Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Tom Towles, Tony Todd, McKee Anderson, Patricia Tallman,
Directors : Tom Savini,

The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims.

Actors : Robert Englund, John Beckman, Rodney Eastman, Kisha Brackel,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

The last girl from Elm Street is still bothered by dreams about Freddy; soon he returns and kills her, but before she died she wills her power to a new friend.

Actors : Caroline Williams, Dennis Hopper, Bill Moseley, Jim Siedow,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.

Actors : Cathy Tyson, Bill Pullman, Paul Winfield, Zakes Mokae,
Directors : Wes Craven,

An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Susan Sarandon, David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Tony Scott,

A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.

Actors : Michael Gelting, Colin Gilder, Allan De Waal, Ole Ernst,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist ...

Actors : Guy Stockwell, Blanca Guerra, Axel Jodorowsky, Thelma Tixou,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult -, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".

Actors : Kevin Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch Jr.,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everything in its path. Teenagers attempt without success to warn the townspeople, who refuse to take them seriously.

Actors : Craig Smith, Mike Minett, Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.

Actors : Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Beau Starr, Ellie Cornell,
Directors : Dominique Othenin-Girard,

One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute niece.

Actors : Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Grant Cramer, John Vernon,
Directors : Stephen Chiodo,

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

Actors : Robbi Morgan, Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.

Actors : Suzanne Bateman, John Shepherd, Anthony Barrile, Melanie Kinnaman,
Directors : Danny Steinmann,

Still haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis - who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees - wonders if the serial killer is connected to a series of brutal murders occurring in and around the secluded halfway house where he now lives.

Actors : Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Anne-Marie Martin, Casey Stevens,
Directors : Paul Lynch,

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Perry Pirkanen, Francesca Ciardi, Robert Kerman,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Joe Alves,

The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a SeaWorld theme park after a 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park with them.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Trish Van Devere, Jean Marsh, George C. Scott,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.

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

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

Actors : Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise,
Directors : John Lafia,

While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Sharon Farrell, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.