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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
One of two more:
Peeping Tom (1960) - This film destroyed Michael Powell's career, but it's mix of warped sexuality, lustmord and intimations of child abuse totally blew away the staid English horror format. Notable that this came out in the same year as "Psycho".
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I was just about to add this! When I saw Psycho listed, it had been on the tip of my tongue...
These two are tenuous (as I'm no expert) but:
Black Christmas. It was before Halloween which would probably make it the first 'slasher'. Halloween copied aspects of it (notably the wobbly 'seeing through the eyes of the killer'-shot), and then loads of films copied Halloween.
Cathy Come Home: It’s a film pretending to be a documentary, very realistic, of the kind which is popular now. It's drama-as-socialist-propaganda, and without it there wouldn't have been nearly as many soul-detroying British films.