Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Wolfen (1981)
- Dir. Michael Wadleigh
Feat. Albert Finney, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines…
- Well–made werewolf yarn based around detective Albert Finney's investigation into a series of flesh–shredding killings in…
Alligator (1980)
- Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
- Post–Jaws monster thriller, with giant alligator lurking in Chicago sewers. John Sayles script.
Awakening, The (1980)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Charlton Heston, Susannah York
- Based on Bram Stoker's "The Jewel of Seven Stars", this large budget horror film fails to capitalise on a great cast and authentic Egyptian locations…
Black Cat, The (1980)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Patrick Magee
- Village crank Patrick Magee is suspected in a gruesome series of killings, linked by the presence of the black puss. Dodgy (dubbed) acting aside,…
Boogeyman, The (1980)
- Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James…
- Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement.
An American production starring…
Burial Ground - Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) (1980)
- Dir. Andrea Bianchi
- A low–rent, bloodily awful Italian zombie–fest with a scientist accidentally awakening corpses in a desecrated graveyard. As one critic…
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
- Dir. Ruggero Deodato
- Enormously controversial apex of the Italian 'cannibal' horror subgenre, concerning an anthropologist who journeys to the Amazon to locate a…
City of the Living Dead (The Gates of Hell) (1980)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Christopher George, Katriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo…
- Gory, maggot–infested Italian zombie movie from one of the erratic masters of the form, Lucio Fulci.
Set in Dunwich, USA, a priest's suicide…
Contraband (The Smuggler) (1980)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Fabio Testi
- A slight change of pace for dir. Fulci, here concocting a vicious criminal thriller about rival smugglers on the Naples waterfront, but which manages…
Death Ship (1980)
- Dir. Alvin Rakoff
Feat. George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso…
- Cult horror follows survivors of a tragic shipping collision who are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog.