Absolution (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Catholic Boys’ Boarding School Psycho-Thriller
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Modern Werewolf
Bells (1981)
Rating: ★
Exploding Telephone Calls
The Beyond (1981)
Rating: ★★
Italian Zombie Film/Gateway to Hell
The Black Cat (1981)
Rating: ★
Black Cat Murders/Italian Horror
Bloody Birthday (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Evil Children Slasher
Bloody Moon (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Blow Out (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Psycho-Thriller
The Boogens (1981)
Rating: ★★
Creatures Lurking Underground
Burial Ground (1981)
Rating: ★★
Italian Zombie Film
The Burning (1981)
Rating: 0
Slasher Film
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Psycho Stepmother
Cannibal Ferox (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Italian Cannibal Film
Caveman (1981)
Rating: ★★
Prehistoric Spoof
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Rating: ★★
Greek Mythology Adventure
The Coming (1981)
Rating: ½
Possession by a Salem Witch
Condorman (1981)
Rating: ★
Comic-Book Artist in a Spy Caper
Conquest of the Earth (1981)
Rating: 0
Battlestar Galactica Movie
The Creature Wasn’t Nice (1981)
Rating: ½
Alien Parody
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Rating: ★★
Scarecrow Enacts Supernatural Retribution
Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
Rating: ★
Revived Mummies/Italian Gore
The Day of the Triffids (1981)
Rating: ★★★★½
The Downfall of Civilisation/Lethal Plants Amok
Dead & Buried (1981)
Rating: ★★
Town of Zombies
Deadly Blessing (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Religious Cult Killings
Death Wish II (1981)
Rating: ★
Vigilante Film
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Rating: 0
Pacts with the Devil/Disney Comedy
Don’t Go in the Woods (1981)
Rating: ★
Slasher Film
Double Exposure (1981)
Rating: ★
Psychic Link with a Killer
Dr Jekyll and His Women (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Erotic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Adaptation
Dragonslayer (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Sorcerer’s Apprentice vs Dragon
Escape from New York (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Action/New York as a Future Prison
The Evil Dead (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Backwoods Possession/Splatter Comedy
Evilspeak (1981)
Rating: 0
Bullied Underdog’s Satanic Revenge
Excalibur (1981)
Rating: ★★★★★
Arthurian Legends
Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
The Fan (1981)
Rating: ★★
Psycho Celebrity Stalker
Fear No Evil (1981)
Rating: ★★
Teenage Anti-Christ
The Final Conflict (1981)
Rating: ★★½
The Anti-Christ/The Omen Sequel
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Rating: 0
Frankenstein Film
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
The Funhouse (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Carnival Horror House Slasher
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Enigmatic Alien Planet
Ghost Story (1981)
Rating: ★★
Supernatural Retribution
Graduation Day (1981)
Rating: ★½
Slasher Film
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Muppet Movie
Halloween II (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Slasher Film
The Hand (1981)
Rating: ★★
Disembodied Hand
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Rating: ★
Slasher Film
Heartbeeps (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Robot Romance
Heavy Metal (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Adult Animation Anthology
Hell Night (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher/Old Dark House
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo SF
The House By the Cemetery (1981)
Rating: ★★
Haunted House/Italian Zombie Splatter
The Howling (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Werewolves/Genre Spoof
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Miniaturised Housewife Comedy
Inseminoid (1981)
Rating: ★
Alien Impregnation
Jaws of Satan (1981)
Rating: ½
Satanically Empowered Killer Snakes
Just Before Dawn (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Backwoods Brutality
Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
Rating: ★
Hong Kong Comedy/Kung Fu vs Supernatural
The Last Chase (1981)
Rating: ★★
Car Chase in a Dystopian Future
Looker (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Virtual Models
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Rating: ★★★★½
Post-Holocaust Action
Malevil (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Nuclear War
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
Rating: ★½
Decayed Future
Monster Island (1981)
Rating: 0
Desert Island Adventures
Ms 45 (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Raped Woman on a Killing Spree
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Slasher Film
Mystics in Bali (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Indonesian Witchcraft
New Year’s Evil (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Night of the Zombies (1981)
Rating: ★
Nazi Zombies
Night School (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)
Rating: ★
Psycho Film
Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
Rating: ★
Nazi Zombies
Outland (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Action Set on One of Jupiter’s Moons
Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981)
Rating: ★★
Soviet Science-Fiction/Female Alien Visitor
Piranha II: Flying Killers (1981)
Rating: 0
Killer Fish
Possession (1981)
Rating: ★
Marriage Breakdown/Surrealism/Monsters
The Prowler (1981)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Quest for Fire (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Prehistory/Caveman Adventure
Raggedy Man (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
WWII Smalltown Romance/Hick Psychos
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rating: ★★★★½
Tomb Raiding Adventures
The Return (1981)
Rating: ★★
UFO Contact and Cattle Multilations
Roadgames (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Road Movie Psycho-Thriller
Rollover (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Western Economic Collapse
Saturday the 14th (1981)
Rating: ★★
Genre Parody
Scanners (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Psychic Powers
Shock Treatment (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Rocky Horror Sequel
Southern Comfort (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Backwoods Brutality
Strange Behavior (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Mad Scientist/Mind Control Experiments
The Survivor (1981)
Rating: ★
Haunting/Deathdream
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
Rating: ★
Softcore Tarzan Adaptation
Threshold (1981)
Rating: ★★½
World’s First Artificial Heart
Time Bandits (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Gonzo Adventures Throughout Time
Time Slip (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Soldiers Thrown Back in Time to Feudal Japan
Under the Rainbow (1981)
Rating: 0
Comedy During the Making of The Wizard of Oz
Unico (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Anime/Young Unicorn Boy’s Adventures
The Unseen (1981)
Rating: ★★★
In-Bred Deformity in the Cellar
The War of the Worlds – Next Century (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Polish Satire/Alien Invasion/Authoritarian Regime and Media Control
Wolfen (1981)
Rating: ★★
Intelligent Wolves