Horror Movies By Year - 1978
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- DirectorRosângela MaldonadoJosé Mojica MarinsStarsRosângela MaldonadoJosé Mojica MarinsIzabel Alves2000-year-old woman has a pact with the devil, to preserve her youth. She must extract the essence of life from the people she has sex with.
- DirectorSharron MillerStarsJohn EricsonIvor FrancisJudith Novgrod"The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale.
- DirectorJohn De BelloStarsDavid MillerGeorge WilsonSharon TaylorA group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
- DirectorDong-joon ChoiStarsYe-seong LeeJeong-ha LimJi-min JinHeo Seon rescues a small, white snake which, unknown to him, has gained mystical powers during the course of its 1000 years of life. In gratitude, the snake transforms itself into a beautiful maiden and marries Heo Seon. However, the local Buddhist priest tells Heo Seon of the true nature of his new bride and warns him that a snake can never be trusted
- DirectorHarry KerwinWayne CrawfordStarsWayne CrawfordJason EversRoberta LeightonLittle coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsZdena StudenkováVlastimil HarapesVáclav VoskaIn this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
- DirectorRobert W. MorganStarsKen MillerToni CrabtreeJerry AlbertTwo tourists in Florida are attacked by a chilling group of backwoods psychopaths.
- DirectorAlberto CavalloneStarsDanielle DugasClaude MaranJoseph DicksonA woman escapes from being raped only to find herself trapped by a sado-masochistic photographer who, among other nasty things, gets off on consuming fresh human excrement.
- DirectorJeff LiebermanStarsZalman KingDeborah WintersMark GoddardA bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsMelissa ChimentiSirpa LaneMaurice PoliA team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals' female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.
- DirectorMasami HataStarsHitoshi TakagiMinori MatsushimaAkira KamiyaAn innocent lamb learns about life and death when he seeks revenge upon the wolf who slaughtered his mother.
- DirectorWon-se LeeStarsOo MinIn-il ShinEun-hie WangA giant crocodile is terrorizing Thai villagers. A group of adventurers set out by boat to track it down and kill it.
- DirectorDon TaylorMike HodgesStarsWilliam HoldenLee GrantJonathan Scott-TaylorDamien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
- DirectorUgo LiberatoreStarsRenato CestièRena NiehausYorgo VoyagisA blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.
- DirectorShyam RamsayTulsi RamsayStarsAnil DhawanShyamaleeImtiaz KhanFor generations, a family lives in fear of a dark and terrible curse.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
- DirectorAl AdamsonPaul AratowStarsJohn CarradineDon 'Red' BarryLarry HankinAn evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
- DirectorAlbert BandStarsJosé FerrerMichael PatakiJan ShutanCommunist soldiers accidentally unleash the part-vampire servant of Dracula, as well as Zoltan, his vampire dog, during excavations in Romania. Together, they set out for America to find the last living direct descendant of the great Count. Meanwhile, said descendant, unaware of his true heritage, goes on vacation with his family and their dogs, not knowing they are in great danger. Fortunately, a vampire hunter is also on the case and is tracking down the servant and his dog, as well as the descendant, in order to destroy the former and protect the latter.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiKazuko YoshiyukiTakahiro TamuraA married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsFaye DunawayTommy Lee JonesBrad DourifA famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceJamie Lee CurtisTony MoranFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
- DirectorJosé Mojica MarinsStarsJosé Mojica MarinsJorge PeresMagna MillerThis movie is basically a vehicle for recycling footage from the eccentric pantheon of Brazil's premier horror filmmaker Jose Mojica Marins, whose own persona often melds with that of his popular alter-ego "Coffin Joe". Clips are culled from the trademark surreal nightmare sequences favored by Marins in such films as Esta Noite Encarnarei No Teu Cadaver (Tonight I'll Be Incarnated in Your Corpse), Ritual dos Sadicos (Ritual of the Maniacs) and Exorcismo Negro (Black Exorcism). These grotesque, hallucinatory set pieces are depicted as the nightmares plaguing psychologist Dr. Hamilton, who is haunted by the character of Coffin Joe. In an effort to stop the dreams, Hamilton seeks the aid of Joe's creator (Marins, as himself), who tries to convince him that Joe is not an actual demon but a flamboyant character he intends to lampoon in his latest film.
- DirectorFernando Durán RojasStarsEric del CastilloChrista LinderCarlos EastA sadistic and ruthless outlaw has been terrorizing the town of Hot Snake. A bounty hunter named Emiliano is hired by the local sheriff to hunt down the outlaw after he murders a woman and steals money belonging to the Army. Warned by a local bruja (witch) not to take the bounty, Emiliano soon finds himself the target of a mysterious man who seeks to settle a personal vendetta.
