List of horror films of 1973 explained

A list of horror films released in 1973.

Title	Director(s)	Cast	Country	Notes
	A Cold Night's Death	Jerrold Freedman	Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne	United States	Television film
	Alabama's Ghost		Christopher Brooks	United States		[1]
	And Now the Screaming Starts!				aka Fengriffen[2]	[3]
	At the Meeting with Joyous Death		Jean-Marc Bory, Françoise Fabian, Yasmine Dahm	France Italy		[4]
	Baba Yaga	Corrado Farina	Carroll Baker, Isabelle De Funès, George Eastman	France Italy
data-sort-value="Baby"	The Baby			United States		[5]
	The Bell from Hell		Christine Betzner	Spain	aka La campana del infierno	[6]
	Blackenstein			United States		[7]
	Blood Orgy of the She-Devils	Ted V. Mikels	Lila Zaborin, Victor Izay, Tom Pace	United States		[8]
data-sort-value="Boy"	The Boy Who Cried Werewolf		Paul R. Baxley, Jr., Dave Cass	United States
data-sort-value="Bride"	The Bride
data-sort-value="Candle for the Devil"	A Candle for the Devil		Judy Geeson, Aurora Bautista	Spain
	Cannibal Girls			Canada		[9]
	Case of the Full Moon Murders		Sheila Stuart, Fred J. Lincoln	United States
data-sort-value="Crazies"	The Crazies		Edith Bell, Lane Carroll, Will Disney	United States
	The Creeping Flesh			United Kingdom
	Dark Places			United Kingdom		[10]
	Death Smiles on a Murderer	Joe D'Amato	Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski	Italy
data-sort-value="Demons"	The Demons		Josiane Gibert, Britt Nichols, Howard Vernon, Cihangir Ghaffari	France Portugal
		,	Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Esmeralda Barros	Italy
				United States
	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark		Kim Darby, Jim Hutton	United States	Television film
	Don't Look in the Basement		Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup	United States
	Don't Look Now		Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie	United Kingdom Italy
	Dying Room Only	Philip Leacock	Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin, Ned Beatty, Dabney Coleman	United States	Television film
	Encounter with the Unknown	Harry Thomason		United States
	El Retorno de Walpurgis	Carlos Aured	Jacinto Molina, Maritza Olivares	SpainMexico
data-sort-value="Exorcist"	The Exorcist			United States
	Female Vampire			Belgium France	aka The Bare-Breasted Countess	[11]
	Flesh for Frankenstein		Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique Van Vooren	Italy France		[12]
	Frankenstein	Glenn Jordan	Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson	United States
		Jack Smight	Leonard Whiting, Jane Seymour	United KingdomUnited States	Television film
	Ganja & Hess		Tara Fields, Enrico Fales	United States		[13]
	Godmonster of Indian Flats			United States		[14]
data-sort-value="Hanging"	The Hanging Woman		Paul Naschy, Stelvio Riso	Italy Spain	aka La orgia de los muertos, Terror of the Living Dead	[15]
	Hannah, Queen of the Vampires	Julio Salvador	Andrew Prine, Mark Damon, Patty Shepard	SpainUnited States
data-sort-value="Hidan"	The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow		David Roster, Paul Lenzi, Harlo Cayse	United States		[16]
	Hollywood 90028		Christopher Augustine, Jeannette Dilge	United States		[17]
	Horror Hospital		Robin Askwith, Ellen Pollock, Martin Grace	United Kingdom		[18]
data-sort-value="House That Vanished"	The House That Vanished		Andrea Allan, Karl Lanchbury, Judy Matheson	United Kingdom
data-sort-value="Iron Rose"	The Iron Rose			France		[19]
data-sort-value="Legend of Blood Castle"	The Legend of Blood Castle		Lucia Bosè, Ewa Aulin, Espartaco Santoni	Spain Italy	aka Ceremonia Sangrienta, Female Butcher	[20]
data-sort-value="Legend"	The Legend of Hell House			United Kingdom
	Lemora			United States		[21]
	Leptirica	Đorđe Kadijević	Petar Božović, Mirjana Nikolić, Vasja Stanković	Yugoslavia		[22]
	The Loreley's Grasp		Tony Kendall, Helga Liné	Spain
	Malatesta's Carnival of Blood		Lenny Baker, Jerome Dempsey	United States		[23]
data-sort-value="Mansion"	The Mansion of Madness		Claudio Brook, Robert Dumont	Mexico	aka Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon	[24] [25]
	Mark of the Devil Part II			Germany		[26]
	Messiah of Evil	,		United States		[27]
data-sort-value="Name for Evil"	A Name for Evil			United States		[28]
	The Night Strangler		Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Richard Anderson	United States	Television film	[29]
data-sort-value="Norliss Tapes"	The Norliss Tapes		Roy Thinnes, Angie Dickinson	United States	Television film
	Nothing But the Night			United Kingdom
	Psychomania			United Kingdom
data-sort-value="Pyx"	The Pyx			Canada
	Reincarnation of Isabel		Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Christa Barrymore	Italy	aka Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento	[30]
data-sort-value="Return Blind"	Return of the Blind Dead			Spain Portugal
data-sort-value="Return Walpurgis"	The Return of Walpurgis		Paul Naschy, Eduardo Calvo, Patty Shepard	Spain Mexico		[31]
data-sort-value="Satanic Rites"	The Satanic Rites of Dracula			United Kingdom		[32]
	Satan's School for Girls		Pamela Franklin, Gwynne Gilford, Jamie Smith Jackson	United States		[33]
	Schlock		Joseph Piantadosi, Eliza Roberts, Saul Kahan	United States		[34]
	Scream Blacula Scream			United States		[35]
	Scream Bloody Murder	Marc B. Ray	Fred Holbert	United States
	Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye	(Antonio Margheriti)		Italy West Germany		[36]
	So Sad About Gloria		Lori Saunders, Robert Ginnaven, Dean Jagger	United States
	Sssssss		Ray Ballard, Rick Beckner	United States
	Tales That Witness Madness	Freddie Francis	Donald Pleasence, Joan Collins, Kim Novak, Jack Hawkins	United Kingdom
	Terror in the Wax Museum	Georg Fenady	Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, John Carradine	United States
	Theatre of Blood			United Kingdom		[37]
	Torso			Italy
	Vampires Night Orgy			Italy Spain		[38]
	Vault of Horror			United Kingdom		[39]
	Vengeance of the Zombies		Mirta Miller, Jacinto Molina, Rommy	Spain	aka La rebelión de las muertas	[40] [41]
data-sort-value="Virgin"	A Virgin Among the Living Dead		Howard Vernon, Paul Müller, Brit Nichols	France Italy Spain Liechtenstein	filmed in 1971[42]	[43]
data-sort-value="Werewolf"	The Werewolf of Washington		Nancy Andrews, Dean Stockwell, Despo Diamantidou	United States		[44]
data-sort-value="Wicker"	The Wicker Man			United Kingdom

