Top Ten for 1979

Overview coming soon.
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1979

Top 5

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1. Alien

UK, USA / Ridley Scott / ★★★★

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2. Vengeance Is Mine

(Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari)

Japan / Shôhei Imamura / ★★★★

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3. The Traveler (El caminante)

Spain / Paul Naschy / ★★★1/2

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4. Murder by Natural Causes

USA [TV] / Robert Day / ★★★1/2
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5. Phantasm

USA / Don Coscarelli / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Thirst / Australia / Rod Hardy / ★★★
7. Schalcken the Painter / UK [TV] / Leslie Megahey / ★★★
8. Star of David: Hunting for Beautiful Girls (Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari) / Japan / Noribumi Suzuki / ★★★

9. Dead Mountaineer's Hotel ('Hukkunud Alpinisti' hotell) / Soviet Union / Grigori Kromanov / ★★★

10. House of the Lute (Yu huo fen qin) / Hong Kong / Shing-Hon Lau / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Amityville Horror, The / USA / Stuart Rosenberg / ★1/2

- Beyond the Darkness (Buio Omega; Buried Alive) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / ★★★

- Brood, The / Canada / David Cronenberg / ★★1/2

- Caligula (Caligola) / Italy, USA / Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione / ★★
- Capture of Bigfoot, The / USA / Bill Rebane / ★★
- Dominique is Dead (Avenging Spirit; Dominique) / UK / Michael Anderson / ★★
- Don't Go in the House (The Burning) / USA / Joseph Ellison / ★★
- Don't Go Near the Park (The Nightstalker) / USA / Lawrence D. Foldes / ★1/2

- Dracula Sucks (Dracula's Bride; Lust at First Bite) / USA [X] / Phillip Marshak / ★★

- Driller Killer, The / USA / Abel Ferrara / ★★
- Dumb Waiter, The / UK [short] / Robert Bierman / ★★★
- Effects (Death's Director; The Manipulator) / USA / Dusty Nelson / ★★

- Fascination / France / Jean Rollin / ★★

- Giallo in Venice (Giallo a Venezia) / Italy / Mario Landi / ★★
- Hell in the Jungle (Infierno en la selva; Savana violenza carnale) / Colombia, Italy, Spain / Roberto Bianchi Montero, Jorge Gaitán / ★★

- Killer Nun, The (Suor Omicidi) / Italy / Giulio Berruti / ★★
- Lakeside Killer, The (11th Victim) / USA [TV] / Jonathan Kaplan / ★★ 

- Malabimba (The Malicious Whore; Possession of a Teenager) / Italy / Andrea Bianchi / ★★
- Midnight Blue (Sexy Blue) / Italy / Raimondo Del Balzo / ★1/2
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) / France, West Germany / Werner Herzog / ★★1/2
- Once Upon a Midnight Scary ("CBS Library" series) / USA [TV] / Nell Cox / ★1/2
- Island of the Fishmen (L'isola degli uomini pesce) / Italy / Sergio Martino / ★★1/2
- Psychotronic Man, The (Revenge of the Psychotronic Man) / USA / Jack M. Sell / ★1/2

- Rat in the Darkness, A (Una rata en la oscuridad) / Mexico / Alfredo Salazar / ★★1/2
- Return of the Dead (Xiao hun yu) / Hong Kong / Han Hsiang Li / ★★1/2
- Savage Weekend (The Killer Behind the Mask) / USA / David Paulsen / ★★ 

- Screamers (Something Waits in the Dark) / Italy, USA / Sergio Martino, Dan T. Miller / ★★1/2
- Silent Scream (The Silent Scream) / USA / Denny Harris / ★★1/2

- Terror Express (La ragazza del vagone letto) / Italy / Ferdinando Baldi / ★★

- Tourist Trap / USA / David Schmoeller / ★★
- Visitor, The (Stridulum; The Visitors) / Italy, USA / Giulio Paradisi / SBIG

- World of Dracula, The (The Curse of Dracula) / USA [TV] / Jeffrey Hayden, Kenneth Johnson and Sutton Roley / ★★★

- Zombie (Zombi 2; Zombie Flesh Eaters) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★1/2

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