List of horror films of 1980

A list of horror films released in 1980.

Horror films released in 1980

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
Alien Dead	Fred Olen Ray			[1]
Alligator	Lewis Teague	Robert Forster, Robin Riker		[2]
Altered States	Ken Russell	William Hurt, Drew Barrymore, Francis X. McCarthy		[3]
Antropophagus	Joe D'Amato	George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone		Alternative titles   Also known as:Antropophagus, The Grim Reaper (original U.S. title, censored), Man Eater and The Savage Island. [4]
Apocalypse domani	Antonio Margheriti	Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Wallace Wilkinson, John Geroson		[5]
The Awakening	Mike Newell	Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend		[6]
Beyond Evil	Herb Freed	John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante		[7]
The Boogeyman	Ulli Lommel	Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Felicite Morgan		[8]
Cannibal Holocaust	Ruggero Deodato	Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi		[9]
The Changeling	Peter Medak	George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas		[10]
The Children	Max Kalmanowicz	Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers		[11]
Christmas Evil	Lewis Jackson	Brandon Maggart, Gus Salud, Jeffrey DeMunn		[12]
City of the Living Dead	Lucio Fulci	Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Michele Soavi		[13]
City of the Walking Dead	Umberto Lenzi	Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio		[14] Alternative titles   Also known as:Invasión de los zombies atómicos, La (Spain), Invasion by the Atomic Zombies (International: English title) (literal title), Invasion de los zombies atómicos (Mexico) and Nightmare City (USA).
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb	Philip Leacock	Eva Marie Saint, Raymond Burr		Television film[15]
Death Ship	Alvin Rakoff	George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso		[16]
Demented	Arthur Jeffreys	Sallee Elyse, Harry Reems		[17]
Don't Answer the Phone!	Robert Hammer	James Westmoreland, Flo Gerrish, Ben Frank		[18]
Don't Go in the House	Joseph Ellison	Dan Grimaldi, Robert Osth, Ruth Dardick		[19]
Eaten Alive!	Umberto Lenzi	Janet Agren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov		[20]
Effects	Dusty Nelson	Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison		Alternative titles   Also known as:Death's Director , The Manipulator (USA). [21]
Encounters of the Spooky Kind	Sammo Hung	Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung		[22][23]
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead	Joe D'Amato	Laura Gemser		[24]
Fade to Black	Vernon Zimmerman	Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson		[25]
The Fog	John Carpenter	Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh		[26]
Friday the 13th	Sean S. Cunningham	Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby		[27]
The Godsend	Gabrielle Beaumont	Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence		[28]
The Haunting of M.	Anna Thomas	Jo Scott Matthews, Nini Pitt, Isolde Cazelet		[29]
He Knows You're Alone	Armand Mastroianni	Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney		[30]
The Hearse	George Bowers	Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux		[31]
Hell of the Living Dead	Bruno Mattei	Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Giraldi, Selan Karay		[32]
The House on the Edge of the Park	Ruggero Deodato			[33]
Humanoids from the Deep	Barbara Peters	Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow		[34]
Inferno	Dario Argento	Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi		[35]
Island Claws	Hernan Cardenas	Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks		[36]
Long Island Cannibal Massacre	Nathan Schiff	John Smihula, Fred Borges, Michael Siegal		[37]
Lost Souls	Mou Tun-fe	Yen Hung, Chen Ming, Chan Shen		[38][39]
Macabre	Lamberto Bava	Bernice Stegers, Veronica Zinny, Stanko Molnar		[40]
Mama Dracula	Boris Szulzinger	Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg		[41]
Maniac!	William Lustig	Joe Spinell, Fred Borges		[42]
The Monster Club	Roy Ward Baker	Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine		[43]
Motel Hell	Kevin Connor	Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons		[44]
Mother's Day	Charles S. Kaufman	Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce		[45]
New Years Evil	Emmett Alston	Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace		[46]
Night of Death	Raphaël Delpard	Ernest Menzer, Denise Montréal, Betty Beckers		[47]
Night of the Demon	James C. Watson	Joy Allen, Bob Collins		[48]
The Night of the Hunted	Jean Rollin	Brigitte Lahaie, Rachel Mhas, Vincent Gardère		[49]
Nightmares	John D. Lamond	Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet		[50] Alternative titles   Also known as:Stage Fright.
The Other Hell	Bruno Mattei	Franca Stoppi, Carlo De Mejo, Francesca Carmeno
Patrick vive ancora	Mario Landi	Gianni Dei, Franco Silva, Mariangela Giordano		[51]
Prom Night	Paul Lynch	Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens		[52]
Return of the Wolfman	Paul Naschy	Paul Naschy, Julia Saly, Silvia Aguilar		[53]
Schizoid	D. Paulson	Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill		[54]
Sex and Black Magic	Joe D'Amato	Nieves Navarro, Lucia Ramirez, Richard Harrison		[55]
The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd		[56]
The Silent Scream	Denny Harris	Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Steele, Yvonne De Carlo		[57]
Terror Train	Roger Spottiswoode	Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner		[58]
To All a Good Night	David Hess	Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile		[59]
Toxic Zombies	Chuck McCrann	Chuck McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend		[60]
The Unseen	Peter Foleg	Barbara Bach, Sidney Lassick, Stephen Furst		[61]
The Watcher in the Woods	John Hough, Vincent McEveety	Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards		[62]
We're Going to Eat You	Tsui Hark	Han Kuo Tsai, Kao Hsiung, Mel Wong		[63]
Zombie Holocaust	Marino Girolami, Francesco Martino	Ian McCullough, Alexandra Cole, Sherry Buchanan		[64]

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