Best Serial Killer movies of 1970s

Actors : Cybill Shepherd, Robert De Niro, Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Ramon Bieri, Warren Oates, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Actors : Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Marilyn Burns,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson,
Directors : Don Siegel,

When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.

Actors : Barry Foster, Jon Finch, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Actors : Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.

Actors : David Warner, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Auberjonois, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.

Actors : Clive Revill, Pamela Franklin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roddy McDowall,
Directors : John Hough,

Physicist Lionel Barrett and his wife lead a team of mediums into the Belasco House, which is supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a six-foot-five serial killer.

Actors : John Saxon, Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea,
Directors : Bob Clark,

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Actors : Tony Musante, Enrico Maria Salerno, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A witness of an attack, a writer becomes stalked by a serial killer.

Actors : John Hurt, Judy Geeson, Pat Heywood, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Texas. Loosely based on a true story.

Actors : Claudio Camaso, Luigi Pistilli, Claudine Auger, Anna Maria Rosati,
Directors : Mario Bava,

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, John Cassavetes, Charlton Heston, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Judy Huxtable, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London; the police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer in Staten Island. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?

Actors : Brandon Maggart, Andy Fenwick, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Lewis Jackson,

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Actors : Doris Roberts, Shirley Stoler, Mary Jane Higby, Tony Lo Bianco,

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.