Gothic Horror Movies of the 1970s
Gothic horror means crumbling mansions, castles and dark romance. Grimy, daring and fearless, the decade of The Exorcist, Halloween and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Standouts from the 1970s include The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Suspiria and Nosferatu the Vampyre.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Rated 7.4 on TMDB
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric…
See where it’s streamingSuspiria (1977)
Rated 7.5 on TMDB
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
See where it’s streamingNosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
See where it’s streamingHorror Express (1972)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
See where it’s streamingDracula (1979)
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.
See where it’s streamingCount Dracula (1970)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
See where it’s streamingDracula (1974)
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
See where it’s streamingFlesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
Baron Frankenstein creates two "zombies" - one male, one female - planning to mate them in order to create a master race.
See where it’s streamingThe Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
After the death of their grandfather, two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by the Red Queen, whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years.
See where it’s streamingThe Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Rated 5.6 on TMDB
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a…
See where it’s streamingScars of Dracula (1970)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected.
See where it’s streamingHouse of Dark Shadows (1970)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
Barnabas Collins searches for a cure for vampirism in order to marry a woman resembling his long-lost fiancée Josette.
See where it’s streamingBaron Blood (1972)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at…
See where it’s streamingTwins of Evil (1971)
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism.
See where it’s streamingThe House with Laughing Windows (1976)
Rated 7.2 on TMDB
Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
See where it’s streamingNight of Dark Shadows (1971)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited.
See where it’s streamingGirl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay (1971)
Rated 5.2 on TMDB
Two French girls get lost in the woods and accidentally enter the realm of sorceress Morgana Le Fay - who gives them the choice of either staying young forever as her lovers, or rot in a dungeon for…
See where it’s streamingThe Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
See where it’s streamingFascination (1979)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage.
See where it’s streamingCount Dracula's Great Love (1973)
Rated 4.8 on TMDB
Four women spending the night in a deserted sanitarium on a mountain fall into the hands of an evil doctor with a terrible secret.
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