Best Horror movies of 1979

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

Actors : Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester,
Directors : Don Coscarelli,

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

Actors : James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Al Cliver, Tisa Farrow, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Henry Beckman, Art Hindle, Oliver Reed,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Roland Topor, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

Actors : Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Abel Ferrara, Harry Schultz,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Actors : Carol Kane, Carmen Argenziano, Rutanya Alda, Charles Durning,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasence, Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier,
Directors : John Badham,

In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.

Actors : Marta Fernández Muro, Eusebio Poncela, Will More, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Iván Zulueta,

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Actors : Jon Van Ness, Robin Sherwood, Jocelyn Jones, Chuck Connors,
Directors : David Schmoeller,

A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by the owner of the place, who has the power to control his collection of mannequins.

Actors : Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Carnegie,
Directors : Joseph Ellison,

A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.

Actors : Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto, Kieran Canter,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Grief-struck after the death of his wife, a young man attempts to keep her with him forever - by gutting her, stuffing her and replacing her eyes with glass eyes, turning her into a doll. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.

Actors : Rick DiAngelo, Eugene Robert Glazer, Eileen Dietz, Peter Graves,
Directors : Robert S. Fiveson,

Politicians scheme to clone themselves, assuring immortal life.

Actors : Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive ...

Actors : Stephen Macht, David Warner, Nick Mancuso, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.

Actors : Barbara Bach, Beryl Cunningham, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.

Actors : Paola Morra, Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giulio Berruti,

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital,...