![]() ![]() ![]() And they covered it all in blood and dirt and viscera.Ĭheck out 21 of the absolute best from a brilliant decade below, and for additional lists check out our rundown of the best horror movies of the 80s and of the 90s. By exploring the endless permutations of subgenre allegory, those filmmakers took full advantage of the limitless opportunities for self-exploration, social commentary, and good old-fashioned meditations on mortality and the human condition. Spain, too, had an exceptional horror movement despite still being under the rule of a fascist dictator for the first half of a decade.īasically, anywhere you turn in the 1970s, you'll the birth of legendary directors, cinematic movements in full swing, and first-rate horror movies galore as a generation of filmmakers pushed and prodded the boundaries of the genre. In Britain, Hammer continued to deliver a steady stream of monstrous spine-tinglers in the studio's last decade of mass-production, while smaller, more esoteric fare also made its way to audiences. Perhaps most famously, the gruesome thrills and tightly-packed mysteries of Italy's Giallo movement were at a height. Overseas, Europe was also reaching new cinematic heights with their genre output. At the same time, the American censors opened the floodgates of violent imagery, resulting in an emergent aesthetic of realism and bloody, visceral violence that cut to the bone.īut America wasn't the only nation experimenting and expanding their horror vocabulary. Nixon, Watergate, rising crime rates… American moviegoers were facing real life terror and strife on a daily basis and as a result, they were no longer moved to terror by gothic imagery, classic monsters, or character portraits of the damaged and insane. Racial tensions were at a peak in response to the overdue social revolution of the Civil Rights movement. The horrors of the Vietnam war had seeped into the national atmosphere, both intimately in the homes of the millions of men and women who served, and on a massive scale where the war’s gruesome footage was constantly broadcast over the airwaves. In its place, a harsh sense of reality arose. It was a time in which the mentality in America significantly darkened from the free-love optimism of the 60s. But if it was a time of cinematic revolution, it was also a time of cultural upheaval. Of course, that argument could be extended to that time period for cinema as a whole, and perhaps that's why the 70s provided the breeding ground for so many of the genre's greatest auteurs, enduring franchises, and singular creeptastic creations that altered and defined the course of horror movies to a track they remain on to this day. War Horse is up for best drama as is Midnight in Paris which stars Marion Cotillard and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.The 1970s is arguably the most fruitful and consistently excellent decade for horror cinema. It won him the best actor prize at Cannes this year. Globes winners become front runners for the Oscars and The Artist - featuring Jean Dujardin as a tap-dancing silent-film star on the slide as the first "talkies" arrive - could be the first silent movie to win since 1928. Roman Polanski's Carnage, which the French-based director shot outside Paris, has best actress nominations for Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet. Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Martin Scorsese's Hugo which is set in a Paris station, both have nominations along with Steven Spielberg's First World War War Horse and - at a stretch for a French link - his animated The Adventures of Tintin. French composer Ludovic Bource has also been nominated for the score. The film is nominated as best musical or comedy and French lead Jean Dujardin is up for best actor, French director Michel Havanavicius is up for directing and screenplay nominations, and his wife Bérénice Bejo is nominated for supporting actress. FRANCE is leading the way in the Golden Globe nominations with silent film The Artist at the front with six. ![]()
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