Best Horror movies of 1981

Actors : Sharon Stone, Jeff East, Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

Actors : Tony Fish, Harriet Bass, Seth Jones, Gaylen Ross,
Directors : Joe Giannone,

A legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp.

Actors : Joe Flood, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Kristen Riter,

A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Ricky Paull Goldin, Tricia O'Neil,

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

Actors : Joe Cortese, Clint Howard, Claude Earl Jones, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Eric Weston,

An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.

Actors : Gregg Henry, George Kennedy, Chris Lemmon, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

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 ...

Actors : Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Joe Penny, Lori Lethin,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jeffrey Tambor, Severn Darden,
Directors : Howard R. Cohen,

A family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue.

Actors : Annie McEnroe, Andrea Marcovicci, Bruce McGill, Michael Caine,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and ...

Actors : Edward Albert, Bernard Behrens, Ray Walston, Erin Moran,
Directors : Bruce D. Clark,

SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Karin Well, Simone Mattioli,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. The zombies attack a jet-set-group which is celebrating a party in a villa nearby...

Actors : Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker,
Directors : Herb Freed,

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.

Actors : Joel S. Rice, DeAnna Robbins, Cecile Bagdadi, Ralph Brown,
Directors : Jimmy Huston,

A psycho killer shows up on college campus to slash up pretty co-eds and dumb jocks.

Actors : Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

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.

Actors : Rebecca Balding, Jeff Harlan, Anne-Marie Martin, Fred McCarren,
Directors : James L. Conway,

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

Actors : Kathleen Rowe McAllen, Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, Frank Birney,
Directors : Frank LaLoggia,

High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.

Actors : Peter DuPre, Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.

Actors : Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, Patrick Magee, David Warbeck,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

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). He uses the cat to take vengeance upon his ...

Actors : C.J. Cooke, Mik Cribben, Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith,
Directors : Romano Scavolini,

A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.