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Theme: Films of 1973

… And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)

6 January 200521 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Haunted House/Supernatural Retribution

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Geoffrey Whitehead, …
Category: Horror

Andy Warhol’s Dracula (1973)

6 May 19991 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Splatter Dracula

Director: Paul Morrissey
Actors: Udo Kier, Jose Dallesandro, Vittorio De Sica
Category: Horror

Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein (1973)

3 June 199911 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Splatter Frankenstein

Director: Paul Morrissey
Actors: Udo Kier, Monique Van Vooren, Jose Dallesandro, Arno Juerging, …
Category: Horror

Arnold (1973)

21 October 202024 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

Director: Georg Fenady
Actors: Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Farley Granger, …
Category: Horror

Badlands (1973)

21 April 200919 January 2023

Rating: ★★★★

True Life Killers on the Run

Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
Category: Horror

The Bare-Breasted Countess (1973)

10 May 202217 November 2023

Rating: ★★★

Vampire Erotica

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Lina Romay, Jack Taylor, Jess Franco, Luis Barboo
Category: Horror

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

26 March 200020 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Planet of the Apes Sequel

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Paul Stevens, Paul Williams, …
Category: Science Fiction

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

7 March 20189 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Anime Erotica/Temptation by the Devil

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Category: Fantasy

Blackenstein (1973)

28 June 201526 April 2022

Rating: ★★

Blaxploitation Frankenstein Film

Director: William A. Levey
Category: Horror

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

7 August 200026 May 2020

Rating: ½

Boy’s Father Becomes a Werewolf

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Scott Sealey, Elaine Devry, Robert J. Wilke
Category: Horror

Cannibal Girls (1973)

15 August 201020 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Cannibal Hotel

Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin
Category: Horror

The Cat Creature (1973)

29 July 201423 October 2024

Rating: ★

Ancient Egyptian Cat Vengeance Curse

Director: Curtis Harrington
Actors: Meredith Baxter, Gale Sondergaard, David Hedison, Stuart Whitman, …
Category: Horror

Charlotte’s Web (1973)

3 July 200214 October 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Animation/Talking Barnyard Animals

Director: Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamato
Actors: Henry Gibson, Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Pamelyn Ferdin, …
Category: Fantasy

The Clones (1973)

13 March 20062 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Cloned Man Thriller

Director: Lamar Card, Paul Hunt
Actors: Michael Greene, Gregory Sierra, Otis Young, Stanley Adams
Category: Science Fiction

A Cold Night’s Death (1973)

18 July 20174 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Mysterious Happenings at a Remote Research Laboratory

Director: Jerrold Freedman
Actors: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne
Category: Science Fiction

The Crazies (1973)

8 June 20018 May 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Madness Inducing Biospill

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: W.G. MacMillan, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

9 December 200129 July 2024

Rating: ★★★

Evil Prehistoric Skeleton

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Lorna Heilbron, Kenneth J. Warren
Category: Horror

Daddy’s Deadly Darling (1973)

12 August 202029 June 2022

Rating: ★★★

Psycho Film

Director: Marc Lawrence
Actors: Toni Lawrence, Marc Lawrence, Jesse Vint, Jim Antonio, …
Category: Horror

Dark Places (1973)

6 June 20176 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Don Sharp
Actors: Robert Hardy, Joan Collins, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, …
Category: Horror

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

7 September 200118 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Talking Dolphins

Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish van der Vere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)

23 December 201520 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Porn Film/Woman Returns from Hell to Experience Lust

Director: Gerard Damiano
Actors: Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reams
Category: Fantasy

The Devil’s Daughter (1973)

18 November 20072 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Satanist Conspiracy

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Actors: Shelley Winters, Belinda J. Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, Joseph Cotten, …
Category: Horror

The Devil’s Wedding Night (1973)

29 October 201910 September 2021

Rating: ★★

Devil-Worshipping Vampire Countess

Director: Luigi Batzella
Actors: Mark Damon, Sara Bay, Esmeralda Barros, Francesca Romana Davila, …
Category: Horror

