Best Horror movies of 1981

Actors : Bruce Campbell, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Ellen Sandweiss,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

Actors : Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher,
Directors : John Landis,

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer, Charles Cyphers,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

While Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to hospital, and the serial killer is not far behind her.

Actors : Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines, Edward James Olmos,

A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.

Actors : Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant.

Actors : Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace,
Directors : Joe Dante,

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Actors : Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Paul Kelman, Keith Knight,
Directors : George Mihalka,

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.

Actors : Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott, Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.

Actors : John Houseman, Fred Astaire, Alice Krige, Craig Wasson,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.

Actors : Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield, James Farentino,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.

Actors : Cinzia Monreale, Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Antoine Saint-John,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Actors : Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Isabelle Adjani, Heinz Bennent,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Sam Neill, Lisa Harrow, Don Gordon,
Directors : Graham Baker,

The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.

Actors : Melissa Sue Anderson, Sharon Acker, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

Actors : Brian Matthews, Larry Joshua, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer,
Directors : Tony Maylam,

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.

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Lorraine De Selle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Zora Ulla Keslerová,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Actors : Giovanni Frezza, Catriona MacColl, Ania Pieroni, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton, Kevin Brophy, Linda Blair,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier.

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Farley Granger,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.