Best Horror movies of 1971

Actors : Kate Jackson, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Lara Parker,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.

Actors : Orson Welles, Mathieu Carrière, Michel Bouquet, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.

Actors : Howard Vernon, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Fred Williams,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to...

Actors : Heather Hewitt, Walter Coy, William Joyce, Dan Stapleton,
Directors : Del Tenney,

A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the ...

Actors : Billy Gray, Steve Oliver, Gene Shane, Donna Anders,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic ...

Actors : Rodolfo Acosta, Norman Bartold, Ivy Bethune, Merry Anders,
Directors : Carl Monson,

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.

Actors : Jeff Morrow, Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, David Essex,
Directors : Harry Essex,

A team of researchers discovers a strange mutation of man and octopus who proceeds to terrorize them.

Actors : Carlos East, Julissa, Rafael Bertrand, Boris Karloff,

Evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD crazed zombies.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and ...

Actors : Milton Selzer, Len Lesser, Melody Patterson, Gloria Grahame,
Directors : Philip S. Gilbert,

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. ...

Actors : Jean Anderson, Patricia Neal, Nicholas Clay, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Alastair Reid,

Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel. The dreary existence of middle- aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with ...

Actors : John Bloom, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol, Grant Williams,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in ...

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 : Peter Carsten, Klaus Kinski, Michèle Mercier, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney, Simon Gough, Michael Gough,
Directors : Viktors Ritelis,

A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.

Actors : Norman Burton, George Paulsin, Brenda Scott, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Bruce Kessler,

Simon, a young man with magic powers, invokes the help of the evil forces in order to take revenge on a man who cheated him with a bad cheque.

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 : Michael Battlesmith, Ashley Brooks, Trudy Moore, George Ellis,

This is the story of four jewel thieves on the run who decide to hole up with a hillbilly couple until the search for them slackens off.

Actors : Ann Perry, Neal Bishop, Debbie Osborne, Sean Kenney,
Directors : Ronald Víctor García,

When Ralph persuades his girlfriend, Donna, to participate in a bizarre party, she discovers the guests are to perform erotic plays in the presence of a corpse - Ralph's millionaire uncle. ...

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).