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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