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1970s Horror Movies

When we think of 1970s horror movies, Horror Stew automatically thinks of the Hammer Horror films. Who can forget the Technicolor blood, ample breasts of vampire chicks, and the bloodshot eyes of Christopher Lee?!? Hammer brought a fresh look to Dracula, and Frankenstein, with a bloody British angle on it, bad teeth and all.

Artwork from The Horror Of Frankenstein Hammer Films


Here's a small list of Hammer films from the 70's:



The Horror Of Frankenstein (1971) Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Taste The Blood Of Dracula (1970) Scars Of Dracula (1970)
Dracula AD 1972 (1972) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1972) The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Lust for a Vampire (1971) Twins Of Evil (1972)
Hands of the Ripper (1971) Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972)
Countess Dracula (1972) Vampire Circus (1972)
One of the great early 1970s horror movies was the 1973 film, The Exorcist! A twelve year old girl is possessed by the devil. This movie is memorable because of its dead on scenes of pure blasphemy against God by the possessed girl, Regan. The swearing, violence; the freezing bedroom where she lay, and green puke really makes you believe that Satan has taken up shop in that little girl. The struggling, courageous, all too human priests really make this movie. It's Good vs. Evil! This movie will raise the hair on your head.

Evil Intent.


In 1974, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre came out, and people thought differently about chain-saw use. Here was the plot: teenagers, graveyards, evil hitchhikers, and a disturbed family that harbors a chainsaw welding fanatic bent on slicing up the newly arrived company to make human jerky. 1970s horror movies would never be the same after this one! Leatherface!




In 1974, Black Christmas was released. It is very simple plot about a group of sorority girls on Christmas break getting sick phone calls. Soon, girls are getting picked off left and right by the killer. A killer score and well directed by Bob Clark; it starred the ultra hot Olivia Hussey and Amityville Horror's Margot Kidder. It was a great film long before Scream copied it. Wrapped up.


Jaws Does anybody need an explanation when they hear that word?!?!? Directed by the amazing Steven Spielberg in 1975 from the novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws made people afraid to go into the water. An island resort town in New England is losing people in the water by a great white shark. The five main characters are the shark, the police chief, a mayor that thrives on tourist money, a shark hunter, and a shark expert. The movies revolves around the deaths of tourists in the water, the sliminess of local office, frustration at not being able to get the shark, and finally, obsession! Fish Dinner Anyone?




In 1976, Carrie (see the trailer), sizzled the screen with newcomer Sissy Spacek(hey, that girl can act!). The story is about a telekinetic girl who's picked on, loathed, and generally overlooked as a nobody at school. Unfortunately for Carrie's classmates, Carrie's got special powers that can move things! When Tommy Ross invites her to the prom, she's suspicious, but decides to go, to the whole school's eventual misery. Behind the scenes, she has to deal with a mother that's a borderline schizophrenic with religious paranoia. A great addition to 1970s horror movies! Post Prom




1970s horror movies were honored with this next film. In 1976, The Omen, with Gregory Peck, instilled movie-goers with the fear of the antichrist! Peck plays an Ambassador who adopts a child and eventually finds out that the child is the spawn of Satan after a rash of murders.

At right, Peck discovers the awful truth of what really happened to his son at birth!
Time for truth.


The great Anthony Hopkins played in the 1977 movie Audrey Rose. The movie plot is basically about reincarnation. A man (Hopkins) that at first seems to be terrorizing a nice family and their daughter, finally worms his way into their lives to try and convince them that their daughter is actually HIS daughter that died in 1964. They don't want to believe it but their girl Ivy is projecting behavior that seems like the strangers daughter, Audrey.

Audrey Rose: Born 1959 - Died 1964 - Born 1964

One of the all time "thinker" 1970s horror movies!
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Dawn Of The Dead provided one of the goriest 1970s horror movies in 1978!! Set in a world where zombies walk in the daylight above ground, a group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall. Holing up there where goods are plentiful and guns are dirt cheap, they find out that cleaning the mall of zombies is hard work as well as keeping out the living riff-raff.

