Top Ten for 1982

Overview coming soon.

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1982

Top 5

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1. Basket Case

USA / Frank Henenlotter / ★★★1/2

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2. Litan

France / Jean-Pierre Mocky / ★★★1/2

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3. Eating Raoul

USA / Paul Bartel / ★★★1/2

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4. Night Warning

USA / William Asher / ★★★1/2

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5. The Thing

USA / John Carpenter / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Tenebrae (Tenebre; Unsane) / Italy / Dario Argento / ★★★

7. Poltergeist / USA / Tobe Hooper / ★★★

8. Fan, The (Der Fan; Trance) / West Germany / Eckhart Schmidt / ★★★
9. Variola Vera / Czechoslovakia / Goran Marković / ★★★

10. Brimstone & Treacle / UK / Richard Loncraine / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Alone in the Dark / USA / Jack Sholder / ★★★

- Amityville II: The Possession / Italy, Mexico, USA / Damiano Damiani / 

- Android / USA / Aaron Lipstadt / ★★★

- Beast Within, The / USA / Philippe Mora / ★1/2
- Being Captured (Baby Sitter; Il nano erotico) / Italy / Alberto Cavallone / ★★

- Beyond Reason (Mati) / USA / Telly Savalas / ★★
- Black Candles (Los ritos sexuales del diablo) / Spain / José Ramón Larraz / ★★

- Black Room, The / USA / Elly Kenner, Norman Thaddeus Vane / ★★★

- Blood Link (Extrasensorial; The Link) / Italy, USA, West Germany / Alberto De Martino / ★★1/2
- Blood Song (Dream Slayer) / USA / Alan J. Levi / 

- Bloody Sect (Secta siniestra) / Spain / Ignacio F. Iquino / SBIG

- Boardinghouse (Housegeist) / USA / Johnn Wintergate / SBIG
- Boogeyman, The / USA [short] / Jeffrey C. Schiro /
- Caligula: The Untold Story (Caligola: La storia mai raccontata) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / 

- Cat People / USA / Paul Schrader /
- Class of 1984 (Guerrilla High) / Canada / Mark L. Lester / ★★

- Creepshow / USA / George A. Romero / ★★★

- Crocodile Therakwad (Khun Chang Khun Paen Prab Jorrakay Thaen Kward) / Thailand / Neramit, Sompote Saengduenchai / ★★1/2

- Curse of Evil (Xie zhou) / Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★1/2
- Curse of the Screaming Dead, The / USA / Tony Malanowski / NO STARS!

- Cute Devil (Kawaii Akuma) / Japan [TV] / Nobuhiko Ôbayashi / ★★1/2

- Deadly Eyes (The Rats) / Canada / Robert Clouse /
- Demon Rage (Fury of the Succubus; Satan's Mistress) / USA / James Polakof /
- Devil Returns (Jing hun feng yu ye) / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Richard Chen /
- Dracula vs. Demon / UK [short] / Brian Davies, Tom Maylott / NO STARS!

- Early Frost (Chilling) / Australia / Geoffrey Brown, David Hannay, Brian McDuffie / ★1/2

- Entity, The / USA / Sidney J. Furie / ★★

- Expensive Tastes (Hua jie) / Hong Kong / Fan Ho / ★★1/2

- Exposed to Danger (Leng yan sha ji) / Hong Kong, Taiwan / Chia-Yun Yang / ★★1/2
- Fair Game (Desolation Angels) / Australia / Christopher Fitchett / ★★1/2

- Fall of the House of Usher, The (Zánik domu Usheru) / Czechoslovakia [short] / Jan Svankmajer /
- Firefist of Incredible Dragon (Solimsa jucheongwidong) / Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan / Jong-seong Kim / ★★

- Friday the 13th Part III / USA / Steve Miner / ★★1/2
- Girls Nite Out / USA / Robert Deubel / 

