1980s Horror

R1981 · Horror · 85m · Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

IMDb 5.7MC 49🍅 75%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.8

R1981 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 110m · Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

IMDb 6.3🍅 28%TMDB 6.0☠ 5.8

NR1982 · Horror · 85m · James Houghton, Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin

A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.

IMDb 5.7TMDB 6.1☠ 5.8

R1985 · Drama, Crime, Horror · 86m · Lori Loughlin, Jean De Baer, James Spader

A brother and his young sister come to a small town to find out a local gang terrorizes the population.

IMDb 6.1🍅 40%TMDB 6.4☠ 5.8

R1981 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits

Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs... and it isn't long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!

IMDb 5.7TMDB 5.7☠ 5.8

R1987 · Horror · 100m · Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser

The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.

IMDb 5.7TMDB 5.8☠ 5.8

R1984 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 91m · Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn

After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.

R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 88m · Kevin Dillon, Deborah Goodrich, Christopher Wynne

A video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friends race to stop the aliens before the tapes can be distributed world-wide.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.4☠ 5.8

1986 · TV Movie, Horror, Adventure · 44m · Richard Masur, Mimi Kennedy, Benji Gregory

A novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns that the house is haunted by people who lived in the house 300 years previously.

🍅 20%TMDB 6.3☠ 5.8

1988 · Horror · 86m · Jemma Redgrave, Kathleen Wilhoite, Timothy Spall

As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.8☠ 5.8

1987 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Carmine Capobianco, Debi Thibeault, Frank Stewart

A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.5☠ 5.8

1986 · Horror · 97m · John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle

There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.

NC-171985 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 94m · Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant

A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.

PG1989 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 90m · Robert Vaughn, Teri Copley, Steve Altman

The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smile.

1980 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 4.9☠ 5.8

R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 92m · Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour

Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.

IMDb 6.0MC 39🍅 36%TMDB 6.2☠ 5.7

R1988 · Horror, Comedy · 104m · Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind

After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!

R1987 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 97m · Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Louis Ferreira

When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney, is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.

IMDb 5.8MC 48🍅 56%TMDB 6.1☠ 5.7

R1983 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

IMDb 5.6🍅 60%TMDB 5.4☠ 5.7

R1986 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp, Steven Finch

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.

IMDb 5.9🍅 44%TMDB 6.2☠ 5.7

R1984 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga

An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.5☠ 5.7

PG1982 · Horror · 94m · Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans

A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.4☠ 5.7

PG1983 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 92m · Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid

Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

IMDb 5.4🍅 67%TMDB 4.8☠ 5.7

1988 · Action, Horror, Fantasy · 81m · Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart, Claudia Angelique Rademaker

The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.