Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror: 1596 Films to Rent
Funhouse, The (1981)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Sylvia Miles…
- A seedy carnival plays host to four teenagers, who against their best judgement, decide to spend the night in an ominous–looking funhouse. Dir.…
Halloween 2 (Halloween II) (1981)
- Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
- Obligatory sequel to John Carpenter's horror landmark sees Michael Myers more invincible than ever, returning to terrorise the surprisingly durable…
Hand, The (1981)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Michael Caine
- Michael Caine stars in this early Oliver Stone mess (still suffering from shell–shock?) as a cartoonist whose severed hand goes about murdering…
Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane…
- Fairly good entry in the 80s slasher cycle, with Anderson playing a student at a private school who is recovering from a traumatic car accident in…
House By the Cemetery (1981)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Paolo Malco, Giovanni Frezza, Catriona MacColl…
- One of the most notable from the filmography of director Lucio Fulci is this haunted house movie in which the guests at a New England home are…
Howling, The (1981)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Dee Wallace Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
- A well–regarded werewolf movie that gets funnier and scarier as it progresses. Rob Bottin's bone–crunching werewolf transformation scenes…
Inseminoid (Horror Planet) (1981)
- Dir. Norman J. Warren
Feat. Judy Geeson
- An interplanetry archaelogical team unleash a female vampire (Geeson) into their spaceship, in this super–trashy ALIEN knockoff. Unconvincing…
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
- Dir. George Mihalka
Feat. Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck
- Apart from having one of the coolest titles of any ‘slasher movie’, this HALLOWEEN–inspired is both bloodier and more grotesque than…
Piranha 2 - The Spawning (1981)
- Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Lance Henriksen
- Mediocre but bearable sequel to the fun 1978 horror about the ravenous, maneating fishies.
This sacrifices the campy fun of the original for a…
Possession (1981)
- Dir. Andrzej Zulawski
Feat. Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani
- Brazenly over–the–top tale of domestic disharmony and demon possession, infamous for an incredibly mannered performance by Sam Neill and…