List of horror films of 1972 explained

A list of horror films released in 1972.

Title	Director(s)	Cast	Country	Notes
	The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide	Lee Raymond	Rene Bond, Laurie Rose, Jane Tsentas	United States	aka The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hyde	^[1] ^[2]
	All the Colors of the Dark			Italy Spain	aka They're Coming to Get You!; Day of the Maniac	^[3]
data-sort-value="Asphyx"	The Asphyx				aka Spirit of the Dead
	Asylum		Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom	United Kingdom
	Asylum of Satan		Charles Kissinger, Nick Jolley, Carla Borelli	United States		^[4]
	Baron Blood			Italy West Germany	aka Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga
	Ben			United States
	Beware! The Blob			United States	aka Son of the Blob
	Blacula			United States
	Blood Freak	,	Anne Shearin, Randy Grinter, Linda Past	United States		^[5]
	Blood Orgy of the She-Devils		Lila Zaborin, Tom Pace, Leslie McRae	United States
data-sort-value="Blood Spattered"	The Blood Spattered Bride			Spain		^[6]
	Burke and Hare			United Kingdom		^[7] ^[8]
data-sort-value="Cannibal"	The Cannibal Man			Spain
	Carnival of Blood		Burt Young, Martin Barolsky	United States	filmed in 1970	^[9] ^[10]
	Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things		Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen	United States
	The Cult		MaKee Blaisdell, Debbie Osborne	United States	re-released in 1976 as The Manson Massacre	^[11]
	Curse of the Headless Horseman		Marland Proctor, Claudia Reame	United States		^[12]
style="text-align:left;"	Curse of the Moon Child			United States		^[13]
style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Daughter of Dracula"	The Daughter of Dracula		Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Alberto Dalbés	France Portugal
	Daughters of Satan		Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Guthrie	Philippines United States
data-sort-value="Dead"	The Dead Are Alive		Christiane Von Blank, Ivan Pavicevac, Vladan Milasinovic	Italy		^[14]
	Dear Dead Delilah			United States
	Death Line			United Kingdom
	Deathmaster			United States
	Demons of the Mind			United Kingdom
	Don't Torture a Duckling			Italy		^[15]
	Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo			Spain
	Dr. Phibes Rises Again			United Kingdom United States
	Dracula AD 1972			United Kingdom
	Dracula Against Frankenstein		Howard Vernon, Dennis Price, Fernando Bilbao	Spain France
	Endless Night		Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland	United Kingdom
data-sort-value="Erotic"	The Erotic Experiences of Frankenstein		Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Anne Libert	France		^[16]
	El monte de las brujas		Patty Shepard, Cihangir Ghaffari, Mónica Randall	Spain		^[17]
	Fear in the Night			United Kingdom
data-sort-value="Fiend"	The Fiend			United Kingdom
data-sort-value="Flesh"	The Flesh and Blood Show			United Kingdom
	Frogs			United States
data-sort-value="Fury"	The Fury of the Wolfman			Spain
	Garden of the Dead			United States		^[18]
data-sort-value="Gore"	The Gore Gore Girls		Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin	United States
	Grave of the Vampire			United States
	Home for the Holidays		Sally Field, Jessica Walter, Julie Harris	United States	Television film
	Horror Express			Spain United Kingdom
	Horror Rises from the Tomb			Spain United States
	Hunchback of the Morgue			Spain		^[19]
	I Dismember Mama		Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl	United States
	Images		Susannah York, René Auberjonois	United States United Kingdom		^[20]
	Invasion of the Blood Farmers		Tanna Hunter, Jack Neubeck, Allan Charlet	United States
data-sort-value="Last"	The Last House on the Left			United States
data-sort-value="Legend of Boggy Creek"	The Legend of Boggy Creek		William Stumpp, Chuck Pierce, Jr., Vern Stierman	United States
	Love Me Deadly		Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner	United States
data-sort-value="Man from Deep River"	The Man from the Deep River			Italy		^[21]
	Moon of the Wolf			United States		^[22]
	Necromancy			United States	re-released in 1983 as The Witching	^[23] ^[24]
data-sort-value="Night Cobra"	Night of the Cobra Woman		Joy Bang, Logan Clarke, Carmen Argenziano	Philippines United States		^[25]
data-sort-value="Night Devils"	Night of the Devils			Italy
data-sort-value="Night Lepus"	Night of the Lepus			United States
	The Night Stalker (1972 film)		Darren McGavin, Barry Atwater, Carol Lynley	United States	Television film	^[26]
	La noche de los mil gatos (Night of 1000 Cats)		Hugo Stiglitz, Anjanette Comer	Mexico	aka Blood Feast (1972 film)	^[27]
data-sort-value="Other"	The Other		Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur	United States
data-sort-value="Possession of Joel Delaney"	The Possession of Joel Delaney			United States
	Queen Doll (Muneca reina)			Mexico
data-sort-value="Rats"	The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!		Noel Collins, Bernard Kaler, Joan Ogden	United States		^[28]
data-sort-value="Red Queen"	The Red Queen Kills Seven Times			Italy West Germany		^[29]
data-sort-value="Reflection"	A Reflection of Fear			United States
	She Waits		Patty Duke, David McCallum, Dorothy McGuire	United States	Television film
	Silent Night, Bloody Night			United States
	Sisters			United States
	Something Evil		Sandy Dennis, Darren McGavin, Ralph Bellamy	United States	Television film
	Stanley		Chris Robinson, Alex Rocco	United States
	Superbeast			United States
	Tales from the Crypt			United Kingdom
	Terror at Red Wolf Inn		Linda Gillen, John Neilson, Arthur Space	United States
	Three on a Meathook		Madelyn Buzzard, Charles Kissinger, James Pickett	United States
	Tombs of the Blind Dead		Lone Fleming, César Burner	Spain Portugal
	Tower of Evil			United Kingdom
	Tragic Ceremony		Camille Keaton, Máximo Valverde, Tony Isbert	Italy Spain		^[30]
	Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche			India
	Vampire Circus			United Kingdom		^[31]
	What Have You Done to Solange?	Massimo Dallamano	Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger	Italy		^[32]
	You'll Like My Mother		Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Sian Barbara Allen	United States

