1980s Horror

R1981 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder

A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.7☠ 5.7

R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti

A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.

IMDb 5.9🍅 43%TMDB 6.0☠ 5.7

PG-131988 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Cliff DeYoung, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence

An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.

IMDb 5.5🍅 60%TMDB 5.2☠ 5.7

R1982 · Horror, Comedy · 87m · Caroline Munro, Joe Spinell, Judd Hamilton

A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.3☠ 5.7

R1988 · Comedy, Action, Adventure · 105m · Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Rick Washburn

A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite...

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.4☠ 5.7

R1982 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.

PG-131989 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · John Glover, Nancy Mette, Richard Portnow

The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the family. Henry's perverted boss doesn't know what he's up against when he tries to make advances with Mrs. Hollowhead

1988 · Comedy · 3 seasons · John Schuck, Lee Meriwether, Howard Morton

America's First Family of Fright awaken after an accidental 22-year nap and must adjust to life in the 1980s.

R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Russell Todd, Amy Steel, John Furey

Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.

IMDb 6.1MC 26🍅 29%TMDB 6.2☠ 5.6

R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, Danny Hassel

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.

IMDb 5.6MC 56🍅 56%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.6

R1984 · Thriller, Horror · 79m · Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

IMDb 5.8MC 31🍅 55%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.6

R1986 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey

When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.

IMDb 5.5MC 58🍅 60%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.6

R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 80m · Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins

Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.

IMDb 5.5🍅 58%TMDB 5.8☠ 5.6

R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

IMDb 5.8MC 42🍅 44%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.6

R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow

After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.

IMDb 5.7MC 49🍅 45%TMDB 5.8☠ 5.6

R1986 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Todd Allen, Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols

Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.

IMDb 5.7MC 45🍅 50%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.6

R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull

Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!

IMDb 5.5🍅 57%TMDB 5.5☠ 5.6

R1986 · Comedy, Horror · 93m · Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron

Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.

IMDb 5.9🍅 36%TMDB 5.8☠ 5.6

R1987 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 102m · Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

R1981 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joe Cortese

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

IMDb 5.6🍅 50%TMDB 5.3☠ 5.6

R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays

Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.

IMDb 5.7🍅 44%TMDB 6.0☠ 5.6

R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.1☠ 5.6

R1981 · Horror · 93m · Patricia Mickey, Allison Biggers, Michael MacRae

A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.6☠ 5.6

R1989 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon, Ramy Zada

A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, a woman on crutches confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.7☠ 5.6