Movie Releases by Genre

Wolfen

Wolfen

July 24, 1981 | R
A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
7.8
The Monster Club

The Monster Club

May 27, 1981 | Unrated
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.
Metascore:
45
User Score:
tbd
Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

May 15, 1981 | R
At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.
Metascore:
24
User Score:
5.0
The Burning

The Burning

May 8, 1981 | R
A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
Metascore:
42
User Score:
6.7
Friday the 13th Part 2

Friday the 13th Part 2

May 1, 1981 | X
Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant.
Metascore:
26
User Score:
7.1
Bloody Birthday

Bloody Birthday

April 28, 1981 | R
Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
tbd
The Hand

The Hand

April 24, 1981 | R
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
Metascore:
59
User Score:
tbd
The Howling

The Howling

April 10, 1981 | R
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
7.9
The Final Conflict

The Final Conflict

March 20, 1981 | R
The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.
Metascore:
34
User Score:
6.3
The Funhouse

The Funhouse

March 13, 1981 | R
Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
7.9
Maniac

Maniac

March 6, 1981 | R
A psychotic man, 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?
Metascore:
22
User Score:
6.7
My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine

February 11, 1981 | R
A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
7.7
Scanners

Scanners

January 14, 1981 | R
Scanners are telepathic and when one (Ironside) seeks to control the world, another (Lack) tries to stop him.
Metascore:
60
User Score:
7.9
New Year's Evil

New Year's Evil

December 26, 1980 | R
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles DJ gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.
Metascore:
33
User Score:
6.5
Altered States

Altered States

December 25, 1980 | R
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
7.1
The Visitor

The Visitor

November 21, 1980 | R
An intergalactic warrior battles alongside a cosmic Christ figure against a demonic 8-year-old girl and her pet hawk, as the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. [Drafthouse Films]
Metascore:
65
User Score:
6.3
Alligator

Alligator

November 14, 1980 | R
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.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
6.6
Motel Hell

Motel Hell

October 24, 1980 | R
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.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.6
Fade to Black

Fade to Black

October 14, 1980 | R
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
tbd
Terror Train

Terror Train

October 3, 1980 | R
Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
Metascore:
42
User Score:
5.2
Mother's Day

Mother's Day

September 19, 1980 | Unrated
Two brothers kidnap and brutalize three women for the pleasure of their demented mother.
Metascore:
1
User Score:
tbd
He Knows You're Alone

He Knows You're Alone

August 29, 1980 | R
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?
Metascore:
41
User Score:
tbd
Prom Night

Prom Night

July 18, 1980 | R
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.
Metascore:
45
User Score:
7.7
Zombie

Zombie

July 18, 1980 | Not Rated
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
6.9
The Shining

The Shining

May 23, 1980 | R
A married couple with a small son are employed to look after a resort hotel high in the Colorado mountains. As a result, they are the sole occupants during the long winter. The hotel manager warns them not to accept the job because of a tragedy that occurred during the winter of 1970. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
8.8
Humanoids from the Deep

Humanoids from the Deep

May 16, 1980 | R
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.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
4.9
Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

May 9, 1980 | R
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Metascore:
22
User Score:
6.0
Inferno

Inferno

April 2, 1980 | Not Rated
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.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
7.0
The Changeling

The Changeling

March 28, 1980 | R
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.4
Death Ship

Death Ship

March 7, 1980 | R
A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a World War II Nazi torture vessel.
Metascore:
10
User Score:
tbd
The Ninth Configuration

The Ninth Configuration

February 29, 1980 | R
A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
4.8
Saturn 3

Saturn 3

February 15, 1980 | R
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 eight foot robot.
Metascore:
9
User Score:
3.9
The Fog

The Fog

February 8, 1980 | R
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.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
6.9
Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust

February 7, 1980 | X
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Metascore:
22
User Score:
4.6
When a Stranger Calls

When a Stranger Calls

October 26, 1979 | R
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
7.0
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

October 1, 1979 | PG
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.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
7.0
The Legacy

The Legacy

September 14, 1979 | R
A millionaire, a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker, a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow. Five of the most powerful people in the world, and Maggie (Katharine Ross) makes six, gather in an ancient mansion to inherit a Legacy of bloodsome horror.
Metascore:
31
User Score:
tbd
The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

July 27, 1979 | R
Once the scene of a grisly mass murder, a family's dream house turns into a nightmare from hell when the dead come back for revenge.
Metascore:
28
User Score:
6.6
Dracula

Dracula

July 20, 1979 | R
In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.1
Alien

Alien

June 22, 1979 | R
For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, Alien returns to the big screen with a digitally remastered special edition of director Ridley Scott's science fiction/horror classic. [Fox]
Metascore:
89
User Score:
9.0
The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer

June 15, 1979 | Not Rated
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.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Prophecy

Prophecy

June 15, 1979 | PG
A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
tbd
Phantasm

Phantasm

June 1, 1979 | R
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.6
The Brood

The Brood

May 25, 1979 | TV-MA
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.2
Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

May 24, 1979 | Unrated
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.1
Long Weekend

Long Weekend

March 29, 1979 | Not Rated
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
tbd
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

December 22, 1978 | PG
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one with clones devoid of emotion.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
7.0
I Spit on Your Grave

I Spit on Your Grave

November 22, 1978 | R
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Metascore:
19
User Score:
6.0
Magic

Magic

November 8, 1978 | TV-PG
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
7.6
Halloween

Halloween

October 25, 1978 | R
On Halloween night in 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After being in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois to kill.
Metascore:
91
User Score:
8.6
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

October 8, 1978 | PG
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
Metascore:
9
User Score:
5.9
Piranha

