Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1654 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Nightmare City (1980)
- Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio…
- Survival horror from director Umberto Lenzi (CANNIBAL FEROX) set in a city overrun by zombies in the aftermath of a nuclear accident. Follows the…
Ninth Configuration, The (Twinkle, Twinkle, ) (1980)
- Dir. William Peter Blatty
Feat. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller…
- Psychological thriller set in the 70's written, produced and directed by William Peter Blatty (THE EXORCIST). Having returned from Vietnam, a marine…
Prom Night (1980)
- Dir. Paul Lynch
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen
- 'Halloween' stalk'n'slash protege with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as one of a group of teens with a guilty secret menaced by the ubiquitous masked…
Shining, The (1980)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
- Man, wife and child are assigned to caretaking a remote hotel for the winter. Formidable unease is created before Jack Nicholson completely loses his…
Terror Train (1980)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner…
- Fresh from HALLOWEEN, Jamie Lee Curtis reprises a 'scream queen' for this teen slasher pic set aboard a chartered locomotive. A gamut of masquerade…
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, David McCallum, Carroll Baker…
- One of Disney's spookier efforts, this concerns a family who move into a country house in Britain and are beset with supernatural occurances.…
Alien Anthology Box Set (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection) (1979-1999)
- Feat. Sigourney Weaver
- All four of the seminal ALIEN horrors – in their special–edition versions – in one box–set.
Amityville Horror, The (1979)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
- James Brolin and Margot Kidder are convincingly spooked as happily marrieds who inherit a haunted house. Competently directed, but with the ghosts of…
Brood, The (1979)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Oliver Reed
- Oliver Reed stars in this disturbing tale about genetic experiments and the reaches of parental anger. Though violent and often surreal, the story…