Decade
1980s Horror
The horror that defined the 1980s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.
625 titles
Demonoid
›R1981 · Horror · 80m · Samantha Eggar, Stuart Whitman, Roy Jenson
A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.
Don't Answer the Phone!
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence
A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.
Deadly Eyes
›R1982 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 87m · Sam Groom, Sara Botsford, Scatman Crothers
Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!
The Majorettes
›1986 · Horror, Action, Crime · 92m · Kevin Kindlin, Terrie Godfrey, Mark V. Jevicky
A hooded psycho is murdering high-school girls. A devil-worshiping, drug-dealing biker gang is suspected.
Deep Space
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature.
Fatal Games
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson
The young athletes of Falcon Academy are training hard to earn their place in the nationals. But when these burgeoning sports stars start disappearing one after the other, Dr. Jordine and his team - who’ve started plying their athletes with new and untested performance-enhancing drugs - are baffled.
Witchtrap
›1989 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 92m · James W. Quinn, Kathleen Bailey, Judy Tatum
A group of parapsychologists, as well as a skeptical cop, are terrorized by a Satanic ghost in a bed-and-breakfast.
Death Warmed Up
›1984 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, William Upjohn
A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.
Offerings
›R1989 · Horror · 95m · Loretta Leigh Bowman, Elizabeth Greene, G. Michael Smith
Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.
Blind Date
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Joseph Bottoms, Kirstie Alley, James Daughton
A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath.
Murder Weapon
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Linnea Quigley, Lyle Waggoner, Karen Russell
Two mobster daughters leave a sanitarium, host a party inviting ex-boyfriends, who then start disappearing mysteriously.
Attack of the Beast Creatures
›1985 · Horror, Fantasy · 82m · Robert Nolfi, Julia Rust, Robert Lengyel
A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. A living hell breaks loose when the survivors encounter gruesome, flesh-eating Beast Creatures!
Necromancer
›R1988 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Elizabeth Kaitan, John Tyler, Rhonda Dorton
Julie, a college student, is sexually assaulted by two fellow students. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who begins using her demonic powers to get rid of any guy Julie hates.
The Oracle
›R1985 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 94m · Caroline Capers Powers, Roger Neill, Pam La Testa
A murder victim reaches out from beyond the grave in an attempt to possess the body of a young woman who has moved into his old apartment.
Satan's Blade
›R1984 · Horror · 82m · Tom Bongiorno, Stephanie Leigh Steel, Thomas Cue
At a mountain resort, a local resident is possessed by the evil spirit of an ancient mountain man, and terrorizes a ski lodge.
Night Screams
›1987 · Horror · 84m · Joseph Paul Manno, Ron Thomas, Randy Lundsford
A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.
Mutant Hunt
›1987 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Rick Gianasi, Mary Fahey, Ron Reynaldi
In New York City sometime in the near future, Z, the evil chairman of the Inteltrax Corporation, has taken a small army of cyborgs designed to perform hazardous tasks and altered them to kill humans for pleasure. The inventor of the cyborgs, Dr. Paul Haynes, is held captive, and his sister Darla seeks the aid of Matt Riker, an expert in high-tech weaponry and martial arts.
Sledgehammer
›1983 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Ted Prior, Linda McGill, John Eastman
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
House II: The Second Story
›PG-131987 · Fantasy, Horror, Comedy · 88m · Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano
Jesse moves into an old family property where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. He soon finds himself with unexpected guests in the form of his mummified great-great grandfather, a mystical crystal skull, and a zombie cowboy.
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 80m · Linnea Quigley, Andras Jones, Robin Stille
Out to steal a trophy from a local bowling alley, a group of college students accidentally unleash the imp -- a sadistic little spirit that creates demons and loves sexy women.
Moontrap
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Robert Kurcz
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
Incubus
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Helen Hughes
In a small town in Wisconsin, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister cult might be behind the brutal murders. They must track down the vicious killer, who may be the indestructible incarnation of a demon spawned from hell.
Ghosthouse
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Wanja Mary Sellers
A group of unlikely companions receive a radio call leading to a deserted house with a grisly past.
The Final Terror
›R1983 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · John Friedrich, Adrian Zmed, Daryl Hannah
A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