Digby, The Biggest Dog in the World (1973)

15 July 20015 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Giant Dog/Children’s Film

Director: Joseph McGrath
Actors: Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Richard Beaumont, Angela Douglas, …
Category: Science Fiction

Don’t Look Now (1973)

27 March 200117 April 2022

Rating: ★★★★½

Precognition

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Massimo Serato
Category: Horror

Encounter with the Unknown (1973)

23 February 20166 October 2020

Rating: ★

Horror Anthology

Director: Harry Thomason
Actors: Rod Serling, Rosie Holotik, Gene Ross, Beverly Dixon
Category: Horror

The Exorcist (1973)

24 September 200018 July 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Demonic Possession

Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, …
Category: Horror

Fantastic Planet (1973)

23 February 20049 September 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Bizarre Alien Planet/Animation

Director: Rene Laloux
Category: Science Fiction

Frankenstein (1973)

16 December 200519 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: Glenn Jordan
Actors: Robert Foxworth, Bo Svenson, Susan Strasberg, John Karlen, …
Category: Horror

Ganja & Hess (1973)

31 August 20134 January 2022

Rating: ★★★

Blaxploitation Vampire Film

Director: Bill Gunn
Actors: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Leonard Jackson
Category: Horror

Genesis II (1973)

30 December 20125 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Cryogenic Sleeper Awakes in a Post-Holocaust World

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Actors: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodrigues, …
Category: Science Fiction

Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)

6 December 20023 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Monster Bash

Director: Jun Fukuda
Actors: Hiroyuki Kawase, Katsuhiko Sasaki
Category: Science Fiction

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

12 November 200221 December 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Arabian Nights Adventure

Director: Gordon Hessler
Actors: John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, Caroline Munro, Douglas Wilmer, …
Category: Fantasy

Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973)

25 July 202425 July 2024

Rating: ★★

Vampire Film

Director: Ray Danton, Julio Salvador
Actors: Andrew Prine, Mark Damon, Patty Shepard, Teresa Gimpera, …
Category: Horror

Heavy Traffic (1973)

21 January 20156 July 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Adult Animation/Growing Up in Brooklyn

Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actors: Joseph Kauffmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova
Category: Fantasy

High Plains Drifter (1973)

17 February 200311 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Western/Supernatural Retribution

Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Billy Curtis, Walter Barnes, …
Category: Fantasy

The Holy Mountain (1973)

21 December 200012 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Transcendental Mysticism

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Category: Fantasy

The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)

7 January 200618 November 2022

Rating: ★★

Haunted Airplane

Director: David Lowell Rich
Actors: William Shatner, Chuck Connors, Roy Thinnes, Tammy Grimes, …
Category: Horror

Horror Hospital (1973)

18 March 200326 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist Comedy

Director: Antony Balch
Actors: Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Skip Martin, Kurt Christian, …
Category: Horror

The House in Nightmare Park (1973)

2 February 200321 October 2020

Rating: ★

Old Dark House Comedy

Director: Peter Sykes
Actors: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith, …
Category: Horror

The House of Seven Corpses (1973)

1 April 200312 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Film Crew vs Resurrected Ghoul

Director: Paul Harrison
Actors: John Ireland, Faith Domergue, John Carradine, Charles Macaulay
Category: Horror

The House That Vanished (1973)

18 June 202518 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Psycho Film

Director: Joseph Larraz
Actors: Andrea Allan, Karl Lanchbury, Peter Forbes-Robertson, Judy Matheson, …
Category: Horror

Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)

29 August 200117 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Killer Bee Women

Director: Denis Sanders
Actors: William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond, …
Category: Science Fiction, Horror

The Laughing Policeman (1973)

4 September 20018 May 2024

Rating: ★★

Detective Thriller/Serial Killer

Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr, Anthony Zerbe, …
Category: Horror

