Decades of Horror | Movie Reviews of 1970s Classic Horror Films
161 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDoc Rotten and The Black Saint from Horror News Radio recap and review the best and worst horror films from the 1970s. Grindhouse. Blacksploitation. Hollywood Blockbusters. B Movies. Films like Exorcist | The Car | Phantasm | Halloween | The Incredible Melting Man | The Manitou | Beyond the Door | Vampire Circus | Dawn of the Dead
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DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971) – Episode 213 – Decades of Horror 1970s
April 24, 2024 00:32 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB“Love is stronger than death… even than life.” Hmmm. That sounds like something a vampire might say. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and […]
THE GHOST GALLEON (1974) – Episode 212 – Decades of Horror 1970s
April 09, 2024 20:50 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB“Gaze! Gaze on the fiery cross and return to the darkness of your cold tombs.” That’ll never work. They don’t have ears! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
TROG (1970) – Episode 211 – Decades of Horror 1970s
March 26, 2024 21:48 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB“I’d like you to tell the public that this whole abomination is hurting business. It’s ruining my plans for a housing project. Nobody wants to buy land with an ugly […]
COUNTESS DRACULA (1971) – Episode 210 – Decades of Horror 1970s
March 12, 2024 20:58 - 1 hour - 46.3 MB“Devil Woman! Devil! Devil!” With evil on her mind? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr along with guest host Gregory Crosby – as […]
THE MAD BUTCHER (1971) – Episode 209 – Decades of Horror 1970s
February 28, 2024 01:32 - 1 hour - 40.7 MB“Meat is meat.” Where have you heard that before? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they relish the chance […]
EFFECTS (1979) – Episode 208 – Decades of Horror 1970s
February 14, 2024 05:11 - 1 hour - 36.8 MB“It would be nice just to see one little spurt at the moment of slashing.” A little spurt, you say? Can do. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970) – Episode 207 – Decades of Horror 1970
January 29, 2024 22:14 - 1 hour - 41.6 MB“Smells like cheese, looks like ham… [takes a bite of sandwich] Oh, no problem. It’s chicken.” Rest assured, Grue Believers. Nothing about this movie resembles chicken. Join your faithful Grue […]
THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) – Episode 206 – Decades of Horror 1970s
January 17, 2024 05:05 - 1 hour - 43 MB“Mircalla?” “Marcilla?” “But that girl is a guest in my house. Her name is Carmilla. And my daughter is dying!” Looks like “Anagrams ‘R’ Us” is at it again. Join […]
DEATH GAME (1977) – Episode 205 – Decades of Horror 1970s
January 03, 2024 03:45 - 55 minutes - 25.8 MB“You have the manners of an alley cat.” On the other hand, alley cats would be an improvement, right? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill […]
KILLDOZER (1974) – Episode 204 – Decades of Horror 1970s
December 20, 2023 02:04 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB“How do you go about killing a machine? It’s too heavy to hang and it’s too big to put in the gas chamber.” Firing squad? Ole Sparky? Join your faithful […]
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB (1971) – Episode 203 – Decades of Horror 1970s
December 05, 2023 21:59 - 1 hour - 40.5 MB“She who is buried here shall henceforth have no name, shall cease to exist in the minds of man as she has ceased to exist in life.” Well, she has […]
THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE (1972, LA NOVIA ENSANGRENTADA) – Episode 202 – Decades of Horror 1970s
November 22, 2023 02:21 - 1 hour - 33.6 MB“They’ll come back. They cannot die.” Sounds like vampires… or zombies. Is it vampires or zombies? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr […]
THE PSYCHIC (1977, SETTE NOTE IN NERO) – Episode 201 – Decades of Horror 1970s
November 06, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 31.8 MB“I’ve had fifty-six lovers and haven’t killed even one of them.” Good to know … for future reference. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, […]
THE EXORCIST (1973) – Episode 200 – Decades of Horror 1970s
October 25, 2023 02:55 - 2 hours - 57.8 MB“What an excellent day for an exorcism.” You don’t have to say that twice. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Jeff Mohr, and guest […]
GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1973) – Episode 199 – Decades of Horror 1970s
October 10, 2023 20:29 - 1 hour - 47.1 MB“Megalon! Megalon! Wake up, Megalon! Come on, rise up now, to the Earth’s surface! Destroy the Earth! Destroy our enemies! Rise up! Go on! MEGALON!” That’s quite the cheering section […]
SHIVERS (1975) – Episode 198 – Decades of Horror 1970s
September 27, 2023 03:39 - 1 hour - 40.7 MB“So what he came up with … was a parasite that’s a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will hopefully turn the world into one beautiful, mindless orgy.” Wait […]
