Best Creature movies of 1970s

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Actors : Burt Young, Marianna Hill, Otis Young, David Huffman,
Directors : Jeffrey Bloom,

Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature ...

Actors : Richard Dysart, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.

Actors : Drewe Henley, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen, Victoria Vetri,
Directors : Val Guest,

Set in the ancient past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their god, the sun, in return for ...

Actors : Tarah Nutter, Martin Landau, Jack Palance, Christopher S. Nelson,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

An alien creature stalks human prey.

Actors : Ferruccio Amendola, Claudio Undari, Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Bud Spencer is, as always, getting into fights - especially after getting a job as sheriff. He's looking after a small boy who's actually an extraterrestrial with special abilities thus the military wants him. Bud's got his hands full.

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 : Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, Tessa Wyatt, John Hamill,
Directors : James Kelley,

Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening.

Actors : Lon Chaney Jr., Anthony Eisley, J. Carrol Naish, Zandor Vorkov,

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.

Actors : Eva Bender, Bilal Inci, Kartal Tibet, Seher Seniz,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

TARKAN VERSUS THE VIKINGS features a mustached villain, who is the leader of a Viking clan that worships an octopus god-monster. The Vikings wish to kidnap a beautiful girl to sacrifice her...

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Paul Muller, Rosalba Neri, Peter Whiteman,

When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's ...

Actors : Barbara Bach, Beryl Cunningham, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.

Actors : Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Peggy Browne,
Directors : Fredric Hobbs,

A mutant sheep is on the move near a ranch in the American West.

Actors : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...

Actors : Richard Cardella, Bob Hyman, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel,
Directors : William R. Stromberg,

A meteor that crashed into Oregon's Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals.

Actors : Harvey Shain, Mary Appleseth, Max Thayer, Derna Wylde,
Directors : James K. Shea,

A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that ...

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Will Geer,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

Actors : Michael Dunn, Rossano Brazzi, Gordon Mitchell, Edmund Purdom,
Directors : Dick Randall,

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.

Actors : Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy, Kon Ohmura,
Directors : Noriaki Yuasa,

When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo '70, a giant, vaguely Triceratops-like monster is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle.

Actors : Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson,
Directors : Joy N. Houck Jr.,

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.