12 Most Underrated Horror Movies Of The 1970s

Despite the eye-rolling 'shock-the-audience' title, Let's Scare Jessica To Death is a very mature, patient horror film with a focus on being completely its own thing.

The titular Jessica has just been released from a mental institution after struggling to separate dreams and reality. She is taken in by her husband at their rundown farmhouse on a spooky island and begins to become an unreliable narrator to the audience as her grip on reality loosens and she thinks a strange woman she meets is a vampire.

It's hard to describe the film to someone unfamiliar as it contains a mix of a number of genres and plot points, with many people coming to vastly different conclusions on what the film is representing. One thing you can guarantee is the film has an unrivalled atmosphere, always uneasy and unsettling as you have no clue what will happen next.

Attention to detail is immaculate and the pace is deliberately laboured to constantly keep the mystery and suspense high as you try to figure out just what is going on.

The movie is also one of the most under-rated looking films of the '70s, with stunning cinematography of vivid frames filled with raw gothic horror.

There's nothing quite like Let's Scare Jessica', and it deserves more attention. If you have the patience to take it on its own terms, see it and come to your own conclusions.