Top 10 Horror Movies 1979
Alien
Year: 1979
Released: 22 Jun 1979 |
Director: Ridley Scott

8.5

9.0

83

4.6
The plot
The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew... [read more]
Dawn of the Dead
Year: 1978
Released: 24 May 1979 |
Director: George A. Romero

8.0

8.6

4

4.4
The plot
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a... [read more]
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Year: 1979
Released: 17 Jan 1979 |
Director: Werner Herzog

7.6

8.1

4

4.4
The plot
Jonathan and Lucy live in Wismar and the Count wants a house there. Varna is a port on the Black Sea, close to Dracula's... [read more]
The Brood
Year: 1979
Released: 25 May 1979 |
Director: David Cronenberg

6.9

7.0

3.7

4
The plot
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of... [read more]
Phantasm
Year: 1979
Released: 28 Mar 1979 |
Director: Don Coscarelli

6.9

6.3

3.4

3.4
The plot
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious... [read more]
Zombie
Year: 1979
Released: 18 Jul 1980 |
Director: Lucio Fulci

6.9

5.2

3.7

4
The plot
Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and... [read more]
When a Stranger Calls
Year: 1979
Released: 26 Oct 1979 |
Director: Fred Walton

6.6

5.1

3.6

4.3
The plot
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
The Haunting of M.
Year: 1979
Released: 01 May 1981 |
Director: Anna Thomas

6.4

2.2

3.2

3.2
The plot
An Eastern European family finds itself haunted by the spirit of a dead suitor.
God Told Me To
Year: 1976
Released: 11 Jul 1979 |
Director: Larry Cohen

6.3

6.1

3.5

4
The plot
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
The Amityville Horror
Year: 1979
Released: 27 Jul 1979 |
Director: Stuart Rosenberg

6.2

4.4

3.4

3.8
The plot
Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them... [read more]