1980 Alien Dead |  | A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. Director: Fred Olen Ray Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts |
| 1980 Alligator |  | A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating
discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small
reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage. Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker |
| 1980 Altered States |  | A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory
drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress
genetically. Director: Ken Russell Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown |
| 1980 Antropophagus |  | A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they
are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered
the town's former residents. Director: Joe D'Amato Stars: Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone |
| 1980 Apocalypse domani |  | Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back
contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten. Director: Antonio Margheriti Stars: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner |
| 1980 Beyond Evil |  | An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife. Director: Herb Freed Stars: John Saxon, Lynda Day George |
| 1980 Cannibal Holocaust |  | A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the
Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians
who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes. Director: Ruggero Deodato Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi |
| 1980 Christmas Evil |  | A psycho in a Santa suit gets to decide who's been naughty and who's been nice. Director: Lewis Jackson Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn |
| 1980 City of the Living Dead |  | 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 the grave. Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl |
| 1980 City of the Walking Dead |  | 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 |
| 1980 Death Ship |  | Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Director: Alvin Rakoff Stars: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna |
| 1980 Demented |  | A woman is gang-raped in a horse's stable, and even though the rapists
are caught and imprisoned, she is harassed many moons later by ghastly
visions of her tormentors Director: Arthur Jeffreys Stars: Sallee Young, Harry Reems |
| 1980 Don't Answer the Phone |  | A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith,
terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young
women in their homes Director: Robert Hammer Stars: James Westmoreland, Ben Frank |
| 1980 Don't Go in the House |  | A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower. Director: Joseph Ellison Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet |
| 1980 Eaten Alive |  | young woman teams up with an adventurer to find her missing sister in
the jungles of New Guinea and they stumble upon a religious cult led by a
deranged preacher whom has located his commune in an area inhabited by
cannibals. Director: Umberto Lenzi Stars: Robert Kerman, Janet Agren |
| 1980 Effects |  | Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect
that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually
making a "snuff" film. Director: Dusty Nelson Stars: Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek |
| 1980 Encounters of the Spooky Kind |  | Villager Bold Cheung, known for his willingness to
do anything courageous, bold or daring, becomes a target by the evil
rich Master Tam. Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fat Chung |
| 1980 Erotic Nights of the Living Dead |  | A sailor takes an American businessman and his girlfriend to an island where the businessman wants to build a resort. Director: Joe D'Amato Stars: Laura Gemser, George Eastman |
| 1980 He Knows You're Alone |  | A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape? Director: Armand Mastroianni Stars: Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney |
| 1980 Hell of the Living Dead |  | A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a
four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting
flesh-eating zombies. Director: Bruno Mattei Stars: Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo |
| 1980 Humanoids from the Deep |  | Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: halfman,
halffish which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and
raping the women. Director: Barbara Peeters Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel |
| 1980 Inferno |  | An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York
investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident
addresses are the domain of two covens of witches. Director: Dario Argento Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle |
| 1980 Long Island Cannibal Massacre |  | A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Director: Nathan Schiff Stars: John Smihula, Fred Borges |
| 1980 Lost Souls |  | Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They
are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered. Director: Tun Fei Mou Stars: Hung Yen, Feng Chi |
| 1980 Macabre |  | 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 |
| 1980 Mama Dracula |  | A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay
alive. The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she
is running into major problems in finding one. Director: Boris Szulzinger Stars: Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider |
| 1980 Maniac |  | A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City,
kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find
the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree? Director: William Lustig Stars: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro |
| 1980 Motel Hell |  | Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in
his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. Director: Kevin Connor Stars: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke |
| 1980 New Years Evil |  | During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Punk Rock & New Wave show
host gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time
zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one. Director: Emmett Alston Stars: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven |
| 1980 Night of Death |  | Director: Raphaël Delpard Stars: Isabelle Goguey, Charlotte de Turckheim |
| 1980 Nightmares |  | A little girl tries to stop her mother from fooling around with a man in a car. Director: John D. Lamond Stars: Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet |
| 1980 Patrick vive ancora |  | A bedridden psycho is able to receive evil "vibrations" from hardened criminals and use them for his telekinetic powers. Director: Mario Landi Stars: Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei |
| 1980 Return of the Wolfman |  | Waldemar Daninsky is sentenced to be executed along with Elizabeth Bathory and a number of witches. Director: Jacinto Molina Stars: Paul Naschy, Silvia Aguilar |
| 1980 Schizoid |  | Julie is an advice columnist for the city newspaper who begins to receive anonymous notes threatening murder and worse. Director: David Paulsen Stars: Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes |
| 1980 The Boogeyman |  | Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder. Director: Ulli Lommel Stars: Suzanna Love, John Carradine |
| 1980 The Changeling |  | A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre. Director: Peter Medak Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere |
| 1980 The Children |  | A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails. Director: Max Kalmanowicz Stars: Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers |
| 1980 The Curse of King Tut's Tomb |  | After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian
king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin
mysteriously dying off. Director: Philip Leacock Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis |
| 1980 The Fog |  | Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained
from shipwrecked lepers but no one believes it. On the eve of the
town's centennial many plan to attend the celebrations, including the
murdered lepers. Director: John Carpenter Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis |
| 1980 The Godsend |  | An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. Director: Gabrielle Beaumont Stars: Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman |
| 1980 The Hearse |  | Jane Hardy decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce. Director: George Bowers Stars: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten |
| 1980 The Monster Club |  | A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a
mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him;
between each story some musicians play their songs. Director: Roy Ward Baker Stars: Vincent Price, John Carradine |
| 1980 The Night of the Hunted |  | A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental
disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a
result of a strange environmental accident. Director: Jean Rollin Stars: Brigitte Lahaie, Vincent Gardère |
| 1980 The Shining |  | A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and
spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his
psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Director: Stanley Kubrick Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall |
| 1980 The Silent Scream |  | Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Director: Denny Harris Stars: Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell |
| 1980 The Watcher in the Woods |  | When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience
strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past. Director: John Hough Stars: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson |
| 1980 To All a Good Night |  | A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume. Director: David Hess Stars: Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson |
| 1980 Toxic Zombies |  | After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the
growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into
zombie-like mutants. Director: Charles McCrann Stars: Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro |
| 1980 We're Going to Eat You |  | A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals. Director: Hark Tsui Stars: Norman Chu, Eddy Ko |
| 1980 Zombie Holocaust |  | The members of an expedition in search for the last faithful of Kito,
the cannibal god, land on a small island in the Moluccas (East Indies)
and are soon hunted by cannibals and zombies. Director: Marino Girolami Stars: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli |
