| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | USA | Science Fiction | Extraterrestrial, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Space Exploration, Survival, Cosmic Horror | 561 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 79 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli | USA | Supernatural | Science Fiction, Cosmic Horror | 155 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 88 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg | Canada | Body Horror | Psychological Horror, Canuxploitation, Science Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Drama, Family Drama | 141 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 113 | Zombi 2 | 1979 | Lucio Fulci | Italy | Zombie | Splatter, Voodoo Zombie | 152 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 119 | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Germany | Vampire | Gothic, New German Cinema, Psychological Horror, Melodrama | 121 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 130 | The Amityville Horror | 1979 | Stuart Rosenberg | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Psychological Horror | 131 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 190 | Salem’s Lot | 1979 | Tobe Hooper | USA | Vampire | Mystery, Supernatural | 87 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 224 | When a Stranger Calls | 1979 | Fred Walton | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Psychological Horror, Home Invasion, Police Procedural, Slasher | 60 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 327 | Tourist Trap | 1979 | David Schmoeller | USA | Slasher | Hixploitation, Supernatural, Black Comedy, Mystery, Haunted House | 49 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 458 | Dracula | 1979 | John Badham | UK | Vampire | Gothic | 27 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 635 | Buio Omega | 1979 | Joe D'Amato | Italy | Splatter | Exploitation, Cannibal, Body Horror, Psychological Drama, Gothic, Erotica, Sadistic Horror | 23 | IMDb ↗ |
| 12 | 670 | The Driller Killer | 1979 | Abel Ferrara | USA | Exploitation | No Wave Cinema, Psychological Horror, Slasher, Music, Splatter, Black Comedy, Psychological Drama, Crime | 20 | IMDb ↗ |
| 13 | 868 | Fascination | 1979 | Jean Rollin | France | Gothic | Erotica, Crime, Sexploitation, Vampire | 17 | IMDb ↗ |
| 14 | 960 | Prophecy | 1979 | John Frankenheimer | USA | Supernatural | — | 17 | IMDb ↗ |
| 15 | 1121 | Thirst | 1979 | Rod Hardy | Australia | Vampire | Ozploitation, Supernatural, Psychological Horror, Gothic | 11 | IMDb ↗ |
| 16 | 1515 | Don’t Go in the House | 1979 | Joseph Ellison | USA | Exploitation | Psychological Horror, Haunted House, Sadistic Horror | 14 | IMDb ↗ |
| 17 | 2229 | The Silent Scream | 1979 | Denny Harris | USA | Slasher | — | 9 | IMDb ↗ |
| 18 | 2322 | Microwave Massacre | 1979 | Wayne Berwick | USA | Comedy | — | 6 | IMDb ↗ |
| 19 | 2391 | Love at First Bite | 1979 | Stan Dragoti | USA | Vampire | — | 8 | IMDb ↗ |
| 20 | 2510 | Schalcken the Painter | 1979 | Leslie Megahey | UK | Gothic | — | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 21 | 2611 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | USA | War | Psychological Drama, New Hollywood, Psychological Thriller, Adventure, Epic, Surrealism, Satire | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 22 | 2737 | Arrebato | 1979 | Iván Zulueta | Spain | Psychological | — | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 23 | 2755 | Suor Omicidi | 1979 | Giulio Berruti | Italy | Slasher | — | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 24 | 2908 | La tía Alejandra | 1979 | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico | Supernatural | — | 4 | IMDb ↗ |
| 25 | 3178 | Savage Weekend | 1979 | David Paulsen | USA | Slasher | — | 4 | IMDb ↗ |
| 26 | 3469 | The Plumber | 1979 | Peter Weir | Australia | Thriller | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 27 | 3807 | Chorakhe | 1979 | Sompote Sands | Thailand | Natural Horror | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 28 | 3867 | Stridulum | 1979 | Giulio Paradisi | Italy | Science Fiction | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 29 | 3912 | Murder by Decree | 1979 | Bob Clark | Canada | Mystery | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 30 | 3937 | Nightwing | 1979 | Arthur Hiller | USA | Natural Horror | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 31 | 4035 | Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari | 1979 | Shôhei Imamura | Japan | Crime | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 32 | 4096 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | Australia | Action | Ozploitation, Carsploitation, Dystopian, Crime, Bikersploitation, Vigilante, Neo-Western | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 33 | 4468 | Death Car on the Freeway | 1979 | Hal Needham | USA | Thriller | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 34 | 4557 | The Meateater | 1979 | David Burton Morris | USA | Slasher | Cannibal | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 35 | 4887 | Caligola | 1979 | Tinto Brass | Italy | Drama | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 36 | 4950 | Screams of a Winter Night | 1979 | James L. Wilson | USA | Anthology | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 37 | 4984 | Don’t Go Near the Park | 1979 | Lawrence David Foldes | USA | Exploitation | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 