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List of horror movies released in 1979 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1979.
Plot / Synopsis: Reno is an artist struggling to survive in NYC. He draws inspiration from scenes of daily street life and occasional random violence. Under pressure to finish his oft-delayed grand masterpiece, his psychotic alter-ego takes over and he begins killing random vagrants to boost his creativity, not quite realizing that it is happening in reality. When an art dealer grimly...
Director: Abel Ferrara Stars: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Harry Schultz, Alan Wynroth
Plot / Synopsis: 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.
Tagline: Making movies can be MURDER!...
Director: Dusty Nelson Stars: Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison, Bernard McKenna, Debra Gordon
Plot / Synopsis: A young couple, just married, rents a house in a village in Louisiana. But they are not welcome because...
Tagline: It was a small Louisiana town where people live and love and die and no one ever thought of locking their doors... except in the Monroe house...
Director: Charles B. Pierce Stars: Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper, Sue Ane Langdon, Dennis Fimple
Plot / Synopsis: A slasher film about a victim of child abuse (Dan Grimaldi) who grows up to become a maniacal construction worker. He stalks women at discos, takes them home, then chains them up in a special steel-walled room and sets them on fire.
Tagline: If you do...then don't say we didn't warn you...
Director: Joseph Ellison Stars: Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Carnegie, Dennis M. Hunter
Plot / Synopsis: A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.Tagline: She Lives. Don't Move. Don't Breathe. She Will Find You...
Director: John Frankenheimer Stars: Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, Victoria Racimo
Plot / Synopsis: The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
Tagline: This ancient Evil is now a modern industry...
Director: Rod Hardy Stars: Chantal Contouri, Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Henry Silva, Rod Mullinar
Plot / Synopsis: Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.
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Director: Denny Harris Stars: Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, Barbara Steele, Steve Doubet
Plot / Synopsis: The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue...
Director: Peter Fleischmann Stars: Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser, Tilo Prückner, Ulrich Wildgruber
Plot / Synopsis: This er***c horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats...
Director: Jean Rollin Stars: Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier, Muriel Montossé
Plot / Synopsis: Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton...
Director: E.W. Swackhamer Stars: Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold, Barrie Youngfellow
Plot / Synopsis: Grief-struck after the death of his wife, a young man attempts to keep her with him forever - by gutting her, stuffing her and replacing her eyes with glass eyes, turning her into a doll. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Tagline: A fate worse than death!...
Director: Joe D''Amato Stars: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto, Anna Cardini
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Plot / Synopsis: Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.
Tagline: Houses don't have memories...
Director: Stuart Rosenberg Stars: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton
Plot / Synopsis: A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Tagline: ...Fear is the Message!...
Director: Fred Walton Stars: Carol Kane, Rutanya Alda, Carmen Argenziano, Kirsten Larkin, William Boyett
Plot / Synopsis: Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Tagline: Throughout history, he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire...
Director: John Badham Stars: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve
Plot / Synopsis: Ushering the new 4K version of Phantasm (1979) is a new poster to go along with the upcoming 4K remastered version of Phantasm. Original director Don Coscarelli partnered up with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot to create a full 4K restoration. This 4K Phantasm film will release in movie theaters on September 24, 2016 and then VOD on October 7, 2016...
Director: Don Coscarelli Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus
Plot / Synopsis: A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse. The eccentric get obsessed with the film of the low budget horror filmmaker and research what happened with the author which disappeared. The research will lead the characters to fall deeper in drugs addiction. Finally it is discovered...
Director: Iván Zulueta Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro, Helena Fernán-Gómez
Plot / Synopsis: Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Tagline: When the earth spits out the dead, they will rise to suck the blood of the living!...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay
Plot / Synopsis: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Tagline: The Ultimate Experience Of Inner Terror
One of the most introspective and grotesque features from maestro of horror David Cronenberg (Crash, Videodrome, A History of Violence), The Brood finally gets its highly anticipated, newly restored 4K UHD in a Limited Dual Edition...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald
Plot / Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) struck the perfect balance between horror and sci-fi. The crew of a space merchant vessel receive a transmission thinking it a distress call, proceed to investigate. The crew is then attacked by the mysterious life-form via facehugger and the final form of the Alien. Alien had an estimated movie budget of $11 million and grossed...
Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
Plot / Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) struck the perfect balance between horror and sci-fi. The crew of a space merchant vessel receive a transmission thinking it a distress call, proceed to investigate. The crew is then attacked by the mysterious life-form via facehugger and the final form of the Alien. Alien had an estimated movie budget of $11 million and grossed...
Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
Plot / Synopsis: A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse. The eccentric get obsessed with the film of the low budget horror filmmaker and research what happened with the author which disappeared. The research will lead the characters to fall deeper in drugs addiction. Finally it is discovered...
Director: Iván Zulueta Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro, Helena Fernán-Gómez
Plot / Synopsis: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Tagline: The Ultimate Experience Of Inner Terror
One of the most introspective and grotesque features from maestro of horror David Cronenberg (Crash, Videodrome, A History of Violence), The Brood finally gets its highly anticipated, newly restored 4K UHD in a Limited Dual Edition...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald
Plot / Synopsis: Ushering the new 4K version of Phantasm (1979) is a new poster to go along with the upcoming 4K remastered version of Phantasm. Original director Don Coscarelli partnered up with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot to create a full 4K restoration. This 4K Phantasm film will release in movie theaters on September 24, 2016 and then VOD on October 7, 2016...
Director: Don Coscarelli Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus
Plot / Synopsis: Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Tagline: Throughout history, he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire...
Director: John Badham Stars: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve
Plot / Synopsis: John Huston stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl, and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent profanity and brutal avian attacks combine to transport the viewer to a state unlike anything they've experienced... somewhere between Hell and the...
Director: Giulio Paradisi Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Joanne Nail
Plot / Synopsis: Reno is an artist struggling to survive in NYC. He draws inspiration from scenes of daily street life and occasional random violence. Under pressure to finish his oft-delayed grand masterpiece, his psychotic alter-ego takes over and he begins killing random vagrants to boost his creativity, not quite realizing that it is happening in reality. When an art dealer grimly...
Director: Abel Ferrara Stars: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Harry Schultz, Alan Wynroth
Plot / Synopsis: Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Tagline: When the earth spits out the dead, they will rise to suck the blood of the living!...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay
Plot / Synopsis: Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton...
Director: E.W. Swackhamer Stars: Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold, Barrie Youngfellow
Plot / Synopsis: After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners try to plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really...
Director: Sergio Martino Stars: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Beryl Cunningham, Joseph Cotten
Plot / Synopsis: The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue...
Director: Peter Fleischmann Stars: Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser, Tilo Prückner, Ulrich Wildgruber
Plot / Synopsis: A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Tagline: ...Fear is the Message!...
Director: Fred Walton Stars: Carol Kane, Rutanya Alda, Carmen Argenziano, Kirsten Larkin, William Boyett
Plot / Synopsis: Grief-struck after the death of his wife, a young man attempts to keep her with him forever - by gutting her, stuffing her and replacing her eyes with glass eyes, turning her into a doll. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.
Tagline: A fate worse than death!...
Director: Joe D''Amato Stars: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto, Anna Cardini
Plot / Synopsis: This er***c horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats...
Director: Jean Rollin Stars: Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier, Muriel Montossé
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24 List of 1979 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1979 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1979 list are "Alien (1979), Arrebato (1979), The Brood (1979), Phantasm (1979), and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)." Our top list is an average of our review scores, our movie fans and movie viewers like you, and a few other sources.
The best horror film of 1979 is Alien (1979) scoring 8.59/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 1,018,230 votes for this movie. Starring in Alien (1979) is Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Hurt. Director Ridley Scott did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1979 best horror film which was remarkable.Alien (1979) is in Horror, and Sci-Fi movie genres.
The next best 1979 horror movie is Arrebato (1979) with a score of 7.4/10 stars.
Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro, and Helena Fernán-Gómez star in "Arrebato (1979)". Arrebato (1979) is directed by Iván Zulueta and has over 3,640 IMDB votes. You can find Arrebato (1979) in Horror, Drama, Mystery, and Fantasy movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1979, and we hope you enjoy the 29 movies on our list of good 1979 horror movies sorted best to worst.
Please let us know if there is a movie that you think belongs on our list that we missed.
The next best 1979 horror movie is Arrebato (1979) with a score of 7.4/10 stars.
Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro, and Helena Fernán-Gómez star in "Arrebato (1979)". Arrebato (1979) is directed by Iván Zulueta and has over 3,640 IMDB votes. You can find Arrebato (1979) in Horror, Drama, Mystery, and Fantasy movie genres.