Best Horror Films of 1980
Prom Night
This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror ... who is the little dead girl's sister, her school-principal father (Leslie Nielsen), or her disc-jockey brother, Alex (Michael Tough). [ best horror films - 1980 ]
The Hearse
The Hearse, directed by ... to all but the most unsophisticated viewer. The Hearse, routine and slow, will lull most horror fans to sleep. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Inferno
A combination of alchemy, ... to burn out of control, but before Mark can escape, he discovers the shocking identity of the Three Mothers. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
City of the Living Dead
This gruesome horror film ... effects work and a familiar cast including Catriona MacColl, Janet Agren, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, and Daniela Doria. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Maniac!
Joe Spinell, who appeared ... film star Sharon Mitchell (whom director William Lustig discovered in The Violation of Claudia) appears briefly as a nurse. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Eaten Alive
A courageous mercenary journeys ... zealot. This Italian horror adventure is filled with blood, gore, and violence that includes the killing of real animals. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Friday the 13th
One of the longest-running ... Taso N. Stavrakis. Friday the 13th made over 20 million dollars at the box office and spawned numerous sequels. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Zombie Lake
Cult filmmaker Jean Rollin ... pick, while those looking for a better treatment of the same plot should consider Ken Wiederhorn's Shock Waves instead. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Cannibal Apocalypse
Half zombie epic, half ... so overloaded with profanity that it becomes unintentionally hilarious. Released under a dozen titles, the best-known being Cannibal Apocalypse. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
The Children
In The Children, an ... to save his town. This horror film directed by Max Kalmanowicz was also released as The Children of Ravensback. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Don't Go in the House
A disturbed man descends ... film role for Dan Grimaldi, who later went on to play Patsy Parisi on the HBO series The Sopranos. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Graf Dracula beisst jetzt auch in Oberbayern
In yet another sexploitation ... landscape, but the dubbed English and failed humor, along with so-so acting, leave only the visuals to be appreciated. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Fear No Evil
This imaginative low-budget horror ... the tender age of 23 -- long before his success directing the more subdued supernatural opus Lady in White. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Macabre
Lamberto Bava directed this ... impressed enough that he reportedly said "Now I can die in peace." The elder Bava died two months later. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
He Knows You're Alone
In this fairly frightening ... most memorable sequence, involving a murder at a movie theater, was later restaged almost shot-by-shot in Scream 2 (1997). [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Helltrain
Nazi decadence rides the ... for the SS and Hitler's Last Train) was directed by Alain Payet, though English language prints credit James Gartner. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Mother's Day
Three women find their ... was later reissued in a cut version that eliminated some of the more extreme scenes of rape and violence. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Hell of the Living Dead
In this woeful "zombie" ... with ugly color and moronic dialogue, it is difficult to tell whether the living-dead or brain-dead dominate the film. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Christmas Evil
He sees you when ... Federici of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band also has a cameo, as an accordion player at a community center dance. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Bloodeaters
George A. Romero completists ... their illicit plantation, resulting in gouts of fake-looking gore. Released on video under the more environmentally-aware title Toxic Zombies. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
We're Going to Eat You!
Following up on his ... of half-eaten corpses. When Rolex gets felled by the Chief, 999 must figure out how to escape by himself. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
La Bimba di Satana
When the daughter and ... on a frenzied rampage of sex and murder after becoming possessed by the vengeful spirit of her late mother. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Patrick Still Lives
Giallo specialist Mario Landi ... a boy named Patrick who seems to possess powerful telekinetic capabilities, even though he is in a deep coma. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Night of the Hunted
This offbeat mixture of ... releases prior to its appearance on DVD; it was released in English-speaking countries as The Night of the Hunted. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Long Island Cannibal Massacre
The sophomore outing from ... Led by their powerful king (Winston B. Anderson III), the lepers refuse to go down without a bloody battle. [ best horror films - 1980 ]
Cannibal Terror
A simple kidnapping becomes ... star in a notorious Spanish/French co-production that was originally banned in Britain as one of the official "Video Nasties." [ best horror films - 1980 ]Supplemental Navigation
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