Piranha

August 3, 1978 | R
When flesh-eating piranhas are inadvertently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
6.3
The Swarm

The Swarm

July 14, 1978 | PG
A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.
Metascore:
30
User Score:
3.5
Jaws 2

Jaws 2

June 16, 1978 | PG
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Metascore:
51
User Score:
7.4
Damien: Omen II

Damien: Omen II

June 9, 1978 | R
Damien the Antichrist, now thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Metascore:
45
User Score:
6.7
Martin

Martin

May 10, 1978 | R
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
8.3
The Manitou

The Manitou

April 28, 1978 | PG
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Metascore:
47
User Score:
tbd
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

April 14, 1978 | PG
Psychological thriller about a telekinetic novelist who causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
tbd
The Fury

The Fury

March 10, 1978 | TV-MA
A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from terrorists, who want to use his mental powers for evil.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.2
The Toolbox Murders

The Toolbox Murders

March 3, 1978 | R
A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
Metascore:
35
User Score:
tbd
Eraserhead

Eraserhead

February 3, 1978 | Not Rated
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Metascore:
87
User Score:
7.6
Coma

Coma

January 6, 1978 | TV-PG
When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.
Metascore:
60
User Score:
6.5
House

House

September 1, 1977 | Not Rated
A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
tbd
Suspiria

Suspiria

August 12, 1977 | X
A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
7.7
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

August 10, 1977 | PG
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
tbd
Orca

Orca

July 22, 1977 | PG
A hunter squares off against a killer whale seeking vengeance for the death of its mate.
Metascore:
27
User Score:
7.4
The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes

July 22, 1977 | R
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.3
Empire of the Ants

Empire of the Ants

July 1, 1977 | PG
Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.
Metascore:
26
User Score:
tbd
Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic

June 17, 1977 | TV-14
A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.
Metascore:
39
User Score:
3.8
Tentacles

Tentacles

June 15, 1977 | PG
A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
Metascore:
36
User Score:
tbd
The Car

The Car

May 13, 1977 | PG
A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.
Metascore:
21
User Score:
6.0
Eaten Alive

Eaten Alive

May 13, 1977 | R
A psychotic redneck, who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
Metascore:
48
User Score:
tbd
Demon Seed

Demon Seed

April 15, 1977 | R
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
6.3
Rabid

Rabid

April 8, 1977 | R
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
4.9
The Sentinel

The Sentinel

February 11, 1977 | R
A young woman moves into an apartment in a building which houses a sinister evil.
Metascore:
19
User Score:
tbd
The Town That Dreaded Sundown

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

December 24, 1976 | R
In 1946, a hooded serial killer terrorizes the residents of a small Arkansas town.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
5.6
King Kong

King Kong

December 17, 1976 | PG
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.9
Carrie

Carrie

November 16, 1976 | R
Carrie White, a shy, reclusive teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Metascore:
86
User Score:
8.1
Alice Sweet Alice

Alice Sweet Alice

November 13, 1976 | R
In 1960s New Jersey, a withdrawn adolescent girl is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her first communion, as well as a series of stabbings that follow.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.1
God Told Me To

God Told Me To

October 22, 1976 | R
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Metascore:
55
User Score:
tbd
Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings

October 18, 1976 | PG
A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.
Metascore:
48
User Score:
6.0
J.D.'s Revenge

J.D.'s Revenge

August 25, 1976 | R
Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.
Metascore:
42
User Score:
tbd
To the Devil a Daughter

To the Devil a Daughter

July 30, 1976 | R
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Metascore:
39
User Score:
tbd
Shivers

Shivers

July 6, 1976 | R
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
6.2
The Omen

The Omen

June 25, 1976 | R
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Metascore:
63
User Score:
7.9
The Tenant

The Tenant

June 25, 1976 | R
A quiet and inconspicuous man (Roman Polanski) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide.
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.4
The Food of the Gods

The Food of the Gods

June 18, 1976 | TV-PG
A group of friends travel to a remote Canadian island to hunt, only to be attacked by giant killer animals which have populated the place.
Metascore:
20
User Score:
tbd
Deep Red

Deep Red

June 11, 1976 | Not Rated
After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Metascore:
89
User Score:
7.2
Grizzly

Grizzly

May 21, 1976 | Not Rated
An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.
Metascore:
25
User Score:
4.3
The Devil's Rain

The Devil's Rain

July 1, 1975 | PG
A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
Metascore:
28
User Score:
tbd
Race with the Devil

Race with the Devil

June 27, 1975 | PG
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
7.1
Jaws

Jaws

June 20, 1975 | PG
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. [Universal Pictures]
Metascore:
87
User Score:
8.6
Bug

Bug

June 6, 1975 | PG
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
Metascore:
42
User Score:
tbd
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

June 1, 1975 | R
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
tbd
The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives

February 12, 1975 | PG
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
5.4
Black Christmas

Black Christmas

December 20, 1974 | TV-MA
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.0
Messiah of Evil

Messiah of Evil

December 11, 1974 | R
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
tbd
Phantom of the Paradise

Phantom of the Paradise

November 1, 1974 | PG
A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.5
It's Alive

It's Alive

October 1, 1974 | PG
The Davies expect a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing when it's scared. And it's easily scared.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
5.8
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

October 1, 1974 | R
The story begins with five innocent kids on their way to checkout reports of grave robbing. As Sally, (Marilyn Burns) her invalid brother Franklin, and three friends head out to inspect the gravesite of her family, they are soon side tracked on the ultimate journey of terror. One by one, they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface and his trusty chainsaw.
Metascore:
92
User Score:
7.8
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