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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Harlequin (1980)- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. David Hemmings, Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford - A modern–day version of the Rasputin story, in which a senator and his wife fall prey to the spellbinding powers of a manipulative Harlequin…
Inferno (1980)- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi - Occult forces cause a few problems for young women on both sides of the Atlantic in one of Italian stylist Dario Argento’s best – and…
Maniac (1980)- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro - Notoriousy grisly 1980s "video nasty", featuring Tom Savini effects (inc a very famous head explosion and several scalpings) amid an otherwise…
Motel Hell (1980)- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons - Comedy black enough to convert one to vegetarianism about rednecks who use a special kinda meat for 'Farmer Vincent's Fritters'! The duelling…
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