Best Horror movies of 1972

Actors : Robert Powell, Alex Scott, Jane Lapotaire, Robert Stephens,
Directors : Peter Newbrook,

English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx.

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 : Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, George Hilton, Julián Ugarte,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.

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 : Ivan Rassimov, Prasitsak Singhara, Sulallewan Suxantat, Me Me Lai,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

After a photographer is captured by a native tribe and put through several trials, he must fight to protect the village and his new love interest, the chief's daughter.

Actors : Jill Haworth, Bryant Haliday, Mark Edwards, Jack Watson,
Directors : Jim O'Connolly,

A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marino Masé, Marina Malfatti,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...

Actors : Richard Webb, Robert Walker Jr., Richard Stahl, Gwynne Gilford,
Directors : Larry Hagman,

A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.

Actors : Alexandra Bastedo, Maribel Martín, Dean Selmier, Simón Andreu,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, Judy Geeson, Ralph Bates,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.

Actors : Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr, Maciej Englert, Michal Grudzinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow ...

Actors : Randy Grinter, Heather Hughes, Dana Cullivan, Steve Hawkes,

A biker comes upon a girl with a flat tire and offers her a ride home. He winds up at a drug party with the girl's sister, then follows her to a turkey farm owned by her father, a mad ...

Actors : Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley, Patricia Haines,
Directors : Ray Austin,

Christine gets her big chance at modeling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a house in the country for the weekend for a photo ...

Actors : Laurie Main, Ayn Ruymen, John Ventantonio, Lucille Benson,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.

Actors : Chloe Franks, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

Actors : Shane Briant, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills,
Directors : Peter Sykes,

A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.

Actors : Emma Cohen, Charly Bravo, Eusebio Poncela, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his ...

Actors : Perry King, Shirley MacLaine, Lisa Kohane, David Elliott,
Directors : Waris Hussein,

A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.