- Halloween III: Season of the Witch / USA / Tommy Lee Wallace / ★★1/2

- He Lives By Night (Ye jing hun) / Hong Kong / Po-Chih Leong / ★★★
- Hell Has No Boundary (Mo jie) / Hong Kong / Richard Yeung Kuen / ★★1/2
- House in the Woods, The (Haplos) / Philippines / Antonio Jose Perez / ★★1/2

- Human Lanterns (Human Skin Lanterns; Ren pi deng long) / Hong Kong / Chung Sun / ★★★

- Invitation to Hell / UK / Michael J. Murphy / ★★

- Island of Blood (Scared Alive; Whodunit?) / USA / William T. Naud / ★

- It Came from Hollywood / USA [compilation] / Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt / ★1/2

- Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again / USA / Jerry Belson / ★★

- Karma Punishment (Hukum karma) / Indonesia / Jimmy Atmaja / ★★1/2

- Last Horror Film, The (Fanatic; Maniac II: Love to Kill) / USA / David Winters / ★★1/2

- Living Dead Girl, The (La morte vivante) / France, USA / Jean Rollin / ★★1/2

- Madman (Madman Marz) / USA / Joe Giannone / ★1/2

- Manhattan Baby (Eye of the Evil Dead; Il malocchio) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / 

- Marianna (Bin mei) / Hong Kong, Philippines / Pak Tong Cheuk / ★★
- Midnight (Backwoods Massacre) / USA / John A. Russo / 

- Miracle Baby (Baby Magic; Bayi ajaib) / Indonesia / Tindra Rengat / SBIG
- New York Ripper, The (Lo squartatore di New York) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★

- Next of Kin (Hell House) / Australia, New Zealand / Tony Williams / ★★

- Night Beast (Nightbeast; Terror from the Unknown) / USA / Don Dohler /
- Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon (Kangofu nikki: Kemonojimita gogo) / Japan / Naosuke Kurosawa / ★★★

- Oasis of the Zombies (La tumba de los muertos vivientes) / France, Spain / Jesus Franco / 

- Pandemonium (Tuesday the 12th) / USA / Alfred Sole /
- Panic (Bakterion; Monster of Blood) / Italy, Spain / Tonino Ricci / 

- Parasite / USA / Charles Band / 

- Pieces (Mil gritos tiene la noche) / Italy, Puerto Rico, Spain, USA / Juan Piquer Simón / SBIG

- Psychophobia (El ser; The Being) / Spain / Sebastián D'Arbó / ★★1/2
- Queen of Black Magic (Ratu ilmu hitam) / Indonesia / Lilik Sudjio / ★★★

- Q: The Winged Serpent / USA / Larry Cohen / ★★★

- Ravishing of Frank N. Stein, The (Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein) / Switzerland [short] / Georges Schwizgebel / ★★★

- Reincarnation of Sex, The (A Reencarnação do Sexo) / Brazil / Luiz Castellini / ★★

- Scorpion with Two Tails (Assassinio al cimitero etrusco) / France, Italy / Sergio Martino / ★1/2
- Seduction, The / USA / David Schmoeller / ★1/2

- Sender, The / UK / Roger Christian / ★★★
- Sheriff's Strange Son, The (El extraño hijo del Sheriff) / Mexico / Fernando Durán Roja / ★★
- Slayer, The (Nightmare Island) / USA / J.S. Cardone / ★★1/2
- Slumber Party Massacre, The / USA / Amy Jones / ★★★
- Snake Queen, The (Nyi blorong) / Indonesia, Japan / Sisworo Gautama Putra / ★★★

- Special Silencers (Serbuan Halilintar) / Indonesia / Arizal / ★★

- Straight Jacket (Dark Sanity) / USA / Martin Green / ★1/2

- Superstition (The House of Mary; The Witch) / Canada / James W. Roberson / ★1/2

- Swamp Thing / USA / Wes Craven / ★★1/2

- Trick or Treats / USA / Gary Graver / ★

- Vincent / USA [short] / Tim Burton / ★★★
- Visiting Hours (The Fright; Get Well Soon) / Canada / Jean-Claude Lord / ★★
- Wolf Devil Woman (Lang nu bai mo; Wolfen Queen) / Taiwan / Pearl Chang / SBIG
- Xtro / UK, USA / Harry Bromley Davenport / ★★1/2

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Top Ten for 1983

Overview coming soon.

