Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Ghost Story (1981)- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Fred Astaire, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Melvyn Douglas… - Eerie chiller based on the Peter Straub potboiler has four elderly gentlemen who are bound by a dark secret gather each week to tell each other…
Survivor, The (1981)- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten - Aussie horror following a pilot who is the only survivor of a crashed Boeing 747–200, and subsequently begins to experience strange…
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…
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.…
Shining, The (1980)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall - Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, David McCallum, Carroll Baker… - One of Disney's spookier efforts, this concerns a family who move into a country house in Britain and are beset with supernatural occurances.…
Amityville Horror, The (1979)- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger - James Brolin and Margot Kidder are convincingly spooked as happily marrieds who inherit a haunted house. Competently directed, but with the ghosts of…
Changeling, The (1979)
- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas - An impeccably crafted ghost story that demands to be taken seriously, not least because of the dignified casting of George C. Scott as a recently…
Salem's Lot (1979)- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin - Creepy Stephen King story made for TV, but no less scary for it. The town of Salem don't take kindly to nosy strangers!
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