Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : Linda Miller, Richard S. Castellano, James Brolin, Cliff Gorman,

A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Tamaki Katsura, Yôko Azusa, Yuri Yamashina,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

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 : Cameron Mitchell, William Gray Espy, Aldo Ray, May Britt,
Directors : Herb Freed,

May Britt plays a seemingly innocent farm girl convinced that her slovenly uncle (Cameron Mitchell) is the man responsible for the bloody scissor-murders of several local girls.

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 : David Bailey, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady, Tiffany Bolling,
Directors : Richard L. Bare,

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast...

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 : Jacqueline Bisset, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?

Actors : Carmen Russo, Mariangela Giordano, Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei,
Directors : Mario Landi,

A bedridden psycho is able to receive evil "vibrations" from hardened criminals and use them for his telekinetic powers.

Actors : Marina Vlady, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

Actors : Diana Lorys, Paul Naschy, Eduardo Calvo, Eva León,
Directors : Carlos Aured,

An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins ...

Actors : David McCallum, Eric Server, Sandra McCabe, George Wyner,
Directors : Burt Brinckerhoff,

A pack of dogs go on a killing spree.

Actors : Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Earle Edgerton, Kaly Mills,
Directors : Leonard Kirtman,

A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers.

Actors : Nadyne Turney, Isabel Jewell, Cherie Latimer, Tab Hunter,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.

Actors : Cisse Cameron, Toni Crabtree, Ken Miller, Jerry Albert,
Directors : Robert W. Morgan,

A horror movie about two tourists in Florida who is attacked by a chilling group of backwoods psychopaths.

Actors : Renato Pozzetto, Max von Sydow, Shelley Winters, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".

Actors : Hema Malini, Pran, Prem Chopra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Pramod Chakravorty,

A wealthy businessman moonlights as a philanthropist, robbin' the hood as it were.

Actors : Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos Bousdoukos, Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, ...

Actors : Kathryn Walker, William Prince, Jon Cypher, John Marley,
Directors : Ernest Pintoff,

A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.

Actors : Chris Carbis, Curt Colbert, Peter Spelson, Robin Newton,
Directors : Jack M. Sell,

A man discovers that he has psychotronic powers--the ability to will people to die. He begins exercising that power.