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1983

Top 5

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1. Angst

Austria / Gerald Kargl / ★★★★

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2. De vierde man (The Fourth Man)

Netherlands / Paul Verhoeven / ★★★1/2

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3. Psycho II

USA / Richard Franklin / ★★★1/2

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4. Mo (The Boxer's Omen)

Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★★1/2

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5. Videodrome

Canada / David Cronenberg / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Demon of the Island (Le démon dans l'île) / France / Francis Leroi / ★★★
7. Trail, The (Jui gwai chat hung) / Hong Kong / Ronny Yu / ★★★
8. Dead Zone, The / USA / David Cronenberg / ★★★

9. Seeding of a Ghost (Zhong gui) / Hong Kong / Richard Yeung Kuen / ★★★

10. Strange Invaders / USA / Michael Laughlin / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Accident, The (Blood of the Black Dog; Che wan) / Hong Kong / Pao-Lun Lu / ★★1/2
- Adam and Eve Versus the Cannibals (Adamo ed Eva, la prima storia d'amore) / Italy, Spain / Enzo Doria and Luigi Russo / ★★1/2
- After the Fall of New York (2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York) / France, Italy / Sergio Martino / ★★★

- Alligator Queen (Ratu Buaya) / Indonesia / M. Sharieffudin A. / ★★
- Amityville 3 / USA / Richard Fleischer / ★★
- Attack of the Joyful Goddess (Xi shen bao chou) / Hong Kong / Cheh Chang / ★★1/2

- Black Room, The / USA / Elly Kenner and Norman Thaddeus Vane / ★★1/2

- Black Magic with Buddha (Nao mo) / Hong Kong / Lieh Lo / ★★
- Blade in the Dark, A (La casa con la scala nel buio) / Italy / Lamberto Bava / ★★
- Bleeder, The (Blödaren) / Sweden / Hans G. Hatwig / SBIG
- Cannibal Mercenary (The Mercenary) / Thailand / Hong Lu Wong / ★★
- China Lake / USA [short] / Robert Harmon / ★★1/2
- Christine / USA / John Carpenter / ★★
- Commando Fury (Shao nu ji zhong ying) / Taiwan / Chung-Kuang Wang / ★★

- Conquest (The Barbarian; Mace the Outcast) / Italy, Mexico, Spain / Lucio Fulci / ★1/2

- Corruption / USA [X] / Roger Watkins / ★★
- Cujo / USA / Lewis Teague / ★★★

- Cursed Woods / UK [short] / Brian Davies / ★

- Curtains / Canada / Richard Ciupka / ★★

- Deadly Spawn, The (Return of the Aliens) / USA / Douglas McKeown / ★★1/2
- Devil Fetus (Mo tai) / Hong Kong / Hung-Chuen Lau / SBIG
- Disciples of the Crow / USA [short] / John Woodward / ★★1/2

- Evil Hits Evil (Heugsamgwi) / South Korea, Taiwan / Wei-Hsiang Lai, Gi-nam Nam / ★★

- Extra Terrestrial Visitors (Los nuevos extraterrestres) / France, Spain / Juan Piquer Simón / ★1/2

- Final Terror, The (Campsite Massacre) / USA / Andrew Davis / ★1/2
- Frightmare (The Horror Star) / USA / Norman Thaddeus Vane / ★★

- Greenhouse, The (El invernadero) / Spain / Santiago Lapeira / ★★

- Hell (Põrgu) / Soviet Union [animated] [short] / Rein Raamat / ★★★

- House, The (Húsið; Húsið: Trúnaðarmál) / Iceland / Egill Eðvarðsson / ★★1/2
- House of the Long Shadows (House of Long Shadows) / UK / Pete Walker / ★★1/2

