1960/70

Ghosts and monsters still remained a frequent feature of horror in the 1960’s and 70’s as the genre introduced new characters to the public such as zombies and ghosts. Along with the belief of Satanism, and the involvement of families being in the films.  In 1968 the creation of the modern zombie had arrived. In this year a small budget black and white film titled “Night of the Living Dead”, written and directed by George A. Romero, hit theatres and drive-ins in 1968. The effects of Romero's ground-breaking treatment of the theme are still being felt today. In the 1970s zombies became even more popular so film makers in America were trying to make big budget films to keep the audiences happy. By doing this so quickly they only made average films such as Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) and Garden of the Dead (1972). Although the better films of this decade seemed to come from the minds of European film makers. Eurohorror produced such gems as Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971) and Horror Rises from the Tomb 91973).

The end of the Production Code of America in 1964, the financial successes of the low-budget gore films of the ensuing years, and the critical and popular success of Rosemary's Baby, led to the release of more films with occult themes in the 1970s. The Exorcist (1973), the first of these movies, was a significant commercial success, and was followed by scores of horror films in which the Devil represented the supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or possessing children. Satanism was very popular in the 1970s. A popular satanic horror movie was The Omen (1976), where a man realizes that his five-year-old adopted son is the Antichrist. Invincible to human intervention, Satan became the villain in many horror films with a postmodern style and a dystopian worldview.

Night of the living dead, 1968- Night of the Living Dead is an American independent horror film directed by George A. Romero. Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father's grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

Tombs of the blind dead, 1971- Tombs of the Blind Dead is a 1971 Spanish horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio. Its original Spanish title is La Noche del terror ciego, which means "The Night of the Blind Terror. In it, Ossorio introduces the concept that the Knights Templar comes back from the dead as zombie-like revenants. Their blindness is explained as the result of their eyes having been pecked out by birds after their hanged bodies were left on the gallows. The story follows a couple who run into an old friend on vacation. The man invites the woman along for a train trip, but his girlfriend (embarrassed over his obvious interest in the other woman - and over the lesbian affair they had in school years ago) jumps off the train and ends up spending the night in the ruins where the Templars are buried. The Templars wake up from the trance and kill her. The rest of the movie follows the efforts by the victim's boyfriend and girlfriend to find out what happened.