Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Traci Lords, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

Actors : Kathleen Rowe McAllen, Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, Frank Birney,
Directors : Frank LaLoggia,

High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.

Actors : Felix Ward, Alec Nemser, Maria Pechukas, Dan Scott,

A sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to keep his wife alive.

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, Patrick Magee, David Warbeck,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Robert Miles is a psychic that can communicate with the dead. He also has the ability to control the mind of his cat (who incidentally is black). He uses the cat to take vengeance upon his ...

Actors : Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery, Klaus Kinski, Carole Francis,
Directors : David Schmoeller,

A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Howard Vernon, Anouchka, Pierre-Marie Escourrou,

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Ruben Rabasa, Nicole Fortier, Ben Cross,
Directors : Camilo Vila,

A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.

Actors : Rita Taggart, Lance Henriksen, Dedee Pfeiffer, Brion James,

Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of ...

Actors : Ricky Addison Reed, Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Andrew Duggan,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.

Actors : Caroline Williams, Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster, Jonathan Brandis,
Directors : Jeff Burr,

After escaping the insane asylum in which he was incarcerated, the Stepfather impersonates a marriage counselor and manages to win over a patient and her young son.

Actors : Brendan Hughes, Scott Jacoby, Alex Rocco, Lori Lethin,
Directors : Bill Froehlich,

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 ...

Actors : Jon Mikl Thor, Manuska Rigaud, Adam West, Tia Carrere,
Directors : Jack Bravman,

After a young man is killed by a gang of rampant teenagers, he is resurrected by a voodoo priestess so he can avenge his death.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

Actors : Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.

Actors : John Saxon, Cinzia De Carolis, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.

Actors : C.J. Cooke, Mik Cribben, Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith,
Directors : Romano Scavolini,

A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.

Actors : Brian Robbins, Gerrit Graham, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Bill Calvert,
Directors : David Irving,

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.

Actors : Valentine Monnier, Michael Sopkiw, Gianni Garko, William Berger,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Actors : Lorie Griffin, Betsy Russell, Lucinda Dickey, Leif Garrett,
Directors : John Quinn,

A group of cheerleaders become the targets of an unknown killer at a remote summer camp.

Actors : Evan Mirand, LeeAnne Locken, Cheryl Pollak, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Jimmy Huston,

After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.