Best Horror movies of 1980

Actors : Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Shannon Bolin, Gale Garnett,
Directors : Max Kalmanowicz,

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.

Actors : Michael Cutt, Joy Allen, Bob Collins, Jody Lazarus,
Directors : James C. Wasson,

Professor Nugent and his students try to track down Bigfoot, but end up uncovering something more sinister at work.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Antonio de Cabo, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.

Actors : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...

Actors : Barry Morse, Kay Hawtrey, Dean Garbett, Lesleh Donaldson,
Directors : William Fruet,

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Actors : Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Vincent Gardère, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

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.

Actors : Sabrina Siani, Jérôme Foulon, Al Cliver, Lina Romay,

A man who lost an arm and his family to a tribe of cannibals returns ten years later to bring back his teenager daughter, only to find that she grew up into a beautiful blonde woman who became the cannibals' queen.

Actors : Patrick Barr, Angela Pleasence, Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman,
Directors : Gabrielle Beaumont,

An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children ...

Actors : Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile, Jennifer Runyon, William Lauer,
Directors : David Hess,

A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.

Actors : Akaji Maro, Kisako Makishi, Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Actors : Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon,
Directors : Charles McCrann,

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.

Actors : Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, Buster Crabbe, George Kelsey,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. ...

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Narciso Busquets, Roy Jenson, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Alfredo Zacarías,

A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Jaclyn Smith,
Directors : Ted Post,

A woman is convinced by her lover to poison her cruel husband, a rich businessman. However, she becomes terrified when she finds the lover dead as well. A sinister PI, who's investigating her husband's disappearance, contacts her.

Actors : Harry Reems, Deborah Alter, Kathryn Clayton, Sallee Young,
Directors : Arthur Jeffreys,

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, while her husband ...

Actors : Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Bolt,
Directors : John Huston,

A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

Actors : Marianna Hill, Donna Wilkes, Klaus Kinski, Craig Wasson,
Directors : David Paulsen,

An advice columnist begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker; meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Carrie Snodgress, Ruth Cox, Ray Milland,

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ...

Actors : Anthony Eisley, James Mitchum, Philip Carey, John Carradine,

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.