1980s Horror

R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 103m · William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

IMDb 6.9MC 58🍅 87%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.9

R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack

Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon begins struggling to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.

IMDb 6.7MC 72🍅 89%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.9

1985 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, Elaine Cusick

After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

R1989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 124m · Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.

1986 · TV Movie, Fantasy, Horror · 111m · Kevin Costner, Christopher Lloyd, Casey Siemaszko

A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy, and Go to the Head of the Class.

1986 · Mystery · 1 season · Christopher Stanton, Joel Dacks, Marsha Moreau

The Little Vampire is a 13-episode children’s television series based on Angela Sommer-Bodenburg’s books The Little Vampire and The Little Vampire Moves In. The series was produced in 1985 as a Canadian-German-British co-production by Norflicks Productions Ltd. (Canada), Polyphon Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Germany), and TVS (United Kingdom), and first aired in 1986. It follows a young boy whose ordinary life changes after befriending a young vampire and becoming involved in a secret nocturnal world of adventure, friendship, and light-hearted supernatural escapades.

1984 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season

A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.

R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

IMDb 6.9MC 56🍅 71%TMDB 6.9☠ 6.8

R1980 · Horror · 90m · Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

IMDb 6.8MC 55🍅 76%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.8

R1986 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 98m · Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

IMDb 7.2MC 32🍅 63%TMDB 7.0☠ 6.8

R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

IMDb 6.7🍅 71%TMDB 6.9☠ 6.8

R1984 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

IMDb 6.6MC 69🍅 85%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.8

PG1981 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

IMDb 6.6MC 71🍅 92%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.8

1982 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Crime · 1 season

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 6.8☠ 6.8

1982 · Drama, Comedy · 1 season · Tim Matheson, Catherine Hicks, Bill Morey

Rick and Amanda Tucker own and operate their private detective agency in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Amanda's psychic powers become an asset in solving cases but also tend to get the spouses into various troubles.

IMDb 7.4TMDB 5.2☠ 6.8

R1983 · Horror · 110m · Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul

Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

IMDb 6.8MC 57🍅 69%TMDB 6.9☠ 6.7

R1981 · Science Fiction, Horror · 103m · Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

IMDb 6.7MC 60🍅 69%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.7

R1982 · Horror, Comedy · 120m · Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver

Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.

IMDb 6.8MC 59🍅 66%TMDB 6.9☠ 6.7

R1985 · Horror, Thriller · 110m · Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento

A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

IMDb 6.7MC 57🍅 76%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.7

R1986 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 88m · Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

IMDb 6.7MC 62🍅 75%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.7

PG1983 · Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?

IMDb 6.7MC 68🍅 63%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.7

1989 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 103m · Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Mary-Anne Fahey

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.

1987 · Adventure, Horror · 91m · John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill, Max Phipps

In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..

1988 · Comedy, Horror · 64m · Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

IMDb 6.6MC 71🍅 78%TMDB 5.9☠ 6.7