Horror 1980
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1. A Praga (2021)
80 min | Horror
While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman's house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple.
Director: José Mojica Marins | Stars: Eucir de Souza, Felipe, Sílvia Gless, Wanda Kosmo
Votes: 88
2. A Woman's Torment (1977)
X | 84 min | Adult, Horror
A mentally deranged young woman starts hallucinating, gets involved in lesbianism and murder.
Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: Tara Chung, Jennifer Jordan, Jake Teague, Jeffrey Hurst
Votes: 253
3. Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
R | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ... See full summary »
Directors: Ciro Ippolito, Biagio Proietti | Stars: Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese, Benedetta Fantoli
Votes: 1,697
4. The Alien Dead (1980)
R | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A meteor hits a houseboat, turning its occupants into zombies feeding on alligators. As reptiles dwindle, they target townspeople. A scientist investigates disappearances caused by the undead houseboat dwellers.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, George Kelsey
Votes: 1,274
5. Dan Oniroku hakui nawa jigoku (1980)
65 min | Horror
A well-meaning nurse falls into a trap and is attacked by several men in black masks.
Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Junko Mabuki, Yuka Asagiri, Yutaka Hayashi, Ken Mizoguchi
Votes: 99
6. Alligator (1980)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger
Votes: 15,882
7. Altered States (1980)
R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Votes: 38,655 | Gross: $19.85M
8. Andhera (1975)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Deepak drives a car and tries to chase Asha seeing his driving her brother Ranjeet offers him to work with him as a driver.Asha and Deepak fall in love Ranjeet and his partners tell him to ... See full summary »
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay | Stars: Sameer Khan, Vani Ganpati, Imtiaz Khan, Dulari
Votes: 45
9. The Grim Reaper (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror
A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini
Votes: 6,974
10. Aquella casa en las afueras (1980)
95 min | Horror, Thriller
A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three months of her pregnancy in peace and luxury. Unfortunately, just as they arrive at the home... See full summary »
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Javier Escrivá, Silvia Aguilar, Alida Valli, Mara Goyanes
Votes: 118
11. Beyond Evil (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror
An architect and his wife move into a colonial mansion, where the demonic presence of the original owner's wife takes residence.
Director: Herb Freed | Stars: John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante, Mario Milano
Votes: 1,038
12. Blood Beach (1980)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Something is attacking and killing people on the beach. David and Mariana, old friends, search for clues where they played as kids to uncover the mysterious creature.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young, Otis Young
Votes: 2,862
13. Toxic Zombies (1980)
R | 89 min | Horror
Marijuana growers deep in the woods are hit with a new toxic herbicide, and they turn into mindless cannibals killing everyone they come into contact with.
Director: Charles McCrann | Stars: Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon
Votes: 1,157
14. Blow Job (1980)
78 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director: Alberto Cavallone | Stars: Danilo Micheli, Andrea Belfiore, Anna Bruna Cazzato, Mirella Venturini
Votes: 179
15. Cannibals in the Streets (1980)
R | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis
Votes: 4,298
16. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 61,183
17. The Beasts' Carnival (1980)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Crime
A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Naschy | Stars: Paul Naschy, Eiko Nagashima, Lautaro Murúa, Silvia Aguilar
Votes: 480
18. Cardiac Arrest (1979)
PG | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer is plaguing San Francisco, surgically removing the hearts of his victims. Assigned to the case is a weak-stomached homicide detective who investigates the possibility of black market organ transplants.
Director: Murray Mintz | Stars: Garry Goodrow, Michael Paul Chan, Max Gail, Susan O'Connell
Votes: 269
19. Cataclysm (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror
Mitchell, a police detective investigating the death of a victim of a German concentration camp, discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
Directors: Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Marc Lawrence, Faith Clift, Richard Moll
Votes: 710
20. City of the Living Dead (1980)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi
Votes: 19,367
21. Contamination (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch
Votes: 5,298
22. Virus (1980)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba
Votes: 3,044
23. Death Ship (1980)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a World War II Nazi torture vessel.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 5,701
24. Demented (1980)
R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After being gang raped and institutionalized, a woman suffers nightmares while under the care of her unfaithful husband, and finally snaps when a group of masked youths decide to invade her house.
