Best Horror movies of 1980s

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 : Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet, Felissa Rose,
Directors : Robert Hiltzik,

Angela Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions gets their comeuppance.

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 : Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder,
Directors : Jack Sholder,

An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent crime spree in L.A. A human cop, detective Tom Beck, and an alien cop posing as a young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher both pursue the parasite who frequently changes his human hosts.

Actors : Adrienne Barbeau, Bingo O'Malley, Ramy Zada, Harvey Keitel,

Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by two famous horror directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento. A greedy wife kills her husband, but not completely. A sleazy reporter adopts a strange black cat.

Actors : Max von Sydow, Eddie Albert, Christopher Plummer, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.

Actors : Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Everett McGill, Gary Busey,
Directors : Daniel Attias,

A werewolf terrorizes a small city where lives the paralytic Marty Coslaw, his uncle, and his sister, the story's narrator.

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 : Lorraine Gary, Mario Van Peebles, Lance Guest, Karen Young,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Actors : Charles Lanyer, Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

Actors : Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Paul Kelman, Keith Knight,
Directors : George Mihalka,

A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.

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 : Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

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 : 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 : Ken Foree, Jeffrey Combs, Ted Sorel, Barbara Crampton,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

Actors : John Getz, Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson,
Directors : Chris Walas,

The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.

Actors : Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Robert Vogel,
Directors : Frank Henenlotter,

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.

Actors : Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick,
Directors : Charles E. Sellier Jr.,

After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.