To Love, Perhaps to Die (Some Bizarre and Obscure cinema)
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- DirectorS.F. BrownriggStarsCamilla CarrChelcie RossStephen TobolowskyA crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.
- DirectorMaurizio PradeauxStarsRobert HoffmannNieves NavarroJorge MartínA photographer witnesses a murder through a telescope but can't identify the killer. She reports it to police, but other witnesses are found murdered. She may be the next target.
- DirectorMarc B. RayStarsFred HolbertLeigh MitchellRobert KnoxA 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.
- DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn WellsThe story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
- DirectorStelvio MassiStarsFrancis MatthewsPascale RivaultGiorgio AlbertazziA reporter comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
- DirectorAlfred SoleStarsLinda MillerMildred ClintonPaula E. SheppardIn 1961, a divorced Catholic couple's life is turned upside-down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of subsequent stabbings.
- DirectorDon JonesMikel AngelStarsJames LempKay NeerJeremiah BeecherThe twisted tale of Caleb, and his alter ego Lester. After being pushed around too far, Caleb transforms into Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.
- DirectorPaul LederStarsZooey HallGeri ReischlJoanne Moore JordanAlbert 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...
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsFaye DunawayTommy Lee JonesBrad DourifA famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
- DirectorRenato PolselliStarsMickey HargitayRita CalderoniRaul LovecchioA respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsDavid BaileyTiffany BollingRandolph RobertsA tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a monster mask while he kills and dismembers women with blond hair. Tiffany Bolling is a singer, Scott Brady is a detective and Edd "Kookie" Burns is a lifeguard. The music is the original organ score for the silent film "Phantom of the Opera."
- DirectorPeter MarisStarsTurk CekovskyDebi ChaneyTerry TenBroekAn ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.
- DirectorNewt ArnoldStarsRobert WinstonKatherine HenrykYvonne NielsonA sex-crimes specialist from New York travels to the Philippines to help his friend, a Manila homicide detective, solve a series of murders.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMargot KidderJennifer SaltCharles DurningA small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele LaviaA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsRichard BurtonRaquel WelchVirna LisiA World War I pilot whom everybody envies as a "ladykiller" actually is one. After he beds a woman he's after, he murders her.
- DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsTamaki KatsuraYuri YamashinaNatsuko YashiroTwo restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.
- DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsRobert GribbinRussell JohnsonJohn HarmonHoward is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.
- DirectorBharathirajaStarsKamal HaasanSrideviBhagyarajKamal Haasan, the central character, is a man terribly soured by his unvaryingly devastating encounters with the opposite sex. He develops a pathological hatred for women and uses his charm to seduce young women and kill them immediately after having sex with each. These proceedings are recorded watched repeatedly by his adoptive father and mentor, another crazed woman-hater with a similarly disillusioning experience with the female sex, who vicariously enjoys his protege's exploits. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of the house watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do.
- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsJean SebergMarisolBarry StokesAbandoned by their husband/father, a traumatized woman and her disturbed stepdaughter hire a drifter handyman at their secluded estate while a series of murders begins.
- DirectorRobert Hartford-DavisStarsAnn ToddPatrick MageeTony BeckleyA religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to murder and chaos.
- DirectorFrank MitchellStarsWayne A. FarlowJonathan GoldsmithJohn HartWhat is meant to be a pleasure cruise becomes a nightmare as murder follows murder on a small ship. With tension mounting, passengers and the crew turn on each other in a desperate attempt to identify the killer.
- DirectorCharles B. GriffithStarsSam BottomsSusanne ReedVirgil FryeA giant shark-like creature preys on a Hawaiian tourist community.
- DirectorJosé Luis MadridStarsPaul NaschyPatricia LoranRenzo MarignanoIn this version of the famous story of the London serial killer, Jack not only likes to kill prostitutes but he is a cannibal as well.
- DirectorRay Dennis StecklerStarsPierre AgostinoCarolyn BrandtChuck AlfordHollywood Strangler ("Johnathan Click") kills young models... Skid Row Slasher kills winos ... What will happen when they meet?
- DirectorLarry G. BrownStarsTom BashamGene CarlsonGretchen KanneA children's television show host stalks and murders abusive parents.
- DirectorGiuseppe BennatiStarsRosanna SchiaffinoChris AvramEva CzemerysPatrick Davenant invites a group of friends and his daughter to his family-owned theater. Within a short time, the guests realize that they are trapped. A masked killer begins to murder them one by one.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsJenny AgutterBryan MarshallClare SutcliffeA 15 year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality suspects her foster brother may be guilty of a murder.
- DirectorRobert Vincent O'NeilStarsLawrence MontaigneJo Anne MeredithElizabeth PlumbA psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsMarcel BozzuffiVittorio MezzogiornoRiccardo SalvinoAfter criminal gangs wreak havoc in the streets of Italy, a take-no-guff police commissioner forms a highly trained band of motorcycle riding cops to stop them.
- DirectorPaul NaschyStarsMaría José CantudoÁgata LysPaul NaschyAt the beginning of the twentieth century in Spain, a brothel owner and his partner lure rich men to their property, kill them and steal their money.
- DirectorRobert J. EmeryStarsNick Kleinholz IIIMarlena LustikPaul VincentA mentally ill eight-year-old sees his father commit matricide and has flashbacks years later.
- DirectorJesús García de DueñasStarsLola FloresJames PhilbrookTeresa RabalA psychologically damaged young man murders young women who sexually excite him.
- DirectorTadeusz ChmielewskiStarsTomasz ZaliwskiPiotr LysakHenryk BistaA psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys during the Christmas season. The police commissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son with whom he has difficult relationship.
- DirectorDave AdamsStarsRuss DubucCynthia StewartRobert McCourtA psychotic killer escapes from an insane asylum and goes on a killing spree, and the SWAT team it sent out to track him down. Kind of. Sort of.
- CreatorBrian ClemensAnthony SkeneMichael ZagorStarsDonna MillsGary CollinsDerek Francis"Thriller" was an anthology series of self-contained episodes, with genres ranging from murder mystery to suspense to psychological and supernatural horror.
- DirectorNarciso Ibáñez SerradorStarsLewis FianderPrunella RansomeAntonio IranzoA couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
- DirectorJohn LawrenceStarsTom DrakeSteve OliverJoe TurkelA sexual pervert murders a businessman's wife, then blackmails the businessman into procuring young girls for him to torture and kill. The businessman hires a biker gang to kidnap two young girls for that purpose.
- DirectorTom HansonStarsHal ReedBob JonesRay LynchA serial killer in San Francisco murders without motive or apparent pattern and taunts the police with phone calls and letters.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookArthur HanselEllen ShermanThe inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsMelissa Sue AndersonMary Beth McDonoughPatrick CassidyVivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and it comes to a mental showdown between the two women over David.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLouis JourdanLynda Day GeorgeCarroll O'ConnorA psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsLeslie NielsenPeter Mark RichmanJudi MeredithPolice call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.