Director: Arthur Jeffreys | Stars: Sallee Young, Harry Reems, Deborah Alter, Kathryn Clayton
Votes: 761
25. We're Going to Eat You (1980)
Unrated | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong, Michelle Yim
Votes: 1,023
26. Diyablo - sagrado (1980)
Action, Horror
Director: Carlo J. Caparas | Stars: Anthony Alonzo, Gloria Diaz, Romy Diaz, Romnick Sarmenta
Votes: 12
27. Die schwarze Katze (1980 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror, Thriller
Director: Karl-Heinz Kramberg | Stars: Anita Mally, Rainer Rudolph
28. Haunted Tales (1980)
Not Rated | 61 min | Horror, Thriller
1. A crash leaves a man dead, and his wife badly injured. Soon, he returns as a ghost to try to take her with him. 2. A caretaker wins the lottery thanks to the saucer spirit. Things begin to go wrong when he breaks his promise to it.
Directors: Yuen Chor, Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Yun Ling, Li Ching, Chen-Chi Lin, Locke Hua Liu
Votes: 80
29. Doctor Franken (1980 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Jeff Lieberman | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Robert Perault, David Selby, Teri Garr
Votes: 63
30. Dominique (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A millionaire, who drove his wife to commit suicide, starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward
Votes: 1,177
31. Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.
Director: Robert Hammer | Stars: James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence, Nicholas Worth
Votes: 2,163
32. Don't Go in the House (1979)
R | 82 min | Horror
A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.
Director: Joseph Ellison | Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Carnegie
Votes: 5,247
33. Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
Director: Charles B. Griffith | Stars: Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Virgil Frye
Votes: 729
34. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respectable Victorian scientist, concocts a drug which releases another side to his personality: a brutal, murderous alter-ego.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: David Hemmings, Lisa Harrow, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors
Votes: 111
35. Yami no teiô kyuketsuki dorakyura (1980 TV Movie)
94 min | Animation, Action, Horror
In this animated adaptation of the Tomb of Dracula comic book series, Dracula assumes control of a satanic cult and fathers a child through one of his followers, but the forces of both good and evil align themselves against him.
Directors: Akinori Nagaoka, Minoru Okazaki, Robert V. Barron | Stars: Kenji Utsumi, Hiroko Suzuki, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Yasuo Hisamatsu
Votes: 434
36. Dracula Exotica (1980)
X | 100 min | Adult, Comedy, Horror
Sailing to the USA, smuggler Vita Valdez stabs Count Dracula, but he bites her. A necrophiliac morgue attendant reveals she became a vampire. She becomes Dracula's secretary but turns a sergeant into a vampire against Dracula.
Director: Shaun Costello | Stars: Jamie Gillis, Samantha Fox, Vanessa del Rio, Eric Edwards
Votes: 292
37. Dracula Sucks (1978)
X | 95 min | Adult, Horror
Count Dracula (Jamie Gillis), a vampire who's recently purchased a castle adjacent to a mental institution, as well as his vampire brides, use the patients, and daughters of Dr. Seward, to satisfy a lust for blood and sex.
Director: Phillip Marshak | Stars: Jamie Gillis, Annette Haven, John Leslie, Serena
Votes: 514
38. Eaten Alive! (1980)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Horror
A young woman teams up with a mercenary to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea where they find that a deranged leader of a religious cult has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov, Mel Ferrer
Votes: 4,600
39. Effects (1979)
R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
While a small film crew are shooting a low budget horror movie in a house in the woods, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur, and the movie slowly starts to turn into a "snuff" film.
Director: Dusty Nelson | Stars: Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison, Bernard McKenna
Votes: 986
40. The Whip Against Murderous Mummies (1980)
82 min | Action, Horror, Adventure
El Látigo must face some Mayan mummies with superhuman powers, who commit various misdeeds in the town.
Director: Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez | Stars: Juan Miranda, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Marco de Carlo, Tinieblas
Votes: 31
41. Faces of Death (1978)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Horror
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.
Director: John Alan Schwartz | Stars: Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton, Thomas Noguchi
Votes: 8,004 | Gross: $35.00M
42. Fade to Black (1980)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Director: Vernon Zimmerman | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Norman Burton
Votes: 4,999
43. Fantômas (1980)
TV-14 | 356 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Master criminal Fantomas kills an ambassador, is having an affair with the dead man's wife, sneaks into a rich woman's house handing out vanishing-ink business cards, is caught and ... See full summary »
Stars: Helmut Berger, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Malet, Gayle Hunnicutt
Votes: 241
44. Los miedos (1980)
99 min | Drama, Horror
A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both from the authorities and from the disease, seven survivors head south.
Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Pablo Brichta, Lito González, María Leal, Tita Merello
Votes: 35
45. Fiend (1980)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
An evil spirit Possesses the corpse of a diseased man. It must absorb the life energy of the living, in order for the corpse to not rot away. It moves to the suburbs, where, a neighbor begins to suspect something isn't right.
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Don Leifert, Richard Nelson, Elaine White, George Stover
Votes: 534
46. Friday the 13th (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan
Votes: 157,522 | Gross: $39.75M
47. Funeral Home (1980)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Kay Hawtrey, Lesleh Donaldson, Barry Morse, Dean Garbett
Votes: 1,608
48. Beyond Terror (1980)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Horror
Deadly supernatural events plague three criminals and their two hostages, after burning an elderly woman's house.
Director: Tomás Aznar | Stars: Francisco Sánchez Grajera, Raquel Ramírez, Emilio Siegrist, Antonio Jabalera
Votes: 365
49. Furueru shita (1980)
114 min | Drama, Horror
A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Tsunehiko Watase, Yukiyo Toake, Mayuko Wakamori, Tomoe Hiiro
Votes: 223
50. Gabi ng lagim ngayon (1980)
Horror
An anthology of ghost stories, popular as a radio series in the 1960s and adapted for the big screen, returns for new episodes.
Directors: Cesar Gallardo, Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Charito Solis, Alma Moreno, Bembol Roco, Rio Locsin
51. Geburt der Hexe (1980)
94 min | Horror
A feudal lord rules over his people with cruelty and suppression. Since God does not hear their pleas for protection, the simple people of the area turn to the devil. One girl in particular becomes a witch.
Director: Wilfried Minks | Stars: Ulla Berkévicz, Friedrich Karl Praetorius, Edgar M. Böhlke, Anja Silja
Votes: 25
52. Gehrayee (1980)
135 min | Drama, Horror
When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting very strangely.
Directors: Vikas Desai, Aruna Raje | Stars: Shreeram Lagoo, Anant Nag, Indrani Mukherjee, Padmini Kolhapure
Votes: 236
53. Guest House (1980)
Horror
Christopher goes to meet a woman at a remote guest house for exorcism wearing a expensive diamond ring he gets murdered that night for the ring and his hand is brutally chopped off,The hand then returns for revenge.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay | Stars: Premkrishen Malhotra, Padmini Kapila, Madhu Kapoor, Komilla Virk
Votes: 67
54. Encounter of the Spooky Kind (1980)
R | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A rickshaw driver's wife and his rich client are secret lovers, and they decide to get rid of him without being implicated, so they hire a powerful sorcerer to kill him, but the sorcerer's colleague intervenes to protect him.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fat Chung, Lung Chan, Ha Huang
Votes: 2,776
55. He Knows You're Alone (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer in Staten Island. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing
Votes: 4,244
56. Shaolin Hellgate (1980)
88 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A man and woman are kicked out of the Court of Heaven on trumped up charges of bringing shame onto the Kingdom.
Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: Sheng Fu, Jenny Tseng, David Chiang, Lin-Lin Li
Votes: 167
57. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Unrated | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras
Votes: 5,929
58. Che dau che (1980)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A compulsive gambler with bad luck owes money to a violent gangster boss. A mysterious old man offers him a proposal to marry the ghost of his dead daughter in exchange for cash and an expensive apartment.
Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: James Yi Lui, Jenny Liang, Ju-Hua Pei, Lap Ban Chan
Votes: 119
59. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
R | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub
Votes: 10,516
60. Inferno (1980)
R | 106 min | Horror
An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 24,027
61. Island Claws (1980)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
Director: Hernan Cardenas | Stars: Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot, Jo McDonnell
Votes: 604
62. Jadu Tona (1977)
112 min | Horror, Romance
A little girl's body gets eerily possessed by a criminal's soul to get revenge on some of his former criminal friends.
Director: Ravikant Nagaich | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Feroz Khan, Reena Roy, Prem Chopra
Votes: 65
63. La dinastía de Dracula (1980)
85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the 16th century, the Inquisition condemns Count Orloff, a vampire and sorcerer to death. In the 19th century, the vampire Madame Kostoff arrives in Mexico and buys the house where the vampire was buried and revives him.
