1960s Cult Horror Hidden Gems - Part One
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- While I go into lockdown again, here are five 1960s horror movies for you to enjoy.
She Freak: amzn.to/3yEOgZr
Goke Body Snatcher From Hell: amzn.to/3i6bfqx
Curse Of The Crimson Altar: amzn.to/3yL1bJi
The Shuttered Room: amzn.to/3i1L1p4
Torture Garden: amzn.to/3oXxzno
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Devil Doll from 1964 is worth checking out.
Everytime i'm watching a movie starring Gig Young i can"t help thinking about the real life murder/suïcide case.Torture Garden has a great segment involving a piano.Another hidden gem from the 60s is Lady in a Cage with Olivia De Havilland as a upper class woman who's trapped in her elevator when a couple of psycho's invade her house.James Caan is terrific as the leader of the gang.
I love 'The Shuttered Room'! It's one of my all-time favorites from that period. Oliver Reed is at his most 'Oliver Reed-ish'. :) And Flora Robson is fantastic, as are Gig Young and Carol Lynley.
"The Shuttered Room" is probably in my top ten horror movies from the '60's and '70's combined! So I thank you for reviewing this almost forgotten gem. It's deserving of a remaster on Blu-ray.. yet sadly we have yet to experience this..!
I must admit the idea of going to the GP and the nurse saying Dr Karswell will see you now would have me checking the back of my prescription for any strange writing.
We get eScripts here now. I wonder if a rune can be hidden in a QR code...
Always enjoyed most of those Hammer flicks...especially the women like Barbara Shelley, Ingrid Pitt, Caroline Munro and Veronica Carlson...well you get my point.
Busty substances?
One I would recommend is "Mill of the Stone Women" also known as "Drops of Blood." I got the DVD under the first title, though IMDB lists it under the second. I saw this as a kid and forgot the title, but it was a memorable story that I always wanted to see again, then finally found out what it was called, and it didn't disappoint. It's a classic "wax museum" type film but where the figures are on a carousel that's in an octagonal-shaped "mill" building. It's unquestionably a "hidden gem" as far as I'm concerned. A European production, I think it was a French/German collaboration or something like that.
Heard of it but now I have to watch it.
Never heard of these, but they sound fun to watch...pandemic viewing! One '60s film I remember is " Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed"...a Hammer film, I believe...
Here in 50's 60 's west coast carnivals were everywhere from spring to fall 'brings back memories of fun rides and the smell of well you know sick kids tummies ha ha cheers !! LOS ANGELES !
I still like a good carnival. There are less of them than there were here but they still have a groovy vibe.
7:07 As a kid I had a crush on Carol Lynley from seeing her in The Poseidon Adventure in 1972. She looks amazing in this shot!
EDIT: Thanks for the reviews, Terry! I need to finish watching Colossus the Corbin Project later tonight, thanks to your recommendation. It's awesome.
My pleasure. 😀
I grew up in Las Vegas, where David Friedman owned a small theater called THE 4-STAR. I saw some of the worst movies ever made there before it turned into a hard-X theater. That man could turn a thin dime into a million bucks...he was one of a kind.
Yep. I saw his Erotic Adventures of Zorro in a cinema at the time. The guy knew how to pump out grindhouse fare.
I remember that theater. I believe it was in the downtown area we snuck in there during high school to see a porno 😂
@@Kipper5776 Before it became a porn venue(circa 1990), they showed low-budget "mainstream" stuff, plus some import martial arts flicks and re-releases. LOL, it might be the only theater which actually opened as a grindhouse! The building's not even there anymore...I miss it.
I like your work. Honest and sincere.
Thank you.
Mentioning "Matango" which you should look into.Released in U.S. as "Attack Of The Mushroom People".
Dark Intruder from 1965 was very much a hidden gem for me. It was a double feature on the tcm copy of the Night Walker I got and knew nothing about it. Turns out, it was to be a tv pilot movie for a tv show but was released a theatrical film instead. It's really good and stars Leslie Nielsen, in what I would've loved to have seen as a tv series! But this film at 59 minutes, full screen, and b&w, is well worth the watch, considering it was going to be a tv series.
Kino Lorber just put it out on blu-ray.
I second this film. It could have been an interesting series had it got picked up! And I'm not sure I've ever seen Leslie Nielsen in a similar role to this. He's either playing a straight man or a funny parody of a straight man.
