Top Ten for 1978

Though I'm not going to be doing ties, I gotta say this is one case where it was painful to chose between the top 2 films, Both Dawn of the Dead and Halloween are both extremely worthy of the top spot, I just happen to enjoy Dawn slightly more.
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1978

Top 5

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1. Dawn of the Dead

Italy, USA / George A. Romero / ★★★★

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2. Halloween

USA / John Carpenter / ★★★★

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3. Piranha

USA / Joe Dante / ★★★1/2

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4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

USA / Philip Kaufman / ★★★1/2

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5. Panna a netvor (The Virgin and the Monster)

Czechoslovakia / Juraj Herz / ★★★1/2

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Long Weekend / Australia / Colin Eggleston / ★★★
7. Damned in Venice (Nero veneziano) / Italy / Ugo Liberatore / ★★★
8. Child's Voice, A / Ireland [short] / Kieran Hickey / ★★★
9. Death Train, The / Australia / Igor Auzins / ★★★
10. Satan's Blood (Escalofrío) / Spain / Carlos Puerto and Juan Piquer Simón / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Absolution (Murder by Confession) / UK / Anthony Page / ★★1/2
- Alien Factor, The / USA / Don Dohler / ★★
- Beasts Are on the Streets, The / USA [TV] / Peter R. Hunt / ★★1/2
- Being Twenty (Avere vent'anni; To Be Twenty) / Italy / Fernando Di Leo / ★★★
- Bermuda Triangle, The (Devil's Triangle of Bermuda) / Italy, Mexico / René Cardona Jr. / ★1/2
- Blue Sunshine / USA / Jeff Lieberman / ★★1/2
- Boys from Brazil, The / UK, USA / Franklin J. Schaffner / ★★1/2
- Cat and the Canary, The / UK / Radley Metzger / ★★1/2
- Damien: Omen II / USA / Don Taylor / ★★1/2
- Distant Thunder, A (A Thief in the Night II) / USA / Donald W. Thompson / ★1/2

- Evil, The (Cry Demon; House of Evil) / USA / Gus Trikonis / ★★1/2
- Eyes of Laura Mars / USA / Irvin Kershner / ★★
- Faces of Death / USA [documentary] / John Alan Schwartz / ★1/2
- Grapes of Death, The (Les raisins de la mort) / France / Jean Rollin / ★★1/2
- Hallucinations in a Deranged Mind (Delírios de um Anormal) / Brazil / José Mojica Marins / ★★
- House of the Dead, The (Alien Zone; Last Stop on 13th St.) / USA / Sharron Miller / ★★1/2
- Ice House, The / UK [TV] [short] / Derek Lister / ★★
- Initiation of Sarah, The / USA [TV] / Robert Day / ★★1/2
- I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman) / USA / Meir Zarchi / ★1/2
- It Lives Again (It's Alive 2) / USA / Larry Cohen / ★★
- Jaws 2 / USA / Jeannot Szwarc / ★★
- Jennifer (Jennifer: The Snake Goddess) / USA / Brick Mack / ★1/2
- Killer's Moon / UK / Alan Birkinshaw / ★1/2
- Lake, The / UK [short] / Lindsey C. Vickers / ★★★

- Last House on the Beach, The (La settima donna) / Italy / Franco Prosperi / ★★
- Legacy, The (The Legacy of Maggie Walsh) / UK, USA / Richard Marquand / ★★
- Magic / USA / Richard Attenborough / ★★1/2
- Manitou, The / Canada, USA / William Girdler / ★★
- Mountain of the Cannibal God, The (La montagna del dio cannibale) / Italy / Sergio Martino / ★★1/2
- Necrotic, The / USA / Louis Ferriol / ★1/2
- New Moon, The (Yue ya er) / Taiwan / Feng-Pan Yao / ★1/2

- Patrick / Australia / Richard Franklin / ★★
- Sister of Ursula, The (La sorella di Ursula) / Italy / Enzo Milioni / ★★1/2
- Someone's Watching Me! (High Rise) / USA [TV] / John Carpenter / ★★1/2
- Summer of Fear (Stranger in Our House) / USA [TV] / Wes Craven / ★★1/2
- Temptation of the Demon Woman (Godaan Siluman Perempuan) / Indonesia / Ackyl Anwari / ★★
- Terror Storm (Ciclón; Cyclone) / Italy, Mexico, USA / René Cardona Jr. / ★★1/2
- Till Death / USA / Walter Stocker / ★★1/2
- Toolbox Murders, The / USA / Dennis Donnelly / ★★1/2
- Trauma (Enigma rosso; Rings of Fear) / Italy, Spain, West Germany / Alberto Negrin / ★★1/2
- Vampire Hookers (Graveyard Tramps) / Philippines, USA / Cirio H. Santiago / ★
- Within the Woods / USA [short] / Sam Raimi / ★★1/2
- Woman Who Makes Doves Fly, The (A Mulher Que Põe a Pomba no Ar) / Brazil / Rosângela Maldonado, José Mojica Marins / ★1/2

- Women in Cellblock 9 (Frauen für Zellenblock 9) / Switzerland / Jesus Franco / ★★
- Women Without Innocence (Frauen ohne Unschuld) / Switzerland / Jesus Franco / ★1/2
- World Beyond, The (The Mud Monster) / USA [TV] / Noel Black / ★★1/2
- Zoltan... Hound of Dracula (Dracula's Dog) / Italy, USA / Albert Band / ★★1/2

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