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The Cannonball Run (1981)

Summary: A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.

Release Date: June 19, 1981

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sport

Director: Hal Needham

Writer: Brock Yates

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Eurasia Investments, Twentieth Century Fox, Eurasia Investments

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Home Box Office (HBO), Vestron Video, CBS, Video Treasures, Promotional Concept Group, HBO Video

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 72,179,579

45 - Metacritic % Gap

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Summary: Five years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings.

Release Date: May 01, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Steve Miner

Writers: Ron Kurz

, Victor Miller

, Sean S. Cunningham

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Georgetown Productions Inc., Sean S. Cunningham Films

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Scream Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Friday the 13th

Movie budget: $ 1,250,000

Domestic: $ 21,722,776

45 - Metacritic % Gap

Halloween II (1981)

Summary: While Dr. Loomis hunts for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and The Shape is not far behind her.

Release Date: October 30, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Rick Rosenthal

Writers: John Carpenter

, Debra Hill

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), MCA Videocassette, MCA Videodisc, WGN, MCA Television, GoodTimes Home Video, Goodtimes Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Scream Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Halloween

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 25,533,818

40 - Metacritic % Gap

Hell Night (1981)

Summary: Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier.

Release Date: August 28, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Tom DeSimone

Writer: Randy Feldman

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: BLT Productions, Media Home Entertainment

Distributor: Best Film & Video Corp., Anchor Bay Entertainment, MCA TV, NBC Universal Television Distribution, Scream Factory, Universal Domestic Television, Universal Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,400,000

39 - Metacritic % Gap

Looker (1981)

Summary: Three of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders?

Release Date: October 30, 1981

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Michael Crichton

Writer: Michael Crichton

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Ladd Company, Warner Bros.

Distributor: The Ladd Company, Warner Bros., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

33 - Metacritic % Gap

Endless Love (1981)

Summary: Parental disapproval of a passionate romance between two teenagers leads to arguments, circumstance, insanity and tragedy.

Release Date: July 17, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Writers: Scott Spencer

, Judith Rascoe

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), MCA Videocassette, Vestron Video, CBS, King Features Entertainment, Video Treasures, Live Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), FilmRise, Shout! Factory, Lionsgate, HBO Max, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,700,000

Domestic: $ 31,184,024

International: $ 1,308,650

32 - Metacritic % Gap

Student Bodies (1981)

Summary: A serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school.

Release Date: August 07, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Directors: Mickey Rose

, Michael Ritchie

Writer: Mickey Rose

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Allen Smithee Classic Films, Paramount Pictures, Universal Southwest Cinema

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Legend Films, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,165,432

30 - Metacritic % Gap

The Funhouse (1981)

Summary: Four teenagers visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement, but soon discover that nothing there is innocent or amusing.

Release Date: March 13, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Tobe Hooper

Writer: Lawrence J. Block

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Scream Factory, MCA Videocassette, TeleFutura, The Criterion Channel, The Sci-Fi Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,886,857

International: $ 142

28 - Metacritic % Gap

The Final Conflict (1981)

Summary: The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.

Release Date: March 20, 1981

Genre: Horror

Director: Graham Baker

Writers: David Seltzer

, Andrew Birkin

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Harvey Bernhard Productions, Mace Neufeld Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: CBS, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, Scream Factory

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Omen

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,471,382

24 - Metacritic % Gap

Victory (1981)

Summary: As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

Release Date: July 31, 1981

Genres: Drama, Sport, War

Director: John Huston

Writers: Yabo Yablonsky

, Djordje Milicevic

, Jeff Maguire

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Victory Company, New Gold Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, HBO Max, MGM/CBS Home Video, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,853,418

23 - Metacritic % Gap

Modern Problems (1981)

Summary: 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 re...

Release Date: December 25, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Director: Ken Shapiro

Writers: Ken Shapiro

, Tom Sherohman

, Arthur Sellers

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, Anchor Bay Entertainment, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,154,211

23 - Metacritic % Gap

Neighbors (1981)

Summary: A quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door.

Release Date: December 18, 1981

Genre: Comedy

Director: John G. Avildsen

Writers: Thomas Berger

, Larry Gelbart

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), GoodTimes Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,500,000

Domestic: $ 29,916,207

23 - Metacritic % Gap

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Summary: Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Release Date: August 21, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: John Landis

Writer: John Landis

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,565,292

International: $ 113,196

22 - Metacritic % Gap

History of the World: Part I (1981)

Summary: Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Release Date: June 12, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Musical, History

Director: Mel Brooks

Writer: Mel Brooks

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brooksfilms

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,672,907

22 - Metacritic % Gap

Excalibur (1981)

Summary: Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.

Release Date: April 10, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Director: John Boorman

Writers: Thomas Malory

, Rospo Pallenberg

, John Boorman

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Cinema '84, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,967,437

International: $ 3,699

20 - Metacritic % Gap

Eye of the Needle (1981)

Summary: A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

Release Date: July 24, 1981

Genres: Romance, Thriller, War

Director: Richard Marquand

Writers: Ken Follett

, Stanley Mann

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kings Road Entertainment

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 17,583,634

20 - Metacritic % Gap

Ms .45 (1981)

Summary: A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.

Release Date: April 24, 1981

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Abel Ferrara

Writer: Nicholas St. John

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: Navaron Films

Distributor: Drafthouse Films, Complete Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment (FHE), Hollywood Media Bridge, Image Entertainment, Tubi TV, U.S.A. Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 62,000

18 - Metacritic % Gap

Private Lessons (1981)

Summary: An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.

Release Date: June 10, 1981

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Alan Myerson

, James Fargo

Writer: Dan Greenburg

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Barry & Enright Productions

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), MCA Videocassette, MCA Videodisc, Paramount Domestic Television, Paramount Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Cinema Epoch

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,800,000

Domestic: $ 26,279,000

18 - Metacritic % Gap

Heavy Metal (1981)

Summary: A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Release Date: August 07, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: Gerald Potterton

, John Bruno

, John Halas

Writers: Daniel Goldberg

, Len Blum

, Dan O'Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Guardian Trust Company, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Potterton Productions

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, TBS Superstation

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,300,000

Domestic: $ 546,545

18 - Metacritic % Gap

The Prowler (1981)

Summary: An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.

Release Date: November 10, 1981

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Joseph Zito

Writers: Glenn Leopold

, Neal Barbera

, Eric Lewald

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Graduation

Distributor: Sandhurst, VCII Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

The Cannonball Run (1981)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Halloween II (1981)

Hell Night (1981)

Looker (1981)

Endless Love (1981)

Student Bodies (1981)

The Funhouse (1981)

The Final Conflict (1981)

Victory (1981)

Modern Problems (1981)

Neighbors (1981)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

History of the World: Part I (1981)

Excalibur (1981)

Eye of the Needle (1981)

Ms .45 (1981)

Private Lessons (1981)

Heavy Metal (1981)

The Prowler (1981)

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