Description: As with most of my lists, some of the movies show a different year, but they were all released in 1981.
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The Incubus
( 1982 )
A small town's doctor takes matters into his own hands after a series of gruesome and bizarre rape crimes perplex the clueless authorities.
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The Munsters' Revenge
( 1981 )
When a wax museum owner attempts to frame the Munsters for pulling a jewelry heist, they must both prove their innocence and find out the true thieves.
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Under the Rainbow
( 1981 )
A visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow.
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The Hand
( 1981 )
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
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Pennies from Heaven
( 1982 )
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow
( 1981 )
In a small Southern town, a wrongfully-killed man exacts revenge on those who murdered him from beyond the grave.
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Saturday the 14th
( 1981 )
A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it.
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Student Bodies
( 1981 )
A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.
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Zorro: The Gay Blade
( 1981 )
Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a...
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An Eye for an Eye
( 1981 )
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
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Rubberface
( 1981 )
Janet is an over-weight girl who has a knack for making the other children in school laugh...by making fun of her own weight. In seeing the other kids reaction, she feels that she might have what it takes to be a comedian. She visits the local comedy club where she finds Tony Moroni who is a struggling comedian whose jokes are less than funny. Together Tony helps Janet find self-esteem and Janet helps Tony with his material.
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Modern Problems
( 1981 )
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
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Rich and Famous
( 1981 )
Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.
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The Fan
( 1981 )
Douglas, a record salesman, is an obsessive fan of actress Sally Ross. When his letters are rejected, he strikes out at her and her loved ones.
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Final Exam
( 1981 )
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
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Tattoo
( 1981 )
A troubled tattoo artist has designs on a model.
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The Monster Club
( 1981 )
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
( 1981 )
When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.
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Graduation Day
( 1981 )
A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.
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Buddy Buddy
( 1981 )
During a high profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
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Evilspeak
( 1981 )
An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer.
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The Bunker
( 1981 )
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins') last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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Raggedy Man
( 1981 )
A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944.
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Heartbeeps
( 1981 )
Two household robots run away and try to start a family.
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Back Roads
( 1981 )
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
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All Night Long
( 1981 )
A drummer plants doubts into the mind of a bandleader about his wife's faithfulness in an attempt to take over the band himself.
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Hard Country
( 1981 )
Ambitious young Jodie wants more out of life than the small Texas country town she lives in has to offer. Jodie realizes that in order to pursue her dreams she will have to leave Texas and move to the big city. However, her shiftless factory worker boyfriend Kyle wants to stay in Texas.
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Miracle on Ice
( 1981 )
A fact-based story of how the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviet Union at the 1980 Lake Placid, New York Winter Olympics, then went on to win the gold medal.
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The Boogens
( 1981 )
Otherworldly creatures are released from the bootleg tunnels underneath a small-town mining community, and begin chomping on the locals.
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
( 1982 )
Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
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Jaws of Satan
( 1981 )
A preacher whose ancestors were cursed by Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
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The Devil and Max Devlin
( 1981 )
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. Max accepts, and returns to earth, equipped with special powers. However his task is harder than expected, especially when 7 years old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.
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St. Helens
( 1982 )
Dramatization of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.
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Faces of Death II
( 1981 )
This movie continues in the same vein as F.O.D. 1 with short scenes of death related material. Mortuarys, accidents, police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of the material are most likely fake, some not as likely.
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Paternity
( 1981 )
A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.
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Going Ape!
( 1981 )
When his father, who owned a circus, dies Foster inherits $5-million--and three orangutans. But there's a condition: if he gives away the orangutans, or if just one gets sick or dies during the next three years, the zoological society will get all the money. So not only must he deal with three apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but he must also deal with kooky new roommate Laszlo who came from the circus to help with the apes, a greedy zoological society's president, three bumbling henchmen, and a cranky landlord.
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Researcher : That's it! Thanks StarWhisper! Re-watching it.