"Over 800 Of The Sickest, Disturbing, Unsettling, Graphic, & Violent Horror Films Ever Made From 1960 To Present!"
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1. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,443
2. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,360
3. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,343 | Gross: $32.00M
4. Blood Feast (1963)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror
An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton
Votes: 7,337 | Gross: $4.00M
5. Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Connie Mason, William Kerwin, Jeffrey Allen, Shelby Livingston
Votes: 5,283
6. Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror
A crackpot artist kills various people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his paintings.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner, Pat Finn-Lee
Votes: 2,027
7. The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
R | 63 min | Comedy, Horror
An undertaker and his two friends, who are restaurateurs, make business by going out on town and killing people; the restaurateurs use body parts for their menu, the entrepreneur buries the rest.
Director: T.L.P. Swicegood | Stars: Warrene Ott, James Westmoreland, Marty Friedman, Sally Frei
Votes: 1,249
8. The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
Not Rated | 72 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A demented elderly woman has her mentally-retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop while a persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell, Rodney Bedell
Votes: 1,203
9. The Ghastly Ones (1968)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror
Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritance they are all entitled to.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Veronica Radburn, Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, Anne Linden
Votes: 813
10. Seeds of Sin (1968)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Horror
An angry and alcoholic matriarch tyrannizes her spoiled, grown-up, children during an unwanted family get-together, where someone begins killing them one by one.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Maggie Rogers, Candy Hammond, Anthony Moscini, Lucy Silvay
Votes: 453
11. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Votes: 139,150 | Gross: $0.09M
12. Confessions of a Psycho Cat (1968)
69 min | Horror, Thriller
A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.
Directors: Herbert S. Altman, Robert Worms | Stars: Eileen Lord, Ed Garrabrandt, Frank Geraci, Dick Lord
Votes: 307
13. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 235,213
14. Love Camp 7 (1969)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Bob Cresse, Maria Lease, Kathy Williams, Bruce Kimball
Votes: 1,155
15. Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
R | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A doctor tries to save his son's life through a complicated heart transplant operation, the involuntary donor being a gorilla. Eventually, the young man turns into a violent hybrid beast.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: José Elías Moreno, Carlos López Moctezuma, Armando Silvestre, Norma Lazareno
Votes: 1,228
16. Night of Bloody Horror (1969)
R | 89 min | Horror
Wesley goes out on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother, who was murdered 13 years ago.
Director: Joy N. Houck Jr. | Stars: Gerald McRaney, Gaye Yellen, Herbert Nelson, Evelyn Hendricks
Votes: 436
17. The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)
R | 84 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 16th century Italy, a young noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father, leading to an uproar in the community and the Catholic Church.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Mavie Bardanzellu
Votes: 1,048
18. Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
M | 84 min | Horror
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Directors: Al Adamson, Don Hulette | Stars: John Carradine, Paula Raymond, Alexander D'Arcy, Robert Dix
Votes: 1,292
19. Blood Mania (1970)
R | 81 min | Horror
A sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend.
Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Peter Carpenter, Maria De Aragon, Vicki Peters, Reagan Wilson
Votes: 1,082
20. One on Top of the Other (1969)
R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 2,676
21. Guru, the Mad Monk (1970)
62 min | Horror
A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Neil Flanagan, Jaqueline Webb, Judith Israel, Jack Spencer
Votes: 671
22. I Drink Your Blood (1971)
R | 83 min | Horror
A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.
Director: David E. Durston | Stars: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz, George Patterson
Votes: 4,148
23. Mark of the Devil (1970)
R | 90 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Directors: Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven | Stars: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder
Votes: 3,912
24. The House That Screamed (1969)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín
Votes: 4,125
25. The Psycho Lover (1970)
R | 80 min | Crime, Horror
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Lawrence Montaigne, Jo Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Plumb, Frank Cuva
Votes: 222
26. The Beast in the Cellar (1971)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening.
Director: James Kelley | Stars: Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill, Tessa Wyatt
Votes: 1,107
27. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi
Votes: 24,100 | Gross: $0.42M
28. The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Ray Sager, Judy Cler, Wayne Ratay, Phil Laurenson
Votes: 4,018 | Gross: $0.02M
29. Girly (1970)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Howard Trevor
Votes: 1,579
30. Carnival of Blood (1970)
GP | 87 min | Horror
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, who he then murders and dismembers.
Director: Leonard Kirtman | Stars: Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Kaly Mills
Votes: 639
31. A Bay of Blood (1971)
R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso, Anna Maria Rosati
Votes: 12,711
32. Beast of the Yellow Night (1971)
R | 87 min | Horror
Satan saves a man from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: John Ashley, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Leopoldo Salcedo, Eddie Garcia
Votes: 934
33. The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A rich, mentally-unstable man - with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife - sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Marina Malfatti, Enzo Tarascio, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 2,923
34. The Zodiac Killer (1971)
R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A serial killer in San Francisco murders without motive or apparent pattern and taunts the police with phone calls and letters.
Director: Tom Hanson | Stars: Hal Reed, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch, Tom Pittman
Votes: 963
35. Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
GP | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.
Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett
Votes: 9,313
36. The Devils (1971)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Votes: 18,669 | Gross: $1.13M
37. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
PG | 104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 9,880
38. Straw Dogs (1971)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 64,509
39. Vanishing Point (1971)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling, Dean Jagger
Votes: 30,535
40. Twins of Evil (1971)
R | 87 min | Horror
A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson
Votes: 6,501
41. Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A series of victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp. The victims all seem to have a connection with a spa.
Director: Paolo Cavara | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet, Rossella Falk
Votes: 3,629
42. Devil's Nightmare (1971)
R | 95 min | Fantasy, Horror
A group of tourists traveling on a bus take a detour to stay overnight in a castle owned by a family cursed with a history of Satanism and death.
Director: Jean Brismée | Stars: Erika Blanc, Jean Servais, Daniel Emilfork, Lucien Raimbourg
Votes: 2,186
43. Honey Britches (1971)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
This is the story of four jewel thieves on the run who decide to hole up with a hillbilly couple until the search for them slackens off.
Director: Donn Davison | Stars: Ashley Brooks, George Ellis, Trudy Moore, Michael Battlesmith
Votes: 680 | Gross: $0.38M
44. The Last House on the Left (1972)
R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Votes: 40,293 | Gross: $3.10M
45. Garden of the Dead (1972)
PG | 59 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Convicts on a chain gang sniff experimental formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break, are shot down by the guards and buried in the prison garden. Soon, they rise from ... See full summary »
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Philip Kenneally, Duncan McLeod, John Dullaghan, John Dennis
Votes: 610
46. The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
X | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin, Henny Youngman
Votes: 2,804
47. Delirium (1972)
R | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.
Director: Renato Polselli | Stars: Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raul Lovecchio, Carmen Young
Votes: 1,227
48. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,697
49. Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
R | 80 min | Horror
The owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.
Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Toni Lawrence, Jesse Vint, Catherine Ross, Paul Hickey
Votes: 1,481
50. Private Parts (1972)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio, Laurie Main
Votes: 1,870
51. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic rite. It backfires with deadly consequences.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen, Anya Ormsby
Votes: 5,026
52. Death Line (1972)
Unrated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney
Votes: 5,428
53. Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Director: Theodore Gershuny | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren
Votes: 4,896
54. Horror Express (1972)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas
Votes: 12,765
55. Asylum (I) (1972)
PG | 88 min | Horror
In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing
Votes: 8,181
56. Ben (1972)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent swarm of killer rats.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 3,427 | Gross: $0.77M
57. Poor Albert & Little Annie (1972)
R | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Director: Paul Leder | Stars: Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl, Joanne Moore Jordan, Greg Mullavey
Votes: 458
58. The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
R | 82 min | Horror
Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, Alexandra Bastedo, Dean Selmier
Votes: 2,374
59. Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by the so-called "Half-Moon Killer", and her husband try to find a connection between herself, six other women, and the killer.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Antonio Sabato, Uschi Glas, Pier Paolo Capponi, Rossella Falk
Votes: 2,691
60. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon
Votes: 13,019 | Gross: $1.70M
61. Love Me Deadly (1972)
Unrated | 95 min | Horror
A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.
Director: Jacques Lacerte | Stars: Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone, Timothy Scott
Votes: 671
62. A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror
Following the death of her father, a young girl visits her estranged family at their sinister castle in the countryside, and comes to realize her eccentric and morbid relatives are not quite alive.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Pierre Quérut, Jean Rollin | Stars: Christina von Blanc, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Rosa Palomar
Votes: 2,717
63. Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Baron Frankenstein creates two "zombies" - one male, one female - planning to mate them in order to create a master race.
Directors: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Monique van Vooren
Votes: 6,923 | Gross: $10.25M
64. Three on a Meathook (1972)
R | 80 min | Horror
Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens,... See full summary »
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Charles Kissinger, James Carroll Pickett, Sherry Steiner, Madelyn Buzzard
Votes: 862
65. The Baby (1973)
PG | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor
Votes: 4,380
66. Warlock Moon (1973)
PG | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A college girl meets a reporter, they take a trip to the country, and they wind up meeting a creepy old woman who lives in a closed-down resort.
Director: William Herbert | Stars: Laurie Walters, Joe Spano, Edna MacAfee, Harry Bauer
Votes: 531
67. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 455,006 | Gross: $232.91M
68. Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
R | 90 min | Horror
A deranged kid murders his father and has his arm crushed by the farm tractor. After being discharged from the mental hospital with an amputee, he discovers that his mother has remarried, prompting him to go on a homicidal rampage.
