Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Road Games (1981)- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis - Inventive and at times intense, this road thriller has truckdriver Keach traversing the outback, while a serial killer is on the loose. Effectively…
Rosemary's Killer (The Prowler; The Graduation) (1981)- Dir. Joseph Zito
Feat. Vicki Dawson, Chris Goutman, Farley Granger… - Wholesale but effective slasher terrorizes a high school graduation dance with a military–themed serial killer. Gore by Tom Savini.
Scanners (1981)- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan… - A 'scanner' describes a person able to read minds, but with a potential to cause nasty headaches. An intense cautionary tale about the dangers of…
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