Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1659 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui) (1980)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- A groundbreaking Hong Kong blend of martial arts action, horror, and slapstick humour, set around Hung's attempts to battle the voodoo and hopping…
Fade to Black (1980)
- Dir. Vernon Zimmerman
Feat. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford
- Film buffs should appreciate this inventive black–comedy about a weirdo movie addict who kills people in the style of his various film heroes.
Fog, The (1980)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…
- A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…