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
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Jensen Daggett, Sharlene Martin, Scott Reeves
Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.
Amityville 3-D
›PG1983 · Horror · 93m · Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Romy Walthall, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
›R1989 · Horror · 90m · Richard Beymer, Bill Moseley, Samantha Scully
Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Parasite
›1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Elves
›1989 · Horror · 89m · Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund
While conducting a pagan ritual in the woods with her friends, Kirsten inadvertently awakens the spirit of a demonic Christmas elf involved in a neo-Nazi plot to bring about the master race. After the rent-a-Santa in her department store is murdered, an unemployed, alcoholic ex-cop takes the job and the two set out to unravel the mystery.
The Galaxy Invader
›PG1985 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 79m · Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover
An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.
Ghoulies
›PG-131985 · Horror, Comedy · 81m · Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
›R1987 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Eric Freeman, James Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan
Ricky is released from a mental hospital, taking with him the memory of his brother Billy's death and embarking on a journey of relentless revenge.
Return to Horror High
›R1987 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Lori Lethin, George Clooney, Brendan Hughes
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...
Sorority House Massacre
›R1986 · Horror, Comedy · 74m · Angela O'Neill, Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross
Upon joining a sorority, Beth is plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding killer, when her past comes back to haunt her.
Scream
›R1981 · Horror · 82m · Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne
A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.
Faces of Death III
›1985 · Horror, Documentary · 86m · Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz, Veronica Lakewood
Gory real-life footage of blood and guts on the German Autobahn, drug smugglers getting blown away, a parachutist landing in a crocodile pit, torture and murder in El Salvador, a PCP addict getting stoned, a videotaped rape/murder, a car thief getting ripped apart by two junkyard dogs, and much more.
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
›R1985 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown
When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has succumbed to the werewolf curse.
The Alien Dead
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 74m · Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they start disappearing.
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
›R1985 · Horror · 90m · Michael Berryman, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom
A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before.
Surf Nazis Must Die
›R1987 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 81m · Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner
When a Black oil well worker is killed by a band of California neo-Nazis, his gun-wielding grandmother busts out of her retirement home to avenge him.
Jaws 3-D
›PG1983 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Piranha II: The Spawning
›R1982 · Horror · 94m · Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
The Marsupials: The Howling III
›PG-131987 · Horror · 98m · Barry Otto, Max Fairchild, Imogen Annesley
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Boogeyman II
›1983 · Horror · 79m · Suzanna Love, Ulli Lommel, Shannah Hall
Lacey, the shaken survivor of a bloody supernatural rampage in the countryside, is flown to Los Angeles where a slick movie producer plans to cash in on her story. At a decadent Hollywood party, plans for the beginning of a new horror movie franchise are torn asunder when a fragment of the original haunted mirror turns these hotshot movers and shakers into screamers and quakers!
Zombie Nightmare
›R1987 · Horror · 89m · Adam West, Jon Mikl Thor, Tia Carrere
Tony Washington is killed in a hit-and-run after saving the local bodega clerk from robbers. Molly Mokembe is a Haitian voodou practitioner who brings him back as a zombi from a debt owed by Tony's late dad in an act of sacrifice that saved her. Jimbo, the kid that iced Tony, is embracing some new sadistic feelings. What follows is a revenge that can only be sated once all of those who were with Jimbo that night have had their due.
Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues
›PG1984 · Adventure, Mystery, Horror · 92m · Charles B. Pierce, Cindy Butler, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Having heard tales of Bigfoot wreaking havoc in the swamps of Louisiana, a zoology professor sets out to investigate these strange occurrences for himself, aided by a ragtag team. Hitting the road in their camper, the group encounter person after person who relay their strange and often frightening encounters with the beast, while the creature itself remains elusive...
Jaws: The Revenge
›PG-131987 · Adventure, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.