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- DirectorBob ClarkStarsOlivia HusseyKeir DulleaMargot KidderDuring their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.Too many to mention, almost every single new or modern slasher or killer movie has references to this old classic. This movie also originated the 'Psychotic phone caller.'
- DirectorRobin HardyStarsEdward WoodwardChristopher LeeDiane CilentoA puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.Character dressed as animal with red cloak; masks made of pig heads. Later used as original idea in Saw.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJennifer ConnellyDonald PleasenceDaria NicolodiA young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.Pool filled with maggots in the end of the film. This exact same type of pool is only used in a few movies, but there are a lot of different versions of disgusting pools used later in horror movies; dead body pools, skeleton pools, mud pools, blood pools, and I think they all originated from this movie.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJulie ChristieDonald SutherlandHilary MasonA married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.Includes a scene near the end where a child who has their back to the protagonist, turns around and is revealed to be grotesquely deformed.
This movie also has a child wearing a red coat, which are referenced in multiple movies later on; The Village, Flatliners, Sweet Alice etc. - DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn WellsThe story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.A killer with a paper bag on his head. Also a connection to some recent horror movies where the 'killer' is never found.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.Think this was the first of its kind to be recorded with a hand-held camera where the protagonists film their own fate, similar famous movie would be The Blair Witch Project.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele LaviaA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.Creepy painted puppet. A similar creepy puppet is used in the Saw franchise.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.Lady covered in blood, young lady with telekinetic powers, hand comes out from grave to scare at the end.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonJoanne SamuelHugh Keays-ByrneIn a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.Recommendation to saw feet rather than chain, this whole idea is a major plot in the movie 'Saw'.
- StarsRichard ThomasTim ReidAnnette O'TooleIn 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.Evil clown in the sewer. While Stephen King didn't 'invent' clowns himself but It seem to be the first horror movie who used the clown concept, after It there came other horror clown movies with different plots.