Horror History: Saturday, August 25, 1979: Zombi was released in Italian theaters

After a deadly zombie attack aboard a missing scientist’s boat off the coast of NYC, journalist Peter West and Ann Bowles travel to a mysterious island to search for her lost father. There they discover that a terrifying disease is turning the locals into horrifying zombies with a taste for human flesh.

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Horror History: Friday, July 27, 1979: The Amityville Horror was released in theaters

Supposed true story about George and Kathleen Lutzm whose dream house turns into a nightmare. James Brolin and Margot Kidder are the unsuspecting new tenants of a house whose previous occupants had been murdered in their sleep. The Lutzes and their children are menaced by the lingering evil in this frightening ghost story.

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Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1979: The Driller Killer was released in theaters

An artist slowly goes insane from struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings and care for his two female roommates. This leads him to the streets of New York after dark where he randomly kills derelicts with a power drill.

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Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1979: Prophecy was released in theaters

Prophecy is a contemporary story of stark terror. Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather) star as a doctor and his wife, who, at the request of a concerned friend, travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They begin to investigate a succession of mysterious and terrifying events: ecological freaks of nature (including fish that grow many times their normal size), and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths. Veteran suspense director John Frankenheimer manages to present “Prophecy” as a “monster movie” as well as suspenseful tale about the deadly forces which result from the pollution of the environment.

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Horror History: Friday, March 16, 1979: Tourist Trap was released in theaters

The classic REMASTERED! An eerie, deserted wax museum, Slausen’s Lost Oasis, is the site for terror where four young travelers are lured into a very deadly “Tourist Trap.” Slausen is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid side-show are only the beginning of the murderous mayhem.

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Horror History: Wednesday, January 17, 1979: Nosferatu the Vampyre was released in French theaters

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

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Horror History: Friday, December 22, 1978: Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in theaters

San Francisco residents are slowly being replaced by emotionless replicas, and it’s up to a handful of humans to stop the invasion! A chilling remake of the sci-fi classic, with Leonard Nimoy.

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Horror History: Wednesday, November 29, 1978: Someone’s Watching Me debuted on television

A woman is slowly stalked to the brink of madness by a man watching her from the opposite tower block.As the police not taking her seriously,leaves no option for her than to track him down.

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Horror History: Wednesday, November 22, 1978: I Spit on Your Grave was released in theaters

In this cult classic, a New York City writer retires to a secluded cabin in the woods to write her first novel. While there, she is brutally raped by four country boys and left for dead. Surviving the assault, she carefully plots and executes horrific, bloody revenge against her attackers.

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Horror History: Wednesday, May 10, 1978: Martin was released in US theaters

George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies – an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, who claims to be 84 years old, and who certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburg to stay with his uncle, who promises to save Martin’s soul and destroy him once he is finished, but Martin’s loneliness finds other means of release. …Martin

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Horror History: Friday, March 3, 1978: The Toolbox Murders was released in theaters

In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged handyman goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering ‘immoral’ women with the tools of his trade – claw-hammers, screwdrivers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun! But these gruesome massacres are just the beginning of this landmark epic of violence and depravity.

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Horror History: Monday, October 3, 1977: Salò was released in US theaters

The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini (Mamma Roma), Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.

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Horror History: Friday, July 15, 1977: Shock Waves was released in theaters

In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers – un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the Allies – and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived…

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Horror History: Wednesday, June 29, 1977: Empire of the Ants was released in theaters

Vacationers on an isolated island find themselves at the mercy of voracious ants that have become giant mutants after feasting on a leaking barrel of radioactive waste. From a story by H.G. Wells.

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Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1977: Day of the Animals was released in theaters

A film that saw the glut of 70s ensemble disaster movies and thought “I could do that for way cheaper!” Guaranteed to delight both fans of animals and twenty four hour intervals of the earth’s rotation. This feature is a parody and contains the original movie combined with a comedic commentary by Mike, Kevin and Bill from RiffTrax (formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000).

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Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1977: Eaten Alive was released in theaters

The Starlight, a decrepit hotel run by Judd (Neville Brand), receives few customers. Perhaps it’s the remote location in the Texas bayous or the man-eating crocodile in the backyard. But one steamy night finds the Starlight visited by a runaway prostitute (Roberta Collins, Death Race 2000), a young couple (Marilyn Burns and William Finley) and their child (Kyle Richards, Halloween), a dying father and his daughter (Mel Ferrer and Crystin Sinclaire), and sex-obsessed Buck (Robert Englund, A Nightmare on Elm Street), all of whom will experience an unforgettable night of terror.

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