Here, some bikers have some fun with a stumbling zombie!
Pie fun




In 1978, John Carpenter's Halloween set the stage for horror clichés to come with his story of Michael Myers, an institutionalized killer. Michael murdered his sister while young, and now he escaped from the mental hospital. His Doctor, Dr. Loomis, goes back to Myer's hometown in the chance that he may show up there. Sure enough, he does, terrorizing Laurie Strode and her pals. The chilling score is classic! About to get a coat-hanger in his eye!




Anthony Hopkins does horror again in 1978's Magic. A ventriloquist (Hopkins) is a bad performer, but his salvation is a dummy called "Fats". Hopkins’s character, Corky becomes a sensation but the price of that success is the fact that Fats is alive (or is he?), and wants to control Corky. As usual, Hopkins makes the role. Puppet Murder.





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1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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A TV movie from the 70s, I remember that it was made on three parts, can't remember the first two but the last one it was about a woman who receives a ...

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I saw this movie on TV around 1973 and it involved someone who was buried in a shed and a man inside the house on the property could see the person coming ...

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70,s TV movie I assume seems like it was on yearly, A missing or dead kid keeps apparently calling home, meanwhile someone is knocking off people also....

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I recall a 70's horror flick, it had short stories... one the stories was a young boy who kept a tiger hidden in his room. His parents discover the tiger ...

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When I was about 9, this would have been around 77, 78, or 79, and I am guessing here. There was a movie on tv and all I really remember about it is a ...

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only remember pieces...an amazing house with a pool that has a self-closing cover, people riding horses through a dark forest near the house, someone drowning ...

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I am looking for the titles of two made for TV Horror Films from the early 70's. The first film is similar to the innoecents....at the end of the film,...

lookin for a movie  starstarstarstarstar
its like zombies or deform people live under the graveyard n there was this guy who live under the graveyard but he was inlove with a human girl

help finding flick  starstarstarstarstar
...a creepy woman goes into labor at the park and this family brings her home to wait for ambulance but she just leaves the newborn and takes off. The ...

HELP WITH TITLES  starstarstarstarstar
1ST MOVIE I REMEMBER A LADY NAMED SALLY WHO WAS SUCKED UP INSIDE A FIREPLACE BY LITTLE BLACK DEMONS. SHE TRIED TO STOP THEM BY USING A CAMERA FLASH, BUT ...

BURNT OFFERINGS  starstarstarstarstar
THE FUNERAL DRIVER FREAKED ME OUT AS A KID. KAREN BLACK WAS PRETTY WICKED IN IT ALSO.

Do anyone know the name of this fun horror movie?  starstarstarstarstar
It's Halloween and this grumpy old man goes and buys some razor blades to put in apples for trick or treaters - that's at the beginning of the movie.
Teenage ...

About Magic  starstarstarstarstar
I've been trying to think of the name of this movie for years and couldn't remember it for my life for some reason I thought it was Dummy but I knew that ...

HELP??  starstarstarstarstar
Can anyone remember a horror film about a dog that falls down a well or a hole and when the townspeople go down after it, one of them screams in terror ...

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Saw a flick back in 1977 about a girl who drove a black Camaro. She bought a key-chain with a little idol on it from a flea market then proceeded to get ...

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the movie has a morgue and small spheres fly around hit people in head and then drill the insides of head out, at the end when everyone thinks is now safe ...

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I believe it was a 70's horror movie (watched it at a drive-in around 1976-77). I remember it was in color and it was about some killer leeches. The only ...

Looking for a movie...  starstarstarstarstar
The advertise banner was a view of buildings and the lights in the apartaments formed a skull.

Don't be afraid of the dark  starstarstarstarstar
This movie came out on TV Halloween night I believe 1973 starring Kim Darby. It is a great horror movie I believe for small kids you have the fear of that ...

A 70's Flick,,,..Anybody Know?  starstarstarstarstar
I only remember fragments of a movie from the 70's. A little girl, basically a bad seed, is at a basketball game and makes the ball explode before the ...

BAD RONALD (1974)  starstarstarstarstar
EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A MADE FOR TV MOVIE, THIS IS STILL REALLY GOOD. IT'S ABOUT AN OUTCAST TEENAGER NAMED RONALD WHO ACCIDENTALLY KILLS A LITTLE GIRL,THEN ...

