YEAR-BY-YEAR RANKING: 1981

 

1. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
2. ON GOLDEN POND
3. THE FOUR SEASONS
4. THE GIN GAME
5. POSSESSION
6. MY BLOODY VALENTINE
7. THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
8. CUTTER'S WAY
9. THE BEYOND
10. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
11. THE EVIL DEAD
12. HEAVY METAL
13. TRANCES
14. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
15. GALLIPOLI
16. EXCALIBUR
17. TIME BANDITS
18. THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY
19. THE FOX AND THE HOUND
20. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
21. THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW
22. BLOW OUT
23. THE BURNING
24. MADMAN
25. EVILSPEAK
26. EYE OF THE NEEDLE
27. THE PROWLER
28. THE BUNKER
29. DEAD & BURIED
30. VENOM
31. DANCE CRAZE
32. JUST BEFORE DAWN
33. MYSTICS IN BALI
34. PORKY'S
35. FIRECRACKER
36. THE HOWLING
37. CLASH OF THE TITANS
38. THE BLACK CAT
39. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
40. MISS MORISON'S GHOSTS
41. MARTIAL CLUB
42. RAGTIME
43. ENTER THE NINJA
44. NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF
45. GHOSTKEEPER
46. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART II
47. THE FUNHOUSE
48. GRADUATION DAY
49. ABSENCE OF MALICE
50. DRAGONSLAYER
51. THE CANNONBALL RUN
52. HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I
53. THE WARRIOR
54. QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC
55. MOMMIE DEAREST
56. BURNED AT THE STAKE
57. SHERLOCK HOLMES:  THE STRANGE CASE OF ALICE FAULKNER
58. HALLOWEEN II
59. THE FINAL CONFLICT
60. MASADA
61. THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER
62. ARTHUR
63. THE MONSTER CLUB
64. DAWN OF THE MUMMY
65. DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW
66. HELL NIGHT
67. SPHINX
68. SHARKY'S MACHINE
69. THE SURVIVOR
70. INSEMINOID
71. AMERICAN POP
72. MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND
73. FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER
74. FORT APACHE, THE BRONX
75. WET JOB
76. THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
77. RICH AND FAMOUS
78. WOLFEN
79. THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA
80. LOOKER
81. DEAD KIDS
82. ZOMBIE LAKE
83. THE MUNSTERS' REVENGE
84. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN
85. CHARIOTS OF FIRE
86. GHOST STORY
87. STUDENT BODIES
88. SATURDAY THE 14TH
89. UNDER THE RAINBOW
90. CAVEMAN
91. HEARTBEEPS