1970s Horror

PG1971 · Crime, Thriller, History · 111m · Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

IMDb 7.5🍅 64%TMDB 7.3☠ 7.3

R1970 · Crime, Drama, Romance · 108m · Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.

IMDb 7.0MC 82🍅 95%TMDB 6.5☠ 7.2

R1974 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 98m · Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

IMDb 7.1MC 65🍅 73%TMDB 7.0☠ 7.1

TV-PG1979 · Mystery · 1 season · David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

PG1972 · Horror · 93m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice

When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.

IMDb 6.8🍅 90%TMDB 6.8☠ 7.1

R1978 · Horror, Drama · 95m · John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest

A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.

PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

IMDb 6.9MC 85🍅 78%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.1

1970 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 54m · Vincent Price

Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.

1977 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 150m · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon

Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.

1977 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Bosco Hogan

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.

PG1973 · Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery · 97m · Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

IMDb 7.0MC 66🍅 70%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.0

R1972 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 101m · Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi

While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.

IMDb 7.0🍅 71%TMDB 6.8☠ 7.0

1970 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 97m · Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.

IMDb 6.5🍅 100%TMDB 6.2☠ 7.0

1972 · TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 50m · Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington

Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 6.9☠ 7.0

1974 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 186m · James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum

Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.

IMDb 7.1TMDB 7.5☠ 7.0

R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

IMDb 6.8MC 63🍅 82%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.9

PG1978 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 113m · Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

IMDb 6.9MC 60🍅 81%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.9

R1973 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

IMDb 6.8MC 70🍅 86%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.9

R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

IMDb 6.3🍅 100%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.9

1978 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 97m · Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau

A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

IMDb 6.6🍅 88%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.9

PG1972 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 108m · Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky

A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.

PG1971 · Horror · 97m · Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim

In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.

IMDb 6.6🍅 86%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.9

R1978 · Drama, Horror · 107m · Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

IMDb 6.8MC 49🍅 87%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.8

1975 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 72m · Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.

IMDb 6.5🍅 86%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.8