80's Horror ITA
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1. 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: 19,347
2. The Beyond (1981)
R | 87 min | Horror
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John
Votes: 25,296 | Gross: $0.12M
3. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,028
4. The Church (1989)
R | 102 min | Horror
An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Barbara Cupisti
Votes: 8,877
5. 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: 61,109
6. Body Count (1986)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
A group of teens are stalked and killed by a Shaman at a cursed camping site.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Bruce Penhall, Mimsy Farmer, David Hess, Luisa Maneri
Votes: 2,578
7. Rat Man (1988)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
A maniac butchers a fashion model on a Caribbean island and leaves the body to be eaten by rats. The model's sister suspects something isn't quite right with the police investagation and ... See full summary »
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Eva Grimaldi, Luisa Menon
Votes: 968
8. 7, Hyden Park: La casa maledetta (1985)
96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
David Warbeck stars as an instructor who marries a traumatized, crippled woman. The wife suffers from PTSD and is tormented by a traumatic event that happened in her past. What is even more... See full summary »
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Christina Nagy, David Warbeck, Carroll Blumenberg, Rossano Brazzi
Votes: 578
9. 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: 5,913
10. 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: 24,000
11. Tenebrae (1982)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 27,404
12. StageFright (1987)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: David Brandon, Richard Barkeley, Barbara Cupisti, Domenico Fiore
Votes: 9,280
13. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 16,246
14. Touch of Death (1988 Video)
Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, Al Cliver, Sacha Darwin
Votes: 1,783
15. The Devil's Honey (1986)
R | 83 min | Mystery, Thriller
A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend to acts of sexual torture.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Corinne Cléry, Blanca Marsillach, Stefano Madia
Votes: 1,651
16. Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli, Cosimo Cinieri
Votes: 2,203
17. Vampire in Venice (1988)
TV-MA | 97 min | Horror
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Directors: Augusto Caminito, Klaus Kinski | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Barbara De Rossi, Yorgo Voyagis, Anne Knecht
Votes: 1,477
18. 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: 6,966
19. Absurd (1981)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: George Eastman, Annie Belle, Charles Borromel, Katya Berger
Votes: 3,545
20. Revenge of the Dead (1983)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, ... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti
Votes: 2,480
21. Ghosthouse (1988)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers, Ron Houck
Votes: 2,952
22. Witchery (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror
A photographer and others are stranded at a Massachusetts island hotel haunted by a woman in black.
Director: Fabrizio Laurenti | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Catherine Hickland, Annie Ross
Votes: 2,376
23. Manhattan Baby (1982)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror
An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidentally releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher Connelly, Laura Lenzi, Brigitta Boccoli, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 3,213
24. 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: 4,297
25. Phantom of Death (1987)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Michael York, Edwige Fenech, Donald Pleasence, Mapi Galán
Votes: 1,087
26. 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: 6,730
27. La casa del sortilegio (1989 TV Movie)
86 min | Horror, Mystery
A man has dreams of a house and a witch, his girlfriend suggests a break and and head for her family home unbeknown to him the house is the same as in his dreams.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Andy J. Forest, Sonia Petrovna, Susanna Martinková, Marina Giulia Cavalli
Votes: 327
28. House of Lost Souls (1989 TV Movie)
89 min | Horror
A group of people stay at a run down hotel, unknown to them the hotel has a dodgy past with the landlord.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Joseph Alan Johnson, Stefania Orsola Garello, Matteo Gazzolo, Laurentina Guidotti
Votes: 333
29. Demons 2 (1986)
R | 92 min | Horror
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Bobby Rhodes
Votes: 12,033
30. You'll Die at Midnight (1986)
88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man becomes aware that his wife has been having an affair resulting in a violent argument. Shortly afterward she is murdered and he becomes the chief suspect.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Valeria D'Obici, Leonardo Treviglio, Lea Martino, Eliana Miglio
Votes: 775
31. A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Unrated | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi
Votes: 4,013
32. 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: 3,085
33. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
R | 104 min | Horror
A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner
Votes: 12,853 | Gross: $12.53M
34. Demons (1985)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento
Votes: 26,548
35. Brivido giallo (1987–1989)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
"Brivido Giallo" was a horror anthology mini-series directed by the Italian master of horror, Lamberto Bava. Graveyard Disturbance and Dinner with a Vampire have a dark comical twist, while Until Death and The Ogre are regular horror.
Stars: Roberto Pedicini, Gregory Lech Thaddeus, Gioia Scola, Paolo Malco
Votes: 86
36.
Alta tensione (1993–1999)
Episode:
Il maestro del terrore
(1996)
87 min | Horror
The Master of Terror is the director Vincent Omen, originally from Romania, who made his fortune by directing horror films. He lives with his wife and daughter in a beautiful isolated villa... See full summary »
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Tomas Arana, Carole André, David Brandon, Ulisse Minervini
Votes: 175
37. Opera (1987)
R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 19,471
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