Television Fright Films of the 1970s
A list of the films covered in David Deal's book of the same name.
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- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsVince EdwardsRichard BasehartWilliam ShatnerThis story is loosely based on the discovery of the B-24 "Liberator" bomber the "Lady Be Good" that was found in the Libyan desert after the crew got lost on their 1st bombing mission to Italy.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsLouis JourdanAnne BaxterDiana HylandA psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGlenn FordRosemary ForsythDean JaggerA successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnthony PerkinsJulie HarrisJoan HackettAfter an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusLee GrantScott MarloweA man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsHope LangePaul BurkeLloyd BochnerA young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
- DirectorTed PostStarsBing CrosbyFrank ConverseBlythe DannerDr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsLeif EricksonDoug McClureRoddy McDowallOn a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisioning and become incapacitated. To save the aircraft, the cabin crew locate a passenger with flying experience. He is coached by an experienced pilot on the ground.
- DirectorAlf KjellinStarsLloyd BridgesJanet LeighCarl BetzA scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy. Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.
- DirectorTed PostStarsRobert ConradAnjanette ComerBradford DillmanFive young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort's only customers and, aside from the boat Captain who brought them there and the resort's handyman, Wylie, the island's only inhabitants. When one of the women is found dead, the others begin to fear the Captain, who's been acting strangely. Wylie and the Captain argue over the identity of the murderer, each accusing the other, and a fight erupts. Alarmed, the women attempt to leave the island, but the boat, their only means of escape, explodes and sinks before they can board it. Then Wylie comes to their aid, claiming to have killed the boat Captain in self-defense and telling the women they're safe. But are they?
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsAlex DreierPat HingleLouise LathamAn ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsJohn ForsytheRichard KileyReta ShawA doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsBarbara EdenLarry HagmanJohn RubinsteinA disillusioned homemaker on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home--and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsJoan CollinsJames BoothRay BarrettA family plots to take its revenge on the man who raped and murdered their daughter.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDean StockwellStefanie PowersJames StacyA prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that takes a murderous turn.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRoy ThinnesYvette MimieuxRay MillandA traveling minister and his wife are quietly menaced by a devil cult in the Old West. By the time the Good Reverend figures out what's going on it may be too late to stop the evil.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsGene BarryJanice RuleJames DruryA notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDarren McGavinCarol LynleySimon OaklandAn abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsIda LupinoBelinda MontgomeryLois NettletonFemale parole officer poses as an inmate in a women's prison in order to investigate murder, abuse and living conditions.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsPatty DukeDavid McCallumDorothy McGuireA murdered woman possesses her husband's new wife to seek revenge.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsOlivia de HavillandEd NelsonLaraine StephensA wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has been buried alive. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDarren McGavinSandy DennisRalph BellamyA young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBen GazzaraElizabeth AshleyMichael DouglasA woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsPeter HaskellJoan BennettBarbara RushA young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave. He helps a girl investigate her brother's alleged murder.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowallOn her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsBarbara EdenRobert VaughnStuart WhitmanA woman vacationing with her husband in Mexico discovers she is being stalked by an international killer.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesCloris LeachmanEdward AsnerA group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort but find themselves wondering about their existences after a while.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsDavid JanssenBarbara RushBradford DillmanAfter several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
- DirectorBarry ShearStarsJames BrolinDon MitchellJames McEachinEight people are trapped in a New York City subway after an earthquake, and try to find their way out.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsRod TaylorDina MerrillKristoffer TaboriDuring a flight from San Diego to Guaymas, Mexico, the Carlyle family from Florida is surprised by a weather front in the Rocky Mountains and must do an emergency landing in a Mexican desert with their plane damaged. Latent tensions in the family interfere with the efforts to solve their desperate situation.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsElizabeth MontgomeryEileen HeckartSue Ane LangdonA wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAndy GriffithIda LupinoMichael BrandonA building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be bank robber and his spaced-out accomplices.
