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
Blood Sucking Freaks
›NR1976 · Horror, Comedy · 88m · Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster
Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.
Beware! The Blob
›PG1972 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
Frogs
›PG1972 · Horror · 90m · Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.
Parts: The Clonus Horror
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Peter Graves, Eileen Dietz, Paulette Breen
An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.
The Food of the Gods
›PG1976 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Zoltan… Hound of Dracula
›R1977 · Horror · 90m · Michael Pataki, Jan Shutan, José Ferrer
A Romanian vampire-hunter tracks Dracula's servant to Los Angeles, home of the last of his line.
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
›NR1976 · Horror, TV Movie · 96m · Stephen McHattie, Patty Duke, Broderick Crawford
Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Up from the Depths
›R1979 · Horror · 85m · Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.
Bog
›PG1979 · Horror · 86m · Gloria DeHaven, Aldo Ray, Marshall Thompson
Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
›PG1978 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor
After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent fruit and put a stop to their murderous spree.
The Swarm
›PG1978 · Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Drive-In Massacre
›R1976 · Mystery, Horror · 74m · John F. Goff, Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
Octaman
›1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, Jeff Morrow
A scientific team in Mexico discover a pool of unusual baby "octopus-like" specimens. Gathering a few for analysis back at the lab, it is soon discovered that the critters belong to a gangly six-foot half man/half octopus-like creature, that's pretty angry and wants her 'babies' returned…
Blackenstein
›R1973 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately, an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiancée) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
Blood Freak
›R1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Steve Hawkes, Dana Cullivan, Heather Hughes
A biker comes upon a girl with a flat tire and offers her a ride home. He winds up at a drug party with the girl's sister, then follows her to a turkey farm owned by her father, a mad scientist. The father turns the biker into a giant turkey monster who goes after drug dealers.
The Crater Lake Monster
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Richard Cardella, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel
The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.
The Corpse Grinders
›R1971 · Horror · 72m · Sean Kenney, Monika Kelly, Sanford Mitchell
When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only one problem -- soon cats develop a taste for human flesh, and tabbies are tearing out throats all over town.
Brain of Blood
›1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol
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 a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
Empire of the Ants
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
›R1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem
Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body.
Horror of the Blood Monsters
›1970 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
End of the World
›PG1977 · Fantasy, Thriller, Science Fiction · 88m · Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott
After witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.
Faces of Death
›R1978 · Horror, Documentary · 109m · Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton
What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict life in its final, grueling moments. From the savagery of cold-blooded murder to the perverse realities of war, tragic accidents, and the everyday lives of those who collect, dissect, and bury the dead, this descent into morbidity lays bare a truth that all of us will one day face.
Night of the Lepus
›PG1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun
Rancher Cole Hillman is fed up of rabbits plaguing his fields. Zoologist Roy Bennett conducts an experiment to curb their population, but it gives rise to giant rabbits that terrorise the town.