- DirectorMeir ZarchiStarsCamille KeatonEron TaborRichard PaceAn aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsDonald SutherlandBrooke AdamsJeff GoldblumWhen strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsFrederic ForrestKathleen LloydJohn P. RyanAn epidemic of monster babies sweeps across America.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsRoy ScheiderLorraine GaryMurray HamiltonPolice chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
- DirectorBrice MackStarsLisa PelikanBert ConvyNina FochOstracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKumiko ArakiRara ChinamiMayuko HinoA chubby, bicycle-riding killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage.
- DirectorJeremy HoenackStarsJames LuisiSusan SullivanJohn KarlenA detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.
- DirectorAlan BirkinshawStarsAnthony ForrestTom MarshallGeorgina KeanFour mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.
- DirectorFrancesco ProsperiStarsFlorinda BolkanRay LovelockFlavio AndreiniSister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping and terrorizing the girls, killing one by raping her with a cane, until Bolkan renounces her teachings and seeks bloody revenge.
- DirectorMichael RaeStarsKim MilfordCheryl SmithGianni RussoA teenager stumbles upon an alien weapon, which transforms him into a grotesque killer.
- DirectorAndy MilliganStarsElaine BoiesLouise GallandraJeannie CusickHorror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs are dispatched by an unknown killer.
- DirectorBakir TanovicStarsViktor StarcicAdem CejvanDragomir Bojanic-GidraA historical drama set in the beginning of XIX century. The richest merchant in Sarajevo marries the baker's daughter, but after returning home from one of his business trips, he discovers that she is being possessed by the "fury". He goes to see an orthodox and a catholic priest, but they both fail to drive the Devil out. He then goes to see Imam, who sets up an exorcism session.
- DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJohn HargreavesBriony BehetsMike McEwenWhen a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsAnthony HopkinsAnn-MargretBurgess MeredithA ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
- DirectorJack WeisStarsCurt DawsonGwen ArmentWilliam MetzoPolice try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsKitty WinnPeter DonatWilliam SwetlandA woman travels to New Orleans for her honeymoon. While there a witch doctor curses her. She begins to have terrible nightmares and begins to act strange even killing people. Her husband searches for another doctor to help her.
- DirectorLee MaddenStarsDonald PleasenceNancy KwanRoss HagenA big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. Meanwhile, the leopard begins to hunt the inhabitants of the island.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsGeoffrey LandJill JacobsonMarilyn JoiA hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.
- DirectorGiulio PetroniStarsMarisa MellChris AvramLou CastelAmanda,a beautiful American girl is soon to be married to Andrea Orsomandi,a wealthy nobleman who lives in an extravagant Gothic mansion.However there exists something dark,sinister and supernatural within the walls of the mansion.It seems that Andrea has been driven to madness and is a victim of the evil contained within the house.It soon transpires that he is involved in black magic,perverse rituals and serial killings with the aid of his sadistic henchman and gardener Giovanni.Killing prostitutes in order to exorcise this Evil.Now the demonic forces set out to possess Amanda,take her soul and turn her into another victim of the mansion.
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsSusan PenhaligonRobert HelpmannRod MullinarA young nurse who's just started working at a public clinic begins to suspect that a comatose young man may possess the powers of psychokinesis.
- DirectorJoe DanteStarsBradford DillmanHeather Menzies-UrichKevin McCarthyWhen flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
- DirectorJuan Ignacio GalvánStarsCarmen SevillaJuan PardoBárbara ReyMacabre tale of a sculptor who has grown so disconnected from the people around him that he's lost the ability to distinguish faces. While he's traveling on an airplane, one woman stands out from the rest, and he becomes intent on having her model for him. Both of their lives are suddenly intersected by a mysterious woman dressed in white, and a bizarre odyssey begins to unfold.
- DirectorKim Ki-youngStarsKim Ja-okJeong-cheol KimMan KimA depressed young man crosses paths with a woman who commits suicide, a book salesman obsessed with the will to live, a resurrected female corpse, and a archaeologist and his unstable artist daughter, in a fantasy tale of life and death.
- DirectorCarlos PuertoJuan Piquer SimónStarsÁngel ArandaSandra AlbertiMariana KarrA young couple are tricked into going into a sinister house where a coven of devil-worshipers waits for them.
- DirectorRaffaele RossiStarsCésar RobertoShirley SteckJosé C. MesquitaA teacher's stepson performs brutal killings when possessed by a spirit who's been near him, since a satanic ceremony performed during his childhood.
- DirectorDigby RumseyCompilation of four short films by Digby Rumsey: For All the Immigrants in England, Windows, Nature and Time and The Moonlight Comb. Also includes new linking footage.
- DirectorChia-Yun YangKaren YangStarsHsiao-Fen LuAlan TamFu-Mei ChangA young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.