ALLIGATOR (1980) – Episode 241 – Decades of Horror 1980s
September 17, 2023 01:49 - 1 hour - 37 MB“Will you put that goddamn map away? Look, I gave you 78 men, you’ve got the National Guard, and he’s still loose in my city! And look at the hole […]
KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (1977) – Episode 197 – Decades of Horror 1970s
September 13, 2023 01:30 - 1 hour - 38.5 MB“If you don’t stop pestering me, one of these mornings I’m gonna show up and start milking that cow.” Who doesn’t like milk? Don’t answer that! Join your faithful Grue […]
LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (1971) – Episode 196 – Decades of Horror 1970s
August 29, 2023 22:03 - 1 hour - 33.6 MB“He had a heart attack.” And you get a heart attack! Everybody gets a heart attack! Is that normal? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad […]
THREE ON A MEATHOOK (1972) – Episode 195 – Decades of Horror 1970s
August 15, 2023 20:17 - 1 hour - 41.9 MB“Now you listen to me. Those are the first women been in this home since your ma died and I ain’t having no trash in your ma’s home.” Maybe they […]
SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (1974) – Episode 194 – Decades of Horror 1970s
August 02, 2023 01:28 - 1 hour - 36.1 MB“Mr. Henshaw… white meat or dark?” That depends if you’re serving chicken or pork. What else could it be? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad […]
THE KILLING KIND (1973) – Episode 193 – Decades of Horror 1970s
July 19, 2023 00:30 - 1 hour - 36.9 MB“Idiots. That’s what they are. Stupid idiots. Just low-class idiots.” Low-class, maybe, but idiots? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – […]
LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971), Interview w/Dir. John Hancock – Episode 192 – Decades of Horror 1970s
July 04, 2023 23:39 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB“I sit here and I can’t believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don’t know which is which.” Sounds […]
THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970) – Episode 191 – Decades of Horror 1970s
June 20, 2023 18:51 - 1 hour - 31.9 MB“The Old Ones are not truly dead. They only sleep. It is a dreamless oblivion, stretching on and on towards vast eternity!” Eternal, dreamless oblivion? That’s a hard pass. Join […]
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) – Episode 190 – Decades of Horror 1970s
June 05, 2023 23:47 - 1 hour - 36.8 MB“Right! Bring in the perverts” They always make for a good police lineup. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as […]
THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI (1975) – Episode 189 – Decades of Horror 1970s
May 24, 2023 01:11 - 1 hour - 29 MB“I … I should never have come with you. We’re going to be killed. We’re going to be killed. I hear the demons of the red moon like the other […]
THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973) – Episode 188 – Decades of Horror 1970s
May 09, 2023 21:20 - 1 hour - 39.8 MB“Nothing is too vile. Nothing is too dreadful, too awful. You need to know the terror, the horror, Lorrimor. You need to feel the thrill of disgust, the beauty of […]
DARK STAR (1974) – Episode 187 – Decades of Horror 1970s
April 25, 2023 20:45 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB“I do not belong on this mission, and I want to return to Earth!” Would a free beach ball change your mind? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977) – Episode 186 – Decades of Horror 1970s
April 11, 2023 21:46 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB“The only good thing about this port is the inn of Abu Jamil the Squint, who, for six months, I have been dreaming of his roasted sheep’s eyes.” Ah, yes. […]
DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) – Episode 185 – Decades of Horror 1970s
March 28, 2023 23:13 - 1 hour - 34.3 MB“You know, it used to be in the old days, we would just take someone like you in an alley and blow their brains out.” While you eat lightning and […]
LOVE AT FIRST BITE (1979) – Episode 184 – Decades of Horror 1970s
March 15, 2023 08:29 - 1 hour - 31.7 MB“What was that maniac drinking? Tastes like the Volga river at low tide!” Muddy water turned to wine? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, […]
PIGS (1973, DADDY’S DEADLY DARLING) – Episode 183 – Decades of Horror 1970s
February 28, 2023 23:22 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB“Yeah, you know, always on a full moon, the pigs get hungry. … They got used to eating human flesh. … You know the first time it happened was an […]
THE GHOUL (1975) – Episode 182 – Decades of Horror 1970s
February 14, 2023 22:22 - 1 hour - 31.8 MB“Well, it can’t be Human, can it? It feeds on Human flesh!” Apparently, they hadn’t heard of cannibals? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, […]
THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN (1971) – Episode 181 – Decades of Horror 1970s
