Best Creature movies of 1970s

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers, until a local sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

Actors : Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Roy Scheider, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Actors : Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, Warren Mitchell, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.

Actors : Jack Nance, Jeanne Bates, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph,
Directors : David Lynch,

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Actors : John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Guy Stockwell, John P. Ryan, Andrew Duggan,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

The Davies expect a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing when it's scared. And it's easily scared.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Caroline Munro,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile...

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Silvia Tortosa,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

In 1906, in China, a British anthropologist discovers a frozen prehistoric creature and must transport it to Europe by train.

Actors : Monique van Vooren, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier,

In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, ...

Actors : Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Ann Turkel,

Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.

Actors : Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Patrick Wayne, Margaret Whiting,
Directors : Sam Wanamaker,

Sinbad The Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from a powerful witch.

Actors : Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Jon Cypher, Ralph Meeker,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A group of friends travel to a remote Canadian island to hunt, only to be attacked by giant killer animals which have populated the place.

Actors : Doug McClure, Cy Grant, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.

Actors : Lieux Dressler, Woody Strode, William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling,
Directors : John 'Bud' Cardos,

Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the ...

Actors : Ken Berry, Roddy McDowall, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that has special powers, including the ability to allow the cat to communicate with humans, has...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, John P. Ryan,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

An epidemic of mutant monster babies sweeps America.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden, Kim Novak,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickcock teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

Actors : Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara,
Directors : Jimmy Sangster,

Scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts; the monster comes alive and wreaks havoc.