Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : Andreas Mannkopff, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Actors : Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye, John F. Goff, Verkina Flower,
Directors : Stu Segall,

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.

Actors : Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Giampiero Albertini, Arthur Kennedy, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Actors : Frederick R. Friedel, Jack Canon, Ray Green, Leslie Lee,
Directors : Frederick R. Friedel,

Three criminals on a murder spree arrives at a farmhouse, where a girl is living with her paralyzed grandfather.

Actors : Vanessa Brown, Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Peggy Feury,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.

Actors : Dina Ousley, Brenda Fogarty, Cathy Worthington, Zalman King,
Directors : Earl Barton,

A teacher and her class of female students take a class trip to the desert. Their bus breaks down, and they find themselves terrorized by a gang of psycho bikers.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

Everyone figures Lou Ford, a small-town, Montana, deputy sheriff, to be a normal, good-old-boy kind of regular Joe. But no one knows about "the sickness" that drives him to kill.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. However, the "adult" fetus turns into a homicidal psycho ...

Actors : Cristina Galbó, George Hilton, Antoine Saint-John, Femi Benussi,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's ...

Actors : Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam, Rita Tushingham,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Marisa Mell, Helmut Berger, Marina Giordana,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts ...

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 : Nikki Barthen, Damien Knight, Jeannetta Arnette, Nick Carter,
Directors : Constantine S. Gochis,

Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.

Actors : Gwen Arment, William Metzo, Laura Misch Owens, Curt Dawson,
Directors : Jack Weis,

Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Actors : Marjoe Gortner, Merrie Lynn Ross, Jesse Vint, Lynda Carter,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.

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 : 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 : Anthony Steffen, Sylva Koscina, Giovanna Lenzi, Renato De Carmine,
Directors : Sergio Pastore,

A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.