YEAR-BY-YEAR RANKING: 1978

 

1. DAWN OF THE DEAD
2. HALLOWEEN
3. AUTUMN SONATA
4. WATERSHIP DOWN
5. THE BIG FIX
6. ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE
7. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN
8. THE MEETINGS OF ANNA
9. THE LEGACY
10. RED SHIFT
11. THE RUTLES:  ALL YOU NEED IS CASH
12. THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS
13. GERMANY IN AUTUMN
14. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
15. LORD OF THE RINGS
16. DEATH ON THE NILE
17. THE FIVE VENOMS
18. HEROES OF THE EAST
19. TERROR
20. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
21. HOLOCAUST
22. PIRAHNA
23. GREASE
24. THE EVIL
25. THE GRAPES OF DEATH
26. ROCKERS
27. SHAOLIN MANTIS
28. CRIPPLED AVENGERS
29. BORN INVINCIBLE
30. ABSOLUTION
31. SUPERMAN
32. MAGIC
33. SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME
34. DAMIEN:  OMEN II
35. THE MANITOU
36. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
37. THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY
38. REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER
39. CHILD OF GLASS
40. THE INITIATION OF SARAH
41. COMA
42. THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
43. DR. STRANGE
44. THE DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME
45. THE CAT AND THE CANARY
46. EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE
47. THE WATER BABIES
48. STAR CRASH
49. BLIND RAGE
50. PATRICK
51. ANIMAL HOUSE
52. THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW
53. VAMPIRE HOOKERS
54. HEAVEN CAN WAIT
55. SWEENEY 2
56. HOUSE OF THE DEAD
57. ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE?
58. NURSE SHERRI
59. GAME OF DEATH
60. FOUL PLAY
61. UP IN SMOKE
62. ENTER THE GAME OF DEATH
63. THE BIG SLEEP
64. KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK
65. LASERBLAST
66. RESCUE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
67. AMAZING WORLD OF GHOSTS
68. AVALANCHE
69. THE CURSE OF THE BIGFOOT
70. FACES OF DEATH
71. SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
72. BEYOND AND BACK
73. FAIRY TALES