Great stuff. Want to watch goke and the shuttered room ( Carol lynly... Wow) a favorite 60s horror that comes to mind is Carnival of Souls. Very creepy and unsettling on such a small budget!
One of my favorite 60s horror flicks is The Flesh Eaters.A bit bonkers,with some surprising gore for the time.
I might have to rewatch that.
Seen all but Goke & Crimson Altar... wonder if they'd make a good Dbl Feature??? Loved the Lovecraftian 'Shuttered Room'! & I've always had a thing for anthologies... 'Torture Garden' is a true hidden Gem!
Even more to add to my watch list. Thanks.
Will be on the lookout, only seen Goke from these.
The was good. Looking forward to part two.
I caught home on TCM your right it is very entertaining and cool
I don't think I've seen any of these, Terry. And Burgess Meredith and Jack Palance are two of my favorites. Will try to find. Thanks.
As a kid in 70s Chicago I saw a sci fi movie, possibly from Italy: a test pilot is killed in a crash & aliens use his body to make an android to move amongst the population. I remember him killing a woman who was kissing him by taking off a glove and touching her on the back. She screamed, fell and became a skeleton. He also knew he was being x rayed in a room.
Sounds cool.
I saw Crimson Alter at the cinema - part of a double bill on Sunday afternoon.
Weird little film.
Does "Seconds" count as horror? Cause that ending scared the bejesus out of me !
It's liminal. Science fiction and horror.
@@terrytalksmovies It was a good movie.
don’t miss the similarly themed FACE OF ANOTHER for another culture’s take. severely underappreciated these days.
Torture Garden another fav🐸❤️Awesome as always.
I have the Torture Garden. Cant go wrong with Burgess Meridith. I'm very excited about Goke. I love Japanese films. Couple of tv horror movies from the early 70s I love. Ssssss a movie about a mad scientist creating hybrid snake people. Strother Martin and a very young Dirk Benedict. The other is Gargoyles staring Cornel Wide. Scared the hell out of me. I was 11 at the time. Also Stan Winston created the gargoyles and it was his first movie.
Gargoyles is on tubi.tv for free.
@@terrytalksmovies That is where I watched it recently. They are asking 50 dollar's for the dvd on Amazon
As always some great films you picked out. Goke is excellent, if bonkers, but have you seen the Human Vapour another really good Japanese film that creeps in being released 1960. Shame that The H Man was from 1958, a real mash up of scifi, horror and gangster tropes, which is surprisingly graphic for the time it was released, otherwise this would be a firm recommendation
Great channel man . Really appreciate some of the gems I’ve only encountered on this channel .
years back I signed up for 'thevMonster Fan Club' which included a 6' tall moon monster poster, paper masks and a mimiographed press release of 'crimson alter'..
Excellent picks as ever. Caught Goke the other night and yup, utterly barking but fun. Maybe just me however, Never Let Go, a crime film, is one of the darkest flims made in the 60s. The scene with Seller's psychopath gangster the old man and the Terrapins is as nasty as anything from the horror genre and the climax, whilst maybe clichéd is truly brutal. Everyone loses there's no saving grace really for any of the lead characters.
I have a fairly large collection of David F. Friedman's movies and find his commentaries to be extremely entertaining and will periodically listen to them. I also will watch the documentary Sex and Buttered Popcorn every so often which discusses the exploitation movie. His book A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King is also very entertaining and it's unfortunate he never was able to finish his follow-up book.
As for the other movies mentioned, I was not aware of them, but they are now on the list.
I'm not a huge horror fan, but your description of The Shuttered Room intrigues me enough to seek it out.
Would you review the film Harlequin at some point? It's a late 70s-early 80s suspense/supernatural plot. It's not well known in the U.S. where it's called Dark Forces. I think you'd enjoy it.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 Maybe he'll do both? A double feature?
Another great vid! All great choices.
Thank you.
I hope I can find these. I enjoy odd mid century films.
They all seem like interesting movies; especially the Japanese one. Cool selection, and great effort in getting that out in time!
The struggle is real.
I like your description of Tony Tenser - I've always thought of him as 'Slightly dodgy'. Prior to his interest in horror movies (or more likely, the cash they could generate), he was best known as a producer of grotty British porn films. However, I can forgive him that for being the co-producer of 'Witchfinder General'.
