List of horror films of 1980
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A number of horror films were released in 1980.
Title | Director(s) | Cast | Country | Notes | Ref. |
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Alien Dead | Fred Olen Ray | United States | [1] | ||
Alligator | Lewis Teague | Robert Forster, Robin Riker | United States | [2] | |
Altered States | Ken Russell | William Hurt, Drew Barrymore, Francis X. McCarthy | United States | [3] | |
Antropophagus | Joe D'Amato | George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone | Italy | Alternative title(s)
| [4] |
The Attic | George Edwards | Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Rosemary Murphy | United States | [5] | |
The Awakening | Mike Newell | Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend | United States United Kingdom | [6] | |
The Babysitter | Peter Medak | Patty Duke, William Shatner | United States | Television film | [7] |
Beyond Evil | Herb Freed | John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante | United States | [8] | |
The Boogeyman | Ulli Lommel | Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Felicite Morgan | United States | [9] | |
Cannibal Apocalypse | Antonio Margheriti | Giovanni Lombardo Radice, John Saxon, Wallace Wilkinson | Italy Spain | [10] | |
Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato | Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi | Italy | [11] | |
Cardiac Arrest | Murray Mintz | Max Gail, Gary Goodrow, Mike Paul Chan | United States | ||
The Changeling | Peter Medak | George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas | Canada | [12] | |
The Children | Max Kalmanowicz | Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers | United States | [13] | |
Christmas Evil | Lewis Jackson | Brandon Maggart, Gus Salud, Jeffrey DeMunn | United States | [14] | |
City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci | Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Michele Soavi | Italy | [15] | |
Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, | Italy West Germany | ||
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Philip Leacock | Eva Marie Saint, Raymond Burr | United Kingdom United States | Television film | [16] |
Death Ship | Alvin Rakoff | George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso | United Kingdom Canada | [17] | |
Demented | Arthur Jeffreys | Sallee Elyse, Harry Reems | United States | [18] | |
Don't Answer the Phone! | Robert Hammer | James Westmoreland, Flo Gerrish, Ben Frank | United States | [19] | |
Don't Go in the House | Joseph Ellison | Dan Grimaldi, Robert Osth, Ruth Dardick | United States | [20] | |
Eaten Alive! | Umberto Lenzi | Janet Agren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov | Italy Spain | [21] | |
Effects | Dusty Nelson | Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison | United States | Alternative title(s)
| [22] |
Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung | Hong Kong | [23] | |
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead | Joe D'Amato | Laura Gemser | Italy | [24] | |
Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson | United States | [25] | |
The Fog | John Carpenter | Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh | United States | [26] | |
Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby | United States | [27] | |
Funeral Home | William Fruet | Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey | Canada | Alternative title(s)
| [28] |
The Godsend | Gabrielle Beaumont | Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence | United Kingdom | [29] | |
The Haunting of M | Anna Thomas | Jo Scott Matthews, Nini Pitt, Isolde Cazelet | United States | [30] | |
He Knows You're Alone | Armand Mastroianni | Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Hanks | United States | [31] | |
The Hearse | George Bowers | Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux | United States | [32] | |
Hell of the Living Dead | Bruno Mattei | Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Giraldi, Selan Karay | Italy Spain | [33] | |
The House on the Edge of the Park | Ruggero Deodato | David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo | Italy | [34] | |
Humanoids from the Deep | Barbara Peters | Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow | United States | [35] | |
Inferno | Dario Argento | Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi | Italy | [36] | |
Island Claws | Hernan Cardenas | Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks | United States | [37] | |
Long Island Cannibal Massacre | Nathan Schiff | John Smihula, Fred Borges, Michael Siegal | United States | [38] | |
Lost Souls | Mou Tun-fe | Yen Hung, Chen Ming, Chan Shen | Hong Kong | [39] | |
Macabre | Lamberto Bava | Bernice Stegers, Veronica Zinny, Stanko Molnar | Italy | [40] | |
Mama Dracula | Boris Szulzinger | Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Belgium | [41] | |
Maniac | William Lustig | Joe Spinell, Fred Borges | United States | [42] | |
The Monster Club | Roy Ward Baker | Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine | United Kingdom | [43] | |
Motel Hell | Kevin Connor | Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons | United States | [44] | |
Mother's Day | Charles S. Kaufman | Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce | United States | [45] | |
New Years Evil | Emmett Alston | Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace | United States | [46] | |
