1979 Horror Movies

49 movies found (page 1/2):

Alien(1979)

K-16

4.1/5 (with 6,482 votes)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Helen Horton, ...

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The Amityville Horror(1979)

1h 57min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 377 votes)

George Lutz and his wife Kathleen move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg - With James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton, K. C. Martel, ...

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Dracula(1979)

1h 49min | Horror, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 105 votes)

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

Directed by John Badham - With Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Sylvester McCoy, Trevor Eve, ...

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Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979)

1h 31min | Horror

3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving on the island are Anne and reporter Peter West who are looking for Anne's missing father. The pair soon find themselves under attack from the zombies.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Stefania D'Amario, ...

Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979)

1h 47min | Drama, Horror

3.7/5 (with 336 votes)

Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Jacques Dufilho, Walter Ladengast, ...

Phantasm(1979)

1h 29min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 274 votes)

A young 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.

Directed by Don Coscarelli - With A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Bill Thornbury, Don Coscarelli

The Brood(1979)

1h 32min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 285 votes)

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Susan Hogan, Felix Silla, Henry Beckman, ...

Tourist Trap(1979)

1h 30min | Horror

3.0/5 (with 116 votes)

After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the mysterious Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of supernatural mannequins.

Directed by David Schmoeller - With Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones, Tanya Roberts, Albert Band, Linnea Quigley, Arlecchino, ...

Beyond the Darkness(1979)

1h 34min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 67 votes)

A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

Directed by Joe D'Amato - With Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Anna Cardini, Carolyn De Fonseca

Prophecy(1980)

1h 42min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.7/5 (with 54 votes)

When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.

Directed by John Frankenheimer - With Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, Burke Byrnes, Mia Bendixsen, ...

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Island of the Fishmen(1979)

1h 33min | Science Fiction, Horror

2.9/5 (with 28 votes)

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.

Directed by Sergio Martino - With Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Franco Iavarone, Beryl Cunningham, Joseph Cotten, ...

Fascination(1979)

1h 20min | Horror

3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.

Directed by Jean Rollin - With Brigitte Lahaie, Franca Maï, Jacques Marbeuf, Muriel Montossey, The Seduction of Amy, Jean-Marie Lemaire, ...

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The Visitor(1979)

1h 48min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 39 votes)

An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.

Directed by Giulio Paradisi - With John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, Sam Peckinpah, Shelley Winters, ...

Killer Nun(1979)

1h 22min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 31 votes)

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.

Directed by Giulio Berruti - With Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli, Lou Castel, Massimo Serato, Daniele Dublino, ...

Killer Fish(1979)

1h 35min | Horror, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.

Directed by Antonio Margheriti - With Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson, James Franciscus, Roy Brocksmith, ...

Thirst(1979)

1h 35min | Horror, Romance / Love, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

Directed by Rod Hardy - With Chantal Contouri, Max Phipps, David Hemmings, Christopher Milne, Henry Silva

The Plumber(1979)

1h 17min | Thriller, Drama, Horror, TV Movie, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

At first simply grating, the presence of a hard-edged, macho plumber who damages more than he repairs and returns day after day soon turns menacing for the intellectual wife of a distracted doctor.

Directed by Peter Weir - With Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Robert Coleby, Candy Raymond, Henri Szeps

Giallo in Venice(1979)

1h 31min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Horror

2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

Venice: The bodies of a married couple, Flavia and Fabio, are discovered on the dockside. She has drowned and he has been stabbed to death with a large pair of scissors. Marzia, Flavia's best friend, is questioned by the police and a chain of slaying is set in motion. The victims include a prostitute who is stabbed in the crotch; Marzia's lover, who is shot in the kneecaps before being doused in petrol and set alight; and Marzia herself, tied to a kitchen table and dismembered, before being stuffed in a fridge. Meanwhile, extended flashbacks reveal that Fabio gained perverse pleasure from forcing his young wife to take part in degrading sexual acts...

Directed by Mario Landi - With Leonora Fani, Jeff Blynn, Gianni Dei, Eolo Capritti, Mariangela Giordano, Alba Maiolini, ...

Silent Scream(1979)

1h 27min | Horror, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered.

Directed by Denny Harris - With Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Steele, Yvonne De Carlo, Avery Schreiber, Tina Tyler, ...

Nightwing(1979)

1h 45min | Horror

2.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

Directed by Arthur Hiller - With Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Stephen Macht

Savage Weekend(1979)

1h 28min | Horror, Thriller

2.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.

Directed by David Paulsen - With Christopher Allport, David Gale, William Sanderson, Yancy Butler

Parts: The Clonus Horror(1979)

1h 30min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.3/5 (with 16 votes)

An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.

Directed by Robert S. Fiveson - With Dick Sargent, Frank Ashmore, Keenan Wynn, Lurene Tuttle, Peter Graves

Jaani Dushman(1979)

2h 34min | Romance / Love, Mystery, Action, Horror

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Jwala Prasad is to marry the girl of his dreams. On the day of the marriage, she is dressed all in red, as is the tradition in India. Just before the wedding she slips off to meet her real lover. When Jwala finds out, be is so enraged at he turns into a monster and kills both the to-be bride and her male friend. The saga does not end here, and this monster continues to terrorize the region, first abducting brides dressed in red just before the wedding procession stops at a Mandir (temple).

Directed by Rajkumar Kohli - With Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha, Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Premnath, ...

Schalcken the Painter(1979)

1h 10min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, TV Movie

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

Directed by Leslie Megahey - With Charles Gray

The Great Alligator(1979)

1h 29min | Horror

2.1/5 (with 16 votes)

A tourist resort in Africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile in the water, and the blood-thirsty natives on land waiting for them.

Directed by Sergio Martino - With Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Romano Puppo, Lory Del Santo, Richard Johnson, ...

Vampire(1979)

1h 40min | TV Movie, Horror

3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.

Directed by E.W. Swackhamer - With Richard Lynch

The Dark(1979)

1h 32min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.3/5 (with 13 votes)

At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

Directed by Tobe Hooper, John Cardos - With William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Jacquelyn Hyde, Casey Kasem, Keenan Wynn, ...

Dominique(1979)

1h 35min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

Directed by Michael Anderson - With Cliff Robertson, David Tomlinson, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Judy Geeson, ...

Human Experiments(1979)

1h 22min | Horror, Crime

2.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Directed by Gregory Goodell - With Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Aldo Ray, Jackie Coogan, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Proctor, ...

Effects(1979)

1h 24min | Thriller, Horror

2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.

Directed by Dusty Nelson - With Tom Savini

1979 Horror Movies

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Alien(1979)

The Amityville Horror(1979)

Dracula(1979)

Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979)

Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979)

Phantasm(1979)

The Brood(1979)

Tourist Trap(1979)

Beyond the Darkness(1979)

Prophecy(1980)

Island of the Fishmen(1979)

Fascination(1979)

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The Visitor(1979)

Killer Nun(1979)

Killer Fish(1979)

Thirst(1979)

The Plumber(1979)

Giallo in Venice(1979)

Silent Scream(1979)

Nightwing(1979)

Savage Weekend(1979)

Parts: The Clonus Horror(1979)

Jaani Dushman(1979)

Schalcken the Painter(1979)

The Great Alligator(1979)

Vampire(1979)

The Dark(1979)

Dominique(1979)

Human Experiments(1979)

Effects(1979)

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