Best Creature movies of 1980s

Actors : Mathilda May, Steve Railsback, Frank Finlay, Peter Firth,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A race of space vampires arrive in London and infect the populace.

Actors : River Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, Bradley Gregg, Jason Presson,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A boy obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?

Actors : Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, John Ritter,
Directors : Dennis Dugan,

A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.

Actors : Alyson Hannigan, Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An alien is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where she appears as a gorgeous, attractive, and single lady. Her mission is to make contact with a rather nerdy young scientist, who's quite ...

Actors : David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby,
Directors : Clive Barker,

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.

Actors : Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, Louis Jourdan, David Hess,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.

Actors : Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion,

Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, Jeff East, Kimberly Ross,
Directors : Stan Winston,

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento,
Directors : Dario 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.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Peter Weller,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, John Gielgud,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Actors : Jason Bateman, John Astin, Paul Sand, Kim Darby,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.

Actors : Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins,
Directors : Fred Dekker,

Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Actors : Fabiana Udenio, Claude Earl Jones, Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

Actors : Stephen Macht, Kelly Wolf, David Andrews, Andrew Divoff,
Directors : Ralph S. Singleton,

In a very old textile mill with a serious rat infestation, the workers discover a horrifying secret deep in the basement.

Actors : Daniel Stern, John Heard, Kim Greist, Christopher Curry,
Directors : Douglas Cheek,

A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.

Actors : Shelley Long, Jack Gilford, Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Carl Gottlieb,

A cave-man seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman.

Actors : Rick Hearst, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Gordon MacDonald,
Directors : Frank Henenlotter,

One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.

Actors : Jack Nance, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Peter Liapis,
Directors : Luca Bercovici,

A young man and his girlfriend move into an old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a desire to control ancient demons.