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1981 Horror Films


1981 Absurd
A priest comes to a small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own.
Director: Joe D'Amato
Stars: George Eastman, Annie Belle
1981 Blood Beach
Sun-worshiping Californians are disappearing by the droves at a popular beach hangout, and a pair of extremely gruff detectives grumble their way through the case until the real culprit is discovered.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Stars: Baird John Saxon, Burt Young
1981 Cataclysm
Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
Director: Phillip Marshak
Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Marc Lawrence
1981 Dark Night of the Scarecrow
In a small town, a wrongfully killed man exacts revenge on those who murdered him beyond the grave.
Director: Frank De Felitta
Stars: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons
1981 Dawn of the Mummy
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
Director: Frank Agrama
Stars: Brenda Siemer Scheider, Barry Sattels
1981 Deadly Blessing
This film is set in Amish Country, at a local farm, where a woman's husband is mysteriously killed by his own tractor!
Director: Wes Craven
Stars: Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone
1981 Don't Go in the Woods
Four young campers, Craig, Peter, Ingrid and Joanie, back-pack through the mountains for a relaxing weekend in the wilderness.
Director: James Bryan
Stars: Jack McClelland, Mary Gail Artz
1981 Evilspeak
A military cadet who happens to be a social outcast taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.
Director: Eric Weston
Stars: Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong
1981 Eyes of a Stranger
A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Stars: Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh
1981 Final Exam
A psycho killer shows up on college campus to slash up pretty co-eds and dumb jocks.
Director: Jimmy Huston
Stars: Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice
1981 Hell Night
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Director: Tom DeSimone
Stars: Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten
1981 Inseminoid
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
Director: Norman J. Warren
Stars: Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley
1981 Jaws of Satan
A preacher whose ancestors were cursed by Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
Director: Bob Claver
Stars: Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett
1981 Just Before Dawn
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area.
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Stars: George Kennedy, Mike Kellin
1981 Midnight
In 1930's Shanghai, Wu Sunpu, chief executive of the Shanghai Yuhua Silk Company, faces many struggles: with plant workers, with strikers, others in his industry, and most of all with bourgeois comprador Zhao Botao.
Director: Hu Sang
Stars: Xiaoying Cheng, Yelu Gu
1981 My Bloody Valentine
A decades old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day, turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
Director: George Mihalka
Stars: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier
1981 Nightmare
A mental-patient, who is troubled with horrible nightmares, has escaped from his hospital. Now on the streets he can't help killing innocent people.
Director: Romano Scavolini
Stars: Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith
1981 Saturday the 14th
A Family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue.
Director: Howard R. Cohen
Stars: Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss
1981 Scared to Death
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating.
Director: William Malone
Stars: John Stinson, Diana Davidson
1981 Strange Behavior
A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.
Director: Michael Laughlin
Stars: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher
1981 The Beyond
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after 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
1981 The Black Cat
Robert Miles is a psychic that can communicate with the dead. He also has the ability to control the mind of his cat (who incidentally is black).
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer
1981 The Burning
A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
Director: Tony Maylam
Stars: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres
1981 The Evil Dead
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss
1981 The Funhouse
Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson
1981 The Incubus
In a small New England town, a mysterious figure is raping and murdering young women.
Director: John Hough
Stars: John Cassavetes, John Ireland
1981 The Loch Ness Horror
An increasing number of people are dying mysterious deaths in the dark waters of Loch Ness, victims of the famous monster. But what other mysteries does the Loch hold?
Director: Larry Buchanan
Stars: Sandy Kenyon, Miki McKenzie
1981 The Pit
A solitary and strange boy wreaks revenge on the people who harasses him when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
Director: Lew Lehman
Stars: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias