Thriller Movies of 1972
Doomwatch
Based on the BBC television series, this sci-fi film follows the investigation of a scientist (George Sanders) when he is sent to discover the cause behind the deformities of ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Pursuit
In this thriller, adapted from the novel Binary by John Lange and directed by Michael Crichton, a federal agent played by Ben Gazzara must stop a madman before he can unleash a toxic nerve gas upon an ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Death Sentence
Originally made for television, this story focuses on a woman selected for jury duty. During a murder trial, she discovers that the accused is the wrong man; she also finds ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Prime Cut
Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Frenzy
Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Fear in the Night
Peter Cushing took time off from his Frankenstein and Dracula duties to star in the standard-issue melodrama ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Images
A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this impressionistic drama written and directed by Robert Altman. Cathryn (Susannah York) is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to Hugh ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Grave of the Vampire
This dark, violent British production stars Michael Pataki as a brutish vampire apparently lacking in Dracula's powers of seduction, since he finds it necessary to ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
What Have You Done to Solange?
One of the final links between the Edgar Wallace-based German krimi genre and the Italian giallo thriller, this creepy mystery stars Fabio Testi as a college ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
The Other
This crime thriller with occult overtones puts a spine-tingling twist on the Jungian ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Chain Gang Women
A model prisoner and a desperate thug become unwilling partners in this low-budget action picture. Weed (Michael Sterns) is patiently waiting out the last six months of a ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
In Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, an above average slasher/horror film, a group of amateurs decide to experiment with witchcraft with deadly results. This film ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Straight on Till Morning
In this thriller, a naive young woman travels from Liverpool to London to search for a man willing to sire her ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Frankenstein 80
This Italian production stars Gordon Mitchell as the modern-day monster-maker, who appropriately dubs his bald, ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Don't Torture a Duckling
When several young boys are brutally murdered in a small southern Italian village, the superstitious locals react with ignorance and violence. All misfits are immediately suspected, such as big-city tart Barbara ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Sette Scialli Di Seta Gialla
A serial killer is murdering beautiful models in this Italian slasher film. It turns out that he is using the poisoned claws of a black cat to do it. A blind composer whose girlfriend was one ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Seven Blood Stained Orchids
This uneven thriller directed by Umberto Lenzi was the final Rialto Film Company adaptation of an ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
Delirium
Italian filmmaker Renato Polselli (aka Ralph Brown) wrote and directed this wonderfully sick and demented giallo thriller, a shining example of the sort of ... [ Thriller movie - 1972 ]
