1981 movies

Horrible

Horrible
Genres: Horror
Year: 1981
Actors: George Eastman | Annie Belle | Charles Borromel | Katya Berger
Directors: Joe D'Amato
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Priest comes to small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own.

Final Exam

Final Exam
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Cecile Bagdadi | Joel S. Rice | Ralph Brown | DeAnna Robbins
Directors: Jimmy Huston
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In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone’s final exam.

On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond
Genres: Drama
Year: 1981
Actors: Katharine Hepburn | Henry Fonda | Jane Fonda | Doug McKeon
Directors: Mark Rydell
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The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea — whom they haven’t seen for years — feels she must be there for Norman’s birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance’s son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?

House by the Cemetery, The

House by the Cemetery, The
Genres: Horror
Year: 1981
Actors: Catriona MacColl | Paolo Malco | Ania Pieroni | Giovanni Frezza
Directors: Lucio Fulci
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A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings, ripped throats, and stabbings with a fireplace poker. The killer needs fresh body parts to rejuvenate his cells. He also has maggots for blood.

Escape from New York

Escape from New York
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Kurt Russell | Lee Van Cleef | Ernest Borgnine | Donald Pleasence
Directors: John Carpenter
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In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President’s plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

The Funhouse

The Funhouse
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Elizabeth Berridge | Shawn Carson | Jeanne Austin | Jack McDermott
Directors: Tobe Hooper
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Four teenagers, Amy Harper, Buzz Klemmet, Richie Atterbury and Liz Duncan, travel to the carnival which has just come to town, for some fun. As the night begins to come to an end, Liz suggests they stay the night in the funhouse. They all agree and decide to take the last ride before the attraction shuts down. As they stay in the funhouse, the four witness and horrific murder aganist a psychic reader by a very big man in a frankenstien mask, also Richie takes some of the money earned by the man who runs the funhouse. The owner is furious about the missing money and sends his son, Gunther, who killed the reader, to take care of the thieves. Now the four are locked in the funhouse, being stalked and killed one by one, by the FREAK in the frankenstain mask who really is a horribly deformed and mentally challenged man.

The Burning

The Burning
Genres: Horror
Year: 1981
Actors: Brian Matthews | Leah Ayres | Brian Backer | Larry Joshua
Directors: Tony Maylam
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A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidently burned him.

The Entity

The Entity
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Barbara Hershey | Ron Silver | David Labiosa | George Coe
Directors: Sidney J. Furie
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Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of what’s happening to her, and shunned by friends and family who think she’s lost her mind, she seeks help from parapsychologists. The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now, however, is how do they stop it? Based on a supposedly true story.

Wolfen

Wolfen
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Albert Finney | Diane Venora | Edward James Olmos | Gregory Hines
Directors: Michael Wadleigh
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Wolfen, a frightening horror movie based upon a novel by Whitley Strieber, is an absorbing update on the werewolf legend. Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to investigate the strange murder of a millionaire and his wife in a downtown park. Wilson and his friend, city coroner Whittington (Gregory Hines), aided by criminal psychologist Rebecca Neff (Diane Venora) connect the killing to those of several others, primarily winos, drug addicts and derelicts, all of whom seem to have been mutilated by wild animals. Their search leads them to a group of Native Americans led by Edward James Olmos who tell them of a legend of a superior species that once roamed the area, but now are living and hunting in the slums of New York. The film is engrossing, frightening and intelligent, with sensational special effects. Director Michael Wadleigh uses these effects to great advantage, frequently showing the movements of the characters through the eyes of the “Wolfen.” This film is also the screen debut of Gregory Hines.

Hell Night

Hell Night
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Linda Blair | Vincent Van Patten | Peter Barton | Kevin Brophy
Directors: Tom DeSimone
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This plodding, derivative slasher opus — a surprise box-office hit — stars Exorcist vet Linda Blair as one of a quartet of sorority and fraternity pledges required to spend the title evening of their initiation inside the spooky Garth Manor. The mansion was the site of a gruesome multiple murder, wherein the owner killed his wife and three of his four deformed children before taking his own life. After the four pledges bed down for the night (mainly with each other, though Blair is called upon for the standard “virginal heroine” role here), mischievous upperclassmen descend into the house, intending to scare them out of their wits…but something even more repulsive than a pack of drunken frat-boys beats them to it. It comes as no surprise that Garth’s fourth child — apparently the most monstrous of the bunch — is still roaming the premises, and doesn’t take kindly to strangers. An early foray onto exploitation turf for director Tom de Simone, this film has a fairly stylish look, though mired by underlit photography and silly performances. Blair is appealing, but her role is sadly underwritten.

Friday the 13th Part 2

Friday the 13th Part 2
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: Dana Kimmell | Paul Kratka | Nick Savage | Rachel Howard
Directors: Steve Miner
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Two months after the events of the original Friday the 13th, Alice (Adrienne King), the lone survivor or Mrs. Vorhees’ killing spree, meets a grisly end in her city apartment. Five years later, a new group of co-eds converges near Camp Crystal Lake, scene of the original massacre and the drowning of Jason Vorhees that preceded it. This time around, the horny collegians attend a nearby training school for camp counselors. As half the group parties in town, an unseen assailant picks off the other half one by one. Only when camp leader Paul (John Furey) and his girlfriend, Ginny (Amy Steel), return to camp do they uncover the identity of their stalker — none other than Jason (Warrington Gillette) himself, alive but grotesquely deformed as a result of his childhood drowning. Flashbacks chronicle Jason’s behind-the-scenes activities in the first film (perhaps explaining how his mother was able to throw the dead bodies of muscular youths through windows with such apparent ease). The young couple’s only hope to defeat the fiend lies in psych major Ginny’s insights in Jason’s mental state.

Incubus

Incubus
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Year: 1981
Actors: John Cassavetes | John Ireland | Kerrie Keane | Helen Hughes
Directors: John Hough
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In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor (John Cassavetes) and the local sheriff (John Ireland) discover that the boy’s dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind the brutual murders.

Excalibur

Excalibur
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Year: 1981
Actors: Nigel Terry | Helen Mirren | Nicholas Clay | Cherie Lunghi
Directors: John Boorman
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As the title would suggest, it follows the travels of the legendary sword Excalibur through Arthurian myth, from the violent, powerful hands of Uther Pendragon, to a long-years’ rest in the stone to being redrawn by Uther’s son Arthur, who uses it to defeat the evil invaders and establish the great court of Camelot and the great Knights of the Round Table. It is there in Arthur’s glory years and in his decline, brought on by the love affair between his wife Guenevere and best friend and best knight Sir Lancelot, the Holy Grail Quest which produces many casualties among the knights, and the arrival of Mordred, the son Arthur had by his evil half-sister, the sorceress Morgana. Through it all, the magician Merlin watches over everything, always ready to throw in a Charm of Making when it’s called for.