- House on Sorority Row, The / USA / Mark Rosman / ★1/2

- Jaws 3 (Jaws 3-D) / USA / Joe Alves / ★1/2
- Jungle Virgin Force (Perawan Rimba) / Indonesia / Danu Umbara / ★★1/2

- Killing of Satan, The (Lumaban ka, Satanas) / Philippines / Efren C. Piñon / ★★

- Lift, The (De lift) / Netherlands / Dick Maas / ★★1/2
- Macumba Sexual / Spain / Jesus Franco / ★★

- Mad Mutilator (Ogroff) / France / Norbert Georges Mount / NO STARS!

- Man with Two Brains, The / USA / Carl Reiner / ★★★
- Microwave Massacre / USA / Wayne Berwick / ★1/2
- Mortuary / USA / Howard Avedis / ★★1/2
- Night to Dismember, A / USA / Doris Wishman / SBIG

- Olivia (Faces of Fear; A Taste of Sin) / USA, West Germany / Ulli Lommel / ★★★
- On the 3rd Day (On the Third Day) / UK / Stanley O'Toole / ★★
- Panic Beats (Frantic Heartbeats; Latidos de pánico) / Spain / Paul Naschy / ★★1/2
- Play Dead (Breed; Killer Dog; Satan's Dog) / USA / Peter Wittman / ★★
- Polish Vampire in Burbank, A / USA / Mark Pirro / ★★1/2

- Portrait in Crystal (Shui jing ren) / Hong Kong / Shan Hua / ★★★

- Possessed (Meng gui chu long) / Hong Kong / David Lai / ★★

- Returning, The (Witch Doctor) / USA / Joel Bender / ★1/2
- Rose for Emily, A / USA [short] / Lyndon Chubbuck / ★★1/2

- Sadism: Sexual Aberrations (Sadismo – Aberrações Sexuais) / Brazil / Fauzi Mansur / ★★
- Scalps / USA / Fred Olen Ray / ★★

- She-Wolf, The (Wilczyca; The Wolf) / Poland / Marek Piestrak / ★★

- Sledge Hammer / USA / David A. Prior / ★1/2

- Sleepaway Camp / USA / Robert Hiltzik / ★★★

- Spasms (Death Bite) / Canada / William Fruet / ★1/2

- Suffer, Little Children / UK / Alan Briggs / SBIG

- Sweet 16 (Sweet Sixteen) / USA / Jim Sotos / ★★1/2

- Terror on Tape / USA [trailer compilation] / Robert A. Worms III / ★★

- Trapped at Boarding School (Attrap-1980) / Denmark [short] / Heini Grünbaum / ★★

- 10 to Midnight / USA / J. Lee Thompson / ★★

- Trial by Terror / USA / Hildy Brooks / ★1/2
- Twilight Zone: The Movie / USA / Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller and Stephen Spielberg / ★★1/2
- War Victims (Kamp tawanan wanita) / Indonesia / Jopi Burnama / ★★
- Witching, The (re-edit of Necromancy with new footage) / USA / Bert I. Gordon / ★★
- Woman in the Room, The / USA [short] / Frank Darabont / ★★★

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Top Ten for 1981

1981 could very well go down in horror history as the year of the mediocre slasher. Spurred by the surprise box office success of both Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980), a seemingly never-ending spate of stalk-n-slash films primarily concerned with body counts and bloodletting were being produced during this time. Yep, U.S. audiences seemed to want nothing more than to see a bunch of ill-defined, anonymous, typically obnoxious young people die in various gruesome ways during the "Reagan Era." And they didn't want little things like plot, characterization, originality or anything else standing in their way. These films, which were primarily made in either America or Canada but with the occasional foreign contribution trying to cash in on the craze, were actually being made with such regularity that a new one seemed to crop up in theaters every single week. Many were box office hits; others came and went with little fanfare. Most had either an outdoor (Don't Go in the Woods, Just Before Dawn), campground (The Burning) or small town (My Bloody Valentine) setting, while others centered their action around either high school (Graduation Day) or college (Final Exam, Happy Birthday to Me, Hell Night, The Prowler) campuses; basically any place where young people may be congregating en mass.

