Top 10 Horror Movies 1979
1
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]
2
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]
3
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]
4
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]
5
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]
6
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]
7
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.
8
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.
9
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."
10
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]
