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History
- 1970s
With the demise of the Production Code of America in
1964, and the financial successes of the low-budget gore
films churned out in the ensuing years, plus an
increasing public fascination with the occult, the genre
was able to be reshaped by a series of intense, often
gory horror movies with sexual overtones, made as
"A-movies" (as opposed to "B-movies").
Some of these films were made by respected auteurs.
The critical and popular success of Rosemary's Baby
(1968) prompted the 1970s occult explosion, which
included the box office smash The Exorcist (1973)
(directed by William Friedkin and written by William
Peter Blatty, who also wrote the novel), and scores of
other horror films in which the Devil became the
supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or
possessing children. "Evil children" and reincarnation
became popular subjects (as in Robert Wise's 1977 film
Audrey Rose, which dealt with a man who claims his
daughter is the reincarnation of another dead person).
Horror film - Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
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Tale of Terror
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