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Shadows in an Empty Room (Some Bizarre and Obscure cinema)

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  • Sweet Kill (1972)

    1. Sweet Kill

    19721h 25mR
    4.9 (522)
    Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
    DirectorCurtis HansonStarsTab HunterCherie LatimerNadyne Turney
  • The Hunter Will Get You (1976)

    2. The Hunter Will Get You

    19761h 50m
    6.5 (2.7K)
    L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.
    DirectorPhilippe LabroStarsJean-Paul BelmondoBruno CremerJean Négroni
  • Straight on Till Morning (1972)

    3. Straight on Till Morning

    19721h 36mR
    5.7 (1.6K)
    A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
    DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsRita TushinghamShane BriantJames Bolam
  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

    4. The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    19761h 30mR52Metascore
    6.0 (11K)
    The story of a berserk, hooded killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
    DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn Wells
  • Night of 1000 Cats (1972)

    5. Night of 1000 Cats

    19721h 3mR
    3.9 (948)
    A wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of felines.
    DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsAnjanette ComerHugo StiglitzZulma Faiad
  • L'assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora (1975)

    6. L'assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora

    19751h 30mNot Rated
    6.4 (1.5K)
    Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's corpse in the trunk, ending up at a run-down seaside villa.
    DirectorLuigi CozziStarsGeorge HiltonAntoine Saint-JohnFemi Benussi
  • Michael Douglas in When Michael Calls (1972)

    7. 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
  • A Scream in the Streets (1973)

    8. A Scream in the Streets

    19731h 31mNot Rated
    4.6 (485)
    Two Los Angeles detectives are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. Their job is complicated by the fact that the killer is able to avoid capture because he can pose as a woman.
    DirectorsCarl MonsonDwayne AveryBethel BuckalewStarsJoshua BryantFrank BannonRosie Stone
  • Carnival of Blood (1970)

    9. Carnival of Blood

    19701h 27mGP
    3.8 (694)
    A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers.
    DirectorLeonard KirtmanStarsEarle EdgertonJudith ResnickMartin Barolsky
  • The French Sex Murders (1972)

    10. The French Sex Murders

    19721h 28mNot Rated
    5.2 (1.3K)
    A man is accused of killing his favorite prostitute in a French brothel. He's tried and sentenced to death. He tries to escape but dies during pursuit. Soon, people connected to the case are killed one by one.
    DirectorFerdinando MerighiStarsAnita EkbergRosalba NeriEvelyne Kraft
  • Drive in Massacre (1976)

    11. Drive in Massacre

    19761h 14mR
    3.7 (2.3K)
    Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
    DirectorStu SegallStarsJohn F. GoffSteve VincentDouglas Gudbye
  • Leonora Fani, Jole Fierro, and Luc Merenda in Hotel Fear (1978)

    12. Hotel Fear

    19781h 32m
    6.2 (1K)
    A mother and her daughter run a hotel during the late stages of WWII. The mother suddenly dies, and the daughter finds herself alone with her sleazy guests.
    DirectorFrancesco BarilliStarsLuc MerendaLeonora FaniFrancisco Rabal
  • René Péron in The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)

    13. The Proud and the Beautiful

    19531h 43m
    7.2 (945)
    Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
    DirectorsYves AllégretRafael E. PortasStarsMichèle MorganGérard PhilipeVíctor Manuel Mendoza
  • Delirium (1972)

    14. Delirium

    19721h 42mR
    5.4 (1.4K)
    A respected psychologist who regularly works with the police becomes a suspect in a series of gruesome murders of young women.
    DirectorRenato PolselliStarsMickey HargitayRita CalderoniRaul Lovecchio
  • The Get-Man (1974)

    15. The Get-Man

    19741h 32mPG
    5.6 (188)
    A police officer becomes greatly obsessed with a sadistic serial killer/rapist called "The Zebra Killer" after his girlfriend is kidnapped, and discovers a string of many brutal murders along the way while tracking him down.
    DirectorWilliam GirdlerStarsAustin StokerHugh SmithJames Carroll Pickett
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant in Without Apparent Motive (1971)

    16. Without Apparent Motive

    19711h 40mPG
    6.3 (1.1K)
    A strange series of murders are being committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissionaire Carella is in charge and tries desperately to find a missing link between all of these murders.
    DirectorPhilippe LabroStarsJean-Louis TrintignantDominique SandaSacha Distel
  • Deep Red (1975)

    17. Deep Red

    19752h 7mR89Metascore
    7.5 (46K)
    A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
    DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele Lavia
  • The Beast in the Cellar (1971)

    18. The Beast in the Cellar

    19711h 28mR
    4.9 (1.2K)
    Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two sisters living nearby realize they might understand what's happening.
    DirectorJames KelleyStarsBeryl ReidFlora RobsonJohn Hamill
  • Rings of Fear (1978)

    19. Rings of Fear

    19781h 25mNot Rated
    5.6 (932)
    A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables."
    DirectorAlberto NegrinStarsFabio TestiChristine KaufmannIvan Desny
  • Linnea Quigley in Stone Cold Dead (1979)

    20. Stone Cold Dead

    19791h 48mR
    5.2 (678)
    Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
    DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsRichard CrennaPaul WilliamsLinda Sorensen
  • A Knife for the Ladies (1974)

    21. A Knife for the Ladies

    19741h 26mR
    4.6 (433)
    A private detective travels out west to investigate the murders of several prostitutes, facing off against the reluctance of the town's grizzled sheriff, and several suspicious characters, each with something to hide.
    DirectorLarry G. SpanglerStarsJack ElamRuth RomanJeff Cooper
  • Priscilla Alden in Criminally Insane (1975)

    22. Criminally Insane

    19751h 1mR
    5.3 (1.4K)
    An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
    DirectorNick MillardStarsPriscilla AldenMichael FloodJane Lambert
  • Il caso Valdemar (1936)

    23. Il caso Valdemar

    193612mShort
    6.9 (205)
    A doctor performs an experiment on a dying man by placing him under hypnosis on his deathbed.
    DirectorsGianni HoepliUbaldo MagnaghiStarsLav KamenarovicGino EprisiCarlo Bissi
  • The Confessional (1976)

    24. The Confessional

    19761h 44mR
    6.3 (1.5K)
    The story follows a young woman, who seeks out his church. There, she is manipulated into giving confession to Father Xavier Meldrum. Meldrum uses his status and crazed persistence to work his way into Jenny's life by any means necessary.
    DirectorPete WalkerStarsAnthony SharpSusan PenhaligonStephanie Beacham
  • May Britt in Haunts (1976)

    25. Haunts

    19761h 37mPG
    4.6 (740)
    May Britt plays a seemingly innocent farm girl convinced that her slovenly uncle (Cameron Mitchell) is the man responsible for the bloody scissor-murders of several local girls.
    DirectorHerb FreedStarsMay BrittCameron MitchellAldo Ray

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