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TV Horror Movies from 60s & 70s

by michaelgosullivan • Created 7 years ago • Modified 7 years ago
Beginning in the 1960s through its heyday in the 1970s made-for-TV horror movies were a genre unto themselves. Made specifically for the small screen what these humble movies lacked in budget, they made up for in other ways. They served as a lucrative genre for Stars of yesterday as well young as up and coming Stars, Producers and Directors. Many of these treasures are still highly watchable, memorable, and have even enjoyed big budget remakes. There's something about made for TV movies of the 70s and 80s that I just love. They bring back fond memories of evenings or rainy Saturday afternoons being immersed in a tale of terror. Here is a list of some of my favourites in no particular order
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  • Ray Milland and Don Murray in Daughter of the Mind (1969)

    1. Daughter of the Mind

    19691h 30mTV Movie
    6.2 (486)
    A professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld.
    DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDon MurrayRay MillandGene Tierney
  • Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969)

    1. Honeymoon with a Stranger

    19691h 14mTV Movie
    5.8 (146)
    While vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the man in bed with her is an impostor. He, however, claims that he is her husband, and she cannot get anyone to believe her.
    DirectorJohn PeyserStarsJanet LeighRossano BrazziCesare Danova
  • Kitty Winn in The House That Would Not Die (1970)

    2. The House That Would Not Die

    19701h 14mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.6 (1.2K)
    A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
    DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.
  • The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)

    4. The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

    19701h 13mTV Movie
    6.8 (317)
    Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
    DirectorWalter GraumanStarsEdward G. RobinsonMartin BalsamDiane Baker
  • Weekend of Terror (1970)

    4. Weekend of Terror

    19701h 14mTV Movie
    5.6 (331)
    Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
    DirectorJud TaylorStarsRobert ConradCarol LynleyLee Majors
  • How Awful About Allan (1970)

    6. How Awful About Allan

    19701h 30mPGTV Movie
    5.7 (1.1K)
    After 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.
    DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnthony PerkinsJulie HarrisJoan Hackett
  • Hope Lange in Crowhaven Farm (1970)

    6. Crowhaven Farm

    19701h 14mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.3 (1.1K)
    A 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.
    DirectorWalter GraumanStarsHope LangePaul BurkeLloyd Bochner
  • Barbara Parkins in A Taste of Evil (1971)

    8. A Taste of Evil

    19711h 13mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.3 (811)
    On 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.
    DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowall
  • Five Desperate Women (1971)

    9. Five Desperate Women

    19711h 13mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.7 (276)
    Five 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?
    DirectorTed PostStarsRobert ConradAnjanette ComerBradford Dillman
  • Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Vera Miles, and John Rubinstein in A Howling in the Woods (1971)

    9. A Howling in the Woods

    19711h 40mPGTV Movie
    6.1 (595)
    In 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.
    DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsBarbara EdenLarry HagmanJohn Rubinstein
  • The Failing of Raymond (1971)

    10. The Failing of Raymond

    19711h 13mTV Movie
    6.5 (115)
    On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
    DirectorBoris SagalStarsJane WymanDean StockwellDana Andrews
  • Louise Latham, Stefanie Powers, and Chris Robinson in Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971)

    11. Sweet, Sweet Rachel

    19711h 11mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.6 (270)
    An ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
    DirectorSutton RoleyStarsAlex DreierPat HingleLouise Latham
  • Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971)

    12. Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

    19711h 13mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.4 (343)
    Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
    DirectorTed PostStarsHelen HayesVince EdwardsMyrna Loy
  • Michael Douglas in When Michael Calls (1972)

    13. When Michael Calls

    19721h 13mTV Movie
    5.9 (1.1K)
    A 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?
    DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBen GazzaraElizabeth AshleyMichael Douglas
  • Darren McGavin in The Night Stalker (1972)

    14. The Night Stalker

    19721h 14mNot RatedTV Movie
    7.4 (8.1K)
    An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
    DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDarren McGavinCarol LynleySimon Oakland
  • The Screaming Woman (1972)

    15. The Screaming Woman

    19721h 13mTV-PGTV Movie
    6.5 (1.1K)
    A 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.
    DirectorJack SmightStarsOlivia de HavillandEd NelsonLaraine Stephens
  • Moon of the Wolf (1972)

    15. Moon of the Wolf

    19721h 15mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.1 (2.2K)
    After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
    DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsDavid JanssenBarbara RushBradford Dillman
  • Crawlspace (1972)

    16. Crawlspace

    19721h 14mTV Movie
    6.3 (503)
    A 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.
    DirectorsJohn NewlandBuzz KulikStarsArthur KennedyTeresa WrightTom Happer
  • Patty Duke in She Waits (1972)

    17. She Waits

    19721h 14mTV Movie
    5.6 (413)
    A murdered woman possesses her husband's new wife to seek revenge.
    DirectorDelbert MannStarsPatty DukeDavid McCallumDorothy McGuire
  • Home for the Holidays (1972)

    20. Home for the Holidays

    19721h 13mTV Movie
    6.2 (1.5K)
    An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
    DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsSally FieldJill HaworthJulie Harris
  • Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)

    20. Haunts of the Very Rich

    19721h 15mTV Movie
    6.4 (510)
    A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort but find themselves wondering about their existences after a while.
    DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesCloris LeachmanEdward Asner
  • Night of Terror (1972)

    21. Night of Terror

    19721h 13mUnratedTV Movie
    5.7 (334)
    A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
    DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsMartin BalsamCatherine BurnsChuck Connors
  • Shelley Winters, Robert Foxworth, and Belinda Montgomery in The Devil's Daughter (1973)

    22. The Devil's Daughter

    19731h 14mUnratedTV Movie
    5.8 (679)
    A 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.
    DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsShelley WintersBelinda MontgomeryRobert Foxworth
  • Darren McGavin and Jo Ann Pflug in The Night Strangler (1973)

    24. The Night Strangler

    19731h 14mNot RatedTV Movie
    7.3 (4.5K)
    A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.
    DirectorDan CurtisStarsDarren McGavinJo Ann PflugSimon Oakland
  • Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973)

    25. Scream, Pretty Peggy

    19731h 14mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.1 (1.3K)
    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.
    DirectorGordon HesslerStarsTed BessellBette DavisSian Barbara Allen

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