Best Horror movies of 1980

Actors : Carmen Russo, Mariangela Giordano, Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei,
Directors : Mario Landi,

A bedridden psycho is able to receive evil "vibrations" from hardened criminals and use them for his telekinetic powers.

Actors : Gary Sweet, Jenny Neumann, Nina Landis, Max Phipps,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy ...

Actors : Susan Hogan, Paul Michael Glaser, 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 : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : John Saxon, Michael Dante, Mario Milano, Lynda Day George,
Directors : Herb Freed,

An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Virgil Frye, Maia Danziger, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.

Actors : Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Shreeram Lagoo, Indrani Mukherjee,

When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting very strangely.

Actors : Patricia Lee Hammond, Gerald Fielding, Mimi Weddell, Victor Jorge,
Directors : Domonic Paris,

Low budget horror film has a conspiracy of vampires in a small town (made up of the local sheriff, mortician, town doctor, and ambulance driver) creating accidents of some sort so they can ...

Actors : Lana Turner, James Winkler, Richard Benjamin, Teri Garr,

A remake of 1944's Lon Chaney film Weird Woman (the first was Burn, Witch, Burn! in 1962) is more of a horror spoof, as three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further ...

Actors : Richard Nelson, Elaine White, George Stover, Don Leifert,
Directors : Don Dohler,

This low budget feature from Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler opens with a spirit entering into a gravesite and reanimating a corpse back to life as Mr. Longfellow. In order for him to stay ...

Actors : Barry Prima, Johann Mardjono, Rukman Herman, Enny Haryono,
Directors : Sisworo Gautama Putra,

After a raft accident in the jungle, three anthropology students and their guides attempt to escape from a primitive cannibal tribe that has hunted them down.

Actors : Robert Lansing, Nita Talbot, Steve Hanks, Jo McDonnell,
Directors : Hernan Cardenas,

A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.

Actors : Ian Scott, James Johnson, Jerry McGee, Judith-Marie Bergan,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.

Actors : Susan O'Connell, Garry Goodrow, Michael Paul Chan, Max Gail,
Directors : Murray Mintz,

The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a ...

Actors : Sing Chen, Eddie Chan, Kent Cheng, Ching Yee Chong,
Directors : Dennis Yu,

A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

Actors : Eiko Nagashima, Lautaro Murúa, Silvia Aguilar, Paul Naschy,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese ...

Actors : Dave Galluzzo, Chip Greenman, Rich Pemberton, Rick Styles,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A rock band called "The Clowns" comes under suspicion of murder when several prostitutes are killed by individuals made up like members of the band.

Actors : Boris Plotnikov, Igor Klass, Aleksandr Kharitonov, Elena Dimitrova,
Directors : Valeri Rubinchik,

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.

Actors : Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg, Louise Fletcher, Alexander Wajnberg,
Directors : Boris Szulzinger,

A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she is running into major problems in finding one.

Actors : John Smihula, Fred Borges, Paul Smihula, Michael Siegal,
Directors : Nathan Schiff,

A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handling crime, heads the investigation. A ...