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External links

• Horror films of 1973 on Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alabama's Ghost. American Film Institute. September 3, 2011.
2. Ed. Allan Bryce, Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood, Stray Cat Publishing, 2000 p 102-109
3. Web site: And Now the Screaming Starts. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
4. Web site: Au Rendez-Vous de la Mort Joyeuse. Allmovie. Fountain, Clarke. August 7, 2011.
5. Web site: The Baby. American Film Institute. September 3, 2011.
6. Web site: A Bell from Hell. AllMovie. Erickson, Hal. August 7, 2011.
7. Web site: Blackenstein. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
8. Web site: Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1973) - Ted V. Mikels | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .
9. Web site: Cannibal Girls. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
10. Web site: Dark Places. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
11. Web site: Female Vampire. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
12. Web site: Flesh for Frankenstein. AllMovie. Marx, Rebecca Flint. August 7, 2011.
13. Web site: Ganja and Hess. AllMovie. Deming, Mark. August 7, 2011.
14. Web site: Godmonster of Indian Flats. AllMovie. Beldin, Fred. August 7, 2011.
15. Web site: The Hanging Woman. DVD Verdict. Johnson, David. September 17, 2011.
16. Web site: Invasion of the Girl Snatchers. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Beldin, Fred.
17. Web site: Grindhouse Releasing Rescues 1970s Movie ‘Hollywood 90028’ from Obscurity with New Blu-ray. Bloody Disgusting. Squires. Jon. August 14, 2024. live. https://archive.today/20241013033709/https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3825804/grindhouse-releasing-rescues-1970s-movie-hollywood-90028-from-obscurity-with-new-blu-ray/. October 13, 2024.
18. Web site: Horror Hospital. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
19. Web site: The Iron Rose. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
20. Web site: Blood Castle . .
21. Web site: Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural. AllMovie. Ralske, Josh. August 7, 2011.
22. Web site: Posle pedeset godina: Kako je "Leptirica" prestravila generacije i ponela titulu najstrašnijeg domaćeg filma?. Željko Bošnjaković . April 15, 2023. 29 November 2022. sr.
23. Web site: Malatesta's Carnival. AllMovie. Brennan, Sandra. August 7, 2011.
24. Web site: The Mansion of Madness. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Binion, Cavett.
25. Web site: Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973) - Sexploitation Horror Movie Review . October 24, 2018 .
26. Web site: Hexen – Geschändet und zu Tode gequält. Die-Besten-Horrorfilme. September 23, 2011.
27. Web site: Messiah of Evil. DVD Verdict. McEntire, Mac. September 18, 2011.
28. Web site: A Name for Evil. AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles, Californiapublisher=American Film Institute. September 6, 2011.
29. The Night Stalker Companion by Mark Dawidziak
30. Web site: The Reincarnation of Isabel. AllMovie. Buchanan, Jason. August 7, 2011.
31. Web site: The Return of Walpurgis. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Firsching, Robert.
32. Web site: The Satanic Rites of Dracula. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Binion, Cavett.
33. Web site: Satan's School for Girls. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
34. Web site: Schlock. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. McClain, Buzz.
35. Web site: Scream Blacula Scream. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Firsching, Robert.
36. Web site: Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Brennan, Sandra.
37. Web site: Theater of Blood. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Blaise, Judd.
38. Web site: Vampires Night Orgy. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Erickson, Hal.
39. Web site: Vault of Horror. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Fountain, Clarke.
40. Newman, Kim (2011). Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 19–20. .
41. Web site: Vengeance of the Zombies. AllMovie. Dorset, Jeaniff. August 7, 2011.
42. Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press. p. 428. .
43. Web site: A Virgin Among the Living Dead. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Firsching, Robert.
44. Web site: The Werewolf of Washington. AllMovie. August 7, 2011. Erlewine, Iotis.