Movie List for "horror"

Demented (1980)

After being gang raped and institutionalized, a woman suffers nightmares while under the care of her unfaithful husband, and finally snaps when a group of masked youths decide to invade her house. Year 1980.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: Arthur Jeffreys
Writer: Alex Rebar
Actors: Sallee Young, Harry Reems, Deborah Alter, Kathryn Clayton

The Psychotronic Man (1979)

A man discovers that he has psychotronic powers–the ability to will people to die. He begins exercising that power. Year 1979.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Jack M. Sell
Writer: Phil Lanier, Jack M. Sell, Peter Spelson
Actors: Peter Spelson, Chris Carbis, Curt Colbert, Robin Newton

Screams of a Winter Night (1979)

10 college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other. Year 1979.

Generes: Horror, Mystery
Director: James L. Wilson
Writer: Richard H. Wadsack (original screenplay)
Actors: Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow, Patrick Byers, Mary Agen Cox

Savage Weekend (1979)

Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask. Year 1979.

Generes: Horror
Director: David Paulsen, John Mason Kirby
Writer: David Paulsen
Actors: Christopher Allport, Jim Doerr, David Gale, Devin Goldenberg

The Meateater (1979)

Psycopathic killer stalks teens at a run down, abandoned movie theatre. Year 1979.

Generes: Horror
Director: David Burton Morris
Writer: David Burton Morris, George Caldwell (story), Damon Fuller (story), David Burton Morris (story), Tom Kelsey (Grizzly Safari voice over)
Actors: Arch Joboulian, Dianne Davis, Peter Spitzer, Emily Spindler

Jaani Dushman (1979)

A newly married bride disappears after her marriage. Year 1979.

Generes: Action, Horror, Mystery
Director: Rajkumar Kohli
Writer: Inder Raj Anand (dialogue), Hakim Riaz Latta (idea), Jaggi Rampal (screenplay), Charandas Shokh (screenplay)
Actors: Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Mehra

Wendigo (1978)

Movie Year 1978.

Generes: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Director: Paul Kiener
Writer: Algernon Blackwood (short story), Paul Kiener (screenplay)
Actors: Van Washburn Jr., Victor Lawrence, Ron Berger, Carole Cocherelle

The Swarm (1978)

A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Irwin Allen
Writer: Arthur Herzog III (novel), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay)
Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain

Spawn of the Slithis (1978)

A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen Traxler
Writer: Stephen Traxler
Actors: Alan Blanchard, Judy Motulsky, J.C. Claire, Dennis Falt

Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)

A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle. Year 1978.

Generes: Adventure, Horror
Director: Sergio Martino
Writer: Cesare Frugoni (screenplay), Cesare Frugoni (story), Sergio Martino (screenplay), Sergio Martino (story)
Actors: Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

When seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: W.D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (novel)
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Writer: George A. Romero
Actors: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross

Coma (1978)

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay), Robin Cook (novel)
Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn

The Comeback (1978)

A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Pete Walker
Writer: Murray Smith (screenplay), Michael Sloan (additional script material)
Actors: Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Bill Owen

The Cat and the Canary (1978)

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose. Year 1978.

Generes: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Director: Radley Metzger
Writer: Radley Metzger (screenplay), John Willard (play)
Actors: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller

Die Sister, Die! (1978)

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Randall Hood
Writer: William Hersey (story), Tony Sawyer
Actors: Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith