10 Old School Horror Movies Perfect For Halloween

How's this for old school ballyhoo? When Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson Family shortly after the film’s release, director Al Adamson and producer Sam Sherman decided to exploit the tragedy by tying their new movie in with it. According to Harry and Michael Medved, exhibitors were encouraged to bill the film as “The real story of California’s Sadistic Tate/Manson Hippie Cult”, a move that paid off with $10,000,000 in worldwide grosses from a $50,000 investment.

If you think that makes Satan's Sadists sound like the sleaziest movie you've never seen, guess what? You're right. The plot focuses on a sadistic biker gang called The Satans who, for no particular reason, descend on a diner and decide to kill everyone inside, with only a waitress and a Marine managing to escape.

The rest of film is a cat-and-mouse game as the bikers set off in hot pursuit, and for a movie directed by Al Adamson, the maestro who gave us Blood of Ghastly Horror and Horror of the Blood Monsters, it’s surprisingly well done. It’s coherent, it’s not patched together from at least 5 different movies and it’s never boring.