38 | 5066 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 1 | 1979 | David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan | UK | Supernatural | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 39 | 5323 | Scum | 1979 | Alan Clarke | UK | Drama | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 40 | 5333 | Jigoku | 1979 | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Japan | Supernatural | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 41 | 5353 | Série noire | 1979 | Alain Corneau | France | Crime | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 42 | 5422 | Murder by Natural Causes | 1979 | Robert Day | USA | Thriller | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 43 | 5517 | The Curse of Dracula | 1979 | — | USA | Vampire | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 44 | 6376 | ‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell | 1979 | Grigori Kromanov | UK | Mystery | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 45 | 6604 | Guyana: Crime of the Century | 1979 | René Cardona Jr. | Spain | Drama | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 46 | 6616 | Kalliyankattu Neeli | 1979 | M. Krishnan Nair | India | Supernatural | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 47 | 6805 | Quintet | 1979 | Robert Altman | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 48 | 6813 | Fung gip | 1979 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong | Mystery | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 49 | 6918 | The Clonus Horror | 1979 | Robert S. Fiveson | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 50 | 6921 | Delirium | 1979 | Peter Maris | USA | Thriller | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 51 | 6922 | CBS Library: Once Upon a Midnight Scary | 1979 | Nell Cox | USA | Anthology | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 52 | 7262 | Snapshot | 1979 | Simon Wincer | Australia | — | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 53 | 7325 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges | USA | — | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 54 | 7363 | Up from the Depths | 1979 | Charles B. Griffith | USA | — | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 55 | 7536 | Human Experiments | 1979 | Gregory Goodell | USA | — | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 56 | 7756 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Russia | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 57 | 7880 | Wolfman | 1979 | Worth Keeter | USA | Werewolf | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 58 | 8313 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1979 | James L. Conway | USA | Supernatural | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 59 | 8349 | Dip bin | 1979 | Hark Tsui | Hong Kong | Mystery | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 60 | 8463 | Dr. Jekyll’s Dungeon of Death | 1979 | James Wood | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 61 | 8722 | It Took Guts | 1979 | Eric Forsberg, Charles Schneider | USA | Splatter | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 62 | 8822 | Harpya | 1979 | Raoul Servais | Belgium | Surrealism | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 63 | 8906 | Sexual Aberration (Sesso perverso) | 1979 | Bruno Mattei | Italy | Exploitation | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 64 | 8992 | Effects | 1979 | Dusty Nelson | USA | Slasher | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 65 | 9103 | Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile | 1979 | Chuck Jones | USA | Family | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 66 | 9117 | The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t | 1979 | Bruce Bilson | USA | Comedy | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 67 | 9299 | Il fiume del grande caimano | 1979 | Sergio Martino | Italy | Natural Horror | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 68 | 9301 | The Dark | 1979 | John 'Bud' Cardos | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 69 | 9557 | The Orphan | 1979 | John Ballard | USA | Slasher | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 70 | 9579 | Weasels Rip My Flesh | 1979 | Nathan Schiff | USA | Splatter | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 71 | 9646 | Bog | 1979 | Don Keeslar | USA | Monster | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 72 | 9660 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 2 | 1979 | David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 73 | 9661 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 3 | 1979 | David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 74 | 9662 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 4 | 1979 | David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 75 | 9664 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 5 | 1979 | David Foster | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 76 | 9665 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 6 | 1979 | David Foster | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 77 | 9666 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 7 | 1979 | David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 78 | 9668 | Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Two: Part 8 | 1979 | Shaun O'Riordan | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
Keyword data is still being added, so some films have incomplete or missing keywords.