List of horror films of 1981

A list of horror films released in 1981.

Horror films released in 1981

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
Absurd	Joe D'Amato	George Eastman, Annie Belle, Charles Borromel		Alternative titles   Also known as:Rosso Sangue, Anthropophagus 2, The Grim Reaper 2 and Zombie 6: Monster Hunter. [1]
The Alchemist	James Amante, Charles Band	Robert Ginty, Lucinda Dooling, John Sanderford		[2]
An American Werewolf in London	John Landis	David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter		[3]
The Beyond	Lucio Fulci	David Warbeck, Catriona MacColl, Al Cliver		[4]
The Black Cat	Lucio Fulci	Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck		[5]
Blood Beach	Jeffrey Bloom	David Huffman, Marianna Hill, John Saxon		[6]
Bloody Moon	Jesús Franco	Nadja Gerganoff, Otto Retzer, Jasmin Losensky		[7]
The Burial Ground	Andrea Bianchi			[8]
The Burning	Tony Maylam	Leah Ayres, Larry Joshua, Jason Alaxander		[9]
Cannibal Ferox	Umberto Lenzi	Danilo Mattei, Zora Kerova, John Bartha		[10]
Cataclysm	Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan	Cameron Mitchell, Marc Lawrence		Alternative titles   Also known as:Satan's Supper , The Nightmare Never Ends (USA) (video box title). [11]
Dark Night of the Scarecrow	Frank de Felitta	Lane Smith, Jocelyn Brando, Charles Durning		Television film[12]
Dawn of the Mummy	Frank Agrama, Armand Weston	Brenda King, Barry Sattels, George Peck		[13]
Dead & Buried	Gary Sherman	James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson		[14]
Deadly Blessing	Wes Craven	Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, Sharon Stone		[15]
Demonoid	Alfredo Zacharias	Samantha Eggar, Stuart Whitman, Roy Jenson		[16]
Docteur Jekyll et les femmes	Walerian Borowczyk	Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Howard Vernon		[17]
Don't Go Near the Park	Lawrence D. Foldes	Linwood Chase, Lawrence D. Foldes, Barbara Monker		[18]
Don't Go in the Woods	James Bryan	Nick McClelland, James P. Hayden, Mary Gail Artz		[19]
The Entity	Sidney J. Furie	Barbara Hershey		[20]
The Evil Dead	Sam Raimi	Ellen Sandweiss, Bruce Campbell, Theresa Tilly		[21][22]
Evilspeak	Eric Weston	Clint Howard, R. G. Armstrong, Lynn Hancock		[23]
Eyes of a Stranger	Ken Wiederhorn	Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti		Slasher film[24]
Fear No Evil	Frank LaLoggia	Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, Kathleen Rowe McAllen		[25]
Final Exam	Jimmy Huston	Sam Kilman, Cecile Bagdadi, DeAnna Robbins		[26]
Friday the 13th Part 2	Steve Miner	Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King		[27]
Full Moon High	Larry Cohen			[28]
Funeral Home	William Fruet	Kay Hawtrey, Lesleh Donaldson		[29]
The Funhouse	Tobe Hooper	Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin		[30]
Galaxy of Terror	Bruce D. Clark	Robert Englund, Sid Haig, Grace Zabriskie		[31]
Ghost Story	John Irvin	Fred Astaire, Patricia Neal, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.		[32]
Ghostkeeper	Jim Makichuk	Riva Spier, Murray Ord, Sheri McFadden		[33]
Graduation Day	Herb Freed	Christopher George, Patch MacKenzie, E. Danny Murphy		[34]
Halloween II	Rick Rosenthal	Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis		[35]
The Hand	Oliver Stone	Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe		[36]
Happy Birthday to Me	J. Lee Thompson	Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Tracey E. Bregman		[37]
Hell Night	Tom DeSimone	Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton		[38]
Home Sweet Home	Nettie Pena	Peter de Paula, Vinessa Shaw, Jake Steinfeld
The House by the Cemetery	Lucio Fulci	Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Kenneth A. Olsen		[39]
The Howling	Joe Dante	Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan		[40]
The Incubus	John Hough	John Cassavetes, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes		[41]
Inseminoid	Norman J. Warren	Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley		[42]
Jaws of Satan	Bob Claver	Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes, Gretchen Corbett		[43] Alternative titles   Also known as:King Cobra (Australia).
Just Before Dawn	Jeff Lieberman	Chris Lemmon, Deborah Benson, George Kennedy
The Loch Ness Horror	Larry Buchanan			[44]
Midnight	John A. Russo	Lawrence Tierney, Melanie Verlin, John Hall		[45]
My Bloody Valentine	George Mihalka	Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck		[46]
The Nesting	Armand Weston	Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally		[47]
Night School	Ken Hughes	Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder		[48]
Nightmare	Romano Scavolini	Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith, C. J. Cooke		[49]
Omen III: The Final Conflict	Graham Baker	Mason Adams, Lisa Harrow, Sam Neill		[50]
Piranha II: The Spawning	James Cameron	Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen		[51]
The Pit	Lew Lehman	Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Laura Hollingsworth		[52]
Porno Holocaust	Joe D'Amato, Bruno Mattei	George Eastman, Annj Goren, Dirce Funari		[53]
Possession	Andrzej Zulawski	Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent		[54]
The Prowler	Joseph Zito	Vicki Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Cindy Weintraub		[55]
Saturday the 14th	Howard R. Cohen	Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Severn Darden		[56]
Scared to Death	William Malone	John Stinson, Diana Davidson, Jonathon David Moses
Strange Behavior	Michael Laughlin	Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor		[57]
Student Bodies	Mickey Rose	Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Richard Brando		[58]
Suddenly at Midnight	Ko Young-nam	Kim Young-ae, Yoon Il-bong, Lee Ki-seon		[59]
There Was a Little Girl	Ovidio G. Assonitis	Trish Everly, Michael MacRae, Dennis Robertson		Alternative titles   Also known as:And When She Was Bad (USA), Flesh and the Beast (USA) (video title), Madhouse (UK) (video title) and Scared to Death (USA). [60]
Wolfen	Michael Wadleigh	Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos		[61]

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