It Came From My TV!: The 1970's!...
Televised horror, horror-thrillers, and Sci-fi from the 1970's! From made-for-TV movies to mini-series, watch this sub-genre during its heyday!...
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- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDarren McGavinCarol LynleySimon OaklandAn abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.Dan Curtis' vampire masterpiece!...
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsDarren McGavinJo Ann PflugSimon OaklandA reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.Curtis' follow up that led to the series!...
- 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.Witchcraft AND an eeevil kid!...
- 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.Madness, murder, and very cool sculptures!...
- 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.Curtis Harrington's zombie noir classic!...
- 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.All hail Satan! Annnd, Shelley Winters!...
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsAlex DreierPat HingleLouise LathamAn ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.A psychic phenomena movie done right!...
- 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.A Steven Spielberg occult creeper!
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsChuck ConnorsBuddy EbsenTammy GrimesAn invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.Spooks on a plane! Plus, Bill T. Shatner!...
- 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.It's big! It's unstoppable! It's on the move!...
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsRobert CulpEli WallachMichael C. GwynneTwo scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.It can be dangerous to monkey around!...
- 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.Living dead! Demons! Dan Curtis strikes again!...
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRobert BurtonJohn KarlenGeorge GaynesThree bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.Dan Curtis + Karen Black = TV horror anthology perfection!...
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsEd Begley Jr.E.J. AndréAnn DoranThree horror stories about a vintage car that transports its driver back to 1926, the mistress of an old Victorian mansion who is scared of a vampire and a mother tormented by her dead son who she has brought back to life.The second trilogy from Dan Curtis, includes the most frightening thing he ever created: BOBBY!...
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsJames FarentinoHarrison FordClaudette NevinsA former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.Deviltry is afoot on the campus of a private girl's school!...
- 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.The first fifteen minutes alone, contain more ghostly goings on than most other such films have in their entire running time!...
- 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.She should have just left that door locked!...
- DirectorRobert DayStarsKay LenzShelley WintersTony BillA 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.This movie has both psychic powers AND occult practices!...
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsPamela FranklinKate JacksonLloyd BochnerA young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.Who knew the devil had such an interest in higher education?!...
- 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.Curtis Harrington's take on the KB phenomenon!...
- 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.Trouble in paradise for the wealthy and perpetually pampered!...
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsDavid JanssenBarbara RushBradford DillmanAfter several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.Sheriff David Janssen on the trail of a werewolf!
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsMeredith BaxterDavid HedisonGale SondergaardA deceased rich man's collection is the key to solving a string of murder committed by a mysterious black catMeredith Baxter is pure catnip in this Curtis Harrington offering!...
- 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.Meredith Baxter as a woman inhabited by a dead woman's consciousness! Can she figure out how the woman died? A Dan Curtis production!...
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsAnthony FranciosaDonna MillsPatty DukeA private detective named Mark Higbie is on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons. He eventually tracks the killer's path to Los Angeles, where he discovers her true identity: a woman who was bitten by black widow spiders as a child. However, that's only the beginning of the story.Another sticky web of terror from Dan Curtis! Features a big, ugly monster and an all-star cast!...
- 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.Cool creature costumes and Jennifer Salt shrieking like a banshee every few seconds!...
- DirectorStuart HagmannStarsClaude AkinsCharles FrankDeborah WintersAn airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the poisonous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees.Big spiders crawl around, while an entire town reacts... badly!...
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsLee GrantSusan MyersLelia GoldoniA teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she's overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.High school hocus-pocus, CARRIE style!...
- DirectorHerb WallersteinStarsBo SvensonYvette MimieuxRobert LoganA Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.Bo Svenson and Clint walker vs. the sinister, skier-hating Sasquatch!...
- 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.Peter Graves leads his family on a treacherous journey, after what could have been a civilization-ending event!...
- DirectorWes CravenStarsLinda BlairLee PurcellJeremy SlateA teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.Linda Blair vs. her eeevil cousin, Lee Purcell in an occult showdown!...