- DirectorRichard CassidyStarsLaszlo PapasBelle MitchellBeverly RossAfter moving into a boardinghouse, a young woman becomes the object of her lonely neighbor's obsessions.
- DirectorStephen TraxlerStarsAlan BlanchardJudy MotulskyJ.C. ClaireA nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
- DirectorNorman J. WarrenStarsJohn NolanCarolyn CourageJames AubreyThe descendants of a witch hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.
- DirectorFred Olen RayStarsPaul JonesMarcia ScottJohn RayInvading aliens are taking over the brains of folks in a small town.
- DirectorRadley MetzgerStarsHonor BlackmanMichael CallanEdward FoxA group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
- DirectorPete WalkerStarsJack JonesPamela StephensonDavid DoyleA singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.
- DirectorFilippo OttoniStarsChristopher GeorgeGay HamiltonSven ValsecchiThe story about an estranged couple and their terminal ill son.
- DirectorGus TrikonisStarsRichard CrennaJoanna PettetAndrew PrineA doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion, and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret.
- DirectorJean RollinStarsMarie-Georges PascalFélix MartenSerge MarquandA young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.
- DirectorPaul MorrisseyStarsPeter CookDudley MooreDenholm ElliottA Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.
- DirectorRichard MarquandStarsKatharine RossSam ElliottJohn StandingAn American couple in England stumble upon a rambling mansion where a number of powerful individuals have been summoned by its patriarch regarding the home's legacy.
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsLee GrantCarol KaneWill GeerEllen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.
- DirectorWilliam GirdlerStarsTony CurtisSusan StrasbergMichael AnsaraA psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400-year-old demonic Native American spirit.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsRichard BurtonLee RemickLino VenturaA telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsUrsula AndressStacy KeachClaudio CassinelliA woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the jungle.
- DirectorConstantine S. GochisStarsJerry LazarusJeannetta ArnetteNick CarterSix people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsAlan BatesSusannah YorkJohn HurtA traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
- DirectorEnzo MilioniStarsBarbara MagnolfiStefania D'AmarioAnna ZinnemannStill mourning the passing of their father, two Austrian sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious Italian seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.
- DirectorKarel ZemanStarsLudek MunzarJaroslav MouckaChristian BrücknerA young boy becomes an apprentice for a mysterious sorcerer, working at the sorcerer's strange and sinister mill where secretive black magic is being taught and performed at a very heavy price.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsMichael CaineKatharine RossRichard WidmarkA huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.
- DirectorDennis DonnellyStarsCameron MitchellPamelyn FerdinWesley EureA ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
- DirectorWalter StockerStarsKeith AtkinsonBelinda BalaskiMarshall ReedA widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night, he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her from her coffin. things, of course, are not what they seem.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsSusan HemingwayKarine GambierHoward VernonSomewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsJohn CarradineBruce FairbairnTrey WilsonCarradine is an aged vampire who has a bevy of vampiric beauties who lure many of their customers back to his lair. A pair of virile young Navy sailors get mixed up in their shenanigans.
- DirectorA. VincentStarsKamal HaasanP.K. AbrahamAlummoodanVayanadan Thamban is nearing his death he starts to worship devils and comes across a devil Karimuthey.Vayanadan Thamban requests him to grant everlasting youth to which Karimuthey agrees on a request that he should sacrifice 10 virgin girls as an offering to him. on specific intervals.Upon offering him a sacrifice of every virgin girl Karimuthey grants Vayanadan Thamba a boon to become younger on every interval.But warns him that if he fails to offer the sacrifice his body shall rotten.
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyStarsÁgata LysHeinrich StarhembergRicardo MerinoA writer arrives to an isolated boardinghouse run by a beautiful but strange woman. Shortly after his arrival, guests start to get violently killed.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsSusan RocesMario O'HaraLaurice GuillenA STRANGE FILM OF STRANGE ENCOUNTERS AND RAW PASSION. MARUJA - NOW LIVES AGAIN TO HAUNT YOUR SENSES.
- DirectorRodger DarbonneStarsVan Washburn Jr.Victor LawrenceRon BergerA gang of campers are led into a wilderness that includes an island haunted by an evil spirit.
- DirectorDon DohlerStarsDon LeifertTom GriffithRichard DyszelA science ship with three dangerous specimens collected from around the universe crash lands on Earth. A mysterious stranger named "Ben Zachary" shows up claiming to be able to save the day. Can he do what he claims?
- DirectorAlfredo ZacaríasStarsJohn SaxonAngel TompkinsJohn CarradineWhen South America killer bees corporately smuggled into the United States mutate into intelligent insects and attacks helpless people, young scientists work desperately to end the threat as the menace swarms in on the city areas.
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsJohn HustonAndrés GarcíaHugo StiglitzThe passengers and crew of a ship on a scuba diving trip in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle, and mysterious and deadly things start happening.