List of horror films of 1980

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A number of horror films were released in 1980.

Title  | Director(s)  | Cast  | Country  | Notes  | Ref.

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Alien Dead | Fred Olen Ray |  | United States  |  | [1]
Alligator | Lewis Teague | Robert Forster, Robin Riker | United States  |  | [2]
Altered States | Ken Russell | William Hurt, Drew Barrymore, Francis X. McCarthy  | United States  |  | [3]
Antropophagus | Joe D'Amato | George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone  | Italy  |

Alternative title(s)

* Antropophagus
* The Grim Reaper
* Man Eater
* The Savage Island

| [4]
The Attic | George Edwards | Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Rosemary Murphy | United States  |  | [5]
The Awakening | Mike Newell | Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend | United States
United Kingdom |  | [6]
The Babysitter | Peter Medak | Patty Duke, William Shatner | United States  | Television film | [7]
Beyond Evil | Herb Freed | John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante | United States  |  | [8]
The Boogeyman | Ulli Lommel | Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Felicite Morgan  | United States  |  | [9]
Cannibal Apocalypse | Antonio Margheriti | Giovanni Lombardo Radice, John Saxon, Wallace Wilkinson  | Italy
Spain  |  | [10]
Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato | Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi | Italy  |  | [11]
Cardiac Arrest | Murray Mintz | Max Gail, Gary Goodrow, Mike Paul Chan  | United States  |  |
The Changeling | Peter Medak | George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas | Canada  |  | [12]
The Children | Max Kalmanowicz | Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers  | United States  |  | [13]
Christmas Evil | Lewis Jackson | Brandon Maggart, Gus Salud, Jeffrey DeMunn | United States  |  | [14]
City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci | Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Michele Soavi | Italy  |  | [15]
Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé,  | Italy
West Germany  |  |
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Philip Leacock | Eva Marie Saint, Raymond Burr | United Kingdom
United States  | Television film | [16]
Death Ship | Alvin Rakoff | George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso | United Kingdom
Canada  |  | [17]
Demented | Arthur Jeffreys | Sallee Elyse, Harry Reems | United States  |  | [18]
Don't Answer the Phone! | Robert Hammer | James Westmoreland, Flo Gerrish, Ben Frank | United States  |  | [19]
Don't Go in the House | Joseph Ellison | Dan Grimaldi, Robert Osth, Ruth Dardick  | United States  |  | [20]
Eaten Alive! | Umberto Lenzi | Janet Agren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov | Italy
Spain  |  | [21]
Effects | Dusty Nelson | Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison  | United States  |

Alternative title(s)

* Death's Director
* The Manipulator

| [22]
Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung  | Hong Kong  |  | [23]
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead | Joe D'Amato | Laura Gemser | Italy  |  | [24]
Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson | United States  |  | [25]
The Fog | John Carpenter | Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh | United States  |  | [26]
Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby | United States  |  | [27]
Funeral Home | William Fruet | Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey | Canada  |

Alternative title(s)

* Cries in the Night

| [28]
The Godsend | Gabrielle Beaumont | Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence | United Kingdom  |  | [29]
The Haunting of M | Anna Thomas | Jo Scott Matthews, Nini Pitt, Isolde Cazelet  | United States  |  | [30]
He Knows You're Alone | Armand Mastroianni | Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Hanks | United States  |  | [31]
The Hearse | George Bowers | Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux  | United States  |  | [32]
Hell of the Living Dead | Bruno Mattei | Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Giraldi, Selan Karay  | Italy
Spain  |  | [33]
The House on the Edge of the Park | Ruggero Deodato | David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo | Italy  |  | [34]
Humanoids from the Deep | Barbara Peters | Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow | United States  |  | [35]
Inferno | Dario Argento | Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi | Italy  |  | [36]
Island Claws | Hernan Cardenas | Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks  | United States  |  | [37]
Long Island Cannibal Massacre | Nathan Schiff | John Smihula, Fred Borges, Michael Siegal | United States  |  | [38]
Lost Souls | Mou Tun-fe | Yen Hung, Chen Ming, Chan Shen | Hong Kong  |  | [39]
Macabre | Lamberto Bava | Bernice Stegers, Veronica Zinny, Stanko Molnar  | Italy  |  | [40]
Mama Dracula | Boris Szulzinger | Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Belgium  |  | [41]
Maniac | William Lustig | Joe Spinell, Fred Borges  | United States  |  | [42]
The Monster Club | Roy Ward Baker | Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine | United Kingdom  |  | [43]
Motel Hell | Kevin Connor | Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons | United States  |  | [44]
Mother's Day | Charles S. Kaufman | Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce  | United States  |  | [45]
New Years Evil | Emmett Alston | Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace  | United States  |  | [46]
Night of Death | Raphaël Delpard | Ernest Menzer, Denise Montréal, Betty Beckers | France  |  | [47]
Night of the Demon | James C. Watson | Joy Allen, Bob Collins  | United States  |  | [48]
The Night of the Hunted | Jean Rollin | Brigitte Lahaie, Rachel Mhas, Vincent Gardère  | France  |  | [49]
Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi | Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio | Italy
Mexico
Spain  |

Alternative title(s)

* City of the Walking Dead
* Invasion by the Atomic Zombies
* Invasion de los zombies atómicos

| [50]
Nightmares | John D. Lamond | Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet | Australia  |

