Best Horror movies of 1972

Actors : Luan Peters, Jenny Hanley, Robin Askwith, Ray Brooks,
Directors : Pete Walker,

Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.

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.

Actors : Roberto Maldera, Cinzia De Carolis, Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

The patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs them.

Actors : James Mason, Robert Preston, Ron Weyand, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Actors : Tani Guthrie, Barra Grant, Paraluman, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Hollingsworth Morse,

James Robertson buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife, Chris. Chris, gradually taken over by the personality of ...

Actors : Norman Kelley, Tanna Hunter, Bruce Detrick, Paul Craig Jennings,
Directors : Ed Adlum,

Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.

Actors : Nina Divísková, Josef Abrhám, Iva Janzurová, Petr Cepek,
Directors : Juraj Herz,

Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.

Actors : Perla Cristal, Verónica Luján, Paul Naschy, Miguel de la Riva,
Directors : José María Zabalza,

A man has had a werewolf curse cast upon him. If he doesn't get rid of it, he turns into a killer werewolf when the moon is full.

Actors : Howard Vernon, Anita Ekberg, Rosalba Neri, Evelyne Kraft,
Directors : Ferdinando Merighi,

A prostitute in a French brothel is assassinated, the prime suspect is one of her regular clients, soon afterwards the witnesses that testified against the suspect are killed by an strange individual.

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 : Philip Kenneally, John Dullaghan, John Dennis, Duncan McLeod,
Directors : John Hayes,

Convicts on a chain gang sniff experimental formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break, are shot down by the guards and buried in the prison garden. Soon, they rise from ...

Actors : Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. ...

Actors : Sam Gilman, Steve Gravers, Anthony Geary, Susan Damante,
Directors : Brianne Murphy,

A coven of witches captures a young man traveling through the woods. He gets involved in a power struggle between a beautiful witch and the evil queen who heads the coven.

Actors : Paca Gabaldón, Alberto Dalbés, Howard Vernon, Dennis Price,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face of the earth. Armed with a hammer and a wooden stake, he arrives at Castle Dracula and duly ...

Actors : Sondra Locke, Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure,
Directors : William A. Fraker,

A disturbed young girl starts believing that there is something very sinister at work after her estranged father visits her at her mother and grandmother's house with the woman he plans to marry.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Steve Alaimo, Susan Carroll, Chris Robinson, Alex Rocco,
Directors : William Grefé,

A young Seminole Indian uses his rattlesnake to take revenge on all those he believes have wronged him.

Actors : Colleen Niday, Maryann Rachford, Patty Dunning, Mike Niday,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

The story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. She meets and marries a young man and her life seems great, until one moment she ...

Actors : Madelyn Buzzard, James Carroll Pickett, Sherry Steiner, Charles Kissinger,
Directors : William Girdler,

Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens,...

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Alex Cord,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.