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

17 February 20037 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted House

Director: John Hough
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt
Category: Horror

Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

6 September 20173 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Vampire Film

Director: Richard Blackburn
Actors: Cheryl Smith, Lesley Gilb, Maxine Ballantyne, Hy Pyke, …
Category: Horror

Live and Let Die (1973)

30 July 200130 December 2024

Rating: ★★½

James Bond vs Voodoo

Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto, Geoffrey Holder, …
Category: Fantasy

The Loreley’s Grasp (1973)

3 October 201919 January 2023

Rating: ★★

Immortal She Monster

Director: Amando de Ossorio
Actors: Tony Kendall, Silvia Tortosa, Helga Line, Angel Menendez, …
Category: Horror

Lost Horizon (1973)

4 April 20094 May 2020

Rating: ★

Hidden Valley Paradise/The Secret of Longevity/Musical

Director: Charles Jarrott
Actors: Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullman, Michael York, …
Category: Fantasy

The Mansion of Madness (1973)

12 March 202412 March 2024

Rating: ★★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Asylum of Lunatics

Director: Juan Lopez Moctezuma
Actors: Claudio Brook
Category: Horror

Messiah of Evil (1973)

26 March 201927 November 2023

Rating: ★★★

The Dead Return

Director: Willard Huyck
Actors: Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Anitra Ford, Joy Bang, …
Category: Horror

Moscow-Cassiopeia (1973)

24 July 201916 June 2021

Rating: ★★½

Soviet Science-Fiction/Space Expedition

Director: Richard Viktorov
Category: Science Fiction

A Name for Evil (1973)

7 October 202019 March 2024

Rating: ★½

Possible Haunted House/Strange Happenings

Director: Bernard Girard
Actors: Robert Culp, Samantha Eggar, Big Miller
Category: Horror

The Neptune Factor: An Undersea Odyssey (1973)

10 April 200228 May 2023

Rating: 0­

Submarine Adventure

Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Night Strangler (1973)

3 January 201327 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Journalist Tracks an Immortal Killer

Director: Dan Curtis
Actors: Darren McGavin, Richard Anderson, Simon Oakland, Jo Ann Pflug, …
Category: Horror

O Lucky Man! (1973)

4 November 200024 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Social Satire

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Helen Mirren, Rachel Roberts, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)

11 February 202010 January 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Eternally Youthful Libertine

Director: Glenn Jordan
Actors: Shane Briant, Nigel Davenport, Vanessa Howard, John Karlen, …
Category: Horror

Pippi on the Run (1973)

26 December 20046 February 2025

Rating: ★½

Anarchic Girl

Director: Olle Hellbom
Actors: Inger Nilsson, Maria Person, Par Sundberg
Category: Fantasy

Planet Earth (1974)

1 January 20165 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Post-Holocaust Women Rule Society

Director: Marc Daniels
Actors: John Saxon, Diana Muldaur, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, …
Category: Science Fiction

Psychomania (1973)

5 December 20133 July 2021

Rating: ★★

Undead Biker Gang

Director: Don Sharp
Actors: Nicky Henson, George Sanders, Robert Hardy, Beryl Reid, …
Category: Horror

The Pyx (1973)

30 March 201320 April 2021

Rating: ★★

Murder Investigation/Devil Worship Cult

Director: Harvey Hart
Actors: Christopher Plummer, Karen Black, Donald Pilon, Lee Broker, …
Category: Horror

Robin Hood (1973)

5 May 20033 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Disney Animation/Legend Enacted with Talking Animals

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Brian Bedford, Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas, …
Category: Fantasy

Santo vs Dr Death (1973)

14 January 202514 January 2025

Rating: ★

Mexican Wrestler Superhero

Director: Rafael R. Marchent
Actors: Santo, Jorge Rigaud, Mirta Miller, Helga Line
Category: Horror

