Best Horror movies of 1979

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Mario Cutini, Ray Lovelock,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

A reporter and his girlfriend investigate deaths surrounding a hotel where several prominent people go to have sex.

Actors : Dianne Davis, Peter Spitzer, Arch Joboulian, Emily Spindler,
Directors : David Burton Morris,

Psycopathic killer stalks teens at a run down, abandoned movie theatre.

Actors : Josef Kemr, Julie Juristová, Ondrej Pavelka, Anna Malová,
Directors : Juraj Herz,

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is ...

Actors : Ni Tien, Kirk Warren, Nard Poowanai, Angela Wells,
Directors : Sompote Sands,

A giant crocodile is killing and frightening people living nearby rivers. Two men, whose wives and daughter have been killed by the crocodile, decide to chase and eliminate it.

Actors : Betty Vergès, Giacomo Rizzo, Gianni Garko, Bea Fiedler,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

A descendant of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate. Being around so much naked and semi-naked flesh has the expected effect on him.

Actors : Gil Van Waggoner, Ron Berger, Bridget Agnew, Clayton King,
Directors : Paul Kiener,

Actors : Ana Harpo, Sara Lezana, Paul Naschy, David Rocha,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

The devil, following in the footsteps of Christ, decides to become flesh and take a stroll around Earth to see how humans have progressed, and have a little fun creating havoc and mayhem in the process.

Actors : John Smihula, Fred Borges, Fred Dabby, Jody Kadish,
Directors : Nathan Schiff,

Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo. Enveloped by a radioactive mass, a rabid weasel is transformed into a ...

Actors : Brother Theodore, Nai Bonet, Yvonne De Carlo, John Carradine,
Directors : Harry Hurwitz,

Dracula's granddaughter falls in love with a disco guitarist and runs away to New York City with him.

Actors : Renato Pozzetto, Max von Sydow, Shelley Winters, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".

Actors : Hugh Keays-Byrne, Chantal Contouri, Sigrid Thornton, Robert Bruning,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, ...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Valentina Cortese, Frank Finlay, Anne Heywood,
Directors : Pier Carpi,

Four women make a pact with the Devil. The 13-year-old daughter of one of them has begun to shown signs of a dark nature which causes preoccupation and somewhat regret on her mother.

Actors : Gloria DeHaven, Marshall Thompson, Leo Gordon, Aldo Ray,
Directors : Don Keeslar,

Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.

Actors : Nadine Kalmes, James Mathers, John F. Kearney, Dawn Carver Kelly,
Directors : James Wood,

The great grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll kidnaps people and experments on them with the aggression serum created by his great grand dad.

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : King Hu,

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.

Actors : Chris Carbis, Curt Colbert, Peter Spelson, Robin Newton,
Directors : Jack M. Sell,

A man discovers that he has psychotronic powers--the ability to will people to die. He begins exercising that power.

Actors : Afolabi Ajayi, Stanley Church, Mark Owens, Peggy Feury,
Directors : John Ballard,

A disturbed young man is plagued by horrific headaches that he believes make him commit murders.

Actors : Isabela Corona, María Rebeca, Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.

Actors : Rakesh Khanna, Jyoti Matwankar, Madan Puri, Dev Kumar,
Directors : Nazar Khan,

A doctor tries to revive a dead corpse with his experiments. Thanks to his evil assistant, he creates a blood sucking devil. Can the protagonist stop this devil?

Actors : Jesús Franco, Olivier Mathot, Lina Romay, Nadine Pascal,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An ex-priest escapes from an asylum and kills people in God's name. This is a re-edited Spanish-language version of L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975) and XXX version Sexorcismes (1975) with newly shot scenes.