Director: Marc B. Ray | Stars: Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone
Votes: 1,201
69. Schoolgirls in Chains (1973)
R | 90 min | Horror
Two deranged brothers, who are under the domineering influence of their crazed mother, kidnap young girls and keep them captive in chains in their basement, where they subject them to depraved "games" that often end in torture and murder.
Director: Don Jones | Stars: Gary Kent, John Parker, Stafford Morgan, Suzanne Lund
Votes: 795
70. The Wicker Man (1973)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
Director: Robin Hardy | Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland
Votes: 92,308 | Gross: $0.06M
71. The Crazies (1973)
R | 103 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar
Votes: 14,794 | Gross: $0.15M
72. Torso (1973)
R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson
Votes: 7,824 | Gross: $0.74M
73. The Sinful Dwarf (1973)
Unrated | 95 min | Adult, Crime, Horror
Olaf and his mother run a boarding house and a white slavery ring. They also smuggle heroin to keep the addict girls happy so they do not try and escape. A young couple move into the house ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Fuller | Stars: Anne Sparrow, Tony Eades, Clara Keller, Werner Hedman
Votes: 1,650
74. The Forgotten (1973)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren
Votes: 3,516
75. Sisters (1972)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley
Votes: 20,693 | Gross: $0.35M
76. Lisa and the Devil (1973)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an old fresco.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano
Votes: 5,344
77. The Legend of Hell House (1973)
PG | 95 min | Horror
A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill
Votes: 14,041
78. The Killing Kind (1973)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Luana Anders
Votes: 1,264
79. The Cannibal Man (1972)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A meat factory worker accidentally kills a taxi driver, and begins gradually killing people close to him in order to cover up his original crime. He starts getting rid of the mounting corpses stored in his bedroom through his day job.
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo
Votes: 1,803
80. Bell from Hell (1973)
Unrated | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
After being falsely accused of being insane and put in a asylum so his wicked aunt and her daughters could steal his money, a recently released young man returns to seek the ultimate revenge against them.
Directors: Claudio Guerín, Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, Alfredo Mayo, Maribel Martín
Votes: 1,542
81. Dead of Night (1974)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe
Votes: 6,002 | Gross: $0.03M
82. It's Alive (1974)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell
Votes: 8,978
83. Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974)
R | 89 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Aured | Stars: Paul Naschy, Diana Lorys, Eduardo Calvo, Eva León
Votes: 1,186
84. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
R | 83 min | Horror
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Votes: 183,664 | Gross: $30.86M
85. Black Christmas (1974)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Votes: 48,359 | Gross: $4.05M
86. Deranged (1974)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.
Directors: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby | Stars: Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson, Robert Warner
Votes: 5,763 | Gross: $0.05M
87. Beyond the Door (1974)
R | 108 min | Horror
Juliet Mills plays a young pregnant woman in San Francisco who is going to have the devil's baby during her strange possession. Richard Johnson shows up to help her... but what does he really want?
Directors: Ovidio G. Assonitis, Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli | Stars: Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Nino Segurini
Votes: 2,722 | Gross: $0.08M
88. Frightmare (1974)
R | 88 min | Horror
After escaping a death sentence for her hideous crimes, a seemingly rehabilitated woman settles in an isolated farmhouse with her husband, only to ache, once more, for blood, and a crash-course in surgery. Is, indeed, her old self back?
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax, Paul Greenwood
Votes: 2,657
89. Peopletoys (1974)
R | 88 min | Horror
After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
Directors: Sean MacGregor, David Sheldon | Stars: Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher, Joan McCall
Votes: 1,896
90. The Mutations (1974)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist experiments with crossing humans and plants, for which he uses his students.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege
Votes: 2,131
91. Don't Hang Up (1974)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In this horror movie, a dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Susan Bracken, Larry O'Dwyer, Gene Ross, James N. Harrell
Votes: 642
92. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 7,831 | Gross: $0.62M
93. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
R | 95 min | Horror
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.
Director: Jorge Grau | Stars: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso
Votes: 9,322
94. Frozen Scream (1975)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
Mad scientists turn people into frozen zombies and the zombies wreak havoc and kill people.
Director: Frank Roach | Stars: Renee Harmon, Lynne Yeaman, Wolf Muser, Thomas McGowan
Votes: 628
95. Women Behind Bars (1975)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Thriller
A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Martine Stedil, Nathalie Chape, Roger Darton
Votes: 750
96. Shivers (1975)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman
Votes: 23,588
97. The Last Victim (1976)
PG | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
A serial rapist stalks and murders prostitutes.
Director: Jim Sotos | Stars: Tanya Roberts, Ron Max, Nancy Allen, Brian Freilino
Votes: 540
98. Deep Red (1975)
R | 127 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
Votes: 42,646
99. Last Stop on the Night Train (1975)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 3,429
100. Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.
Director: Don Edmonds | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx
Votes: 8,210
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