I do like odd, rather tatty little sci-fi movies, and two I'm very fond of, are 'The Night Caller' (1965), starring John Saxon, and 'The Projected Man' (1966), starring Bryant Halliday (and with executive producer Tony Tenser on board). Another, although not sci-fi, is 'It!' (1966), starring Roddy McDowall, and a huge Golem. What's not to like?
Of all the movies listed here, I have only seen Torture Garden, I have seen it at least a couple of times, great movie. I would like to see the Body Snatcher movie, just the visuals make it look really cool.
excellent work as ever, thanks for these and hope the lockdowns a brief one
Me, too.
I just caught Goke on TCM yesterday.I saw it years ago during the days of rental shops,but this time it really stood out as a unique flick!
Cool!
I saw Torture Garden just a few months ago and I really liked it.
I can't remember many 60 gems since I'm mainly a 70s 80s kid...but I did see a few I think we're in the 60s...mantago aka attack of the mushroom people,night living dead, and green slime come to mind...there was one sounded interesting but was really bad, something about cooked meat but was rabie infected and the people went nuts and acting like zombies, it kinda sounded gross but the premise sound off the wall...love to see you do some 70s gems... My favorite was demon seed.
It was cooked meat pies, the little boy injects the blood of a rabid dog to the pies. The evil bad hippy people, eat the pies, go crazy, movie is I Drink Your Blood!
Thanks. Will check out all of these
They're fun.
Really surprised that I have seen all of these movies. Probably as a young teenager watching late night horror films broadcast on Friday nights in the UK. Good times.
Taking notes 👍🏼
Thanks again for exciting movie tips. I've seen 'Goke Body Snatcher From Hell' and of course it's weird and I like the movie. Speaking of Japanese weird 60's horror/sci fi, I would like to see 'Matango' but have not been able to find it. I (unfortunately) download a lot of movies.
I have not seen 'Kwaidan' either, even though it is quite famous ... I would really like to see it.
I think Japan has some really good older ghosts and horror movies.
Matango's a great call out. Too could do weird, too.
Thank you terry
I hadn't heard of "Goke Body Snatcher From Hell" until your recommendation. I'll check it out, ta. "The Shuttered Room" is great little known 60s cult classic. I can recall seeing this on British TV sometime around 1970, maybe even 1969, and being instantly smitten by Carol Lynley. What a natural beauty she was.
Sorry I missed Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell. It was on TCM yesterday after the Snow Beast. Quite a double feature.
I absolutely loved the Snow Beast!!
i have only seen The Shuttered Room once when i was probably around 7 or 8 and the only thing i remember was being disturbed by it so its on the watch list to revisit
All of Amicus' anthology movies were great, and I think "Torture Garden" ranks as one of the best. Bergess Meredith is fantastic in this.
If you haven't seen it already, a film I'd strongly recommend you watching is "The Earth Dies Screaming". It's a B movie, probably filmed on a budget of 10 shillings, but it's very competently directed by Terence Fisher. A post holocaust movie with a small group of survivors fighting an alien invasion consisting of a couple of robots and some zombies. It's better than it sounds, I promise you.
Terry , you must check out John Standing in The Psychopath from 1966. It's well worth watching.
The Psychopath I have on blu-ray. Saving it for a future video.
Face of Terror Lisa Gaye is a great 60s gem!
Thanks for the tip. 😀
Curse of the Crimson Altar is awesome and coincidentally I have an ex-rental copy on BETA. :-)
It's a really odd film, even for its time.
I found it pretty disappointing. Barbara Steele’s hat features in so many publicity stills - if it accounted for a significant slice of the budget (and I suspect it did) they got their money’s worth.
It’s been quite a while but I’m catching up on some of your content and in case I didn’t tell you or you forgot but long story short it’s me Prodigious, just on a temporary and secondary account but some interesting gems
Thanks. Welcome back.
@@terrytalksmovies you’re welcome and thank you
Super!
Nice list if recommendations
Glad you like them!
Hello, Terry!
Speaking of frame stories, have you seen “Dead of Night”?
(1945, Ealing Studios, (B+W, of course))
The frame is quite good; the stories are uneven, but at least one of the stories is utterly riveting - and frightening - with a very young
Michael Redgrave as a ventriloquist…the story has had a big impact, and is the origin (IMO) of what we might call “puppet horror” - and Redgrave’s performance is stunning, a riveting tour de force. The film has its weaknesses, to be sure, but still worth watching, and might just be right up your street.