Mass sequelization was also just in its infancy, as we saw early sequels to both Halloween (with John Carpenter and Debra Hill returning to write and produce) and Friday, with many more to come throughout the decade. There were so many of these coming out, someone actually decided to parody them all in the film Student Bodies. As popular as these movies were and continue to be with fans, nearly all of them are every bit as forgettable as they are predictable. The ones that usually fared best were those that tried to do something a little bit different. Ed Hunt's Bloody Birthday, for instance, added a Village of the Damned-style twist that featured three young children who were born during a solar eclipse doing all of the slashing and hacking.

Despite the sheer amount of formulaic slash-em-ups made in 1981, the film that clearly rose to the top of the Class of 1981 was Sam Raimi's very low-budget, regionally-shot (in Michigan) and trend-setting The Evil Dead. Dead (which wouldn't garner a wider theatrical release until 1983) not only made the slasher film seem unimaginative and minor league by comparison, but also upped the ante when it came to on-screen gore and boasted invigorating and influential camerawork that helped turn it into one of the great sleeper hits of the decade.

But Raimi's now-classic film wasn't the only film to make its mark this year, as two well-made, respectable and award-winning werewolf films also crept their way into theaters and genre fans' hearts. Those were Joe Dante's The Howling and John Landis' An American Werewolf in London. Both films (which have since gone on to become cult classics) feature strong comedy elements and some outstanding updated transformation scenes that pretty much buried the time-lapses dissolves of yesteryear for good. Another worthy but often overlooked film along the same lines was Michael Wadleigh's Wolfen; an interesting blend of cop / detective thriller and werewolf (sort of) horror, with strong Native American themes. Spanish actor / director's Paul Naschy's famous El Hombre Lobo werewolf series was also revived this same year with the release of The Night of the Werewolf (first issued as The Craving here in the U.S.) Unfortunately, that film was a huge box office flop and forced its director / star to go to Japan for funding on future projects.

Perhaps even more notable than the werewolf films was Abel Ferrara's excellent, taut, very gritty and sometimes quite arty urban thriller Ms. 45, which effectively blends rape-revenge with Repulsion-like psychological horror. In Hong Kong, the busy Shaw Brothers and director Chih-Hung Kuei gave us Bewitched, an unjustly neglected little gem that's every bit as imaginative, inventive and gore-soaked as Raimi's more famous film. For small screen audiences, Frank De Felitta made the very good TV chiller Dark Night of the Scarecrow, which involves a murdered retarded man coming back from the grave in scarecrow garb to get revenge on his attackers. Canadian director David Cronenberg's Scanners - a tale of super telepaths - was released to big box office receipts thanks to an intriguing story and a much-touted exploding head scene.

In Europe, they were still feeling the after-effects of monster hit Dawn of the Dead with at least a dozen inferior zombie films produced there in 1981 alone. Best of the lot was perhaps Lucio Fulci's gruesome and sometimes effectively surreal opus The Beyond, which peppered its "gates of hell" premise with such wondrous sights as a tarantula attack, gouged out eyeballs, gunshots to the face, head impalements and other gore sfx. Fulci also gave us House by the Cemetery, which again featured a zombie-like killer lurking in a haunted home's cellar. Some of these Euro / Italian zombie films, while not great (or even good) have gone on to become minor cult classics, such as Andrea Bianchi's Burial Ground and Jean Rollin's bad-movie favorite Zombie Lake.

