involving the final three trustees and 30 orphan children, police officer Colonel Bingham (Christopher Lee) starts investigating and"
"Nothing but the Night Nothing But the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Three wealthy trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, their deaths resembling suicides. But after a mysterious bus accident involving the final three trustees and 30 orphan children, police officer Colonel Bingham (Christopher Lee) starts investigating and notices discrepancies that make him question whether it was an accident. One of the orphans is treated by a psychiatrist, and when that doctor ends up murdered, it becomes obvious that something sinister"
"The Wicker Man The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy. It stars Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel ""Ritual"", centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism. Paul Giovanni composed the film score. ""The Wicker Man"" is generally well-regarded"
"The Pyx The Pyx, also known as The Hooker Cult Murders and La Lunule, is a 1973 Canadian supernatural thriller film based on John Buell's 1959 book of the same name, and starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer. A motorist witnesses a woman falling or jumping from a tenement building. Police arrive on the scene and find a crucifix and a small metal container (a pyx). While investigating the death, a detective in the city of Montreal enters the world of prostitution, drug addiction, conspiracy, and the occult. As the investigation continues, it is revealed that the dead woman is"
"a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen (Ilah Davis), who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a strange private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her, eventually turning up an 8mm stag film of Van Dorn's daughter with two young men. After Van Dorn views the film, he suspects that his daughter was kidnapped and persuaded to join California's porn underworld. His quest to rescue her takes him on an odyssey through this sleazy adult subculture. With no results from the PI, the Los Angeles Police Department,"
"survives the fire and is shown outdoors, where he mysteriously disappears, leaving only a patch of charred grass where he stood. Satan's School for Girls (1973 film) Satan's School for Girls is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by David Lowell Rich, and produced by Aaron Spelling. The film has been named as one of the most memorable television movies of the 1970s. A mysterious person seems to be chasing student Martha Sayers (Terry Lumley), who drives to her sister's lakeside house in Los Angeles. The same day, the police and Martha's sister Elizabeth (Pamela Franklin) find her hanged"
"humour, it is entirely entertaining, if only mildly."" Of the actors, he wrote, ""An ideal Hayward is aloofly smooth and suitably chilly in a role he created in the original film,"" concluding that ""there’s a really good true Brit cast to support him."" The Saint's Return The Saint's Return (released in the US as The Saint's Girl Friday) is a British crime thriller from 1953, produced by Hammer Film Productions in London. It premiered in London under the original title on 12 October 1953 and was distributed in the UK by Hammer Films own distribution company, Exclusive Films. It was"
"pick axe before gettiing arrested and led away by police. Dark Places (1973 film) Dark Places is a 1973 British horror film directed by Don Sharp and starring Robert Hardy, Christopher Lee, Joan Collins and Herbert Lom. Dr. Mandeville (Christopher Lee) and his sister Sarah (Joan Collins) try to locate two suitcases of money hidden on the large estate of one of his former patients but their plans are thwarted when mentally unstable Andrew (Robert Hardy) arrives to claim the estate which had been left to him by the owner before he died. Andrew soon begins to have flashbacks to"
"your expectations in check."" The Girl from Scotland Yard The Girl from Scotland Yard is a 1937 American detective film starring Karen Morley. Detective Beech (Karen Morley) and reporter Holt (Robert Baldwin) pursue a death ray wielding anarchist (Eduardo Cianelli) with a pathological hatred of England. Leonard Maltin wrote, ""escapist story of girl trying to track down mysterious madman with destruction ray is poorly handled; not nearly as much fun as it might have been."" and ""Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings"" wrote, ""there are nice touches here and there...but all in all, it's merely rather ordinary. Not bad for a"
"turn into a farcical series of events involving a bank inspector, the police and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs. Writing in 1979 at the time of the American release, a reviewer for ""The New York Times"" wrote: ""In its own way it is well done...(with) its simpleminded and by now rather outdated double and triple entendres"" ""TV Guide"" said it was ""a pleasing performance from Corbett...saves this otherwise average British farce from the usual doldrums."" No Sex Please, We're British (film) No Sex Please, We're British is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen"
"about a little girl's murder and her sister being the prime suspect. Another popular occult horror movie was ""The Omen"" (1976), where a man realizes that his five-year-old adopted son is the Antichrist. Invincible to human intervention, Demons became villains in many horror films with a postmodern style and a dystopian worldview. Another example is ""The Sentinel"" (1977), in which a fashion model discovers that her new brownstone residence may actually be a portal to Hell. Notable examples of this subject from the late 1980s are ""Child's Play"" (1988), ""Night of the Demons"" (1988), and ""Pet Sematary"" (1989). ""Don't Look"