Directors: Alfredo B. Crevenna, Claudia Becker | Stars: Fabián Aranza, Silvia Manríquez, Rubén Rojo, Magda Guzmán
Votes: 96
64. Night of Death (1980)
Not Rated | 95 min | Fantasy, Horror
Young Martine begins working as a nurse at Deadlock House, a secluded grande retirement home, but from the beginning not everything is as it seems, strange residents each with their own ... See full summary »
Director: Raphaël Delpard | Stars: Isabelle Goguey, Charlotte de Turckheim, Michel Flavius, Betty Beckers
Votes: 597
65. Dracula's Last Rites (1980)
R | 86 min | Horror
Low budget horror film has a conspiracy of vampires in a small town (made up of the local sheriff, mortician, town doctor, and ambulance driver) creating accidents of some sort so they can ... See full summary »
Director: Domonic Paris | Stars: Patricia Lee Hammond, Gerald Fielding, Mimi Weddell, Victor Jorge
Votes: 191
66. Macabre (1980)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse
Votes: 3,093
67. Madness (1980)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An escaped convict plays the occupants of a remote home against one another for his own sadistic pleasure while searching for the loot he buried there following a previous robbery.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Lorraine De Selle, Patrizia Behn, Gianni Macchia
Votes: 630
68. Mama Dracula (1980)
90 min | Comedy, Horror
A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she is running into major problems in finding one.
Director: Boris Szulzinger | Stars: Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg, Alexander Wajnberg
Votes: 488
70. Maniac (1980)
18+ | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A psychopathic man goes on a killing and mutilation spree in New York City.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper
Votes: 20,233
71. Monstroid (1980)
R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Directors: Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: James Mitchum, John Carradine, Philip Carey, Anthony Eisley
Votes: 863
72. Morir de miedo (1980)
107 min | Horror, Thriller
Director: Juan José Porto | Stars: Mónica Randall, Simón Andreu, Miguel Ayones, José Ángel de Juanes
Votes: 52
73. Motel Hell (1980)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod
Votes: 13,618 | Gross: $6.34M
74. Mother's Day (1980)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Two brothers kidnap and brutalize three women for the pleasure of their demented mother.
Director: Charles Kaufman | Stars: Tiana Pierce, Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Frederick Coffin
Votes: 6,208
75. New Year's Evil (1980)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.
Director: Emmett Alston | Stars: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer
Votes: 3,848
76. Night of the Demon (1980)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
An anthropologist and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
Director: James C. Wasson | Stars: Michael Cutt, Joy Allen, Bob Collins, Jody Lazarus
Votes: 2,517
77. Nightkill (1980)
R | 97 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A woman's lover poisons her cruel husband, a rich businessman, in front of her. She becomes more terrified when she finds the lover dead as well. A police detective suddenly shows up at her door.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus
Votes: 891
78. Nightmare City (1980)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 6,735
79. Parano (1981)
80 min | Drama, Horror
Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life.
Director: Bernard Dubois | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Agathe Vannier, Lou Castel, Stefania Casini
Votes: 29
80.
Broadway on Showtime (1979– )
Episode:
Passion of Dracula
(1980)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Tongue in cheek teleplay adaptation for Showtime Television of the stage play by adaptation by Bob Hall and David Richmond of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Director: Bob Hall | Stars: Brian Bell, Christopher Bernau, Gordon Chater, Julia MacKenzie
Votes: 16
81. Patrick Still Lives (1980)
92 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Five people receive an anonymous letter revealing a secret of theirs and inviting them to come stay at a mansion that houses a clinic run by a corrupt doctor who experiments on the brain of his comatose son.
Director: Mario Landi | Stars: Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei, Mariangela Giordano, Carmen Russo
Votes: 959
82. Pesadilla mortal (1980)
85 min | Drama, Crime, Horror
A man goes on a murder spree after the criminals that took the life of his wife.
Director: Alfredo B. Crevenna | Stars: Raúl Ramírez, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Rosa Gloria Chagoyán, Luis Uribe
Votes: 13
83. Phir Wohi Raat (1980)
Not Rated | 146 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A woman keeps having nightmares about a woman trying to kill her and a psychiatrist tries to help her.