Joe D'Amato's Monster Hunter, a follow-up to his 1980 hit The Grim Reaper, actually attempted to blend slasher and zombie films together and surprisingly just about pulled it off. Frank Agrama's Dawn of the Mummy (which was an American / Egyptian / Italian co-production) decided to merge a resurrected killer mummy with zombies. Certain exploitation staples of the 70s seemed to be dying out - Cannibal films, such as Umberto Lenzi's gruesome Cannibal ferox, nunsploitation films, such as Bruno Mattei's The Other Hell, and Jaws ripoffs, such as Enzo G. Castellari's The Last Shark, were still being released here and there, just not with the frequency we'd seen the previous decade.

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1981

Top 5

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1. The Evil Dead

USA / Sam Raimi / ★★★1/2

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2. Ms. 45

USA / Abel Ferrara / ★★★1/2

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3. Bewitched (Gu)

Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★★1/2

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4. The Howling

USA / Joe Dante / ★★★1/2

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5. An American Werewolf in London

UK, USA / John Landis / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Scanners / Canada / David Cronenberg / ★★★
7. Trapped / Puerto Rico, USA / Matthew Patrick / ★★★

8. Visitors from the Galaxy (Gosti iz galaksije) / Czech, Yugoslavia / Dušan Vukotić / ★★★

9. Wolfen / USA / Michael Wadleigh / ★★★
10. Suddenly in Dark Night (Gipeun bam gabjagi) / South Korea / Young Nam Ko / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Beyond, The (...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★1/2
- Black Cat, The (Gatto nero) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★★
- Black Lizard, The (Hei xi yi) / Hong Kong / Yuen Chor / ★★1/2
- Black Magic Wizard (Dukun Ilmu Hitam) / Indonesia / A. (Abdillah) Harris /  ★1/2
- Bloody Birthday (Creepers; Creeps) / USA / Ed Hunt / ★★1/2
- Bloody Moon (Die Säge des Todes) / Spain, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★
- Boogens, The / USA / James L. Conway / ★★
- Burial Ground (Le notti del terrore) / Italy / Andrea Bianchi / ★★
- Burning, The / USA / Tony Maylam / ★★1/2
- Cannibal ferox (Make Them Die Slowly) / Italy / Umberto Lenzi / ★★1/2
- Cold-Blooded Murder (Yuan yin) / Hong Kong / To-Bong Law / ★★
- Corpse Mania (Si yiu) / Hong Kong / Chih-Hung Kuei / ★★1/2

- Dark Night of the Scarecrow / USA [TV] / Frank De Felitta / ★★★

- Dawn of the Mummy / Egypt, Italy, USA / Frank Agrama / ★★
- Day Dream (Daydream; Hakujitsumu) / Japan [X] / Tetsuji Takechi / ★★1/2
- Day of Judgment, A (Stormbringer) / USA / C.D.H. Reynolds / ★1/2
- Dead & Buried / USA / Gary Sherman / ★★★
- Deadly Blessing / USA / Wes Craven / ★★1/2
- Delusion (The House Where Death Lives) / USA / Alan Beattie / ★★
- Don't Go in the Woods (Don't Go in the Woods... Alone!) / USA / James Bryan / NO STARS!
- Evilspeak / USA / Eric Weston / ★★1/2
- Faces of Death II / USA [doc] / John Alan Schwartz / NO STARS!
- Fangs (Anyab) / Egypt / Mohammed Shebl / ★★★
- Final Exam / USA / Jimmy Huston / ★
- Friday the 13th Part 2 / USA / Steve Miner / ★★

- Galaxy of Terror (Mindwarp: An Infinity of Terror) / USA / Bruce D. Clark / ★★
- Gate of the Hell, The (Gui huo) / Hong Kong [filmed in 1977] / Pao-Lun Lu / ★★1/2

- Ghost Story / USA / John Irvin / ★★1/2
- Graduation Day / USA / Herb Freed / ★★
- Halloween II / USA / Rick Rosenthal / ★★1/2
- Happy Birthday to Me / Canada / J. Lee Thompson / ★1/2
- Hell Night / USA / Tom De Simone / ★★1/2
- Hotel / India / Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay / ★★1/2

