Best Horror movies of 1978

Actors : Gwen Arment, William Metzo, Laura Misch Owens, Curt Dawson,
Directors : Jack Weis,

Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Actors : Ivor Francis, Burr DeBenning, John Ericson, Judith Novgrod,
Directors : Sharron Miller,

A man who is having an affair with a married woman is dropped off on the wrong street when going back to his hotel. He takes refuge out of the rain when an old man invites him in. He turns ...

Actors : Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Amy Johnston, Nina Foch,
Directors : Brice Mack,

Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only ...

Actors : Flavio Andreini, Ray Lovelock, Sherry Buchanan, Florinda Bolkan,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping ...

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Dakar, Maurice Poli, Melissa Chimenti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals' female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.

Actors : Jill Jacobson, Geoffrey Land, Marilyn Joi, Katherine Pass,
Directors : Al Adamson,

A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Actors : Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean, Anthony Forrest, Alison Elliott,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.

Actors : Jaime Cortez, José Mojica Marins, Jorge Peres, Magna Miller,
Directors : José Mojica Marins,

This movie is basically a vehicle for recycling footage from the eccentric pantheon of Brazil's premier horror filmmaker Jose Mojica Marins, whose own persona often melds with that of his ...

Actors : Dirce Funari, Claude Maran, Joseph Dickson, Danielle Dugas,
Directors : Alberto Cavallone,

A woman escapes from being raped only to find herself trapped by a sado-masochistic photographer who, among other nasty things, gets off on consuming fresh human excrement.

Actors : Fonda Lynn, Jacky Lim, Alan Tam, Lona Chang,
Directors : Karen Yang,

A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.

Actors : Geoffrey Land, Don 'Red' Barry, Larry Hankin, John Carradine,

An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kwan, Jennifer Rhodes, Ross Hagen,
Directors : Lee Madden,

A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. ...

Actors : John Karlen, Susan Sullivan, Martin Speer, James Luisi,
Directors : Jeremy Hoenack,

A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.

Actors : Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino, Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is ...

Actors : Carol Kane, Lee Grant, James Olson, Will Geer,
Directors : Karen Arthur,

Ellen has been taking care of her insane younger sister Cissy ever since their explorer father died. When Cissy's pet ape dies in their mansion's dungeon and Ellen finds a boyfriend, Cissy's incestuous desire for her sister turns deadly.

Actors : Rena Niehaus, Yorgo Voyagis, Fabio Gamma, Renato Cestiè,
Directors : Ugo Liberatore,

A blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.

Actors : Elaine Boies, Louise Gallandra, Jeannie Cusick, Dale Hansen,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs...

Actors : Ricardo Merino, Heinrich Starhemberg, Ágata Lys, Isabel Pisano,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

A writer arrives to an isolated guesthouse run by a beautiful but strange woman, then a series of killings starts.

Actors : Marshall Reed, Bert Freed, Keith Atkinson, Belinda Balaski,
Directors : Walter Stocker,

A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night, he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her ...