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The Evil Dead
1981 film by Sam Raimi
Friday the 13th Part 2
1981 film directed by Steve Miner
Excalibur
1981 film by John Boorman
Halloween II
1981 film by Rick Rosenthal
Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars include Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Lawrence Dane and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.
The Howling
1981 film by Joe Dante
The Beyond
1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci
Possession
1981 film directed by Andrzej Żuławski
My Bloody Valentine
1981 film directed by George Mihalka
Deadly Blessing
1981 film by Wes Craven
Omen III: The Final Conflict
1981 film by Graham Baker
Cannibal Ferox
1981 film directed by Umberto Lenzi
Happy Birthday to Me
1981 film by J. Lee Thompson
The Prowler
1981 film by Joseph Zito
The Burning
1981 film by Tony Maylam
The House by the Cemetery
1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci
Galaxy of Terror
1981 American sci-fi action film by Bruce D. Clark
Wolfen
1981 film by Michael Wadleigh
The Funhouse
1981 film by Tobe Hooper
Ghost Story
1981 film by John Irvin
Dead & Buried
1981 American film by Gary Sherman
Visitors from the Galaxy
1981 film by Dušan Vukotić
Venom
1981 film by Tobe Hooper
Porno Holocaust
1981 film by Joe D'Amato, Bruno Mattei
Hell Night
1981 film by Tom DeSimone
Roadgames
Roadgames (stylised as Road Games) is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, with the help of a hitchhiker, seeks to track down a serial killer who is butchering women and dumping their dismembered bodies along desolate highways.
Bloody Moon
1981 slasher film directed by Jesús Franco
The Hand
1981 film by Oliver Stone
Absurd
1981 film by Joe D'Amato
Great White
1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Sadomania
Sadomania (El infierno de la pasión) is a 1981 West German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson. It was also released as Hellhole Women, Prisoners of the Flesh and Sadomania: The Hell of Passion. The German version (Sadomania – Hölle der Lust) was cut and features a completely different soundtrack
The Fan
1981 film directed by Ed Bianchi
Bloody Birthday
1981 film by Ed Hunt
The Black Cat
1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci
Dawn of the Mummy
1981 film by Frank Agrama
Inseminoid
Inseminoid (titled Horror Planet in the United States) is a 1981 British science fiction horror film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke and Stephanie Beacham, along with Victoria Tennant in one of her early film roles. The plot concerns a team of archaeologists and scientists who are excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet. One of the women in the team (Geeson) is impregnated by an alien creature and taken over by a mysterious intelligence, driving her to murder her colleagues one by one and feed on them.
The Monster Club
1980 film by Roy Ward Baker
Burial Ground
1981 film by Andrea Bianchi
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
1981 television film directed by Frank De Felitta
Nightmare
1981 film directed by Romano Scavolini
Night Warning
1982 film by William Asher
Zombie Lake
1981 film by Jean Rollin
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981 film by Walerian Borowczyk
Murder Obsession
1981 film by Riccardo Freda
The Incubus
1982 Canadian film by John Hough
Graduation Day
1981 film by Herb Freed
Frankenstein Island
1981 film by Jerry Warren
Just Before Dawn
1981 film by Jeff Lieberman
Faces of Death II
1981 exploitation film
The Pit
1981 film directed by Lew Lehman
Madman
1982 film
Cannibal Terror
1981 film directed by Alain Deruelle
The Survivor
1981 film directed by David Hemmings
The Being
1983 film by Jackie Kong
Kisapmata
1981 Filipino film
Frightmare
1983 film by Norman Thaddeus Vane
Mystics in Bali
1981 film directed by H. Tjut Djalil
Demonoid
1981 film by Alfredo Zacarías
The Loch Ness Horror
1981 film by Larry Buchanan
The Other Hell
1981 film by Bruno Mattei