Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Film recommendations please! 1960s/70s British ghost or mild horror

28 replies

AnomalousChallenge · 06/08/2022 11:19

I’ve been enjoying watching ‘Beasts’ on YouTube which is a spooky 1970s tv series - really dusty and stagey but kind of entrancing Grin

Recently enjoyed The Witches (1966) with Joan Fontaine, and Satan’s School For Girls (so doesn’t always have to be British).

Would love some other recommendations - nothing too gory please! Have already seen and loved Wicker Man, the Omen, Carrie etc.

OP posts:
Fladdermus · 06/08/2022 11:21

The Day of the Triffids

Village of the Damned

ermagerdabear · 06/08/2022 11:27

It's not 70s/80s but The Company of Wolves which was on Britbox recently was good. I remember seeing it in the 90's. It's got a Hammer Horror vibe and some of the effects are a bit ropey but it's creepy otherwise.

Also Burnt Offerings with Oliver Reed. Never seen it before but Bette Davis is also in it.

HalfBrick · 06/08/2022 11:31

Check out Talking Pictures TV channel on Freeview and now on demand online I think. They show old mostly British horror most weekends.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

heronsinflight · 06/08/2022 12:06

Witchfinder General.

blackberrybat · 06/08/2022 12:11

Rosemary's Baby
Burnt Offerings
Don't Look Now

I'll have a think for more!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 06/08/2022 12:15

The first Christopher Lee Dracula.

A famous French one (B&W) is Les Diaboliques. I dare say available with subtitles, since that’s how I first saw it.

Dreikanter · 06/08/2022 12:38

The Stepford Wives
Village of the Damned
Don’t Look Now
The Birds
The Innocents
The Shining
The Haunting

Older movies - Gaslight, House on Haunted Hill
Newer movie - The Others

SydneyCarton · 06/08/2022 12:41

Oooh The Innocents is super creepy!

The Watcher in the Woods is early 80s but set in England and quite mildly creepy

purplewolfie · 06/08/2022 12:44

Anything Hammer!

AnomalousChallenge · 06/08/2022 20:37

Fantastic thanks everyone!

OP posts:
Antarcticant · 06/08/2022 20:38

Dracula AD1972

So bad, it's good 😄

DisplayPurposesOnly · 06/08/2022 20:45

An American Werewolf In London

CathyorClaire · 06/08/2022 21:16

Pyscho - along with other classic Hitchcock

When A Stranger Calls - saw it as a 'B' movie and can't remember what the main billing was.

Don't Look Now

Jaws

Carrie

Texas Chain Saw Massacre (gory though)

The Exorcist

Alien - still the best final 20 minutes in cinematic history IMO

Suspiria - I still don't look out of darkened windows Grin

The Omen - Liz Hurley. What were you thinking?!

Phantasm

Thelikelylass · 06/08/2022 21:17

The Innocents - superbly executed and the boy is so chilling.

CountryManor · 07/09/2022 03:04

Children of the corn (1984)

LivinLaVidaLoki · 07/09/2022 06:45

I remember being spooked by a movie called "The Lady in White"
About a young boy who accidentally gets locked in his school one evening and witnesses the ghost of a young girl, I think recreating her murder.
She then keeps coming to him.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 07/09/2022 07:08

TV rather than film, but Tales of the Unexpected

custardbear · 07/09/2022 07:17

Little girl who lives down the lane

Stepford wives

Salems lot

Coma

The Changeling

nokitchen · 07/09/2022 07:40

Sapphire and Steel

Clawdy · 07/09/2022 08:01

Another vote for The Innocents. Chilling and memorable.
And The Midwich Cuckoos.

Clawdy · 07/09/2022 08:03

Sorry, meant Village Of The Damned, not Midwich Cuckoos!

nokitchen · 07/09/2022 08:14

The Turn of the Screw. The original one is brilliant

Adversity · 07/09/2022 08:20

@LivinLaVidaLoki I have that film on DVD, took me ages to source it.

Twisted nerve
10 Rillington Place

These two are more than mild horror but very good films.

lightisnotwhite · 07/09/2022 08:27

Paranormal sci fi rather than horror:

The Medusa Touch with Richard Burton. Man is the cause of accidents using his mind. Better make sure he’s really dead…..

The Quiet Earth. What happens when you slip dimensions. The ending is both beautiful and terrifying.

wherearebeefandonioncrisps · 07/09/2022 09:32

Can I throw in a few...?

The Legend of Hell House

The Night of the Eagle

The Night of the Demon

and the classic, deeply scary ghost story The Haunting