Best Horror movies of 1980

Actors : Shelley Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Actors : Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Adrienne Barbeau, John Houseman,
Directors : John Carpenter,

Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers, which no one believes. On the eve of the town's centennial, many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.

Actors : Charles Haid, William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

Actors : Robbi Morgan, Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Trish Van Devere, Jean Marsh, George C. Scott,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.

Actors : Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Anne-Marie Martin, Casey Stevens,
Directors : Paul Lynch,

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Perry Pirkanen, Francesca Ciardi, Robert Kerman,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Dean Jagger,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.

Actors : Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

Actors : Ed Bishop, Harvey Keitel, Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas,

Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream.

Actors : Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson,

When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.

Actors : Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Daria Nicolodi, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.

Actors : Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

Actors : Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Ann Turkel,

Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.

Actors : Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce, Frederick Coffin,
Directors : Charles Kaufman,

Two brothers kidnap and brutalize three women for the pleasure of their demented mother.

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer in Staten Island. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?

Actors : Suzanna Love, Ron James, Nicholas Love, John Carradine,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.