Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1654 Films to Buy & Rent
Dead Kids (Strange Behaviour) (1981)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher
- Minor cult item concerning a series of nasty murders in a small town, which may be connected to a deranged scientist and his psychology experiments.…
Deadly Blessing (1981)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Ernest Borgnine
- Blacklisted by a quasi–Amish farming community for marrying one of their own, city girl Martha (Jensen) and her two college friends fend off…
Entity, The (1981)
- Dir. Sidney J Furie
Feat. Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver
- Controversial sleazy horror, which has Barbara Hershey sexually molested by an invisible demon. Psychiatrist Ron Silver thinks it’s all in her…
Evil Dead, The (1981)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell
- Made on a budget of less than $100,000, this explosive splatter movie takes gore to the very limits. Colossal amounts of tomato sauce fill the screen…
Final Conflict, The (The Omen III) (1981)
- Dir. Graham Baker
Feat. Sam Neill
- Anti–christ Damien Thorn is now a 33–year–old corporate tycoon planning a diabolical takeover bid. This installment has the…
Full Moon High (1981)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon, Elizabeth Hartman…
- Wry horror–comedy with Adam Arkin as a jocular teen whose good time in Transylvannia is marred by his transformation into a werewolf. Change of…
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.…
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…
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…