Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Solly Marx, Sydney Lassick, Belinda Montgomery, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : Simon Nuchtern,

After a computer glitch accidentally releases a homicidal maniac, his doctor and some hospital staff track a trail of bodies to the sorority house where the killer committed his earlier crimes.

Actors : Jonathan Chapin, Christopher Burgard, Jill Whitlow, Tom Bresnahan,
Directors : Bert L. Dragin,

The Cates family is thrilled to learn they have inherited the old mansion of the deranged, stage actor, Tyler Walker. They arrive to discover that the mansion has turned into a playground ...

Actors : Stefano Patrizi, Martine Brochard, Henri Garcin, Laura Gemser,
Directors : Riccardo Freda,

Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are ...

Actors : Lana Clarkson, David McCallum, Nicole Eggert, Christopher Halsted,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

A witch is put to death in Colonial America, leaving her husband and infant daughter behind. Seventeen years later, the daughter has grown up and stands to inherit money set up by her ...

Actors : Tray Loren, Renee Hubbard, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell,
Directors : Beverly Sebastian,

A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.

Actors : Clayton Rohner, Anthony Perkins, Lyle Alzado, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Robert Kirk,

A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of ...

Actors : Janet Agren, José Lifante, Roberto Ricci, David Warbeck,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.

Actors : Vanessa Hidalgo, Helga Liné, Jeffrey Healey, Alfred Lucchetti,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the...

Actors : Neville Brand, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, John Carradine,
Directors : Mohammed Rustam,

Vacationing teens are systematically kidnapped, taken to a strange, rural hospital, run by a mysterious group that needs their blood.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Savina Gersak, Victoria Zinny, Mary Kohnert,
Directors : Jeff Kwitny,

A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, ...

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Carrie Snodgress, Ruth Cox, Ray Milland,

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ...

Actors : Kevin O'Connor, Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed.

Actors : John Wintergate, Kalassu, Lindsay Freeman, Joel Riordan,
Directors : John Wintergate,

A boarding house is reopened years after gruesome murders were committed there. Suddenly, the body count begins once more!

Actors : Priscilla Alden, Robert Copple, Michael Flood, Jane Lambert,
Directors : Nick Millard,

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. ...

Actors : Mary Jackson, Scott Spiegel, Floyd Ewing Jr., Susan Rothacker,
Directors : Jon Killough,

This is the tale of a crazed family of weirdos led by Crawldaddy who like to kill people and remove their skin.

Actors : Mark Zobian, Sarah Newhouse, Victor Verhaeghe, Douglas Gibson,
Directors : James Riffel,

Eight friends go to fix up an old house that Mark has purchased. Upon arriving they find the grave of Annabelle (the former owner) in the back yard. She had killed her husband back in the ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Don Sharp,

The U.S. government has been using deep caves in Central America as bases for a special type of radio transmitter used for communicating with submaries. When the signal from one of these ...

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Judie Aronson, Jeff Conaway, David Naughton,
Directors : Douglas Curtis,

Jason (David Naughton) moves into an abandoned train car where he resurrects the vicious ghost of his landlady's dead husband... The Mister. After some near-fatal encounters with the ...