Best Horror movies of 1970s

Actors : Fernando Sancho, Alfredo Mayo, Pier Angeli, Eleonora Rossi Drago,
Directors : Sergio Bergonzelli,

The guests of a villa are killed off one by one by their hosts. Incest, decapitations and a cyanide bath feature amongst the other bizarre delights.

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Dakar, Maurice Poli, Melissa Chimenti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals' female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.

Actors : Christopher Stone, Lyle Waggoner, Timothy Scott, Mary Charlotte Wilcox,
Directors : Jacques Lacerte,

A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

Actors : Jenny Tamburi, Franco Ressel, Françoise Prévost, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can ...

Actors : James Bolam, Mike Raven, Mary Maude, Ronald Lacey,
Directors : Ted Hooker,

An obsessed sculptor kills a young woman to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.

Actors : Susan Hogan, Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, David Bolt,
Directors : John Huston,

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

Actors : Analía Gadé, Lisa Leonardi, Andrés Resino, Ida Galli,
Directors : Francisco Lara Polop,

A couple, lost in thick fog, take refuge in an old mansion next to a cemetery. Strange things start to happen.

Actors : Fabijan Sovagovic, Mirjana Majurec, Relja Basic, Ivica Vidovic,
Directors : Krsto Papic,

A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's ...

Actors : Yoshie Kitsuda, Junko Miyashita, Eimei Esumi, Genshû Hanayagi,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.

Actors : Karl Lanchbury, Andrea Allan, Maggie Walker, Peter Forbes-Robertson,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young model and her petty thief boyfriend find their way through the English fog to a backwoods manor in hopes of looting it. What they find instead is murder, and when the model attempts...

Actors : Berwick Kaler, Annabella Wood, Jane Hilary, John Miranda,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan whereby the barber murders people and the baker makes them into pies to be sold in his shop.

Actors : Flavio Andreini, Sherry Buchanan, Ray Lovelock, Florinda Bolkan,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping ...

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Nicoletta Elmi, Richard Johnson, Ida Galli,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.

Actors : John Ashley, Leopoldo Salcedo, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Eddie Garcia,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).

Actors : Robin John, Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O'Shaughnessy,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

In prehistoric times two brothers (a more or less good one and a more or less bad one) fight each other for the leadership of their tribe.

Actors : Harry Reems, Deborah Alter, Kathryn Clayton, Sallee Young,
Directors : Arthur Jeffreys,

A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly visions of her tormentors, while her husband ...

Actors : Buck Kartalian, Lynn Lundgren, Art Hedberg, Alice Friedland,
Directors : Carl Monson,

A middle-aged man buys a plant with a sexy voice that develops a craving for insects, frogs, dogs, and humans.

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Zulma Faiad, Hugo Stiglitz, Christa Linder,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

Millionaire playboy Hugo (whose lack of facial expressions give him the appearance of a Thundercat marionette) flies around Acapulco in his private helicopter to pick up sexy young women. ...

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Virgil Frye, Maia Danziger, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.