Blood and Lace (1971)

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Seven years prior to Halloween, Blood and Lace featured the first home invasion killer POV during a murder. The hammer murder of a prostitute at the beginning sends her teenage daughter (Melody Patterson) to an oppressive orphanage run by the sadistic Gloria Grahame (all of the great 40s divas eventually made their way to cheap horrors at the twilight of their career), who lives off the state contract given for each orphan and works the children extra hard or punishes them even harder.

Every man in Blood and Lace is oozing filth as they all try to get their hands on the new teen, who talks a big game about her experience with love. That includes Uncle Leo (Len Lesser) from Seinfeld, and leads to a few sick plot twists, and Oscar-winner Grahame pays a pittance for her personal life that excommunicated her from Hollywood—for sleeping with/marrying her teenaged stepson—in a grindhouse movie that would embrace that ickiness.

Is this movie great? Nope. But for cheap thrills and grindhouse fans, it’s certainly very fun. It perfectly straddles the 60s exploitation flicks of yore and has one foot in the future 70s horror nasties. You WOULD NOT want to be the final girl in this sick scenario.