Night of Death | Raphaël Delpard | Ernest Menzer, Denise Montréal, Betty Beckers | France | [47] | |
Night of the Demon | James C. Watson | Joy Allen, Bob Collins | United States | [48] | |
The Night of the Hunted | Jean Rollin | Brigitte Lahaie, Rachel Mhas, Vincent Gardère | France | [49] | |
Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi | Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio | Italy Mexico Spain | Alternative title(s)
| [50] |
Nightmares | John D. Lamond | Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet | Australia | Alternative title(s)
| [51] |
The Other Hell | Bruno Mattei | Franca Stoppi, Carlo De Mejo, Francesca Carmeno | Italy | ||
Patrick Still Lives | Mario Landi | Gianni Dei, Franco Silva, Mariangela Giordano | Italy | [52] | |
Prom Night | Paul Lynch | Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens | Canada | [53] | |
Return of the Wolfman | Paul Naschy | Paul Naschy, Julia Saly, Silvia Aguilar | Spain | [54] | |
Satan's Slave | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Ali Albar, Simon Cader, Adang Mansyur | Indonesia | [55] | |
Schizoid | David Paulsen | Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill | United States | [56] | |
Sex and Black Magic | Joe D'Amato | Nieves Navarro, Lucia Ramirez, Richard Harrison | Dominican Republic Italy | [57] | |
The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd | United States United Kingdom | [58] | |
Terror Train | Roger Spottiswoode | Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner | Canada | [59] | |
To All a Good Night | David Hess | Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile | United States | [60] | |
Toxic Zombies | Chuck McCrann | Chuck McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend | United States | [61] | |
The Unseen | Danny Steinmann | Barbara Bach, Sidney Lassick, Stephen Furst | United States | [62] | |
The Watcher in the Woods | John Hough, Vincent McEveety | Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards | United States | [63] | |
We're Going to Eat You | Tsui Hark | Han Kuo Tsai, Kao Hsiung, Mel Wong | Hong Kong | [64] | |
Windows | Gordon Willis | Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley | United States | [65] | |
Without Warning | Greydon Clark | Jack Palance, Martin Landau | United States | [66] | |
Zombie Holocaust | Marino Girolami, Francesco Martino] | Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Cole, Sherry Buchanan | Italy | [67] |
References
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- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Alligator". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
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- ^ Muir 2010, pp. 64–65.
- ^ Muir 2010, pp. 67–68.
- ^ Young 2000, p. 129.
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- ^ Muir 2010, pp. 74–75.
- ^ Binion, Cavett. "Apocalypse domani". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
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- ^ Muir 2010, p. 77.
- ^ Muir 2010, p. 78.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Christmas Evil". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ Firsching, Robert. "City of the Living Dead". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
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- ^ Wallace 2008, p. 140.
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- ^ Muir 2010, pp. 90–95.
- ^ Muir 2010, pp. 95–97.
- ^ Muir 2010, pp. 241–242.
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- ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Night of Death". AllMovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
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- ^ "The Watcher in the Woods". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles, California: American Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017.
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Sources
- Browning, John Edgar (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-8108-6887-8.
- Chibnall, Steve; Petley, Julian, eds. (2002). British Horror Cinema. New York City, New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23003-2.
- Deal, David (2007). Television Fright Films of the 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-42929-5.
- Hardy, Phil, ed. (1995). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-624-0.
- Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra (2011). Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4961-3.
- Hutchings, Peter (2009). The A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6887-8.
- Kay, Glenn; Gordon, Stuart (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-770-8.
- Muir, John Kenneth (2010). Horror Films of the 1980s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-45501-0.
- O'Brien, Daniel (2003). Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror. Manchester: Headpress. ISBN 978-1-900486-31-6.
- Rockoff, Adam (2016) [2002]. Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9192-6.
- Stine, Scott Aaron (2015). The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-49140-7.
- Wallace, Amy (2008). The Book of Lists: Horror. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-153726-4.
- Young, R. G. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 1-55783-269-2. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
External links
- Horror films of 1980 on Internet Movie Database