Decade
1970s Horror
The horror that defined the 1970s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.
397 titles
The Terminal Man
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 107m · George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Count Yorga, Vampire
›PG-131970 · Horror · 93m · Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy
Posing as a hip medium, a bloodthirsty old-world undead gent attracts young lovelies to his mansion by holding séances in modern-day Los Angeles.
Night of Dark Shadows
›PG1971 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · David Selby, Kate Jackson, Grayson Hall
Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
›1978 · Horror, TV Movie · 95m · Richard Crenna, Yvette Mimieux, Kim Richards
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
Criminally Insane
›R1975 · Horror, Comedy · 62m · Priscilla Alden, Michael Flood, Jane Lambert
An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
Prey
›1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen
A deadly shape-shifting alien infiltrates a country house occupied by two lesbians, and proceeds to study their behaviour for a sinister purpose.
Born for Hell
›1976 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Crucible of Horror
›1971 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
Beast of Blood
›PG1970 · Adventure, Horror · 92m · John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia
A mad scientist creates a monster, but after its head is cut off, he keeps it alive in a serum he has invented.
Crash!
›PG1976 · Horror · 89m · José Ferrer, Sue Lyon, John Ericson
After a professor is crippled in a car accident, he blames his wife for the ordeal and attempts to have her killed using the same means. Now hospitalized with amnesia, she appears to be protected by a tiny voodoo trinket that she still clutches in her hand, which possesses her car and other objects, causing mayhem throughout the city.
The Driller Killer
›1979 · Horror · 101m · Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Ben
›PG1972 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Shock Waves
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction, War · 85m · Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
Something Evil
›1972 · Horror, TV Movie · 73m · Sandy Dennis, Darren McGavin, Ralph Bellamy
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Demons of the Mind
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills
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.
Bluebeard
›R1972 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 125m · Richard Burton, Joey Heatherton, Raquel Welch
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
Terror
›R1979 · Horror · 84m · John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, James Aubrey
The descendants of a witch-hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.
Satan's Slave
›R1976 · Horror · 90m · Michael Gough, Martin Potter, Candace Glendenning
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her wicked uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even those she thought were dead return to haunt her.
The Redeemer: Son of Satan!
›1978 · Horror · 84m · Damien Knight, Jeannetta Arnette, Nick Carter
Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.
The Mutations
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Satan's School for Girls
›R1973 · Mystery, Horror, TV Movie · 78m · Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner
Within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls is Elizabeth Sayers, a new student who, under an assumed name, hopes to learn the truth behind her younger sister's apparent suicide. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called 'The Five' — and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world!
The Ghoul
›1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo
In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in India. When an auto race is held at the estate, Lawrence worries that his son may escape and terrorise the youth.
Die Screaming Marianne
›1971 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 101m · Susan George, Barry Evans, Christopher Sandford
After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. While her father wants the documents, her sister wants the money and they will each stop at nothing, even murder, to get what they want.
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
›R1975 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 101m · Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine
Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
