Best Horror movies of 1979 that are oscar winners or nominees

Alien(1979)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



The Amityville Horror(1979)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.