1980s Horror

R1986 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 137m · Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

IMDb 8.4MC 84🍅 93%TMDB 8.0☠ 8.5

R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 144m · Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

IMDb 8.4MC 68🍅 84%TMDB 8.2☠ 8.3

R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 109m · Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

IMDb 8.2MC 57🍅 85%TMDB 8.1☠ 8.0

TV-MA1989 · Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 7 seasons · John Kassir

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

IMDb 8.0TMDB 8.0☠ 8.0

R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

IMDb 7.6MC 81🍅 93%TMDB 7.4☠ 7.8

R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 84m · Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

IMDb 7.7MC 72🍅 88%TMDB 7.5☠ 7.7

NC-171989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 122m · Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

IMDb 7.5🍅 88%TMDB 7.2☠ 7.7

TV-141985 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Robin Ward

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

R1984 · Horror · 91m · Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

IMDb 7.4MC 76🍅 94%TMDB 7.3☠ 7.6

R1987 · Science Fiction, Action, Adventure · 107m · Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

IMDb 7.8MC 47🍅 65%TMDB 7.6☠ 7.5

PG1982 · Horror · 114m · JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

IMDb 7.3MC 79🍅 89%TMDB 7.2☠ 7.5

R1981 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 97m · David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

IMDb 7.5MC 55🍅 89%TMDB 7.4☠ 7.5

TV-MA1987 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 3 seasons · Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, John D. LeMay

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

IMDb 7.6TMDB 7.3☠ 7.5

1989 · Horror, Mystery, TV Movie · 100m · Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker

A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.

IMDb 7.1🍅 100%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.5

1987 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Lance LeGault, John J. York

Eric Cord, a college student transformed into a werewolf undergoes a quest to rid himself of his curse by killing the apparent originator of his 'bloodline'.

PG1984 · Fantasy, Horror, Comedy · 106m · Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

IMDb 7.3MC 70🍅 86%TMDB 7.1☠ 7.4

NC-171981 · Horror · 85m · Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

IMDb 7.3MC 71🍅 85%TMDB 7.3☠ 7.4

R1986 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 120m · William L. Petersen, Tom Noonan, Dennis Farina

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

IMDb 7.2MC 75🍅 90%TMDB 7.0☠ 7.4

R1988 · Thriller, Horror · 115m · Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

IMDb 7.2MC 86🍅 86%TMDB 7.1☠ 7.4

NR1988 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 1 season · Michael Caine, Jane Seymour, Lewis Collins

Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.

R1983 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 103m · Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

IMDb 7.2MC 69🍅 89%TMDB 7.0☠ 7.3

PG-131986 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for it’s supper.

IMDb 7.1MC 81🍅 91%TMDB 7.0☠ 7.3

R1981 · Horror · 124m · Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

IMDb 7.2MC 75🍅 87%TMDB 7.3☠ 7.3

PG1982 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives

Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals; the human being.