The Top 50 1970's Made for TV Horror/Thriller Movies
The best Made for TV Horror/Thriller films released from 1970-1979.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsSally FieldJill HaworthJulie HarrisAn ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, whom he suspects is poisoning him.
- 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?
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsShelley WintersStuart WhitmanBradford DillmanA deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
- 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.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowallOn her way home to California from a stay at a Swiss mental institution after a traumatic rape seven years earlier, twenty-year-old Susan Wilcox realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. Written by Jimmy Sangster.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsPatty DukeDavid McCallumDorothy McGuireA murdered woman possesses her husband's new wife to seek revenge.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsEd Begley Jr.E.J. AndréAnn DoranThree tales of mystery, imagination and terror.
- 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.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsPamela FranklinKate JacksonLloyd BochnerA young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
- DirectorGus TrikonisStarsRobert ForsterAdrienne BarbeauDavid SheinerWhen a scientist at a research lab is passed over for a promotion, he creates a clone of himself to attempt to seduce the wife of the man who got the job.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsElizabeth MontgomeryEileen HeckartSue Ane LangdonDuring an electrical storm, wealthy Kate Wainwright is trapped in her sister Susan's country house with no electricity and no phone. An unknown killer has murdered Susan, stuffed the body in the cellar, and is now pursuing Kate.
- 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 might be trying to kill him.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsBarbara EdenLarry HagmanJohn RubinsteinIn Daniel Petrie's made-for-TV movie, disillusioned homemaker Liza Crocker on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband Eddie continually trying to get her to come home, and more ominously, by a mysterious howling at night.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRoy ThinnesYvette MimieuxRay MillandTraveling minister Reverend John Keyes and his wife Lorna are quietly menaced by a devil cult in the Old West. By the time the good Reverend figures out what's really going on, it may be too late to stop the evil.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- 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.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsChristopher GeorgeWilliam WindomMarlyn MasonA scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsLee GrantSusan MyersLelia GoldoniA teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she's overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsKay LenzTony BillKathryn GrantA withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
- StarsDavid SoulJames MasonLance KerwinA novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.