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

14 March 20036 March 2025

Rating: ★

Contemporary Hammer Dracula Sequel

Director: Alan Gibson
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, William Franklyn, Michael Coles, …
Category: Horror

Schlock (1973)

7 December 20127 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Missing Link Comedy/Genre Parody

Director: John Landis
Actors: John Landis, Eliza Garrett
Category: Science Fiction

Scream Pretty Peggy (1973)

27 June 202327 June 2023

Rating: ★★

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Gordon Hessler
Actors: Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen, Ted Bessell, Charles Drake
Category: Horror

The Severed Arm (1973)

28 February 201715 February 2024

Rating: ★½

Revenge Killings for the Loss of a Man’s Arm

Director: Thomas S. Alderman
Actors: David G. Cannon, Deborah Walley, Paul Carr, Marvin Kaplan, …
Category: Horror

Sleeper (1973)

30 August 200122 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Dystopian Future Comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck
Category: Science Fiction

Soylent Green (1973)

15 June 200423 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Overpopulated Future

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, …
Category: Science Fiction

SSSSSSSS! (1973)

5 September 20027 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist Creates Human-Snake Hybrid

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Actors: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B. Shull, …
Category: Horror

The Stranger (1973)

3 August 201712 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Counter Earth

Director: Lee H. Katzin
Actors: Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Sharon Acker, Lew Ayres, …
Category: Science Fiction

Submersion of Japan (1973)

21 September 2023

Rating: ★★★

Disaster Movie/Japan Sinks Into the Ocean

Director: Shiro Moritani
Actors: Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Hiroshi Fujioka
Category: Science Fiction

The Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

9 February 20166 September 2024

Rating: ★★★

True-Life German Serial Killer

Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Brigitte Mira
Category: Horror

Terminal Island (1973)

3 August 200020 December 2021

Rating: ★★★

Future Prison

Director: Stephanie Rothman
Actors: Barbara Leigh, Tom Selleck, Sean Kenney, Roger E. Mosley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Terror in the Wax Museum (1973)

18 July 199910 April 2025

Rating: ★

Wax Museum Murders

Director: Georg Fenady
Actors: Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, John Carradine, Broderick Crawford, …
Category: Horror

Theater of Blood (1973)

5 November 20006 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Mad Shakespearean Actor’s Revenge

Director: Douglas Hickox
Actors: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, …
Category: Horror

Themroc (1973)

22 May 199910 April 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Reversion to Barbarism Satire

Director: Claude Faraldo
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Beatrice Romand, Marilu Tolo
Category: Science Fiction

The Vault of Horror (1973)

27 February 20031 April 2024

Rating: ★★

Amicus Horror Anthology

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Tom Baker, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, …
Category: Horror

A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)

17 July 20133 June 2025

Rating: ★★½

Erotica/Surreal Dreams and Hauntings

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Cristine von Blanc, Britt Nickols, Howard Vernon, Jess Franco, …
Category: Horror

Westworld (1973)

24 December 20011 October 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Android Amusement Park Amok

Director: Michael Crichton
Actors: Yul Brynner, James Brolin, Richard Benjamin, Alan Oppenheinmer
Category: Science Fiction

Wicked, Wicked (1973)

6 July 20226 July 2022

Rating: ★★★

Split Screen Psycho Film

Director: Richard L. Bare
Actors: David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling, Arthur O'Connell, Scott Brady, …
Category: Horror

The Wicker Man (1973)

20 August 20031 September 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Pagan Religion

Director: Robin Hardy
Actors: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, …
Category: Horror

World on a Wire (1973)

30 June 20116 September 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Virtual Reality

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Klaus Löwitsch, Ulli Lommel, Kurt Raab, Joachim Hansen, …
Category: Science Fiction

The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973)

19 October 200813 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Disney Comedy/Jungle Boy Super-Athlete

Director: Robert Scheerer
Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Tim Conway, Roscoe Lee Browne, …
Category: Fantasy

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  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
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  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
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  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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