1970s Horror

PG1974 · Horror · 88m · John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus

A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.

IMDb 6.6🍅 79%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.8

R1978 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

IMDb 6.5🍅 86%TMDB 6.0☠ 6.8

1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 108m · Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.

1970 · Thriller, Drama · 105m · Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe

An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.

1975 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Comedy · 1 season · Larry Storch, Forrest Tucker, Linda Gary

The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences. Only 15 episodes were created. This series reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in roles similar to their characters in F Troop. Tucker played Jake Kong, and Storch played zoot suit-wearing Eddie Spencer. The third member of the trio was Tracy the Gorilla, played by actor Bob Burns. The series was unrelated to the 1984 film Ghostbusters.

1971 · Drama · 2 seasons

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

IMDb 7.5TMDB 7.4☠ 6.8

1976 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family · 3 seasons · Arthur English, Freddie Jones, Sheila Steafel

The Ghosts of Motley Hall is a British children's television series written by Richard Carpenter and produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for Granada Television, and broadcast between 1976 and 1978 on ITV. Five ghosts occupy the titular Motley Hall. Each hails from a different era and all—with the exception of newly deceased Matt—are unable to leave the confines of the building.

R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

IMDb 6.6MC 72🍅 72%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.7

PG1975 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 117m · Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Nanette Newman

Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.

R1971 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

IMDb 6.5MC 74🍅 84%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.7

R1971 · Horror · 87m · Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Madeleine Collinson

While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.

IMDb 6.6MC 62🍅 79%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.7

NR1975 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 54m · Lincoln Maazel, Harry Albacker, Phyllis Casterwiler

An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the midst of a hellish nightmare.

IMDb 6.3MC 77🍅 97%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.7

R1973 · Drama, Horror · 113m · Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

IMDb 6.2🍅 93%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.7

1976 · Family, Comedy · 9 seasons · Aimi MacDonald, Sue Nicholls, Anthony Jackson

Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.

1976 · Comedy, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Fred Grandy, Henry Polic II, Buck Kartalian

Monster Squad is a television series that aired Saturday mornings on NBC from 1976-1977 that is unrelated to the later movie of the same name. The series stars Fred Grandy as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman at "Fred's Wax Museum". To pass the time, Walt built a prototype "Crime Computer" hidden in a large stone sarcophagus near an exhibit of legendary monsters. When Walt plugged in his computer, "oscillating vibrations" brought to life the wax statues of Dracula, the Wolfman who here was named "Bruce W. Wolf", and Frankenstein's Monster who was referred to as "Frank N. Stein" in the credits. The monsters, wanting to make up for the misdeeds of their pasts, became superhero crimefighters who used their unique abilities to challenge and defeat various supervillains. In most episodes, Walt would send the monsters out to investigate crimes and fight the villains while monitoring the activities from the wax museum via the Crime Computer, presumably because his job required him to be at the wax museum at all times. However, Walt would sometimes join the climactic battle with his comrades in some episodes and come to the rescue when needed.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 6.0☠ 6.7

R1972 · Horror · 87m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

IMDb 6.5MC 68🍅 80%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.6

PG1973 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

IMDb 6.6MC 56🍅 72%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.6

1978 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 109m · Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

IMDb 6.9MC 49TMDB 6.8☠ 6.6

1979 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Mike McEwen

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

IMDb 6.5MC 61🍅 89%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.6

PG1971 · Horror, Mystery · 102m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.

IMDb 6.5MC 55🍅 92%TMDB 6.4☠ 6.6

PG1974 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 97m · Peter Cushing, David Warner, Donald Pleasence

Four customers purchase, or take, items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is “Offers You Cannot Resist.” A nasty fate awaits all of them; particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.

IMDb 6.6TMDB 6.5☠ 6.6

PG1972 · Horror · 87m · Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Higgins

After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.

IMDb 6.3🍅 83%TMDB 5.9☠ 6.6

PG1978 · Comedy, Crime, Mystery · 112m · George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

IMDb 6.4🍅 77%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.6

1973 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest

A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.

IMDb 6.5🍅 75%TMDB 6.0☠ 6.6