# List of horror films of 1980

A number of horror films were released in 1980.
| Title | Director(s) | Cast | Country | Notes |
| Alien Dead | Fred Olen Ray | | United States | |
| Alligator | Lewis Teague | Robert Forster, Robin Riker | United States | |
| Altered States | Ken Russell | William Hurt, Drew Barrymore, Francis X. McCarthy | United States | |
| Antropophagus | Joe D'Amato | George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone | Italy | Alternative title(s) AntropophagusThe Grim ReaperMan EaterThe Savage Island |
| The Attic | George Edwards | Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Rosemary Murphy | United States | |
| The Awakening | Mike Newell | Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend | United States United Kingdom | |
| The Babysitter | Peter Medak | Patty Duke, William Shatner | United States | Television film |
| Beyond Evil | Herb Freed | John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante | United States | |
| The Boogeyman | Ulli Lommel | Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Felicite Morgan | United States | |
| Cannibal Apocalypse | Antonio Margheriti | Giovanni Lombardo Radice, John Saxon, Wallace Wilkinson | Italy Spain | |
| Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato | Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi | Italy | |
| Cardiac Arrest | Murray Mintz | Max Gail, Gary Goodrow, Mike Paul Chan | United States | |
| The Changeling | Peter Medak | George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas | Canada | |
| The Children | Max Kalmanowicz | Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers | United States | |
| Christmas Evil | Lewis Jackson | Brandon Maggart, Gus Salud, Jeffrey DeMunn | United States | |
| City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci | Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Michele Soavi | Italy | |
| Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, | Italy West Germany | |
| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Philip Leacock | Eva Marie Saint, Raymond Burr | United Kingdom United States | Television film |
| Death Ship | Alvin Rakoff | George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso | United Kingdom Canada | |
| Demented | Arthur Jeffreys | Sallee Elyse, Harry Reems | United States | |
| Don't Answer the Phone! | Robert Hammer | James Westmoreland, Flo Gerrish, Ben Frank | United States | |
| Don't Go in the House | Joseph Ellison | Dan Grimaldi, Robert Osth, Ruth Dardick | United States | |
| Eaten Alive! | Umberto Lenzi | Janet Agren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov | Italy Spain | |
| Effects | Dusty Nelson | Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison | United States | Alternative title(s) Death's DirectorThe Manipulator |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung | Sammo Hung, Chung Fat, Chan Lung | Hong Kong | |
| Erotic Nights of the Living Dead | Joe D'Amato | Laura Gemser | Italy | |
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson | United States | |
| The Fog | John Carpenter | Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh | United States | |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby | United States | |
| Funeral Home | William Fruet | Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey | Canada | Alternative title(s) Cries in the Night |
| The Godsend | Gabrielle Beaumont | Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence | United Kingdom | |
| The Haunting of M | Anna Thomas | Jo Scott Matthews, Nini Pitt, Isolde Cazelet | United States | |
| He Knows You're Alone | Armand Mastroianni | Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Hanks | United States | |
| The Hearse | George Bowers | Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux | United States | |
| Hell of the Living Dead | Bruno Mattei | Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Giraldi, Selan Karay | Italy Spain | |
| The House on the Edge of the Park | Ruggero Deodato | David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo | Italy | |
| Humanoids from the Deep | Barbara Peters | Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow | United States | |
| Inferno | Dario Argento | Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi | Italy | |
| Island Claws | Hernan Cardenas | Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks | United States | |
| Long Island Cannibal Massacre | Nathan Schiff | John Smihula, Fred Borges, Michael Siegal | United States | |
| Lost Souls | Mou Tun-fe | Yen Hung, Chen Ming, Chan Shen | Hong Kong | |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | Bernice Stegers, Veronica Zinny, Stanko Molnar | Italy | |
| Mama Dracula | Boris Szulzinger | Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Belgium | |
| Maniac | William Lustig | Joe Spinell, Fred Borges | United States | |
| The Monster Club | Roy Ward Baker | Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine | United Kingdom | |
| Motel Hell | Kevin Connor | Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons | United States | |
| Mother's Day | Charles S. Kaufman | Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce | United States | |
| New Years Evil | Emmett Alston | Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace | United States | |
| Night of Death | Raphaël Delpard | Ernest Menzer, Denise Montréal, Betty Beckers | France | |
| Night of the Demon | James C. Watson | Joy Allen, Bob Collins | United States | |
| The Night of the Hunted | Jean Rollin | Brigitte Lahaie, Rachel Mhas, Vincent Gardère | France | |
| Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi | Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio | Italy Mexico Spain | Alternative title(s) City of the Walking DeadInvasion by the Atomic ZombiesInvasion de los zombies atómicos |
| Nightmares | John D. Lamond | Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet | Australia | Alternative title(s) Stage Fright |
| The Other Hell | Bruno Mattei | Franca Stoppi, Carlo De Mejo, Francesca Carmeno | Italy | |
| Patrick Still Lives | Mario Landi | Gianni Dei, Franco Silva, Mariangela Giordano | Italy | |
| Prom Night | Paul Lynch | Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens | Canada | |
| Return of the Wolfman | Paul Naschy | Paul Naschy, Julia Saly, Silvia Aguilar | Spain | |
| Satan's Slave | Sisworo Gautama Putra | Ali Albar, Simon Cader, Adang Mansyur | Indonesia | |
| Schizoid | David Paulsen | Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill | United States | |
| Sex and Black Magic | Joe D'Amato | Nieves Navarro, Lucia Ramirez, Richard Harrison | Dominican Republic Italy | |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd | United States United Kingdom | |
| Terror Train | Roger Spottiswoode | Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner | Canada | |
| To All a Good Night | David Hess | Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile | United States | |
| Toxic Zombies | Chuck McCrann | Chuck McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend | United States | |
| The Unseen | Danny Steinmann | Barbara Bach, Sidney Lassick, Stephen Furst | United States | |
| The Watcher in the Woods | John Hough, Vincent McEveety | Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards | United States | |
| We're Going to Eat You | Tsui Hark | Han Kuo Tsai, Kao Hsiung, Mel Wong | Hong Kong | |
| Windows | Gordon Willis | Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley | United States | |
| Without Warning | Greydon Clark | Jack Palance, Martin Landau | United States | |
| Zombie Holocaust | Marino Girolami, Francesco Martino] | Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Cole, Sherry Buchanan | Italy | |