For my part, I’ll see if I can find Goku (sounds like a riot!) & Curse if the Crimson Altar…and Torture Garden & Shuttered Room are now on my list
Definitely seen Dead of Night. Hell of a great movie.
😎👍Great video and awesome channel my friend :)
I've actually seen that Japanese movie. Very bizarre! Haven't seen the others.
The other day, my usual late night youtube surf brought up Devil Doll (1964). OK, so it's a shameless rip-off of a very famous horror film released some 19 years before. But this one is very creepy, contains some quite startling scenes for its time, and is IMO superbly directed. Watching it with the benefit of hindsight, you could imagine it being subtitled
'1964: A DOLL ODYSSEY'. If you watch it Terry, hopefully you'll get what I mean.
I remember kinda liking Devil Doll. It's another one of those horror movies with a 'continental version' with more nudity in some scenes.
Please keep digging for these Treasures !
:O :O :O OMG, Goke, AND Torture Garden :O :O :O DAMN, Terry, You ARE The Bestest!!! :D :D :D
My pleasure. :-)
I don't know if anyone would call it a "gem," but for no sane reason I love Herbert J. Leder's _It!_ (1967) starring Roddy McDowall in a mashup of _Psycho_ and _The Golem._ Talk about a dog's breakfast! The design of the movie's Golem is quite unique and Roddy elevates his knockoff Norman Bates character, but the rest of _It!_ is merely a fascinatingly bad mess.
_Island of Terror_ (1966) is a horrible waste of Peter Cushing, but that theme music lives in my mind forever and the monsters, while poorly realized, present an unusual threat and leave behind some disturbing victims.
Speaking of Michael Gough, I'm also fond of _Berserk!_ (1967). Another incredible theme (this time from John Scott), some gruesome murders/accidents, a loopy circus dog act, a great song performed by the circus' "freaks," and the cringeworthy experience of Joan Crawford trying to seduce sexy guys less than half her age. What's not to like?
It! is a lot of fun. So is Beserk.
I thought Targets (1968) was Karloff's last role. Brtgess Meredeth was always fun to watch, He did a few Twilight Zone episodes. as well as other TV roles.
IMDB shows a couple of others that pre-dated his death and a few post-humous ones, too.
Goke : Body Snatcher from Hell is currently showing on the cable channel Turner Classic Movies! 😳
Cool! People should watch it. Totally crazy.
Good video, but unfortunately the mid roll ads are also turned up to 11.
Sorry for that. The ads are localised but I will feed back to YT.
DR. Phibes!!!
Did a whole video on Phibes. Look through the archive. 😀
Can you tell by my comments in many of your vids that I've binge watch you a bit today? LOL.
Question: What's your take on these movies? Aztec Mummy (1957, spanish language), Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1958) & The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958) (latter two can be found in English dubs). I'd also be curious to know your take on 1957's From Hell It Came.
Yeah I guessed you had been bingeing. The Aztec Mummy movies aren't easily sourced here, From Hell It Came is a kinda middle of the road 50s monster drive-in movie,
i give you two horror gems terry the house on straw hill udo keir and the nestling 1982
Thanks! 😀
'60s Hidden Horror Gems? How about:
Devil Doll
The Sorcerers
The Navy vs. the Night-Monsters
Unearthly Stranger
Invasion
The Earth Dies Screaming
Chamber of Horrors
Terry, you mentioned Tony Tenser (of Tigon Productions). He, of course, was responsible for 'The Blood Beast Terror', one of the worst 1960s British horror films I know. Its star, the great Peter Cushing, regarded it as the worst movie of his career. He's certainly right about that one. I wonder if Cushing vowed never to work with Tenser again after that turkey. Maybe that's the reason that Peter Cushing is nowhere to be seen in 'Curse of the Crimson Altar'. LOL
That's probably it!
@@terrytalksmovies
Just had a thought. Which movie came first ? 'Blood Beast Terror' or 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' ... both released in 1968. But ... 'Beast' released Jan 1968, 'Altar' released Dec 1968. So yeah, my guess is still valid ... that maybe Cushing stayed well clear of 'Altar' having already experienced working on 'Beast'
Off topic; but for a terrific Jack Palance villain see Shane (1954) an otherwise embarrassing "mythic" western.
See Palance in The Big Knife. He definitely had game.
“Required brain injury”? ;- )
Acquired.