Best Psychopath movies of 1972

Actors : Jon Finch, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Barry Foster,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Actors : Lucy Grantham, Fred J. Lincoln, Sandra Peabody, David Hess,
Directors : Wes Craven,

Two teenage girls head to a rock concert for one's birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam, Rita Tushingham,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Sylva Koscina, Annabella Incontrera, Farley Granger,
Directors : Roberto Bianchi Montero,

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Actors : Sondra Locke, Robert Shaw, Sally Kellerman, Mary Ure,
Directors : William A. Fraker,

A disturbed young girl starts believing that there is something very sinister at work after her estranged father visits her at her mother and grandmother's house with the woman he plans to marry.

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Sylva Koscina, Giovanna Lenzi, Renato De Carmine,
Directors : Sergio Pastore,

A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.

Actors : Nadyne Turney, Isabel Jewell, Tab Hunter, Cherie Latimer,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.

Actors : Patricia Loran, Orchidea de Santis, Paul Naschy, Renzo Marignano,
Directors : José Luis Madrid,

In this version of the famous story of the London serial killer, Jack not only likes to kill prostitutes but he is a cannibal as well.

Actors : Uschi Glas, Fabio Testi, Jean Gabin, Jacques Richard,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.

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 : Carlo Gentili, Jerry Colman, Raffaele Curi, Simonetta Vitelli,
Directors : Demofilo Fidani,

The customers of a masseuse fall prey to a mysterious serial killer, one by one.

Actors : Hugo Carvana, Odete Lara, Rogério Duarte, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.