Director: Danny Denzongpa | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Kim, Aruna Irani, Tamanna
Votes: 116
84. Phobia (1980)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Bolt
Votes: 839 | Gross: $0.06M
85. Primitif (1978)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Horror
After a raft accident in the jungle, three anthropology students and their guides attempt to escape from a primitive cannibal tribe that has hunted them down.
Director: Sisworo Gautama Putra | Stars: Enny Haryono, Barry Prima, Johann Mardjono, Rukman Herman
Votes: 807
86. Prom Night (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
At a high-school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 20,939 | Gross: $14.80M
87. Hellfire (1980)
TV-14 | 116 min | Action, Drama, Horror
For as long as Laura (Lorna Tolentino) can remember, she has always been haunted by dreams of her brutal death under the hands of a mysterious killer. So in order to take Laura's mind away ... See full summary »
Director: Romy Suzara | Stars: Rudy Fernandez, Lorna Tolentino, George Estregan, Dick Israel
Votes: 38
88. Sabor a sangre (1980)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Western
Un pueblo entero oculta el secreto de un asesino que anda suelto a quien se dice el tigre. Antonio Aguilar entra al pueblo cantando sobre su caballo bailoteando para entremeterse en el asunto. Hay venganzas y canciones de sobra.
Director: Mario Hernández | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, José Gálvez, Bruno Rey
Votes: 27
89. Shakthi (1980)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Two men, a writer and his friend, travel to an abandoned bungalow, unaware that it is haunted. However, when they reach, they meet a ghost who narrates his miserable life story to them.
Director: Vijayanand | Stars: Punnapra Appachan, Bahadur, Cochin Hanifa, Jayan
Votes: 31
90. Satan's Black Wedding (1976)
R | 61 min | Horror
A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.
Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Greg Braddock, Ray Myles, Lisa Milano, Barrett Cooper
Votes: 339
91. Schizoid (1980)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An advice columnist in the midst of getting a divorce begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker. Meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.
Director: David Paulsen | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson
Votes: 1,977
92. Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980)
Unrated | 88 min | Adult, Horror
With a 20 year lease on an tropical island, horny John heads out with Fiona on a yacht skippered by horny Larry, to inspect the island for resort development. They meet Luna/Laura Gemser. John didn't expect zombies.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Laura Gemser, George Eastman, Dirce Funari, Mark Shannon
Votes: 1,499
93. Shadows of the Mind (1980)
80 min | Horror, Thriller
Years after being traumatized by witnessing the drowning deaths of her beloved father and stepmother as a child, a wealthy young woman is released from a sanitarium and returns to the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Roger Watkins | Stars: Marion Joyce, Erik Rolfe, G.E. Barrymore, Bianca Sloane
Votes: 131
94. The Beasts (1980)
90 min | Horror, Thriller
A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.
Director: Dennis Yu | Stars: Eddie Chan, Sing Chen, Kent Cheng, Ching Yee Chong
Votes: 248
95. Stage Fright (1980)
82 min | Horror, Thriller
A stage actress - who is hiding a deep trauma over the car accident that killed her mother - finds herself living a new nightmare when her fellow cast members are butchered by a glass-wielding killer.
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet, Nina Landis, Max Phipps
Votes: 876
96. Estigma (1980)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The death of Sebastian's father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older ... See full summary »
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Christian Borromeo, Alexandra Bastedo, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Berta Cabré
Votes: 280
97. Terror Train (1980)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield
Votes: 13,858
98. Terror en el tren de medianoche (1980)
85 min | Horror
The station chief of a small town in northern Spain suffers the wakes generated by a ghost train that appears every time a local neighbor dies. The local priest recommends you to calm down and fall asleep to get married.
Director: Manuel Iglesias | Stars: Rafael Hernández, Mary Paz Pondal, José Riesgo
Votes: 39
99. Terror en la capilla mortuoria (1980)
90 min | Drama, Horror
Carmen goes to the cemetery to visit and bring flowers to her deceased relatives. Just before leaving, she goes for a bucket of water from the chapel. A gust of wind closes the door of the chapel and the young woman is locked inside.
Director: Adalberto Fornario | Stars: Lina Fanho, Antoinette Olive, Amer Mammouk, Renèe Annicy
100. Terror on Tour (1980)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Music
A rock band called "The Clowns" comes under suspicion of murder when several prostitutes are killed by individuals made up like members of the band.
Director: Don Edmonds | Stars: Rick Styles, Chip Greenman, Rich Pemberton, Dave Galluzzo
Votes: 444
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