Best Horror movies of 1971

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 : 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 : Kate Jackson, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Lara Parker,
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 : 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 : 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 : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Laslo Benedek,

A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and ...

Actors : Rodolfo Acosta, Norman Bartold, Ivy Bethune, Merry Anders,
Directors : Carl Monson,

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.

Actors : Carlos East, Julissa, Rafael Bertrand, Boris Karloff,

Evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD crazed zombies.

Actors : Jean Anderson, Patricia Neal, Nicholas Clay, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Alastair Reid,

Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel. The dreary existence of middle- aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with ...

Actors : Jeff Morrow, Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, David Essex,
Directors : Harry Essex,

A team of researchers discovers a strange mutation of man and octopus who proceeds to terrorize them.

Actors : John Bloom, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol, Grant Williams,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in ...

Actors : Milton Selzer, Len Lesser, Melody Patterson, Gloria Grahame,
Directors : Philip S. Gilbert,

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney, Simon Gough, Michael Gough,
Directors : Viktors Ritelis,

A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.

Actors : Tom Pittman, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch, Hal Reed,
Directors : Tom Hanson,

The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck ...

Actors : Laurel Spring, Jason Wayne, Ron Haydock, Carolyn Brandt,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

A young woman inherits a ranch that is supposedly haunted by a murderous beast called "The Chooper."

Actors : Robin John, Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O'Shaughnessy,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

In prehistoric times two brothers (a more or less good one and a more or less bad one) fight each other for the leadership of their tribe.

Actors : James Bolam, Mike Raven, Mary Maude, Ronald Lacey,
Directors : Ted Hooker,

An obsessed sculptor kills a young woman to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.

Actors : John Ashley, Leopoldo Salcedo, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Eddie Garcia,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).

Actors : Dominique Delpierre, Mireille Saunin, Régine Motte, Alfred Baillou,
Directors : Bruno Gantillon,

Two hot chicks happen upon the creepy castle of French witch Morgane le Fay and must choose either to become immortal sex slaves or rot in a dungeon.

Actors : Norman Burton, George Paulsin, Brenda Scott, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Bruce Kessler,

Simon, a young man with magic powers, invokes the help of the evil forces in order to take revenge on a man who cheated him with a bad cheque.