- DirectorBill NortonStarsCornel WildeJennifer SaltGrayson HallAn anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsSally FieldJill HaworthJulie HarrisAn ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
- DirectorMichael CrichtonStarsBen GazzaraE.G. MarshallWilliam WindomA political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsShelley WintersBelinda MontgomeryRobert FoxworthA young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsJames MasonLeonard WhitingDavid McCallumWhen the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsDarren McGavinJo Ann PflugSimon OaklandA reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsRobert CulpEli WallachMichael C. GwynneTwo scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsHoward DuffLeslie NielsenSheree NorthThe wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsChuck ConnorsBuddy EbsenTammy GrimesAn invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRoy ThinnesDon PorterAngie DickinsonAn investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsGlenn CorbettCameron MitchellSharon AckerAn astronaut finds himself on a planet that's (almost) exactly like Earth.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsDavid HartmanJane WyattRalph MeekerAfter a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsCharles AidmanWilliam BeckleyShane BriantIn Victorian London, a beautiful young man is given a portrait of himself by an admiring artist. Soon after this, he treats a young woman cruelly and then notices that his portrait seems to look meaner than it used to. Eventually, he cannot endure the portrait and hides it in the attic. As the years pass, he becomes ever more unscrupulous and dissolute. His friends remark how he is as handsome as ever and never seems to age. But up in the attic, his picture becomes uglier with his sinful ways.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsCloris LeachmanRoss MartinNed BeattyStranded at a roadside diner in the desert, a woman searches for her husband who has mysteriously disappeared from property.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverEstelle ParsonsKristoffer TaboriA family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsPamela FranklinKate JacksonLloyd BochnerA young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsTelly SavalasLynda Day GeorgeMike FarrellA model, while riding in the front car of a subway train, witnesses a woman being pushed in front of the train. But when the police come to interview her, she recognizes one of them as the man who did the pushing. She spends the rest of the movie trying to convince the good cop, that Telly is a bad cop; and Telly spends the rest of the movie chasing her around the city and finally to the subway yards. Only now the police, having finally been convinced, have joined in the chase.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsBen JohnsonBen MurphyEd NelsonA group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsAlan AldaEdmond O'BrienLouise LasserA small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsKim DarbyJim HuttonBarbara AndersonA young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
- DirectorDaryl DukeStarsBuddy EbsenPeter GravesArthur KennedyAn incompetent Vice President is in control of the government after the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsArthur HillDiana MuldaurJames StacyLeft to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
- DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsJames BrolinSusan ClarkEarl HollimanA man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vicious Doberman guard dogs.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsTed BessellBette DavisSian Barbara AllenA sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
- DirectorVince EdwardsStarsBen GazzaraSheree NorthRichard BasehartTwo couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsMeredith BaxterDavid HedisonGale SondergaardA deceased rich man's collection is the key to solving a string of murder committed by a mysterious black cat
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsPeter GravesClint WalkerJo Ann PflugA big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsRoss MartinStefanie PowersBobby ShermanThe passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8500 feet in the air.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsClint WalkerRobert UrichCarl BetzA small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsJohn ForsytheEarl HollimanRalph MeekerA man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsJack PalanceSimon WardNigel DavenportDracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsJames FarentinoRoddy McDowallCraig StevensA claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing his latest job, is trapped along with group of people in a jammed elevator in a high-rise building.
- DirectorGene LevittStarsSkye AubreyJack CassidyJackie CooganThe internationally famous Worldwide Studios (really MGM) has hit hard times and is forced to sell it's back lot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsEdward AlbertKate JacksonRoger DavisA strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffDan CurtisStarsCharles AidmanMeredith BaxterChristopher ConnellyAfter her murder, Diana Bernard sends her spirit to get trapped in Carol Enders so she can expose Diana's killer.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsLynn RedgraveMegs JenkinsJohn BarronAn English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
- DirectorTom DonovanStarsLois NettletonBradford DillmanPaul HardingA woman tries to protect her family from supernatural forces who are trying to take control.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsLarry HagmanMartin MilnerJessica WalterTwo hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsAndy GriffithSam BottomsNoah Beery Jr.Ben Campbell, a twenty-two-year-old gas station attendant in a small desert town, is looking to make some extra money. He is surprised when Madec, a wealthy lawyer, asks him to be his guide in a hunting trip in the desert. When Madec accidentally shoots a prospector, he is fearful of what it will do his reputation, and decides to eliminate the only witness, Ben, who is forced to go on the run. In addition to being hunted by Madec, Ben must also contend with the harsh desert elements. But if he does make it back to town alive, will anyone believe his story?