- House by the Cemetery, The (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) / Italy / Lucio Fulci / ★★1/2
- Image of the Beast (A Thief in the Night III) / USA / Donald W. Thompson / ★1/2

- Imp, The (Xiong bang) / Hong Kong / Dennis Yu / ★★★
- Inseminoid (Horror Planet) / UK / Norman J. Warren / ★★
- Jaws of Satan (King Cobra) / USA / Bob Claver / ★1/2
- Just Before Dawn / USA / Jeff Lieberman / ★★1/2
- Last Shark, The (Great White; L'ultimo squalo) / Italy / Enzo G. Castellari / ★★

- Life After Life (Zai sheng ren) / Hong Kong / Peter Yung / ★★★
- Love Massacre (Ai sha) / Hong Kong / Patrick Tam /
- Mad Foxes, The (Los violadores) / Spain, Switzerland / Paul Grau / SBIG
- Madhouse (And When She Was Bad) / Italy, USA / Ovidio G. Assonitis / ★★
- Midnight Offerings / USA [TV] / Rod Holcomb / ★★1/2
- Monster Club, The / UK / Roy Ward Baker / ★★1/2
- Monster Hunter (Absurd; Rosso sangue) / Italy / Joe D'Amato / ★★1/2
- Murder Obsession (Fear; Follia omicida) / France, Italy / Riccardo Freda / ★★
- My Bloody Valentine / Canada / George Mihalka / ★★1/2
- Mystics in Bali (Leák) / Indonesia / H. Tjut Djalil / ★★
- Nesting, The (Massacre Mansion) / USA / Armand Weston / ★★1/2
- Nightdreams / USA [X] / Stephen Sayadian / ★★★

- Nightmare (Nightmare in a Damaged Brain) / USA / Romano Scavolini / ★★1/2
- Nightmare Man, The / UK [TV] / Douglas Camfield / ★★
- Night of Horror / USA / Tony Malanowski / NO STARS!
- Night of the Werewolf, The (El retorno del Hombre Lobo) / Spain / Paul Naschy / ★★1/2
- Other Hell, The (Guardian of Hell; L'altro inferno) / Italy / Bruno Mattei / ★★1/2

- Piranha Part Two: The Spawning / Italy, Netherlands, USA / Ovidio G. Assonitis and James Cameron / ★1/2

- Pit, The (Teddy) / Canada / Lew Lehman / ★★
- Prowler, The (Rosemary's Killer) / USA / Joseph A. Zito / ★★1/2
- Sadomania (Hellhole Women) / Spain, West Germany / Jesus Franco / ★★1/2
- Scream (The Outing) / USA / Byron Quisenberry / NO STARS!
- Side Show / USA [TV] / William Conrad / ★★1/2
- Strange Dead Bodies (Goeshi; A Monstrous Corpse) / South Korea / Beom-gu Kang / ★★

- Student Bodies / USA / Mickey Rose / ★★
- Sundelbolong (Ghost with Hole) / Indonesia / Sisworo Gautama Putra / ★★1/2
- This House Possessed / USA [TV] / William Wiard / ★★1/2
- Thrilling Bloody Sword (Shen jian dong shan he) / Taiwan / Hsin-Yi Chang / ★★1/2

- Venom / UK / Piers Haggard / ★★
- Warp Speed / USA / Allan Sandler / ★★1/2

- Warrior, The (Jaka Sembung) / Indonesia / Sisworo Gautama Putra / ★★1/2
- Wedding Dress of the Ghost (Mangryongui Wechingturesu) / SK / Yun-kyo Park / ★1/2

- Wicked Wife (Xie qi) / Taiwan / Kuang Hui / ★1/2
- Wolf (The Fox; Srigala) / Indonesia / Sisworo Gautama Putra / ★★

- Zombie Lake (Le lac des morts vivants) / France, Spain / Jean Rollin / SBIG

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