Best Horror movies of 1981

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Howard Vernon, Anouchka, Pierre-Marie Escourrou,

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Actors : James P. Hayden, Angie Brown, Nick Cleland, Mary Gail Artz,
Directors : James Bryan,

A maniacal murderer kills tourists in the woods.

Actors : Steven Grives, Jennifer Ashley, Robin Clarke, Stephanie Beacham,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Actors : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Charles Borromel, George Eastman, Katya Berger, Annie Belle,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A priest comes to a small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, James Franciscus, Joshua Sinclair,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Biehn, James Garner,
Directors : Ed Bianchi,

Douglas, a record salesman, is an obsessive fan of actress Sally Ross. When his letters are rejected, he strikes out at her and her loved ones.

Actors : Drew Snyder, Leonard Mann, Joseph R. Sicari, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.

Actors : Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Olivia Pascal, Jasmin Losensky,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Actors : Barbi Benton, Jon Van Ness, Charles Lucia, John Warner Williams,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.

Actors : Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Adam Arkin, Joanne Nail,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A teenager (Adam Arkin) becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.

Actors : Barry Sattels, George Peck, Brenda Siemer Scheider, John Salvo,
Directors : Frank Agrama,

A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.

Actors : W.D. Mochtar, Sofia W.D., Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a ...

Actors : Robert Powell, Angela Punch McGregor, Joseph Cotten, Jenny Agutter,
Directors : David Hemmings,

A plane crashes just after takeoff and the only survivor, the pilot, walks out of the wreckage. He doesn't remember the crash, but 300 passengers and crew are dead. As the investigation goes on people are wanting answers.

Actors : Dennis Robertson, Morgan Most, Michael MacRae, Trish Everly,
Directors : Ovidio G. Assonitis,

Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideously deformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local looney bin. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for ...

Actors : Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne, Ann Bronston,
Directors : Byron Quisenberry,

A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.

Actors : Frederikke Borge, Leonard Frey, Bruce Dern, Maud Adams,
Directors : Bob Brooks,

A troubled tattoo artist has designs on a model.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Akiko Kana, Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

The villain is called Amakusa SHIRO Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling)

Actors : Peter Cushing, Terence Stamp, Ian Sera, David Hatton,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because he wants to travel around the world first. His wealthy uncle agrees to send him on a ...