Last House on Dead End Street
The original three-hour-long version of the film, titled "The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell", was screened in 1973, and purportedly caused theater riots in New York City and Chicago. It was claimed that the theater in Chicago was burned down. The following year, the film had a brief release under the title "The Fun House". In 1977, it was released yet again, through Cinematic Releasing Corporation, under its most widely known title, "Last House on Dead End Street", a play on the title of the Wes Craven film "The Last House on the Left" (1972). Both of these later releases of the film were significantly shorter, running 78 minutes, as opposed to the original 175 minutes.
Scream queen
Sandra Peabody who portrayed Mari Collingwood in "The Last House on the Left" (1972), Marilyn Burns who portrayed Sally Hardesty in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974), Olivia Hussey who portrayed Jess Bradford in "Black Christmas" (1974), and Jamie Lee Curtis who portrayed Laurie Strode in "Halloween" (1978) were the four actresses of the 1970s that became the seminal examples of the label for the decade. After "The Last House on the Left", Peabody went on to appear in the horror films "Voices of Desire" (1972), "Massage Parlor Murders" (1973), "Case of the Full Moon Murders" (1973), and "Legacy of Satan" (1974). Burns followed her performance in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with roles in "Helter Skelter" (1976) and "Eaten Alive" (1977). In "Halloween", Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of "Psycho" actress Janet Leigh, had her first film role. Portraying Laurie Strode in "Halloween", Curtis established herself as the "ultimate 'scream queen'" and was even referenced as such in the horror film "Scream" (1996) by Randy Meeks. Curtis went on to star in several other horror films after that, two of them being "The Fog" and "", in both of which she appears with Leigh.