Horror Movies of 1979
The Fog
Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Dracula
In the late '70s, Frank Langella starred in the hit Broadway play Dracula, ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
The Amityville Horror
"For God's sake, GET OUT!" was the ad campaign for the 1979 shocker The Amityville Horror. The film was based on the allegedly true story of the ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Salem's Lot
Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
The Dark
This well-acted but wildly disjointed sci-fi/horror film stars William Devane as a writer who takes a personal interest in a series of baffling decapitation murders in the L.A. area, all of which seem to indicate some kind of ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Nosferatu the Vampyre
For Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 silent horror-fest Nosferatu, star Klaus Kinski adopts the same makeup ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Prophecy
This schlock horror classic from the 1970s is a product of the career ebb experienced by director John Frankenheimer. Robert Foxworth stars as Dr. Robert Verne, an inner-city physician renowned for his compassion and fairness. So ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
The Brood
Canadian director David Cronenberg followed his graphic vampire variation Rabid with this multi-layered, speculative horror film which addresses the way the ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Parts: The Clonus Horror
This routine, relatively low-budget horror film with a few well-known actors (Peter Graves, Keenan Wynn) unfolds a tale that has echoes in George Orwell's 1984 ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Thirst
This cold-blooded, thinly wrought horror film has a warm-blooded theme -- the regular imbibing of said ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Tourist Trap
In this horror outing, a seemingly abandoned desert gas station turns out to be a grotesque museum filled with murderous mannequins who come to life when visitors come to call. The ill-fated ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Zombie
This audaciously disgusting spectacle from the late master of gruesome horror, Lucio Fulci, was posited as a semi-sequel to George ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Beyond the Darkness
Joe D'Amato, notorious director of numerous Euro-porn epics, manages to ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Phantasm
Phantasm is a surprisingly artful and imaginative horror film, an impressive film for 23-year-old director Don Coscarelli who worked with a miniscule ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Skullduggery
As five eager gamers begin playing a medieval-themed board game that pits contestants against one another in the ultimate battle for supernatural supremacy, an unstoppable force of darkness is suddenly unleashed. Now ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Effects
This low-budget, Pittsburgh-lensed thriller takes a semi-satirical look at the low-budget horror film industry. The story centers on an insane filmmaker who hopes his crowning achievement will be a "snuff" ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Fascination
This erotic horror film from controversial cult director Jean Rollin is ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Zombie Holocaust
A team of scientists and explorers follow a trail of pilfered corpses to the Pacific-island domain of a hand-wringing mad doctor (Donald O'Brien) who performs bizarre, tortuous experiments on ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
Terror Out of the Sky
This made-for-TV thriller is yet another tale of swarming killer bees. A sub-par sequel to ... [ Horror movie - 1979 ]
