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A selection of the very best horror films of the 70s. List activity. 94K views. 242 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 50 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Exorcist. 1973 2h 2m R. 8.1 (458K) Rate. 83 Metascore.
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100 Best ’70s Horror Movies. Comb your porn ’stache, put on some vinyl (records or disco boots, your choice), and smell that lead in the gasoline – we’re heading back to the Me Decade with...
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Don't Look Now
- Alien
- The Tenant
- Black Christmas
- Dawn of The Dead
- The Wicker Man
- Jaws
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes
- The Omen
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Tobe Hooper's sophomore feature film is a brilliantly blunt deconstruction of human mortality that forces us to confront the reality that we are all but meat and bone racing toward the unavoidable moment when we cease to be anything but a decomposing corpse. It's brutal and it's basic, and that ruthless efficiency is what makes it such a grueling, ...
Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now is one of the most emotionally devastating, haunting, and sensual horror movies ever committed to film, and it's about as classy as horror can get. A meditation on grief, loss, and mortality based on the literary pedigree ofDaphne Du Maurier, Don't Look Now unites the dumbfounding talents of Donald Sutherland and Julie...
Ridley Scott’s sexually-charged gothic horror in space is a perfect sci-fi movie. And a perfect horror movie. And hell, I’ll say it, just a perfect movie. Scott takes the baseline narrative following the crew of the Nostromo, an ill-fated space expedition, as they come across the galaxy’s deadliest predator, theH. R. Gigerdesigned Xenomorph, and in...
It is perhaps unsurprising that a filmmaker who suffered so prodigiously as Roman Polanski (and committed his own unforgivable sin in the admitted rape of a 14-year-old girl) is best capable of conjuring the slippery human hold on identity and the fearsome sensory assault of falling to madness. For The Tenant, Polanski casts himself as Trelkovsky, ...
Before Bob Clark made Christmas wondrous with 1983's A Christmas Story, he made it terrifying with his 1974 horror classic Black Christmas. Often misattributed as the first slasher film (you'll find that elsewhere on this list) but correctly attributed as one of the best of its kind,Black Christmas is classy and subtle, but an acutely effective exe...
Dawn of the Dead may well be the greatest zombie movie of all time, though it fights in fierce competition with its predecessor Night of the Living Dead, the stunning feature film debut with which George Romerosingle-handedly invented the modern zombie movie as we know it. For his sequel, Romero dodged the temptation to retread familiar territory (...
Robin Hardy began his infrequent and unusually sparse directorial career (he made three movies over the course of 45 years) with his magnum opus, The Wicker Man. But hey, when you've made one film this exceptional, perhaps any more would be greedy. The Wicker Mansneaks up on you. It's subtle and seductive, and it's nasty secrets are revealed with a...
Credited with inventing the summer blockbuster, Stephen Spielberg's Jaws is not just a giant of horror, but of cinema altogether, and may well be the greatest achievement in the embarrassment of riches that is Spielberg's career. Every single element of the film functions like flawless clockwork, but it has such humanity, it's as if that clock were...
The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a delightful Grand Guignol chiller that marries cheeky humor with quiet moments of stomach-sinking terror and puts the inimitable horror icon Vincent Priceto work in one of his most memorable roles. As the titular Dr. Phibes, Price creates a phenomenal villain, completely despicable but just sympathetic enough to carry ...
As far as classy satanic thrillers go, The Omen ranks right up there with The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby as one of the genre's best, though it is admittedly more thrill-based and less introspective than its predecessors. The Omen stars the extraordinaryGregory Peck, who brings an inherent gravitas to whatever project he touches, as an American am...
A list of the most influential and memorable horror films from the 1970s, a decade of cultural upheaval and cinematic revolution. From The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Alien, these movies explore mortality, violence, and the human condition with brutal realism and visceral effects.
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. 1974 saw the release of a simple film about a boy and his chainsaw, and the horror genre was made all the better for it.
- Alien. "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."
- The Exorcist. William Friedkin's religiously-skewed shocker, "The Exorcist," pushed horror to new heights and scared the hell out of audiences who flocked to see it in theaters upon its debut, surprising the studio with its popularity and becoming the highest-grossing movie of the year.
- Halloween. Just a mention of John Carpenter's "Halloween" instantly conjures up the sound of a synth beat and the image of Michael Myers (Nick Castle) in his trademark overalls and mask, wielding a large kitchen knife as he pursues the teens of Haddonfield, Illinois.
- The Exorcist. William Peter Blatty. 2,063 votes. In the heart-stopping horror classic The Exorcist, Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair), a young girl, becomes inexplicably ill.
- Alien. David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Walter Hill. 1,763 votes. In Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien, the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, led by Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), encounter an unknown life form after being awakened from stasis to investigate a distress signal from a distant planet.
- Halloween. Debra Hill, John Carpenter. 2,056 votes. In the iconic horror film Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, the tranquil town of Haddonfield, Illinois is thrown into a state of terror.
- Jaws. David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck. 1,752 votes. In the classic thriller Jaws, the quiet summer resort of Amity Island is thrown into chaos by a deadly great white shark.
1. Alien (1979) R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi. 8.5. Rate. 89 Metascore. The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission. Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright. Votes: 932,215 | Gross: $78.90M. 2. Jaws (1975)
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Best Horror Movies of the 1970s. by connorbbalboa | created - 28 May 2017 | updated - 12 Nov 2017 | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 49 titles. 1. Jaws (1975) PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller. 8.1. Rate. 87 Metascore.
