Best Horror movies of 1976

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Lee Remick,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

Actors : John Randolph, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Karen Black, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.

Actors : Yasuko Matsui, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima, Eiko Matsuda,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to a sexual obsession which then came to a violent end.

Actors : Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Texas. Loosely based on a true story.

Actors : Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow, Jean Sullivan,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

A storm causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, Sylvia Sidney, Sandy Dennis, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."

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 : Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster, Linda Miller,
Directors : Alfred Sole,

After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister becomes the main suspect. But are the authorities mistaken?

Actors : Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Peter Sykes,

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

Actors : Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros, Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome,
Directors : Narciso Ibáñez Serrador,

A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.

Actors : Niles McMaster, Dan Fauci, Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, Giulio Pizzirani, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.

Actors : Christopher George, Joan McCall, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : William Girdler,

An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.

Actors : Gregorio Sala, Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, Patrick Wright,
Directors : Richard Ashe,

A young man is transformed into a hideous "moon beast" due to a meteor fragment lodged in his body.

Actors : Robert Behling, Jane Lyle, Gerard Gonalons, Jessica Dublin,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

A couple of perverted and maniac killers get loose on a Greek island.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.

Actors : Steve Vincent, John F. Goff, Douglas Gudbye, Verkina Flower,
Directors : Stu Segall,

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.