Video nasties

1982 film directed by John Carpenter

1968 American independent zombie horror film by George A. Romero

1981 film by Sam Raimi

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate. Although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.

1981 film directed by Steve Miner

1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato

1978 American horror film by George A. Romero

Suspiria is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious European dance academy but realizes, after a series of murders, that the academy is a front for a coven of witches. It also features Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, and Joan Bennett, in her final film role.

1972 film directed by Wes Craven

1975 film directed by Dario Argento

1978 film by Meir Zarchi

1979 film directed by Don Coscarelli

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.

1977 film directed by Wes Craven

1979 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1982 film by Dario Argento

1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1981 film directed by Andrzej Żuławski

1980 film directed by Paul Lynch

1981 film directed by Umberto Lenzi

1981 film by Joseph Zito

1981 film by J. Lee Thompson

1978 film by Sergio Martino

1974 film by Jack Hill

1980 jidaigeki film

1981 film by Tony Maylam

1977 film directed by David Cronenberg

1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1976 film by Tobe Hooper

1978 film by John Alan Schwartz

1979 film by Abel Ferrara

1978 film directed by George A. Romero

1963 film by Herschell Gordon Lewis

1981 film by Tobe Hooper

1981 American film by Gary Sherman

Antropophagus (also known as Anthropophagus: The Beast, The Savage Island, and The Grim Reaper) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato, co-written by D'Amato and George Eastman, and starring Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini, Mark Bodin, and Eastman, who portrays a cannibal stalking tourists on a remote island.

1977 film by Ruggero Deodato

1974 film by Jorge Grau

1980 film by Umberto Lenzi

Xtro is a 1983 British science fiction horror film written and directed by Harry Bromley Davenport. The film stars Bernice Stegers, Philip Sayer, Simon Nash, and Maryam d'Abo. The film focuses on a man who was abducted by aliens and returns back to his wife and son three years later.

1980 film directed by Lewis Jackson

1981 film by Jesús Franco

1980 film directed by Luigi Cozzi

1980 film by Ruggero Deodato

1981 film by Joe D'Amato

1980 film by Ulli Lommel

1982 film by Charles Band

1972 horror film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia

1981 film by Frank Agrama

1975 film by Aldo Lado

1970 film

1978 slasher film by Dennis Donnelly

1979 film by Giulio Berruti

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.

1977 film by Sergio Grieco

1981 film by Jean Rollin

1981 film directed by Romano Scavolini

1979 film by Marino Girolami

1980 film by Umberto Lenzi

1982 film by William Asher