Best Horror movies of 1970s

Actors : Chuck Pierce Jr., John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Willie E. Smith,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Actors : Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov, James Patterson, Astrid Heeren,
Directors : Theodore Gershuny,

A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.

Actors : Norman Burton, Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford,
Directors : Vernon Zimmerman,

A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Rossella Falk,
Directors : Paolo Cavara,

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black ...

Actors : Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon, Rod Mullinar, Bruce Barry,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.

Actors : Sherry E. DeBoer, Michael Blodgett, Gene Shane, Celeste Yarnall,
Directors : Stephanie Rothman,

Sleepy-eyed nice guy Lee Ritter and his vapid, but pretty wife, Susan accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when ...

Actors : Sanford Mitchell, J. Byron Foster, Sean Kenney, Monika Kelly,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only one problem -- soon cats develop a ...

Actors : Robert Walden, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard, Zalman King,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?

Actors : Hedda Lubin, Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Henny Youngman,
Directors : Herschell Gordon Lewis,

A young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.

Actors : Katharine Ross, John Standing, Sam Elliott, Ian Hogg,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A millionaire, a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker, a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow...Five of the most powerful people in the world, and Maggie ...

Actors : Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand, Mirella Rancelot,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.

Actors : Barbara Bach, Jean Sorel, Ingrid Thulin, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, George Sanders,
Directors : Don Sharp,

A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Actors : Flavio Bucci, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gianfranco De Grassi, Macha Méril,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Telly Savalas, Alessio Orano,

A total re-edit of Mario Bava's gothic classic Lisa e il diavolo (1973) for US release in 1975. Cheesy exorcism scenes were shot to try to capitalize on the success of The Exorcist (1973).

Actors : Tania Busselier, Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay, Eric Falk,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile ...

Actors : Maribel Martín, Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Narciso Ibáñez Serrador,

A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.

Actors : Maria Perschy, Bárbara Rey, Carlos Lemos, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.