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Subgenre Sampler
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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…
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…
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