Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Awakening, The (1980)- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Charlton Heston, Susannah York - Based on Bram Stoker's "The Jewel of Seven Stars", this large budget horror film fails to capitalise on a great cast and authentic Egyptian locations…
Black Cat, The (1980)- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Patrick Magee - Village crank Patrick Magee is suspected in a gruesome series of killings, linked by the presence of the black puss. Dodgy (dubbed) acting aside,…
Boogeyman, The (1980)- Dir. Ulli Lommel
Feat. Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James… - Supernatural slasher directed by Fassbinder regular Ulli Lommel, who was part of the New German Cinema movement. An American production starring…
Burial Ground - Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) (1980)- Dir. Andrea Bianchi
- A low–rent, bloodily awful Italian zombie–fest with a scientist accidentally awakening corpses in a desecrated graveyard. As one critic…
City of the Living Dead (The Gates of Hell) (1980)- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Christopher George, Katriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo… - Gory, maggot–infested Italian zombie movie from one of the erratic masters of the form, Lucio Fulci. Set in Dunwich, USA, a priest's suicide…
Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui) (1980)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen - A groundbreaking Hong Kong blend of martial arts action, horror, and slapstick humour, set around Hung's attempts to battle the voodoo and hopping…
Fade to Black (1980)- Dir. Vernon Zimmerman
Feat. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford - Film buffs should appreciate this inventive black–comedy about a weirdo movie addict who kills people in the style of his various film heroes.
Fog, The (1980)- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh… - A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
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Friday the 13th [Franchise] (1980-1989)- Dir. Sean S. Cunningham
Feat. Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon - The most successful film to exploit the '80s stalk–and–slash formula, characterised by disposable teenagers being endlessly slaughtered…
Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) (1980)- Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors…
- The last gasp of the Hammer Horror franchise was this low–budget TV series. Combining some inventive plotting, gore and a little nudity with…
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