Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : Jeremiah Beecher, Richard Kennedy, James Lemp, Kay Neer,

The twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.

Actors : Ann Todd, Tony Beckley, Madeleine Hinde, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Robert Hartford-Davis,

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness ...

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Sherry Jackson, Michael Heit, Robert Viharo,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.

Actors : John Harmon, Robert Gribbin, Russell Johnson, Randy Echols,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the ...

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

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

Actors : Joe Turkel, Tom Drake, Sean Kenney, Steve Oliver,
Directors : John Lawrence,

A serial killer murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the man into procuring young girls for him to murder. The businessman hires a gang of renegade motor-cyclists to kidnap girls for him.

Actors : Ligia Diniz, Paulo Gracindo, Paulo Guarnieri, Cristina Aché,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, ...

Actors : Julien Guiomar, Jacques Perrin, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge,
Directors : Paul Vecchiali,

Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to ...

Actors : Robert Lansing, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, Judith Chapman,
Directors : John Grissmer,

A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.

Actors : Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Ulla Jacobsson, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of 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 : 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 : Pat Hingle, Rebecca Dianna Smith, John Beck, Dack Rambo,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists. One of the psychos is John Beck from the '...

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

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 : Preston Pierce, Georgina Spelvin, Susie Ewing, Rosalind Miles,
Directors : Al Adamson,

A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.

Actors : Daniel Schweitzer, Chris Mulkey, Polly King, Wayne Crawford,
Directors : Harry Kerwin,

When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of ...

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

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

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.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Tanya Roberts, Ron Max, Brian Freilino,
Directors : Jim Sotos,

A serial rapist stalks and murders prostitutes.