"he working he was ifcs, a film cleaning company in Park Royal, he put the reel on a film cleaning machine and went for a cigarette, only to come back and discover that he had destroyed the print. The music was composed by Harry Freedman, with actress Karen Black lending her vocal talents. The Pyx The Pyx, also known as The Hooker Cult Murders and La Lunule, is a 1973 Canadian supernatural thriller film based on John Buell's 1959 book of the same name, and starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer. A motorist witnesses a woman falling or jumping from"
"The Creeping Flesh The Creeping Flesh is a 1973 British horror film. The film was directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Lorna Heilbron. Prof. Emmanuel Hildern (Peter Cushing), a Victorian era scientist is shown in what appears to be a laboratory meeting a young doctor. Hildern excitedly tells the doctor that he needs help because he has discovered a form of evil that is real, a living being, and that he has unwittingly unleashed the evil thousands of years too soon. Hildern then recounts how his discovery was made. In a flashback, Hildern recounts his"
"Trier, and starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. ""The Exorcism of Emily Rose"" is a 2005 legal drama horror film directed by Scott Derrickson, loosely based on the story of Anneliese Michel. ""The Children"" (2008) is British horror film focusing on the mayhem created by several children. Another 2008 British horror film is ""Eden Lake"". Remakes of earlier horror movies became routine in the 2000s. In addition to the remake of ""Dawn of the Dead"" (2004), as well as the remake of both Herschell Gordon Lewis' cult classic, ""2001 Maniacs"" (2003), and the remake of Tobe Hooper's classic, ""The Texas"
"Citizen Kane Citizen Kane is a 1941 American mystery drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star. The picture was Welles's first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made, ""Citizen Kane"" was voted as such in five consecutive British Film Institute ""Sight & Sound"" polls of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as"
"A Woman of Mystery A Woman of Mystery (1958) is a British crime film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, and Ferdy Mayne. The film features an early performance from Michael Caine in an uncredited role. Ray Savage, reporter for a sensational magazine in London is assigned over his objections to investigate a pretty blonde hat-check attendant's suicide. Inquiring at Jane Hale's place of work he learns that someone from her past had recognized her, and she was afraid. Finding a luggage label on her suitcase, he follows the lead to a dubious hotel where the"
"Mark of the Devil Mark of the Devil (, lit. Witches Tortured till They Bleed) is a 1970 West German horror film. It is most remembered for US marketing slogans devised by Hallmark Releasing Corp. that included ""Positively the most horrifying film ever made"" and ""Rated V for Violence"", while sick bags were given free to the audience upon admission. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. Count Christian von Meruh (Udo Kier) is a witch hunter and apprentice"
"them so much that they never wanted to go swimming again. Lonely Water Lonely Water (widely known as The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water) is a 1973 British Public Information short film made for the Central Office of Information (COI). The film aimed to warn children of the dangers of careless or foolhardy behaviour in the vicinity of water, and was shown regularly on TV for several years during breaks in children's programming. ""Lonely Water"" is widely recalled as one of the most memorable and chilling of PIFs. In a poll carried out by the BBC on the 60th"
"resembles the works of Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, especially ""The Passion of Joan of Arc"" (1928). The BFI released Anchoress on DVD in 2009. It includes various short films by director Chris Newby. Anchoress (film) Anchoress is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The screenplay is partly based on accounts of an historical female anchorite, Christine Carpenter, who was walled into her anchorhold in a village church in Surrey, England, in 1329. The story revolves around the girl's mystical visions of"
"clichés, stays on the right side of scary."" Dennis Harvey reviewed the film for ""Variety"" and said that it was ""an effectively harrowing Brit thriller-cum-horror pic,"" comparing it to ""Last House on the Left"" and ""Lord of the Flies"". ""The Guardian""s Peter Bradshaw drew parallels with ""Deliverance"", ""Straw Dogs"" and ""Blue Remembered Hills"", and stated that ""this looks to me like the best British horror film in years: nasty, scary and tight as a drum,"" concluding that the film was ""exceptionally well made, ruthlessly extreme, relentlessly upsetting."" Other critics, however, have savaged the film, denouncing it as an incitement to"
"who came to talk to Ray. A Woman of Mystery A Woman of Mystery (1958) is a British crime film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, and Ferdy Mayne. The film features an early performance from Michael Caine in an uncredited role. Ray Savage, reporter for a sensational magazine in London is assigned over his objections to investigate a pretty blonde hat-check attendant's suicide. Inquiring at Jane Hale's place of work he learns that someone from her past had recognized her, and she was afraid. Finding a luggage label on her suitcase, he follows the lead"
"Hell Is a City Hell Is a City is a 1960 British crime thriller film based on the novel by Maurice Procter. Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed in Manchester. It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films. Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain."