Alternative title(s)

* Stage Fright

| [51]
The Other Hell | Bruno Mattei | Franca Stoppi, Carlo De Mejo, Francesca Carmeno  | Italy  |  |
Patrick Still Lives | Mario Landi | Gianni Dei, Franco Silva, Mariangela Giordano | Italy  |  | [52]
Prom Night | Paul Lynch | Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens  | Canada  |  | [53]
Return of the Wolfman | Paul Naschy | Paul Naschy, Julia Saly, Silvia Aguilar  | Spain  |  | [54]
Satan's Slave | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Ali Albar, Simon Cader, Adang Mansyur  | Indonesia |  | [55]
Schizoid | David Paulsen | Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill | United States  |  | [56]
Sex and Black Magic | Joe D'Amato | Nieves Navarro, Lucia Ramirez, Richard Harrison | Dominican Republic
Italy  |  | [57]
The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd | United States
United Kingdom  |  | [58]
Terror Train | Roger Spottiswoode | Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner | Canada  |  | [59]
To All a Good Night | David Hess | Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile  | United States  |  | [60]
Toxic Zombies | Chuck McCrann | Chuck McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend  | United States  |  | [61]
The Unseen | Danny Steinmann | Barbara Bach, Sidney Lassick, Stephen Furst | United States  |  | [62]
The Watcher in the Woods | John Hough, Vincent McEveety | Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards | United States  |  | [63]
We're Going to Eat You | Tsui Hark | Han Kuo Tsai, Kao Hsiung, Mel Wong  | Hong Kong  |  | [64]
Windows | Gordon Willis | Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley | United States  |  | [65]
Without Warning | Greydon Clark | Jack Palance, Martin Landau | United States  |  | [66]
Zombie Holocaust | Marino Girolami, Francesco Martino]  | Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Cole, Sherry Buchanan  | Italy  |  | [67]

## References

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1. ^ Kay & Gordon 2008, p. 170.
2. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Alligator". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
3. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 60–61.
4. ^ Hardy 1995, p. 344.
5. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 64–65.
6. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 67–68.
7. ^ Young 2000, p. 129.
8. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 68–69.
9. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 74–75.
10. ^ Binion, Cavett. "Apocalypse domani". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
11. ^ Young 2000, p. 83.
12. ^ Muir 2010, p. 77.
13. ^ Muir 2010, p. 78.
14. ^ Deming, Mark. "Christmas Evil". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
15. ^ Firsching, Robert. "City of the Living Dead". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
16. ^ Young 2000, p. 125.
17. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 80–82.
18. ^ Heller-Nicholas 2011, p. 83.
19. ^ Hardy 1995, p. 347.
20. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 83–85.
21. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Eaten Alive!". AllMovie. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
22. ^ Young 2000, p. 187.
23. ^ O'Brien 2003, p. 5.
24. ^ Wallace 2008, p. 140.
25. ^ Hardy 1995, p. 348.
26. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 90–95.
27. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 95–97.
28. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 241–242.
29. ^ Hardy 1995, p. 349.
30. ^ Binion, Cavett. "The Haunting of M". AllMovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
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32. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 101–104.
33. ^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Hell of the Living Dead". AllMovie. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
34. ^ Hutchings 2009, p. 96.
35. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 105–107.
36. ^ Young 2000, p. 304.
37. ^ Binion, Cavett. "Island Claws". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
38. ^ Tobey, Matthew. "Long Island Cannibal Massacre". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
39. ^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Lost Souls". AllMovie. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
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52. ^ Seibert, Perry. "Patrick vive ancora". AllMovie. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
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55. ^ "Satan's Slave (1982) - Sisworo Gautama Putra | User Reviews | AllMovie".
56. ^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Schizoid". AllMovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
57. ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Sex and Black Magic". AllMovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
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59. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 136–137.
60. ^ Rockoff 2016, pp. 98–99.
61. ^ Young 2000, p. 650.
62. ^ Young 2000, p. 667.
63. ^ "The Watcher in the Woods". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles, California: American Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017.
64. ^ Crow, Jonathan. "We're Going to Eat You". AllMovie. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
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66. ^ Muir 2010, pp. 141–142.
67. ^ Binion, Cavett. "Zombie Holocaust". AllMovie. Retrieved March 13, 2012.

## Sources

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* Browning, John Edgar (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-8108-6887-8.
* Chibnall, Steve; Petley, Julian, eds. (2002). British Horror Cinema. New York City, New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23003-2.
* Deal, David (2007). Television Fright Films of the 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-42929-5.
* Hardy, Phil, ed. (1995). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia. Vol. 3\. Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-624-0.
* Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra (2011). Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4961-3.
* Hutchings, Peter (2009). The A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6887-8.
* Kay, Glenn; Gordon, Stuart (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-770-8.
* Muir, John Kenneth (2010). Horror Films of the 1980s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-45501-0.
* O'Brien, Daniel (2003). Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror. Manchester: Headpress. ISBN 978-1-900486-31-6.
* Rockoff, Adam (2016) [2002]. Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9192-6.
* Stine, Scott Aaron (2015). The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-49140-7.
* Wallace, Amy (2008). The Book of Lists: Horror. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-153726-4.
* Young, R. G. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 1-55783-269-2. Retrieved June 29, 2011.

## External links

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* Horror films of 1980 on Internet Movie Database

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