Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Sean Astin, Joshua Miller, Jason Horst, James Karen,
Directors : Brian Peck,

Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. There are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a ...

Actors : Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran, Abigail Wolcott, Ron Palillo,
Directors : William A. Levey,

A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. ...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis, Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : William Asher,

An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.

Actors : David Hasselhoff, Catherine Hickland, Annie Ross, Linda Blair,
Directors : Fabrizio Laurenti,

When a storm strands a group on a Massachusetts island where the only dwelling is an old hotel supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former German actress (Knef), the result is the standard ...

Actors : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

Actors : Sal Viviano, John Martin, Ken Swofford, Julie Adams,
Directors : John Fasano,

Demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band.

Actors : Julian Sands, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Antonio de Cabo, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.

Actors : Lara Wendel, Leslie Cumming, Timothy W. Watts, Robert Vaughn,

A group of students goes into the woods to study birds, and soon the dead begin to rise to devour the living.

Actors : Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, James Carroll, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Robert Deubel,

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.

Actors : Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Adam Arkin, Joanne Nail,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A teenager (Adam Arkin) becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.

Actors : Norman Burton, Marjoe Gortner, Maurice Sherbanee, Bobbie Bresee,
Directors : Michael Dugan,

Traumatized by her mother's death, young Susan is becoming possessed by the same demon that possessed her mother before she died. More and more her husband and psychiatrist are noticing the...

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount,
Directors : Robert Collector,

Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Ray Wise, R. Lee Ermey, Deborah Adair,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I", which has mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find...

Actors : Vincent Price, Pamela Stephenson, Gareth Hunt, Kenny Everett,
Directors : Ray Cameron,

Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It...

Actors : Deborah Winters, Andra St. Ivanyi, Scott Bankston, James Huston,
Directors : Tom Daley,

An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman's house. They are killed and the lamp is moved to a museum to be studied. The curator's daughter is soon possessed...

Actors : George Buza, David Gale, Cynthia Preston, Tom Bresnahan,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

With the help of an alien organism, a man brainwashes audiences through television; a troubled high school student is determined to stop them.

Actors : Melissa Moore, Savannah, Stephanie Blake, Noel Peters,
Directors : Adam Rifkin,

A budding young scientist lad is caught by his mom checking out the lady across the way with his telescope, whereupon she lectures him on the evils of women. Twenty years later and all ...

Actors : Mary Louise Weller, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Richard Jefferies,

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

Actors : David Campbell, Marcia Karr, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior,
Directors : David A. Prior,

Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.