"been used in ""Take Me High"" (1973) to contrast the changes in the city. With Britain having no significant film industry outside London until the 1990s, BBC Birmingham has been seen as ""the nearest Britain had to an integrated regional film culture"", producing challenging films that attracted both large national audiences and critical approval, such as Philip Martin's ""Gangsters"" (1975), a surreal but gritty portrayal of Birmingham's multicultural criminal underworld, and David Rudkin and Alan Clarke's ""Penda's Fen"" (1974), which explored the pagan mythology and Mercian identity of the English Midlands. In recent decades many films have been set in"
"Korda and Carol Reed, were Hungarian and British, respectively. In June 2008, the American Film Institute (AFI) revealed its ""10 Top 10""—the best 10 films in 10 ""classic"" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ""The Third Man"" was acknowledged as the fifth best film in the mystery genre. The film also placed 75th on AFI's list of 100 Years...100 Thrills and Harry Lime was listed as 37th villain in 100 Heroes and Villains. In the United Kingdom, films of this vintage are copyright protected as dramatic works until 70 years after the end of the"
"time served as administration offices for the production facilities. The British Board of Film Censors (now BBFC) was passed uncut, with a U rating (Suitable for children). Although not as well known as Lionel Jeffries' earlier film version of ""The Railway Children"", the film has been a family favourite in Britain since its release. It has often been featured on ""Top 100"" movie lists on television programmes. It has often appeared on British television over the years (especially during the Easter and Christmas holidays). The Amazing Mr. Blunden The Amazing Mr. Blunden is a 1972 family mystery film involving ghosts"
"Neame directed the festive favourite ""Scrooge"" (1970). ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), based on Anthony Burgess' novella of the same name, starred Malcolm McDowell as Alex, the leader of a gang of thugs in a dystopian Britain. ""Get Carter"" (1971) features the eponymous London gangster Jack Carter (played by Michael Caine). The horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973), starring Christopher Lee, is considered a cult classic. In 1973 ""The Day of the Jackal"" starred Edward Fox as the ""Jackal"" (which was based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth). Nicolas Roeg's acclaimed psychological horror/thriller ""Don't Look Now"" was released in 1973. Two"
"Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try to track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might. Hell Is a City Hell Is a City is a 1960 British crime thriller film based on the novel by Maurice Procter. Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed in Manchester. It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films. Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal"
"car-accident. Mansion of the Doomed Mansion of the Doomed (UK theatrical title: The Terror of Dr. Chaney; also known as ""Massacre Mansion"", ""Eyes of Dr. Chaney"" and ""House of Blood"") is a 1976 American horror film directed by Michael Pataki and starring Richard Basehart and Gloria Grahame. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. An insane surgeon finds himself cutting up people for their eyeballs in the hope of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in"
"dies. In his grief Kenny finally finds the courage to stand up to the Minister. Having confessed his identity as the Nude Killer, he exacts vengeance by leaving the Minister crucified in his own church. The Fiend (film) The Fiend (U.S. ""Beware My Brethren"") is a 1972 British serial killer horror film, directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Ann Todd, Tony Beckley and Patrick Magee. The film is set against a background of religious fanaticism and, as with other films directed by Hartford-Davis, also includes elements of the sexploitation genre of the early 1970s. ""The Fiend"" as originally released runs"
"Lonely Water Lonely Water (widely known as The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water) is a 1973 British Public Information short film made for the Central Office of Information (COI). The film aimed to warn children of the dangers of careless or foolhardy behaviour in the vicinity of water, and was shown regularly on TV for several years during breaks in children's programming. ""Lonely Water"" is widely recalled as one of the most memorable and chilling of PIFs. In a poll carried out by the BBC on the 60th anniversary of the COI in 2006, ""Lonely Water"" was chosen as"
"with considerable controversy by UK film critics. Dilys Powell in ""The Sunday Times"" complained ""17th-century hanging, burning, raping, screaming, and Vincent Price as England's prize torture-overseer. Peculiarly nauseating."" ""The Guardian"" felt the film was filled with ""gratuitous sadism."" Margaret Hinxman of ""The Sunday Telegraph"" dismissed it as a ""sadistic extravaganza."" Nonetheless, several critics felt the film was worth accolades. John Russell Taylor in the London ""Times Saturday Review"" said the film ""… is quite happily and deliberately a horror film: that is to say, it has no particular pretensions to being anything else … There is much in it which"
"begins to transform. The police arrive and pull out four dead bodies and a hysteric Claire. Elsewhere in London, Detective Riley is shown to be the reincarnated Talos. Nicholas Sylvain of DVD Verdict derided the film, saying that while it had an interesting premise, some effects were ""merely bad, while others border on the ludicrous,"" and that the story made no sense. Martin Liebman of Blu-ray.com gave it a 2.5/5 rating, conceding that the film is technically well-done, but calling the plotting unoriginal and characters bland. He recommended viewers only watch Christopher Lee's scenes. British Horror Films reviewer Chris Wood"