Best Horror movies of 1970s

Actors : Howard Trevor, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant, Pat Heywood,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.

Actors : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...

Actors : Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley, Patricia Haines,
Directors : Ray Austin,

Christine gets her big chance at modeling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a house in the country for the weekend for a photo ...

Actors : Natalie Perrey, Martine Grimaud, Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Belle,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Frederick sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.

Actors : Billy Gray, Steve Oliver, Gene Shane, Donna Anders,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic ...

Actors : Susan Hemingway, Herbert Fux, Ana Zanatti, William Berger,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Georgia Brown, Kim Novak,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

A psychiatrist tells stories of four special cases to a colleague.

Actors : Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Peggy Browne,
Directors : Fredric Hobbs,

A mutant sheep is on the move near a ranch in the American West.

Actors : Heather Hewitt, Walter Coy, William Joyce, Dan Stapleton,
Directors : Del Tenney,

A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the ...

Actors : Kate Jackson, David Selby, Lara Parker, Grayson Hall,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches.

Actors : Maribel Martín, Renaud Verley, Alfredo Mayo, Viveca Lindfors,

A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance.

Actors : Barry Primus, Ray Lovelock, Mimsy Farmer, Carlo Cattaneo,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.

Actors : Ângelo Assunção, Ronaldo Beibe, Andreia Bryan, José Mojica Marins,
Directors : José Mojica Marins,

Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.

Actors : Shane Briant, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills,
Directors : Peter Sykes,

A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.

Actors : Orson Welles, Mathieu Carrière, Michel Bouquet, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out ...

Actors : Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Actors : Howard Vernon, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Fred Williams,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to...

Actors : Diana Dors, Georgia Brown, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. However after a mysterious accident of a bus with the last three trustees and 30 ...

Actors : Antonio de Cabo, Antonio Mayans, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.