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List of horror movies released in 1980 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1980.
Plot / Synopsis: 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.
Tagline: Your throat dries, heart pounds, flesh crawls and you panic...that is the fear of...
Director: Ted Post Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Robert Mitchum, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Fritz Weaver
Plot / Synopsis: A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident...
Director: Jean Rollin Stars: Brigitte Lahaie, Alain Duclos, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Rachel Mhas
Plot / Synopsis: It starts off in Vietnam where John Saxon gets bitten by P.O.W. John Morghen who has been infected with some sort of cannibal virus. A few decades later in Atlanta, Georgia, Saxon wakes up from a nightmare flashback of what actually happened back in 'Nam. Saxon then receives a call from Morghen asking him if he wants to go...
Director: Antonio Margheriti Stars: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis, Tony King
Plot / Synopsis: A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Tagline: You'd better take care...Santa is coming to town!...
Director: Lewis Jackson Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick, Brian Neville
Plot / Synopsis: An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Tagline: The Nightmare Becomes Reality...
Director: Umberto Lenzi Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani
Plot / Synopsis: Alex, a psychopathic mechanic, r*pes a woman in the park. Later, a decadent couple pull into his shop needing car repair. They invite Alex and his mentally challenged buddy to join them at a decadent suburban party. Once there, Alex amuses himself by tormenting and r**ing the guests...
Tagline: Delivers Shocks To The Maximum ... Pushes The Limits Of...
Director: Ruggero Deodato Stars: David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Marie Claude Joseph
Plot / Synopsis: Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and r**ing the women.
Tagline: Between Life and Death, There Is ... "Humanoids from the Deep"...
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Anthony Pena
Plot / Synopsis: A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Tagline: Prepare yourself for the Shock of a Lifetime!...
Plot / Synopsis: A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Tagline: The boys and girls of Sigma Phi. Some will live. Some will die...
Director: Roger Spottiswoode Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Derek McKinnon
Plot / Synopsis: A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special ingredient" of their famous roadside fritters.Tagline: You might just die...laughing!...
Director: Kevin Connor Stars: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Wolfman Jack
Plot / Synopsis: A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Tagline: Meet Eric Binford, the ultimate movie buff. If you know someone like him... run!...
Director: Vernon Zimmerman Stars: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Norman Burton, Linda Kerridge
Plot / Synopsis: When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before...
Tagline: Scared of going...
Directors: John Hough, Vincent McEveety Stars: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, David McCallum
Plot / Synopsis: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right,...
Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick
Plot / Synopsis: A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Tagline: The Dead Shall Rise And Walk The Earth...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Plot / Synopsis: An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.
Tagline: Terror that's hotter than hell!...
Plot / Synopsis: A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for mentally ill and A.W.O.L. U.S. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combatting his own long-suppressed insanity.Tagline: How Do You Fight A War Called Madness?...
Director: William Peter Blatty Stars: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand
Plot / Synopsis: Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers, which no one believes. On the eve of the town's centennial, many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.Tagline: What you can't see won't hurt you... it'll kill you!...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Tom Atkins
Plot / Synopsis: A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.Tagline: When he heard his cry for help it wasn't human...
Director: Ken Russell Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis
Plot / Synopsis: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.Tagline: ...an experience beyond total fear...
Director: Peter Medak Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos
Plot / Synopsis: The Shining (1980) directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the Stephen King novel. Kubrick was a meticulous director who added many Easter eggs that are still being discovered in the film. Reports of Duvall being terrorized by Kubrick can be found all over the web. The Shining was filmed on a $19 million budget, and although Stephen King was mad...
Director: Stanley Kubrick Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
Plot / Synopsis: The Shining (1980) directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the Stephen King novel. Kubrick was a meticulous director who added many Easter eggs that are still being discovered in the film. Reports of Duvall being terrorized by Kubrick can be found all over the web. The Shining was filmed on a $19 million budget, and although Stephen King was mad...
Director: Stanley Kubrick Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
Plot / Synopsis: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.Tagline: ...an experience beyond total fear...
Director: Peter Medak Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos
Plot / Synopsis: Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers, which no one believes. On the eve of the town's centennial, many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.Tagline: What you can't see won't hurt you... it'll kill you!...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Tom Atkins
Plot / Synopsis: A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.Tagline: When he heard his cry for help it wasn't human...
Director: Ken Russell Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis
Plot / Synopsis: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right,...
Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick
Plot / Synopsis: An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.
Tagline: Terror that's hotter than hell!...
Plot / Synopsis: A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for mentally ill and A.W.O.L. U.S. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combatting his own long-suppressed insanity.Tagline: How Do You Fight A War Called Madness?...
Director: William Peter Blatty Stars: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand
Plot / Synopsis: A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special ingredient" of their famous roadside fritters.Tagline: You might just die...laughing!...
Director: Kevin Connor Stars: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Wolfman Jack
Plot / Synopsis: A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Tagline: You'd better take care...Santa is coming to town!...
Director: Lewis Jackson Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick, Brian Neville
Plot / Synopsis: When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before...
Tagline: Scared of going...
Directors: John Hough, Vincent McEveety Stars: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, David McCallum
Plot / Synopsis: A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Tagline: The Dead Shall Rise And Walk The Earth...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Plot / Synopsis: It starts off in Vietnam where John Saxon gets bitten by P.O.W. John Morghen who has been infected with some sort of cannibal virus. A few decades later in Atlanta, Georgia, Saxon wakes up from a nightmare flashback of what actually happened back in 'Nam. Saxon then receives a call from Morghen asking him if he wants to go...
Director: Antonio Margheriti Stars: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis, Tony King
Plot / Synopsis: A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Tagline: Meet Eric Binford, the ultimate movie buff. If you know someone like him... run!...
Director: Vernon Zimmerman Stars: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Norman Burton, Linda Kerridge
Plot / Synopsis: 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.
Tagline: Your throat dries, heart pounds, flesh crawls and you panic...that is the fear of...
Director: Ted Post Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Robert Mitchum, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Fritz Weaver
Plot / Synopsis: Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and r**ing the women.
Tagline: Between Life and Death, There Is ... "Humanoids from the Deep"...
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Anthony Pena
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24 List of 1980 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1980 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1980 list are "The Shining (1980), The Changeling (1980), The Fog (1980), Altered States (1980), and Alligator (1980)." 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 1980 is The Shining (1980) scoring 7.89/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 1,173,440 votes for this movie. Starring in The Shining (1980) is Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, and Barry Nelson. Director Stanley Kubrick did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1980 best horror film which was remarkable.The Shining (1980) is in Horror, and Drama movie genres.
The next best 1980 horror movie is The Changeling (1980) with a score of 7.35/10 stars.
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, and John Colicos star in "The Changeling (1980)". The Changeling (1980) is directed by Peter Medak and has over 42,710 IMDB votes. You can find The Changeling (1980) in Horror, and Mystery movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1980, and we hope you enjoy the 40 movies on our list of good 1980 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 1980 horror movie is The Changeling (1980) with a score of 7.35/10 stars.
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, and John Colicos star in "The Changeling (1980)". The Changeling (1980) is directed by Peter Medak and has over 42,710 IMDB votes. You can find The Changeling (1980) in Horror, and Mystery movie genres.