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsJohn ForsytheJoseph CampanellaLynn CarlinA number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsRobert StackVera MilesL.Q. JonesA family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsBarbara EdenGeorge GrizzardJoyce Van PattenAn expectant mother begins acting strangely and doesn't know why. Gradually she starts to realize that her bizarre behavior is being controlled by her unborn baby.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsGlenn FordBradford DillmanDavid SoulDuring a radar test mission, Flight 412 witnesses the disappearance of 2 fighter-jets scrambled to intercept a UFO but the Air Force is determined to cover-up the incident.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsCloris LeachmanLaurence LuckinbillNick NolteA juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPeter GravesGeorge O'Hanlon Jr.Kathleen QuinlanAfter a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsDavid JanssenHope LangeIvan DixonSnakes on board an American sub set off a chain of events that ultimately causes the boat to sink to the bottom of the ocean. The surviving crew must devise a rescue plan to free themselves and raise the sub.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsScott JacobyPippa ScottJohn LarchA perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.
- DirectorRalph SenenskyStarsRichard LongPolly BergenEdward AlbertSeveral couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsStacy KeachSamantha EggarJohn SavageA man traveling through a backwoods area is held hostage by a group of orphans who want him to become their father. Unfortunately, the kids have a habit of killing adults who refuse that particular honor.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsIna BalinBernie CaseyLinden ChilesThree armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsTuesday WeldJoan HackettSam WaterstonThe wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsAmanda BlakeTisha SterlingDick HaymesA lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsEd NelsonLeonard NimoyGeorge O'Hanlon Jr.A mentally-disabled boy takes a lab rat from his scientist father. Unknown to him, the rat is carrying a dangerous virus.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsKim NovakDoug McClureAlejandro ReyA US coast guard finds only a woman still alive aboard a shipwreck. She tells her rescuer what happened and soon, they find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsGeorge HamiltonLinda CristalJoan BlondellIn the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsVince EdwardsCarol LynleyAnjanette ComerThe whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take the women hostage to aid in their escape. The husbands break free from their bonds and raft down the river in hopes of rescuing their wives.
- 1973–19761h 14m4.3 (76)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn MoffittStarsMichael ParksHarold J. StoneMeredith MacRaeAt the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farmer into a murderous werewolf.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsElizabeth MontgomeryFionnula FlanaganEd FlandersIn 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRobert BurtonJohn KarlenGeorge GaynesThree bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMichael ConstantineBarbara RhoadesDavid OpatoshuA husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults, while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsJames Earl JonesEstelle ParsonsBarnard HughesIn the early 1960s, a married couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsFred MacMurraySam GroomDonna MillsA retired businessman notices that there has been a rash of ships and planes disappearing off the Florida coast, and he starts to investigate.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRalph BellamyPolly BergenTheodore BikelLeft in the lounge for first-class passengers, a letter warns of murders on Flight 502 - and the warning's received a day early.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJack KlugmanElizabeth AshleyJames FranciscusDaniel Corban's wife Elizabeth disappeared after they had a fight. Then she shows up, yet he insists that the woman isn't actually his wife.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsRobert WagnerKate JacksonSylvia SidneyDonna and Joel Gregory are researching a book about long dead Hollywood goddess Lorna Love. They are staying at Lorna's estate while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Joel, whose father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with Lorna. Donna must try to break the spell that has her marriage in trouble and their very lives in jeopardy.
- DirectorSam O'SteenStarsStephen McHattiePatty DukeBroderick CrawfordHaving been adopted by the madam of a southwestern brothel, a now adult Adrian must cope with the fact that he's Satan's kid, and not living up to his expectations.