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Saw it back in the 70's at the drive in. It was probably a low budget flick. I think it was like a girls school or something ran by what I think was a ...

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looking for a couple of movies one was about these rats,rabbits and mosquito's that ate stuff out of the ground and got large and ate people. the other ...

Slime that turns people's bodies inside out...  starstarstarstarstar
I saw this movie as a kid in the 70's, but I think it's older. I just remember some guy picking up the black slime with a stick, then holding up the stick ...

What movie is this?  starstarstarstarstar
Do you know of the movie about a woman that turns into a black panther every time she has sex, and then the only way to turn back to a human is to eat ...

Black Christmas  starstarstarstarstar
That is the scariest movie ever, and I've seen a LOT of horror movies. I hope to buy it soon, great movie!

movie at drive -in late 1970's  starstarstarstar
a woman was riding a motor cycle and had a wreck and her boy friend can a visit her and she had became a zombie something came out of her arm pit and killed ...

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I saw a movie when i was really young, a guy chained up naked women and burned them to use them as art, but at the end they came back to life to kill him,...

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I am looking for a 1970's horror movie that possibly came out around the same time as Karen Black's "Burnt Offering". It has a screen where the a wall ...

Zombi 2 1979  starstarstarstar
Best Zombie film since Night of the living dead 68

The Exorcist  starstarstarstar
I remember the first time I saw this movie - It didn't scare me as much as it should have because I knew all the movie magic behind it (The 360 head spin,...

Halloween  starstarstarstar
It's sad as he was bullied as a kid.
I understand why Michael Myers is killing people, they treat him like trash in the young time...

ChainSaw Massacre  starstarstarstar
It's a terrible movie. Movies like it make our young people violent and mentally unstable. It's no surprise that shootings happen in schools.

Not only ...

Please identify this flick  starstarstar
Color, 60s or 70s. Likely foriegn, maybe British. Bi-ped humanoid monster that comes up out of the ground through a pool of liquid. I think there is castle ...

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In the early 70s, I saw a made for tv movie. The family was going somewhere like a farm; they passed a barn with a pentagram on it, and the mom was doing ...

i forgot the title about a verry disturbing movie.  Not rated yet
hi, i'm looking for this movie for a long time. i just don't know the name.
its a bout 2 or 3 couppels(old friends) that go to a cabin in the mountains ...

Need help with title!  Not rated yet
Seen the movie in the mid-seventies at a drive-in. At the end, a woman and a small child are in the basement and dark figures are trying to break in. The ...

Question About Two 70's Films  Not rated yet
I have a question about a couple of 1970's horror films. One was about several mid twenties people who are filming a horror movie, but all end up dying....

1970's horror movie name  Not rated yet
i cant remember the name of a movie were a women was missing and looked for thru the whole movie you think shes dead but in the end she is found alive ...

Looking for a movie!  Not rated yet
Horror movie from late 70's or early 80's about college aged kids that get work on a farm in trade for housing. Town people are strange. There is a cult ...

Help with name of film...  Not rated yet
My mother was telling me about this horror movie she watched a long time ago and I was wondering if someone knew the name of it. It's about this woman ...

The Scariest movie I've ever seen!  Not rated yet
My mom took my brother and I to see The Exorcist when I was nine years old. I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS THINKING! Anyway, to this day, I simply can't even ...

Help with a '70s made for TV horror/mystery movie  Not rated yet
I think it was a made for TV movie of the early '70s. It was of a group of people trapped in an island, or a resort or hotel in a remote tropical location....

lets scare jessica to death  Not rated yet
this 1971 film has become a late night cult classic over the years .
Jessica , who has just been released from a mental hospital comes ...

lets scare jessica to death  Not rated yet
She was deathly ugly.and spooky. The tension that 70s movies generated was different better than now. Jessica was scary in that smooth velvet vampire ...

Help with name.  Not rated yet
70,s TV movie I assume seems like it was on yearly, A missing or dead kid keeps apparently calling home, meanwhile someone is knocking off people also....

Frankenstein: The True Story (1972)  Not rated yet
I had previously posted and asked for help in figuring out this movie. Thanks so much for putting me on the right track. While it is not a Hammer film,...

