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List of horror movies released in 1973 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1973.
Plot / Synopsis: A 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...
Director: Gordon Hessler Stars: Ted Bessell, Sian Barbara Allen, Bette Davis, Charles Drake, Allan Arbus
Plot / Synopsis: A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dy**g father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
Tagline: Run, little girl! Innocence is in peril tonight!...
Director: Richard Blackburn Stars: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton, Hy Pyke, Maxine Ballantyne
Plot / Synopsis: A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea...
Tagline: A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity and terrible revenge...
Director: Freddie Francis Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson, Kenneth J. Warren
Plot / Synopsis: A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
Tagline: Horror is his formula!...
Director: Ted Post Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor, Tod Andrews
Plot / Synopsis: The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
Tagline: All hell is about to break loose...
Director: George A. Romero Stars: Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry
Plot / Synopsis: A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead...
Director: Dan Curtis Stars: Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins, Michele Carey
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation at the ancient civilization of Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood, due to the knife carrying ancient germs. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant's wife,...
Director: Bill Gunn Stars: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon, Leonard Jackson
Plot / Synopsis: During the sightseeing in Toledo, Spain, the tourist Lisa Reiner sees an ancient painting of the devil on the wall and leaves her group for a moment; however she gets lost in the narrow streets. Later she gets a lift with the wealthy Francis Lehar and his wife Sophia. However, their car breaks and stops in front of an...
Director: Mario Bava Stars: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano, Gabriele Tinti
Plot / Synopsis: A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally's family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house. After arguing with the handyman who insists she should leave the room locked, she finally gets the key. But...
Director: John Newland Stars: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, Barbara Anderson, William Demarest, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Plot / Synopsis: An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.
Tagline: Below the Crypt lies Death's waiting-room - The . . . Vault of Horror...
Director: Roy Ward Baker Stars: Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, Mike Pratt, Erik Chitty, Jerold Wells
Plot / Synopsis: A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sad**tic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Tagline: One Day She Met a Man Who Loved Beautiful Women...But Not All in One Piece...
Director: Sergio Martino Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson, Roberto Bisacco
Plot / Synopsis: Physicist Lionel Barrett and his wife lead a team of mediums into the Belasco House, which is supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a six-foot-five serial killer.
Tagline: For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn't true!...
Director: John Hough Stars: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver
Plot / Synopsis: Story follows young man Strahinja who is in love with a local beauty Radojka, but their relationship has an obstacle - her father Zivan, who considers Strahinja as nothing but a loser. To prove that he's able to take care of himself and his future bride, Strahinja agrees to take vacancy in village mill... But, mill is known as...
Director: Djordje Kadijevic Stars: Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan ''Cica'' Perovic, Vasja Stankovic, Aleksandar Stojkovic
Plot / Synopsis: A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Tagline: It's utter MADNESS!...
Director: Nicolas Roeg Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Plot / Synopsis: Reporter Carl Kolchak is now in Seattle, Washington, trying to solve the mystery of several strangulations that recur every few years where the victims are drained of blood in this second made for TV pilot.Tagline: 140 years ago he began to kill, rising from the caverns beneath the city to claim his victims. Every 20 years he must kill...to...
Director: Dan Curtis Stars: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland, Scott Brady, Wally Cox
Plot / Synopsis: A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Tagline: From the writer of 'Frenzy & Sleuth' Anthony Shaffer's incredible occult thriller...
Director: Robin Hardy Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Plot / Synopsis: When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
Tagline: The movie you've been waiting for...without the wait.
What is the name of the horror movie released on Boxing Day in 1973? The Exorcist opened in movie theaters on Boxing Day of 1973, also called the...
Director: William Friedkin Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran
Plot / Synopsis: When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
Tagline: The movie you've been waiting for...without the wait.
What is the name of the horror movie released on Boxing Day in 1973? The Exorcist opened in movie theaters on Boxing Day of 1973, also called the...
Director: William Friedkin Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran
Plot / Synopsis: A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Tagline: From the writer of 'Frenzy & Sleuth' Anthony Shaffer's incredible occult thriller...
Director: Robin Hardy Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Plot / Synopsis: A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Tagline: It's utter MADNESS!...
Director: Nicolas Roeg Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation at the ancient civilization of Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood, due to the knife carrying ancient germs. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant's wife,...
Director: Bill Gunn Stars: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon, Leonard Jackson
Plot / Synopsis: A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
Tagline: Horror is his formula!...
Director: Ted Post Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor, Tod Andrews
Plot / Synopsis: In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race...
Tagline: We dare you to see...
Directors: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren, Udo Kier, Arno Jürging, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Plot / Synopsis: A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town...
Tagline: Seven Suicides - and they roared back as The Living Dead...
Director: Don Sharp Stars: Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Ann Michelle, Roy Holder, Denis Gilmore
Plot / Synopsis: A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea...
Tagline: A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity and terrible revenge...
Director: Freddie Francis Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson, Kenneth J. Warren
Plot / Synopsis: A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally's family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house. After arguing with the handyman who insists she should leave the room locked, she finally gets the key. But...
Director: John Newland Stars: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, Barbara Anderson, William Demarest, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Plot / Synopsis: A monkey-type monster falls in love with a blind girl, which thinks that he's a giant dog. After kidnapping the girl and fleeing king-kong-like onto the roof of a gym, he gets involved with the army.
Tagline: Due to the horrifying nature of this film, no one will be admitted to the theatre...
Director: John Landis Stars: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Richard Gillis, Tom Alvich
Plot / Synopsis: Physicist Lionel Barrett and his wife lead a team of mediums into the Belasco House, which is supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a six-foot-five serial killer.
Tagline: For the sake of your sanity, pray it isn't true!...
Director: John Hough Stars: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver
Plot / Synopsis: A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dy**g father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
Tagline: Run, little girl! Innocence is in peril tonight!...
Director: Richard Blackburn Stars: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton, Hy Pyke, Maxine Ballantyne
Plot / Synopsis: The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
Tagline: All hell is about to break loose...
Director: George A. Romero Stars: Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry
Plot / Synopsis: A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sad**tic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
Tagline: One Day She Met a Man Who Loved Beautiful Women...But Not All in One Piece...
Director: Sergio Martino Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson, Roberto Bisacco
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24 List of 1973 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1973 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1973 list are "The Exorcist (1973), The Wicker Man (1973), Don't Look Now (1973), Theater of Blood (1973), and Ganja & Hess (1973)." Our top list is an average of our review scores, our movie fans and movie viewers like you, and a few other sources.
The best horror film of 1973 is The Exorcist (1973) scoring 8.74/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 477,670 votes for this movie. Starring in The Exorcist (1973) is Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, and Jack MacGowran. Director William Friedkin did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1973 best horror film which was remarkable.The Exorcist (1973) is in Horror movie genres.
The next best 1973 horror movie is The Wicker Man (1973) with a score of 8.28/10 stars.
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, and Ingrid Pitt star in "The Wicker Man (1973)". The Wicker Man (1973) is directed by Robin Hardy and has over 100,510 IMDB votes. You can find The Wicker Man (1973) in Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, and Musical movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1973, and we hope you enjoy the 55 movies on our list of good 1973 horror movies sorted best to worst.
Please let us know if there is a movie that you think belongs on our list that we missed.
The next best 1973 horror movie is The Wicker Man (1973) with a score of 8.28/10 stars.
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, and Ingrid Pitt star in "The Wicker Man (1973)". The Wicker Man (1973) is directed by Robin Hardy and has over 100,510 IMDB votes. You can find The Wicker Man (1973) in Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, and Musical movie genres.