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Here are some other awesome years for the genre:

1963:
Black Sabbath
Blood Feast
The Birds
The Comedy of Terrors
Dementia 13
Diary of a Madman
The Haunting
The Haunted Palace
The Kiss of the Vampire
Matango
The Raven
The Sadist
Twice-Told Tales
The Whip and The Body

1964:
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Castle of Blood
The Evil of Frankenstein
The Gorgon
Kwaidan
The Last Man on Earth
The Masque of the Red Death
Onibaba
The Tomb of Ligeia
Two Thousand Maniacs!

1973:
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
The Asphyx
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
The Crazies
Don't Look Now
The Exorcist
The Legend of Hell House
Sisters
Theater of Blood
Torso
The Vault of Horror
The Wicker Man

1981: (The Rise of American Slasher?)
An American Werewolf in London
The Beyond
The Burning
The Entity
Friday the 13th Part 2
Galaxy of Terror
Halloween II
Happy Birthday to Me
The House by the Cemetery
The Howling
Just Before Dawn
My Bloody Valentine
Possession
The Prowler
Scanners