Best Horror movies of 1980

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 : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen, Lap Ban Chan,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A woman, who believes she has murdered her abusive husband, then sees him return as a vengeful ghost.

Actors : Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg, Alexander Wajnberg, Louise Fletcher,
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 : 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 : Isabelle Goguey, Michel Flavius, Charlotte de Turckheim, Betty Beckers,
Directors : Raphaël Delpard,

Young Martine begins working as a nurse at Deadlock House, a secluded grande retirement home, but from the beginning not everything is as it seems, strange residents each with their own ...

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 : 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 : Susan Chapek, Bernard McKenna, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato,
Directors : Dusty Nelson,

Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.

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 ...

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 : 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 : Susan O'Connell, Garry Goodrow, Max Gail, Michael Paul Chan,
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 : 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 ...