# Realistic Horrors of the 1930-70s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828 "2020-10-12T20:26:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/21 "2020-10-13T19:52:56Z")
_Freaks_ (1932) _Kongo_ (1932) _The Black Cat_ (1934) _Maniac_ (1934) _The Black Room_ (1935) _Mad Love_ (1935) Most of the movies produced by Val Lewton 1942-46 _House of Horrors_ (1946) _Circus of Horrors_ (1960) _Homicidal_ (1961) _Mr. Sardonicus_ (1961) _Blood Feast_ (1963) _Onibaba_ (1964) _Horrors of Malformed Men_ (1969) _The Devils_ (1971) _Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon_ a.k.a. _The Mansion of Madness_ (1973) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/22 "2020-10-13T21:58:08Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Cat People? _Curse of the Cat People_ is clearly not supernatural. Some things hint at it, but they’re clearly in the little girl’s imagination. It’s arguably not horror, but rather psychological drama, though it hints at horror. Completely different time from the original. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/23 "2020-10-13T23:14:29Z")
I may be the only one who remembers this horror movie: Don’t Look Now. Starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/24 "2020-10-13T23:51:14Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > I may be the only one who remembers this horror movie: Don’t Look Now. Starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie I love that movie! Still haunts me. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/25 "2020-10-14T01:01:24Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > I may be the only one who remembers this horror movie: Don’t Look Now. Starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. A great film, except for the mostly unforgotten horrible, totally unerotic sex scene. ETA: I don’t know how they managed to make a sex scene with freaking Julie Christie horrible, but they pulled it off. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/26 "2020-10-14T01:07:48Z")
How about “Island Of Lost Souls”? Crudely “scientific” and not very true to the source, but nothing supernatural. > **[Island of Lost Souls (1932) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024188/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_53)** > > Island of Lost Souls: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi. A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked... ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/27 "2020-10-14T03:13:11Z")
Everybody’s forgetting _Halloween_! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/28 "2020-10-14T03:21:04Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > _Homicidal_ (1961) > > _Mr. Sardonicus_ (1961) Just watched _Homicidal_ today, as I’m a HUGE fan of _Mr. Sardonicus_ (both by William Castle). Sad to say, it was terrible. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/29 "2020-10-14T12:27:14Z")
I was embarrassed, despite watching it alone, so I just averted my eyes, probably took a leak, grabbed a snack, did a backflip, etc. I wish I could have liked it like you guys… Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/30 "2020-10-14T13:07:18Z")
_Session 9._ The subplot about the session tapes of the girl’s different personalities (purposely) hint that there’s something supernatural going on but it’s really about a man losing his sanity. Great film. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828/31 "2020-10-14T13:12:51Z")
Aaaaaaand, I just realized that this doesn’t fit into the time frame of the OP. Sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistic-horrors-of-the-1930-70s/922828.md?page=1)