List of horror films of 1979

A list of horror films released in 1979.

Horror films released in 1979

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
Alien	Ridley Scott	Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright		[1]
Alison's Birthday	Ian Coughlan	Joanne Samuel, Margie McCrae, Martin Vaughan		[2]
The Amityville Horror	Stuart Rosenberg	James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger		[3]
Angel Guts: Red Classroom	Chūsei Sone			[4]
Beyond the Darkness	Joe D'Amato	Cinzia Monreale
Black Magic Terror	L. Sudjio	Alan Nuary, W.D. Mochtar, Teddy Purba		[5]
The Brood	David Cronenberg	Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar		[6]
Buried Alive	Joe D'Amato	Kieran Canter, Franca Stoppi, Cinzia Monreale		[7]
The Butterfly Murders	Tsui Hark	Lau Siu-Ming, Eddy Ko		[8]
Dracula	John Badham	Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence		[9]
The Driller Killer	Abel Ferrara	Jimmy Laine, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day		[10]
Fascination	Jean Rollin	Muriel Montossé, Franca Mai, Jean-Marie Lemaire		[11]
Human Experiments	Gregory Goodell	Ellen Travolta, Linda Haynes		[12] Alternative titles   Also known as Beyond The Gate and Women In Prison
Killer Fish	Antonio Margheriti	Lee Majors, Marisa Berenson, Karen Black		Natural horror[13]
Murder by Decree	Bob Clark	Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland, John Gielgud		[14]
Nightwing	Arthur Hiller	Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold		[15]
Nosferatu the Vampyre	Werner Herzog	Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani		[16]
Phantasm	Don Coscarelli	A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury		[17]
Prophecy	John Frankenheimer	Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante		[18]
Stridulum	Giulio Paradisi	Paige Conner, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Franco Nero		[19]
Thirst	Rod Hardy	Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Henry Silva		[20]
Tourist Trap	David Schmoeller	Chuck Connors, Jon Van Ness, Jocelyn Jones		[21]
Up From the Depths	Charles B. Griffith	Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye		[22]
When a Stranger Calls	Fred Walton	Carol Kane, Colleen Dewhurst, Charles Durning		[23]
Zombi 2	Lucio Fulci	Tisa Farrow, Ian McCullough, Richard Johnson		[24] Alternative titles   Also known as Zombie, Island of the Living Dead, Zombie 2: The Dead Are Among Us and Zombie Flesh Eaters
Zombie Holocaust	Francesco Martino	Ian McCullough, Alexandra Cole, Sherry Buchanan		[25]

References

1. Bozzola, Lucia. "Alien". Allmovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
2. Erickson, Hal. "Alison's Birthday". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
3. Deming, Mark. "The Amityville Horror". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
4. Firsching, Robert. "Tenshi No Harawata Akai Kyoshitsu". Allmovie. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
5. Erickson, Hal. "Black Magic Terror". Allmovie. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
6. Binion, Cavett. "The Brood". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
7. Binion, Cavett. "Beyond the Darkness". Allmovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
8. Fountain, Clarke. "The Butterfly Murders". Allmovie. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
9. Fountain, Clarke. "Dracula". Allmovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
10. Hardy 1995, p. 335.
11. Firsching, Robert. "Fascination". Allmovie. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
12. Ankeny, Jason. "Human Experiments". Allmovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
13. Blaise, Judd. "Killer Fish". Allmovie. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
14. Chibnall 2002, p. 227.
15. Brennan, Sandra. "Nightwing". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
16. Erickson, Hal. "Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
17. Beday, Jeremy. "Phantasm". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
18. Williams, Karl. "Prophecy". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
19. Young 2000.
20. Mannikka, Eleanor. "Thirst". Allmovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
21. Brennan, Sandra. "Tourist Trap". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
22. Fountain, Clarke. "Up From the Depths". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
23. Hardy 1995, p. 340.
24. Firsching, Robert. "Zombi 2". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
25. Binion, Cavett. "Zombie Holocaust". Allmovie. Retrieved November 27, 2011.

Citations

• Chibnall, Steve (2002). British Horror Cinema. Psychology Press. ISBN 0-415-23003-9.
• Hardy, Phil, ed. (1995). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia 3. Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-624-0.
• Young, R. G. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 1-55783-269-2.