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Rental > Horror: 1601 Films to Rent
Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…
- One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…
- Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell
- Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
Candy Snatchers, The (1973)
- Dir. Guerdon Trueblood
Feat. Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza
- An unheralded gem of the 70's exploitation 'golden age', this subversive yet taut and surprisingly controlled abduction thriller concerns the brutal…
Carnal Violence (Torso) (1973)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Suzy Kendall, John Richardson
- Effective 'giallo' from the obscure but prolific dir. Sergio Martino (whose filmography covers everything from spaghetti westerns to cannibal…
Deranged (1973)
- Dir. Alan Ormsby
Feat. Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
- Closely modelled on the exploits of Ed Gein (whose notoriety also inspired PSYCHO and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), Roberts Blossom is…
Don't Look Now (1973)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie
- After their child drowns, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie travel to Venice in a doomed attempt to shakes off demons of the past. An iconic…
Dracula (1973)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Jack Palance
- Classy 1973 made–for–TV version, starring Jack Palance as a mournful Count.
Exorcist, The (1973)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn
- Landmark, influential horror film tells its tale of a child diagnosed with a case of demon–possession in explicit detail. A penetrating sense…
Frankenstein (1973)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson
- Little–known TV dramatisation of the Mary Shelley classic is perhaps the most faithful of all versions in concentrating mostly on the monster's…