Best horror films 1971 – 1980 - Charts
Best horror films 1971 – 1980
1. Alien (1979)
USA / UK, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt
2. The Shining (1980)
UK / USA, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1977)
Czechoslovakia / West Germany, Animation / Horror
Directed by: Karel Zeman
Cast: Luděk Munzar, Jaroslav Moučka
4. The Medusa Touch (1978)
UK / France, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Jack Gold
Cast: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura
5. The Omen (1976)
USA / UK, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Richard Donner
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick
7. Morgiana (1972)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Cast: Iva Janžurová, Josef Abrhám
8. Halloween (1978)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: John Carpenter
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis
10. The Wicker Man (1973)
UK, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Robin Hardy
Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee
11. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
UK / USA, Musical / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jim Sharman
Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon
12. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
West Germany / France, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani
13. Suspiria (1977)
Italy, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini
15. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger
17. The Forbidden Room (1977)
Italy / France, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Dino Risi
Cast: Danilo Mattei, Vittorio Gassman
19. Night Watch (1973)
UK / USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey
20. Deep Red (1975)
Italy, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Dario Argento
Cast: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi
21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams
22. Blade of the Ripper (1971)
Italy / Spain, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Sergio Martino
Cast: George Hilton, Edwige Fenech
23. Magic (1978)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret
24. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
USA / Italy, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: George A. Romero
Cast: Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross
25. The Brood (1979)
Canada, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar
26. The Stepford Wives (1975)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss
27. Arnold (1973)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Georg Fenady
Cast: Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall
29. The Changeling (1980)
Canada, Horror
Directed by: Peter Medak
Cast: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere
30. The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Poland, Drama / Fantasy
Directed by: Wojciech Jerzy Has
Cast: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat
31. Eraserhead (1977)
USA, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart
32. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
Spain, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Cast: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome
33. The Cat and the Canary (1978)
UK, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Radley Metzger
Cast: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan
34. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
UK, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Peter Duffell
Cast: Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing
36. The Psychic (1977)
Italy, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Marc Porel
37. The Ninth Heart (1978)
Czechoslovakia, Fairytale / Fantasy
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Cast: Ondřej Pavelka, Anna Maľová
38. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Italy, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet
39. View from the Loft (1974)
Yugoslavia, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: Bernard Fein
Cast: Herbert Fux, Faith Brook
40. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Canada / France, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Nicolas Gessner
Cast: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen
41. Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
Japan, Fantasy / Historical
Directed by: Masahiro Shinoda
42. The House of the Laughing Windows (1976)
Italy, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Pupi Avati
Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina
44. The Sentinel (1977)
USA, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Michael Winner
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines
45. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Italy, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Sergio Martino
Cast: Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg
46. To Kill a Clown (1972)
UK, Drama / Horror
Directed by: George Bloomfield
Cast: Alan Alda, Blythe Danner
47. Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
France, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Joël Séria
Cast: Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener
48. Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Japan, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Yoshimitsu Banno
Cast: Kenpachiro Satsuma, 鈴木治夫
49. The Fog (1980)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: John Carpenter
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis
50. When a Stranger Calls (1979)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Fred Walton
Cast: Charles Durning, Carol Kane
51. Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Canada / USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Alan Ormsby, Jeff Gillen
Cast: Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee
52. Shivers (1975)
Canada, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry
53. They Have Changed Their Face (1971)
Italy, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Corrado Farina
Cast: Adolfo Celi, Francesca Modigliani
54. Sisters (1972)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt
56. Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Japan, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Toshiya Fujita, 原田芳雄
57. Theatre of Blood (1973)
UK, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Cast: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg
58. Images (1972)
UK / USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Robert Altman
Cast: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois
59. The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
Italy / West Germany, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: Emilio Miraglia
Cast: Barbara Bouchet, Marina Malfatti
60. Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974)
Italy / France, Horror
Directed by: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier
61. Dressed to Kill (1980)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson
62. Santo vs. the She-Wolves (1976)
Mexico, Horror / Action
Directed by: Rubén Galindo, Jaime Jiménez Pons
Cast: Santo, Carlos Suárez
63. Orca: Killer Whale (1977)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling
64. The Shout (1978)
UK, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Alan Bates, Susannah York
65. Burnt Offerings (1976)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Dan Curtis
Cast: Karen Black, Oliver Reed
66. They're Coming to Get You (1972)
Italy / Spain, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Sergio Martino
Cast: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton
67. The Tenderness of Wolves (1973)
West Germany, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Ulli Lommel
Cast: Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven
68. The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
Spain / Italy, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jorge Grau
Cast: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock
69. Malpertuis: The Legend of Doom House (1971)
France / West Germany, Fantasy / Horror
Directed by: Harry Kümel
Cast: Orson Welles, Susan Hampshire
70. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
UK / USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Robert Fuest
Cast: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten
71. Martin (1976)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: George A. Romero
Cast: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel
72. The Infernal Trio (1974)
France / West Germany, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Francis Girod
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider
73. When the Screaming Stops (1974)
Spain, Horror
Directed by: Amando de Ossorio
Cast: Tony Kendall, Helga Liné
74. Fade to Black (1980)
USA, Comedy / Thriller
Directed by: Vernon Zimmerman
Cast: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson
75. Demon Seed (1977)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Donald Cammell
Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver
77. Cannibal Man (1972)
Spain, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Eloy de la Iglesia
Cast: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen
78. Dracula (1979)
USA / UK, Horror / Romance
Directed by: John Badham
Cast: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier
79. Through the Looking Glass (1976)
USA, Horror / Adult
Directed by: Jonas Middleton
Cast: Jamie Gillis, Nancy Dare
80. The Vault of Horror (1973)
UK / USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Tom Baker, Michael Craig
81. Fear in the Night (1972)
UK, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Jimmy Sangster
Cast: Joan Collins, Judy Geeson
82. The Traveler (1979)
Spain, Historical / Comedy
Directed by: Paul Naschy
Cast: Paul Naschy, David Rocha
85. Black Christmas (1974)
Canada, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Bob Clark
Cast: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea
86. Day of Resurrection (1980)
Japan, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Glenn Ford, Olivia Hussey
87. Primal Impulse (1975)
Italy, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Luigi Bazzoni, Mario Fanelli
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery
88. Macabre (1980)
Italy, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar
89. Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Michael Pataki
Cast: Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame
90. The Killer Must Strike Again (1975)
Italy / France, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: Luigi Cozzi
Cast: George Hilton, Antoine Saint-John
91. The Night Visitor (1971)
USA / Sweden, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: László Benedek
Cast: Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard
92. Phantasm (1979)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Cast: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury
93. Act of Vengeance (1974)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Bob Kelljan
Cast: Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown
94. Rapture (1979)
Spain, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Iván Zulueta
Cast: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth
95. Damien: Omen II (1978)
USA / UK, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Don Taylor, Mike Hodges
Cast: William Holden, Lee Grant
96. Hunchback of the Morgue (1973)
Spain, Horror
Directed by: Javier Aguirre
Cast: Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy
97. Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (1975)
Argentina, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Leonardo Favio
Cast: Lautaro Murúa, Alfredo Alcón
98. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
UK, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Cast: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing
99. Altered States (1980)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Ken Russell
Cast: William Hurt, Blair Brown
100. Horror Express (1972)
UK / Spain, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Eugenio Martín
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing