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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…
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…
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…
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…
Tourist Trap (1979): Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Chuck Connors, Tanya Roberts, Jocelyn Jones; Claustrophobic horror with four friends pursued through a ghostly museum by mannequins under the control of an old man with telekinetic powers.…
Halloween (1978): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis; Landmark horror film is distinguished by direction that gives a constant sense of impending doom, yet provides constant surprises – unlike the…
Shout, The (1978): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York…; An intelligent, enigmatic chiller about an asylum inmate with mystical powers who upsets the lives of an avant garde music composer and his wife in…
Fight For Your Life (1977): Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd; A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer…; Wes Craven takes the townies–breakdown–in–the–desert chestnut to its logical extreme, where it turns out the hills also have…
Last House on Dead End Street (1977): Dir. Roger Michael Watkins
Feat. Roger Michael Watkins; Both notorious and obscure, this 1970s shocker concerns a drug–dealer who upon being released from jail enters the shady world of porno…

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