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| 1 |  | Halloween (1978) |  3.4886 195 reviews | R | Thriller, Horror |
$9.10
| From the age of six Michael Myers was institutionalized for killing his older sister. After 15 ...more about Halloween starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis |
| 2 |  | Dawn of the Dead (1978) |  3.2429 187 reviews | R | Action, Drama, Horror |
$5.07
| A group of four people are forced to live in an abandoned shopping mall after leagues of zombies ...more about Dawn of the Dead starring David Emge and Ken Foree |
| 3 |  | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) | 3.1073 46 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$3.91
| Strange underground alien spores are planted in the earth and eventually begin to flower. As people ...more about Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams |
| 4 |  | Magic (1978) | 3.0076 26 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance |
$14.25
| Magician's assistant Corky performs disastrously at his first solo appearance. He is given a ...more about Magic starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret |
| 5 |  | Day of the Woman (1978) | 2.9958 86 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror |
$13.36
| The film follows Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city ...more about Day of the Woman starring Camille Keaton and Eron Tabor |
| 6 |  | Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) | 2.9868 29 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Musical, Comedy |
$9.99
| After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the ...more about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! |
| 7 |  | Jaws 2 (1978) | 2.9238 43 reviews | NA | Adventure, Thriller, Horror |
$3.92
| The small island resort town of Amity is trying to bounce back from the financial problems it had ...more about Jaws 2 starring Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary |
| 8 |  | Swarm, The (1978) | 2.8579 17 reviews | NA | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.98
| Killer bees from South America have been breeding with the gentler bees of more northern climes, ...more about Swarm starring Michael Caine and Katharine Ross |
| 9 |  | Toolbox Murders, The (1978) | 2.7786 37 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror |
$13.47
| A lunatic runs around an apartment complex, apparently home only to attractive flight attendants ...more about Toolbox Murders starring Pamelyn Ferdin and Wesley Eure |
| 10 |  | Patrick (1978) | 2.7640 24 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$17.99
| After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister Patrick lays comatose in ...more about Patrick starring Susan Penhaligon and Robert Helpmann |
| 11 |  | Damien: Omen II (1978) | 2.7607 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$4.99
| Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined ...more about Damien: Omen II starring William Holden and Lee Grant |
| 12 |  | Piranha (1978) |  2.7099 27 reviews | NA | Horror, Comedy | N/A | When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become ...more about Piranha starring Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies |
| 13 |  | Fury, The (1978) | 2.6292 31 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror |
$5.99
| A secret US agency behind the unscrupulous Childres gathers children with parapsychologic abilities ...more about Fury starring Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes |
| 14 |  | It Lives Again (1978) | 2.5826 18 reviews | NA | Horror |
$5.99
| ...more about It Lives Again starring Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd |
| 15 |  | Long Weekend (1978) | 2.4745 14 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror |
$13.47
| ...more about Long Weekend starring John Hargreaves and Briony Behets |
| 16 |  | Laserblast (1978) | 2.3514 17 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$7.49
| Alien creatures kill a mutated alien creature in the California desert. Its remains, and the ...more about Laserblast starring Cheryl Smith and Gianni Russo |
| 17 |  | Manitou, The (1978) |  2.2222 18 reviews | NA | Horror |
$6.89
| Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) enters a San Franisco hospital suffering from a growing tumor on her ...more about Manitou starring Tony Curtis and Michael Ansara |
| 18 |  | Nurse Sherri (1978) | 2.1666 15 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | Horror movie about a demented professor of the occult, whose soul jumps into the curvaceous body of ...more about Nurse Sherri starring Geoffrey Land and Jill Jacobson |
| 19 | | Shout, The (1978) | 2.1240 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror | N/A | A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part ...more about Shout starring Alan Bates and Susannah York |
| 20 | | Mafu Cage, The (1978) | 2.0068 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror | N/A | Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their ...more about Mafu Cage starring Lee Grant and Carol Kane |
| 21 | | Prey (1978) | 1.9998 5 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | Jessica awakens when an alien spacecraft lands nearby. After dispatching a young couple, the alien ...more about Prey starring Barry Stokes and Sally Faulkner |
