Best Horror movies of 1970s

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : Cristina Galbó, Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

In London, the Italian gym teacher Enrico 'Henry' Rosseni is having a love affair with his eighteen year-old student Elizabeth Seccles, who is the daughter of the owner of the Catholic ...

Actors : Richard Dysart, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.

Actors : Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto, Kieran Canter,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Grief-struck after the death of his wife, a young man attempts to keep her with him forever - by gutting her, stuffing her and replacing her eyes with glass eyes, turning her into a doll. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

Actors : Brandon Maggart, Andy Fenwick, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Lewis Jackson,

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson, Cosette Lee, Robert Warner,

Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps (among others) as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.

Actors : Shane Briant, Horst Janson, John Carson, Caroline Munro,
Directors : Brian Clemens,

A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Pierre Benedetti, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A late businessman's daughter is heading with her aunt to the crumbling estate of her soon-to-be husband, unaware of the strange rumours that cloud the family's name.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Kim Braden, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Antonio Marsina, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Parkins, Alan Alda,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

Alan Alda's character is a music journalist whose career as a piano player came to an end when his debut concert received undeservedly scathing reviews.

Actors : Mike McEwen, Briony Behets, Roy Day, John Hargreaves,
Directors : Colin Eggleston,

When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Actors : Maurice Denham, Sandor Elès, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

In medieval Europe aging Countess Elisabeth rules harshly with the help of lover Captain Dobi. Finding that washing in the blood of young girls makes her young again she gets Dobi to start ...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Telly Savalas, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano,
Directors : Mario Bava,

Surreal goings-on at a Spanish villa in this poetic horror fairytale, which was crassly re-edited into The House of Exorcism (1975) for US release.

Actors : Martine Beswick, Lewis Fiander, Gerald Sim, Ralph Bates,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. He reasons that these hormones will wipe out all common diseases ...

Actors : Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.

Actors : Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Charles Gray, Marlene Clark,
Directors : Paul Annett,

Eight people have been invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?

Actors : Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.

Actors : Paola Senatore, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Robert Kerman,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A young woman teams up with an adventurer to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea and they stumble upon a religious cult led by a deranged preacher whom has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.

Actors : Leslie Parrish, Robert Easton, Barbara Hale, Steve Brodie,
Directors : Bill Rebane,

Giant spiders from another dimension invade Wisconsin.