January 31, 2023 21:42 - 1 hour - 30.2 MB“Not your baby! Our baby! Satan’s baby!!” You seemed like a folksy small-town doctor but it turns out, you’re really the head, satanic dude. Join your faithful Grue Crew – […]
THE POSSESSED (1977) – Episode 180 – Decades of Horror 1970s
January 18, 2023 02:26 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MB“I was kicked out of the church. I drank too much. I lusted. I was an adulterer… and other things.” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, […]
COUNT DRACULA (1970) – Episode 179 – Decades of Horror 1970s
January 03, 2023 20:50 - 1 hour - 39 MB“Over 50 years ago, Bram Stoker wrote the greatest of all horror stories. Now, for the first time, we retell exactly as he wrote, one of the first – and […]
CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE (1976) – Episode 178 – Decades of Horror 1970s
December 12, 2022 21:19 - 1 hour - 37.1 MB“Dang creature . . . I’m gonna get my shotgun and make a rug outta that damn thing!” And Jack Elam is just the one who can do it! Join […]
THE LEGEND OF LIZZIE BORDEN (1975) – Episode 177 – Decades of Horror 1970s
December 07, 2022 18:16 - 1 hour - 31.5 MB“You’re a strange girl, Lizzie, one minute as hard and cold as a grave so, next as loving as any father could wish. Wonder what goes on in that mind […]
BLUE SUNSHINE (1977) – Episode 176 – Decades of Horror 1970s
November 22, 2022 20:36 - 1 hour - 33.5 MB“There’s a bald maniac in there, and he’s going bat shit!” Believe it or not, this is an accurate description of several scenes in this movie. Join your faithful Grue […]
DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE (1971) – Episode 175 – Decades of Horror 1970s
November 09, 2022 00:54 - 1 hour - 34.5 MB“I walked the streets, brooding on the bitter irony that all I wanted to do for humanity, for life, would be cheated by death… unless I could cheat death.” And […]
THE VISITOR (1979) – Episode 174 – Decades of Horror 1970s
October 26, 2022 16:09 - 1 hour - 32.6 MB“That bugs me, man. That really bugs me.” This ends up being Glenn Ford’s key line in his short appearance in this episode’s movie. Join your faithful Grue Crew – […]
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973) – Episode 173 – Decades of Horror 1970s
October 11, 2022 20:01 - 1 hour - 35.9 MB“Trust in Allah! … but tie up your camel!” Always! Trust, but verify, right? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – […]
LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) – Episode 172 – Decades of Horror 1970s
September 27, 2022 22:27 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB“You’ve made an unbreakable vow. In the name of vengeance, you must foreswear all human emotions, all love and hate, everything.” Your basic all-inclusive vow, then? Got it. Join your […]
CHOSEN SURVIVORS (1974) – Episode 171 – Decades of Horror 1970s
September 13, 2022 23:40 - 1 hour - 32.7 MB“May God bless you. This message was pre-recorded and automatically programmed.” It’s so nice to know they gave it the personal touch. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, […]
EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (1977) – Episode 170 – Decades of Horror 1970s
August 29, 2022 21:53 - 1 hour - 30.4 MB“This is the ant. Treat it with respect, for it may very well be the next dominant life form on our planet.” It seems we’re moving in that direction. Join […]
STARCRASH (1978) – Episode 169 – Decades of Horror 1970s
August 16, 2022 22:50 - 1 hour - 30.8 MB“You know, my son, I wouldn’t be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn’t have some powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!” Yup. That could […]
SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. DRACULA AND THE WOLF MAN (SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA DRACULA Y EL HOMBRE LOBO, 1973) – Episode 168 – Decades of Horror 1970s
August 03, 2022 01:14 - 54 minutes - 25.3 MB“She is a sad romantic woman. She will fall in love with me. Then I will sacrifice her on the next full moon.” So says the Wolf Man wearing a […]
A REFLECTION OF FEAR (1972) – Episode 167 – Decades of Horror 1970s
July 19, 2022 20:13 - 1 hour - 29.7 MB“She is a disturbing child.” It doesn’t reach the heights of his USS Indianapolis monologue in Jaws, but Robert Shaw delivers this line with grim resignation. Join your faithful Grue […]
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977) – Episode 166 – Decades of Horror 1970s
July 05, 2022 20:46 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB“His is the hand that makes. His is the hand that hurts. His is the hand that heals. His is the House of Pain. He who breaks the law shall […]
TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975) – Episode 165 – Decades of Horror 1970s
June 21, 2022 20:56 - 1 hour - 30.3 MB“They had their chance to learn about my ideas 15 years ago. *evil chuckle* Now they’ll pay for their scorn! I’ll exact vengeance upon those fools who treated me like […]