Best Horror movies of 1974

Actors : Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Marilyn Burns,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

Actors : John Saxon, Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea,
Directors : Bob Clark,

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

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 : Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso,
Directors : Jorge Grau,

A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Alan Gifford, Lynne Frederick, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Saul Bass,

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. ...

Actors : Vittorio De Sica, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Udo Kier,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

Actors : Kevin Miles, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Rick Scully,
Directors : Peter Weir,

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

Actors : John Marley, Henderson Forsythe, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus,
Directors : Bob Clark,

A young man killed in Vietnam inexplicably returns home as a zombie.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat, Joan Hackett, George Segal,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response his brain.

Actors : Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, Peter Cushing, David Prowse,
Directors : Terence Fisher,

Baron Frankenstein works with a mental patient to reanimate the dead.

Actors : Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing,
Directors : Jim Clark,

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Actors : Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

Apelike aliens build a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the true Godzilla may not be powerful enough to destroy it.

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 : 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 : David Chiang, Peter Cushing, Julie Ege, Han Chen Wang,

While lecturing in China, Van Helsing agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.

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 : Brian Deacon, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown, Marianne Morris,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A lesbian vampire couple waylay and abduct various passer-byes, both male and female, to hold them captive at their rural manor in the English countryside in order to kill and feed on them to satisfy their insatiable thirst for blood.

Actors : Diana Dors, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, Ian Carmichael,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

An anthology of four short horror stories revolving around a British antique shop and its mysterious owner.

Actors : Michael Pataki, Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew, Paul Carr,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife.

Actors : Maria Perschy, Bárbara Rey, Carlos Lemos, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.