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** Directed by ''[[The Last House on the Left]]'' producer Sean Cunningham.
* ''Great White'' (A.K.A. ''The Last Shark'') (1980) : ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''... [[Recycled in Space|WITH]]... [[Plagiarism|a great white shark?]]
* ''[[Prom Night]]'' (1980) : A prank played by four children results in the death of a young girl. The four vow never to mention the accident. Years later, the four are teens in high school preparing for their prom. A masked killer - who may either be someone who witnessed the accident or an unrelated madman on the run - [[Slasher
* ''[[Terror Train]]'' (1980) : Some college teens play a traumatizing prank on a nerd. Years later, during a New Year's Eve/Graduation party aboard a train, [[Slasher
* ''[[Absurd]]'' (1981) : [[In Name Only]] sequel to ''The Anthropophagus Beast'' (above) about a man whose blood coagulates very fast thus making him nearly invincible; [[Ax Crazy|albeit also homicidal]].
* ''[[The Beyond]]'' (1981) : A woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and unleashes a curse pertaining to the gate of hell she finds it is built over and a painter who was lynched at it many years earlier; [[Gorn]] ensues. The second film in Lucio Fulci's unofficial ''Gates of Hell'' trilogy, and generally regarded as the best.
* ''[[The Burning]]'' (1981) : A counsellor at a summer camp is badly burned in a prank played by some teens. He returns to the camp from hospital and [[Slasher
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]'' (1981) : <s>[[Spiritual Successor]] to</s> '''Ripoff of''' ''Cannibal Holocaust'' about three grad students who head to the Amazon to research a thesis holding that cannibalism no longer exists. [[Gorn|What do you suppose the odds are that this hypothesis turns out to be incorrect?]] We got more genuine animal killings, plus the somewhat dubious claim that it was [[Banned in China|banned in 31 countries]].
* ''[[Dead and Buried]]'' (1981) : Passing tourists are viciously murdered by mobs of townspeople in the sleepy New England town of Potter's Bluff, only for them to then appear alive again as residents of it themselves, prompting the sheriff to investigate. While still plenty [[Gorn|gory]], is one of the few films on the [[Video Nasties]] list to be genuinely scary and to generally be received well by critics, and features an ending that would put [[M. Night Shyamalan]] to shame.
* ''[[Don't Go in the Woods]]'' (1981) : Two couples go for a camping trip in the woods and are set upon by a grizzled old mountain man, who also kills a bunch of other random people. Frequently regarded as the single worst [[Slasher
* ''[[Escape from New York]]'' (1981) : [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], [[Big Applesauce|New York]] has been turned into a walled-off maximum-security prison. When [[Air Force One]] crashes into it and the US president is taken captive by the gangs dwelling within, an [[Eyepatch of Power]]-clad [[Kurt Russell]] is sent in to get him back, with 24 hours to do it before bombs in his bloodstream blow up. Remake/sequel in 1996.
* ''[[Galaxy of Terror]]'' (1981) : A spaceship crew sent to a remote planet on a rescue mission faces gruesome things out to kill them in this [[Roger Corman]] flick.
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* ''[[C.H.U.D.|CHUD]]'' (1984) : When several homeless people dwelling in the sewers of New York are mysteriously murdered, an investigation reveals said sewers to be inhabited by a tribe of radioactively mutated '''C'''annibalistic '''H'''umanoid '''U'''nderground '''D'''wellers.
* ''The Noah's Ark Principle'' (1984) : Before his giant [[Summer Blockbuster]]s, [[Roland Emmerich]] began his career with the most expensive student film ever to be produced in Germany, about a space station that could be used to control the weather. Story's not much to speak of, but the sets and special effects are phenomenal for their budget; no doubt one of the factors that enamoured Emmerich to Hollywood.
* ''[[Silent Night,
* ''[[The Terminator]]'' (1984) : A cybernetic assassin from the year 2029 arrives in the present day, on a mission to assassinate the mother-to-be of the child who will become the leader of the human resistance against the machines. A classic example of a B-movie done good: on a limited budget with one previously noteworthy star and an unknown director, it became a box office and critical hit, launched the career of James Cameron, gave Arnold Schwarzenegger his trademark [[Catch Phrase]], catapaulted Michael Biehn into his career as an action actor, and spawned three sequels, a bunch of novels, videogames, a TV series, comics, and countless homages, parodies and imitations.
** And on the subject of Arnie, another of his 1980s B-movies was ''[[Predator]]''...which has also taken on a mini-industry of its own with 3 sequels videogames, comics, state governors, et cetera and so on.
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