Not sure what my fav is actually.... 1968 was a good year:

Night of the Living Dead
Rosemarys Baby
Witchfinder General
targets
Hour of the Wolf
The Devil Ridees Out
Kuroneko
Goke Body Snatcher from Hell

or maybe 1981:
American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Dead & Buried
Ms 45
Just Before Dawn
THE PIT
Evil Dead
My Bloody Valentine
Wolfen
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Evilspeak
The Burning
Scanners
The Beyond
Roadgames
Cannibal Ferox
The Black Cat
Mystics in Bali
Gu (Bewitched)

...hot damn. Looks like 1981 wins!

Not sure what I would consider my 2nd favorite year but after looking at what you have down for 1981 it may be it.

I've trained you well.

Yes, you have, through wild repetition and chaos with occasional use of the caps lock

Got to agree with 1978. Halloween, Dawn, I Spit... imdb now says that Martin was that same year too.

1981 has got to be the number two though. That's THE year of slasher flicks.

Is MArtin back to 1978 again? That keeps changing. Yeah makes that year that much stronger.

you've missed 3 great films from 78

Beauty and the Beast
the shout
Crazed

also a few other good films
Damned in Venice
Coma
The Death Train
Night Cries
The Medusa Touch
The Night Nurse
The World Beyond
Alien Zone

78 would be in the top 10, but Still can't touch 72 or 73 though

What do you got from 72 and 73?

72
The Last House on the Left
Diabel
Morgiana
The Screaming Woman
Arcana
What the Peeper Saw
The Other
Private Parts
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Blacula
When Michael Calls
So Sweet, So Dead
La goulve
The Etruscan Kills Again
Images
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
Home for the Holidays
Dear Dead Delilah
Night of the Devils
Demons of the Mind
A Reflection of Fear
The Flesh and Blood Show
Crawlspace
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
A Warning to the Curious
Terror House
Don't Torture a Duckling
What Have You Done to Solange?
Tales from the Crypt
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
All the Colors of the Dark
The Night Stalker

Im excluding Horror Express, Your Vice is a Locked Door and Only I Have the Key, All the Colors of the Dark, Frenzy, Baron Blood, Red Queen Kills 7 Times, The Gore Gore Girls, Seven Blood Stained Orchids, Death Line, Dracula A.D. 1972, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Tower of Evil, Hungry Wives, Pink Flamingos, Deliverence,, The Cannibal Man, The Asphyx , Gargoyles, Vampire Circus, Asylum, The Stone Tape, Sisters

these are my opinion, if we take IMDB voters opinions
https://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=horror&release_date=1972,1972&sort=user_rating,desc&title_type=feature,tv_movie,video 50th title = 6.1 rating
https://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=horror&release_date=1978,1978&sort=user_rating,desc&title_type=feature,tv_movie,video 50th title = 5.6 rating

of the zombieCPA's IMDB horror board's top 500,
1972 16 titles in the top 500
1978 6 titles in the top 500

Why are you excluding those films? Some of them are way better than movies in your list. Some solid stuff in there for sure. But it is not as good as 1978 for me. It will be interesting to check out the rest of the 70's as I am not sure that 1972 would even be one of the better years in the 70's. At least for my tastes.

Also stats wise. What would you consider better. Not saying this is where they fall in that particular list but what would you consider better in general terms? Having 6 movies fall in the top 50 of a top 500 list or 16 all falling into 100 through 500 of that list?

This is a really hard one, but I'm gonna go with 1976.

Burnt Offerings
God Told me To
Squirm
Bloodsucking Freaks
The Omen
Carrie
Alice Sweet Alice
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane
Good Of The Gods
Ape
Snuff
Island Of Death
Death Weekend
Who Can Kill A Child?
The House With Laughing Windows

It depends on my mood, though. Any other time, I might go with 1987.

Evil Dead II
The Lost Boys
Hellraiser
The Monster Squad
Nightmare On Elm Street III
Prince Of Darkness
Creepshow III
Near Dark
Blood Diner
Bad Taste
The Gate
Prom Night II
Predator
Blood Rage
Street Trash
Silent Night Deadly Night II
Nekromantik
Blood Lake
Anguish
Bloody New Year
Creepozoids

I like 1976. Lots from your list I like plus some others you didn't mention. The Tenant, Assualt! Jack the Ripper, People Who Own the Dark, Grizzly, Eaten Alive, and Schizo

Is The Tenant a horror movie? I like Polanski as a director but I started watching it the other night and I just couldn't get into it.. Worth sticking with?

The Tenant is wonderful. It has a bizarre, twisted ending that's actually pretty shocking. Stick with it!

78 was a good year for horror. It seemed like studios were in a Frenz to out creep and out gross the masses. I wish it ws still like that

Not as many movies of course, but 1960 is pretty solid and 3 genuine classics:

Psycho
Eyes Without A Face
Peeping Tom
Black Sunday
Village of the Damned
The City of the Dead
House of Usher
The Brides of Dracula
Jigoku (Sinners of Hell)

Erm, Terror. Even if it is a Suspiria rip-off like they claim.

With a name like that shouldn't you at least have one post here. https://trashepics.com/tedb/board.php?media=1978