Help with a title??  Not rated yet
Around 1970 give or take a year there was a movie about an older sister (age 17-18) and her younger brother (7-10) who got stuck in a small car like a ...

HELP WITH TITLE  Not rated yet
Looking for title of an early 1970 horror movie. The movie had several short skits, including one of a young boy who keeps a tiger in his room. When ...

Name Of This Movie-Anyone Know?  Not rated yet
Dear Horror Stew: I am having an impossible time identifying this obscure horror flick I saw as a child. I believe it was probably made in the early 1970'...

Looking For A Horror Movie Poster From the 70's or early 80's  Not rated yet
I can't remember the name of the movie, but the poster featured what appeared to be executioners and their victims in what looked like a pit in Hell. Actually,...

When a Stranger Calls  Not rated yet
When I was a teenager, this movie was the catalyst for my retirement from the wonderful world of Babysitting. It was so well done that you never realize ...

'Salems Lot  Not rated yet
My favorite horror movie of all-time. 1979 gave us Steven Kings classic on t.v. A Writer returns to his boyhood town and discovers a horrible truth. It ...

The NightStalker  Not rated yet
One of the best early 70's, made for t.v horror movies EVER! Local reporter in Vegas seeks out a Vampire, while no one else(police,editor) believes it ...

Zombie (1979)  Not rated yet
I thought this was so scary when I saw it as a kid. Maybe it had something to do with the drive-in we were at. It was surrounded by so many spooky looking ...

halloween is the best!   Not rated yet
Halloween was the first horror flick I ever watched and the first that ever scared me. It's a classic Carpenter (he's) a wonderful director and is a master ...

The Town That Dreaded Sundown  Not rated yet
True Story in TexArkana, 1946, about a serial killer who was never caught that haunted a small rural town. A story that no one forgot. The Killer, The ...

Lust for a Vampire  Not rated yet
This movie is on of the best movies ever!! I can't believe you forgot about it. Any way here it is so post it fast. I already told 3 other websites about ...

the Texas Chainsaw Massacre  Not rated yet
ilove ittttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its great the best horror film evuuuhh!!!

Tales From The Crypt  Not rated yet
In my opinion this is by far one of the best movies from the 1970's. Long before the tv show or the movies (based on the tv show) and long before the Creepshow ...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  Not rated yet
This movie is an immortal classic. It is also the only movie I have ever seen that is so disturbing and yet they never show any blood letting on screen....

Something Evil  Not rated yet
A made for television movie directed by Steven Spielberg, one of his first productions. Its very well done and one of my favorites. Extremely hard to find ...

When a Stranger Calls (1979)  Not rated yet
Arguably one of the most frightening opening sequences in horror movie history. Carol Kane's voice, big eyes, and vulnerability make her the perfect lead ...

The Exorcist  Not rated yet
When I first saw this movie it scared me...alot. I was about nine at the time, (it came out eleven years before I was born), and I would always watch it ...

Don't Look Now   Not rated yet
A 1973 psychic thriller based on the short story by suspense author Daphne Du Maurier. For those unfamiliar with this author's name, she also wrote ...

"CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER" (1974)  Not rated yet
This British-made 70's vampire film was produced and directed by some of the same people who were behind the popular 1960's British TV series, "The Avengers"...

"THE TENANT" (1976)  Not rated yet
Roman Polanski directs and also plays the title character in this bizarre 70's horror film. There is a plot similarity to his 1965 classic "Repulsion"...

Thanks Roger!  Not rated yet
The review you left is exactly what Horror Stew really desires, and that is an intellegent review of a horror movie. An alternate view from a horror fan ...

"THE WICKER MAN" (1972)  Not rated yet
Playwright Anthony Shaffer

Playwright Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth) wrote this very intelligent screenplay about paganism on a remote Scottish island....

The Burning  Not rated yet
The best horror flick out there…the raft scene alone is worth the viewing time alone. (1976) Even the special effects hold their own!-------------------* We ...

Halloween  Not rated yet
SCARIESt MOVIE!!! (In my language, that means the best.)
amazing plot and lots of gore.

Halloween  Not rated yet
The best, the scariest, an atmosphere that was done maybe very simple but never again was reached even closely, in my opinion that is.
Even today it's ...

For the classic 1950's horror fan!



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