Sources

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• Book: Deal, David. McFarland. Jefferson, North Carolina. Television Fright Films of the 1970s. 2007. 978-0-786-42929-5.
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• Book: Meyers, Ric. 2011. For One Week Only: The World of Exploitation Films. Emery Books. Guildford, Connecticut. 1983. 978-0-979-99893-5.
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• Book: Sherman, Fraser S.. Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television. 2009. McFarland. Jefferson, North Carolina. 978-0-786-44341-3.
• Book: Stine, Scott Aaron. 2015. The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s. McFarland. Jefferson, North Carolina. 978-0-786-49140-7.

External links

• Horror films of 1972 on Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide.
2. Web site: The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide (1972).
3. Web site: All the Colors of the Dark. AllMovie. Brenner, Paul. August 7, 2011.
4. Web site: Asylum of Satan. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Binion, Cavett.
5. Web site: Blood Freak. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
6. Web site: The Blood Spattered Bride. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
7. Web site: Burke & Hare. 3 February 1972. IMDb.
8. Web site: Burke & Hare (1972). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160924054116/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a6b8fe9. 24 September 2016. dmy-all.
9. Web site: Carnival of Blood. Rotten Tomatoes.
10. Book: "Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!": Horror and Science Fiction Double Features, 1955-1974. 9781476635712. Senn. Bryan. February 28, 2019.
11. Thrower, Stephen (2007). Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents. London: FAB Press. p. 23. .
12. Web site: Curse of the Headless Horseman (1972).
13. Web site: The Curse of the Moon Child. AllMovie. Brennan, Sandra. August 7, 2011.
14. Web site: The Dead Are Alive. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
15. Web site: Don't Torture a Duckling. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
16. Web site: La Maldicion de Frankenstein. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
17. Web site: El monter de las brujas. AllMovie.
18. Web site: Garden of the Dead. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Binion, Cavett.
19. Web site: Hunchback of the Morgue. AllMovie. November 27, 2011. Firsching, Robert.
20. Web site: In Two Minds: Robert Altman's 'Images' Essays the Terrors of Schizophrenia. PopMatters. https://archive.today/20200117105102/https://www.popmatters.com/images-robert-altman-2630221984.html?rebelltitem=1%23rebelltitem1. January 17, 2020. live. Khan. Imran. March 2, 2019.
21. Web site: The Man from Deep River. AllMovie. Bush, John. August 7, 2011.
22. Web site: Moon of the Wolf. AllMovie. Bush, John. August 7, 2011.
23. "Necromancy (1972)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles, California: American Film Institute. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
24. Web site: The Witching. AllMovie. Brennan, Sandra. August 7, 2011.
25. Web site: Night of the Cobra Woman. AllMovie. Brennan, Sandra. August 7, 2011.
26. Satian, Al, and Heather Johnson, "The Night Stalker Papers," in Monsters of the Movies Vol. 1, No. 1, (June 1974), p. 16
27. Steven Puchalski, "The Night of a Thousand Cats", Shock Cinema, 1990
28. Web site: The Rats Are Coming! the Werewolves Are Here!. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
29. Web site: Red Queen Kills Seven Times. AllMovie. Firsching, Robert. August 7, 2011.
30. Web site: Tragic Ceremony. AllMovie. Buchanan, Jason. August 7, 2011.
31. Web site: Vampire Circus. AllMovie. Binion, Cavett. August 7, 2011.
32. Web site: What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) - Massimo Dallamano | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie .