Best Horror movies of 1970s

Actors : Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy, Alain Delon, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging. However, it involves harvesting the blood and body parts of young men, a process that the doctors aren't particularly averse to.

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 : Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis, Susan George,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

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.

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, 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 : 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 : 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 : Marisa Berenson, Margaux Hemingway, Lee Majors, Karen Black,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.

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 : Barry Morse, Kay Hawtrey, Dean Garbett, Lesleh Donaldson,
Directors : William Fruet,

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Actors : Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Chantal Contouri, Henry Silva,
Directors : Rod Hardy,

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

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 : 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 : 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 : Taylor Lacher, Joan McCall, Gene Evans, Sorrell Booke,

Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.

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 : 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 : Shane Briant, Yvonne Mitchell, Gillian Hills, Robert Hardy,
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 : 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 ...