- StarsDavid SoulJames MasonLance KerwinA novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.Stephen King + Tobe Hooper = tremendous TV terror!...
- 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.Robert Wagner and Kate Jackson are caught up in the ghostly goings-on at the title mansion!...
- 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.A prank goes horribly wrong, when college students create the fictional "man" of the title. Will anyone survive?...
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsLeonard NimoySusan HampshireRachel RobertsA US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.Leonard Nimoy as a psychic up against dark forces! A pilot for a failed TV series, it's not bad!...
- DirectorSteve BinderDavid AcombaStarsMickey MortonPatty MaloneyPaul GaleChewbacca and Han Solo try to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of entertainment.Inexplicable "holiday" special from Mr. Lucas himself, featuring most of the principal stars!...
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.While more of a thriller, there are certainly enough horror elements to qualify! Early, exhilarating Spielberg!...
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsRobert FoxworthLynda Day GeorgeGerald GordonAn old-fashioned, lakeside hotel targeted for purchase by an unsavory gambling casino promoter and situated next to a construction site, is attacked by an army of poisonous ants. Efforts to contain the ants and rescue those trapped in the hotel are hampered by the progress of the creepy crawlers upward from floor to floor.Suzanne Somers, covered in ants!...
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsLauren HuttonDavid BirneyAdrienne BarbeauA woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.John Carpenter TV thriller! Great stuff, with Laren Hutton AND Adrienne Barbeau!...
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsElizabeth MontgomeryFionnula FlanaganEd FlandersIn 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe.Elizabeth Montgomery's portrayal of one of history's most notorious murderers is superb! Quite possibly the best made-for TV movie ever!...
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsValerie HarperRichard RomanusNicholas PryorA housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him murder a highway patrol officer.Valerie Harper is stellar in her terrified role! Richard Romanus is scary as hell as her pursuer!...
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsErnest BorgnineGary LockwoodTina ChenAn aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.Ernest Borgnine is great as the specter of the title!...
- 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.Is a werewolf responsible for a series of vicious deaths? Director Dan Curtis teams up with Writer Richard Matheson for this one!...
- DirectorBruce GellerStarsBen JohnsonMichael ParksPaul HechtThe festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.More buzzing death from hell!...
- 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.Patty Duke lifts off with the title role! Utter nonsense!...
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDack RamboElyssa DavalosRichard LynchA writer, Andy Stuart, teams up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorBruce KesslerStarsDirk BenedictJohn ForsytheFrank ConverseAn Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.
- 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.
- DirectorRichard LangStarsSusan Saint JamesMichael ParksJamie Smith-JacksonA young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsCliff PottsWalter PidgeonDonna MillsAfter being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man, her children older than she is, and her daughter is crazy and wants her dead.
- DirectorJohn NewlandBuzz KulikStarsArthur KennedyTeresa WrightTom HapperA childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsKim DarbyWilliam ShatnerDiane VarsiA teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHal NeedhamStarsShelley HackFrank GorshinPeter GravesAn unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway.
- 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.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsKaren BlackGeorge HamiltonRobert F. LyonsA housewife is sick of her normal routine and makes all sorts of odd changes to her appearance. From her hair/wardrobe to her makeup, she creepily soon starts to take on the different personality of a lady who had died five years prior.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDiane BakerEd NelsonHoward DuffA hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
- 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.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsRichard CrennaYvette MimieuxKim RichardsA dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsRobert CulpGig YoungJohn HurtA criminologist and occult investigator recruits an old friend to assist in his current case. A sister of a prominent British businessman believes her brother dabbles in the black arts. The two investigate the matter.
- 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.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsMichael BryantJane AsherIain CuthbertsonA research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but also to exorcise it--with terrifying results.
- StarsBette DavisDavid AckroydRosanna ArquetteA young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsJack PalanceSimon WardNigel DavenportDracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.