| 22 |  | Ai no borei (1978) | 1.9566 7 reviews | R | Drama, Horror |
$6.10
| A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that ...more about Ai no borei starring Tatsuya Fuji and Takahiro Tamura |
| 23 | | Comeback, The (1978) | 1.8738 9 reviews | NA | Horror |
$15.38
| ...more about Comeback starring Jack Jones and Pamela Stephenson |
| 24 |  | Nightmare in Blood (1978) | 1.8661 4 reviews | NA | Horror, Comedy |
$11.00
| Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the ...more about Nightmare in Blood starring Jerry Walter and Dan Caldwell |
| 25 | | Terror (1978/I) | 1.8428 6 reviews | NA | Horror |
$7.79
| Royal ancestors feel the wrath of the curse of the condemned witch Mad Dolly, who spews forth her ...more about Terror starring Carolyn Courage and James Aubrey |
| 26 | | Alien Zone (1978) | 1.7907 2 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery | N/A | A man who had an affair with a married woman is fleeing the woman's murderous husband, who has ...more about Alien Zone starring John Ericson and Ivor Francis |
| 27 | | Bees, The (1978) | 1.7519 5 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms ...more about Bees starring Claudio Brook and Angel Tompkins |
| 28 | | Spawn of the Slithis (1978) |  1.6553 5 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, ...more about Spawn of the Slithis starring Alan Blanchard and Judy Motulsky |
| 29 |  | Doctor Dracula (1978) | 1.5624 2 reviews | NA | Horror |
$14.73
| ...more about Doctor Dracula starring John Carradine and Larry Hankin |
| 30 |  | Alien Factor, The (1978) | 1.5305 4 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$16.99
| A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods ...more about Alien Factor starring Don Leifert and Richard Dyszel |
| 31 | | Night of Horror (1978) | 1.5213 1 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | Steve's buddy Chris can't understand why he's reluctant to play in their band. So, one night at ...more about Night of Horror |
| 32 | | Barracuda (1978) | 1.5031 2 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | ...more about Barracuda starring Wayne Crawford and Jason Evers |
| 33 | | Alpha Incident, The (1978) | 1.4300 1 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | ...more about Alpha Incident starring Carol Irene Newell |
| 34 |  | Legacy, The (1978) | 1.4117 5 reviews | NA | Horror |
$6.90
| A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose ...more about Legacy starring Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott |
| 35 |  | Night Creature (1978) | 1.3113 4 reviews | NA | Adventure, Thriller, Horror |
$5.70
| A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt ...more about Night Creature starring Donald Pleasence and Nancy Kwan |
| 36 | | Mirrors (1978) | 1.2748 1 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror | N/A | A newlywed couple check into an old hotel, and soon the wife finds herself having hallucinations ...more about Mirrors starring Kitty Winn and Peter Donat |
| 37 |  | Bermuda Triangle, The (1978) |  1.1652 1 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery | N/A | ...more about Bermuda Triangle starring John Huston and Claudine Auger |
| 38 |  | Blood Relatives (1978) | 1.0830 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery | N/A | Montreal: Late at night the teenage Patricia flees into a police department, covered all over with ...more about Blood Relatives starring Donald Sutherland and Aude Landry |
| 39 | | Qian li dan qi zhui xiong (1978) |  No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | ...more about Qian li dan qi zhui xiong |
| 40 | | Más allá del fin del mundo (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | ...more about Más allá del fin del mundo |
| 41 | | Forbidden, The (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror, Short | N/A | ...more about Forbidden starring Peter Atkins |
| 42 | | Savage Water (1978) | No Score 2 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | ...more about Savage Water |
| 43 | | Jennifer (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student ...more about Jennifer starring Lisa Pelikan and Bert Convy |
| 44 | | Within the Woods (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror, Short | N/A | A group of friends spend a weekend at a remote cabin, and one of them accidentally desecrates an ...more about Within the Woods starring Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss |
| 45 | | Legacy of Blood (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a ...more about Legacy of Blood |
| 46 | | Till Death (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. ...more about Till Death |
| 47 | | Necrotic, The (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror, Short | N/A | ...more about Necrotic starring Regina Kelly and Anthony La Russo |
| 48 | | Clockwork (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror, Short | N/A | ...more about Clockwork |
| 49 | | Blood Stalkers (1978) | No Score 1 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | ...more about Blood Stalkers starring Toni Crabtree and Jerry Albert |
| 50 | | Agowa gongpo (1978) | No Score 0 reviews | NA | Horror | N/A | ...more about Agowa gongpo |
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