Best Psychopath movies of 1970s

Actors : Diana Lorys, Paul Naschy, Eduardo Calvo, Eva León,
Directors : Carlos Aured,

An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins ...

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 : David Bailey, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady, Tiffany Bolling,
Directors : Richard L. Bare,

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Tamaki Katsura, Yôko Azusa, Yuri Yamashina,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Actors : Marina Vlady, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

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 : 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 : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : David McCallum, Eric Server, Sandra McCabe, George Wyner,
Directors : Burt Brinckerhoff,

A pack of dogs go on a killing spree.

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 : Carmen Russo, Mariangela Giordano, Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei,
Directors : Mario Landi,

A bedridden psycho is able to receive evil "vibrations" from hardened criminals and use them for his telekinetic powers.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, William Gray Espy, Aldo Ray, May Britt,
Directors : Herb Freed,

May Britt plays a seemingly innocent farm girl convinced that her slovenly uncle (Cameron Mitchell) is the man responsible for the bloody scissor-murders of several local girls.

Actors : Ligia Diniz, Paulo Gracindo, Paulo Guarnieri, Cristina Aché,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

Rio de Janeiro police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he tracts a serial killer of taxi-drivers, he also seeks his estranged daughter, ...

Actors : Daniel Schweitzer, Chris Mulkey, Polly King, Wayne Crawford,
Directors : Harry Kerwin,

When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of ...

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

A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.

Actors : Diane Keller, Michael D. White, Jason Williams, Bill Osco,
Directors : Walter R. Cichy,

Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.

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 : Ann Wells, Ramon Gordon, Kelley Swartz, Bo Brundin,
Directors : Kent Bateman,

Poor artist gets eye gouged out while committing a robbery. When his eye heals, he goes on a killing spree and cuts out women's eyes with a spoon.