Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.

Actors : Connie Young, George Hardy, Michael Paul Stephenson, Margo Prey,
Directors : Claudio Fragasso,

A family vacationing in a small town discovers the entire town is inhabited by goblins in disguise as humans, who plan to eat them.

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 : David Labiosa, Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, George Coe,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Sheree J. Wilson,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.

Actors : Cleavon Little, Karen Kopins, Lauren Hutton, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Howard Storm,

A vampire Countess needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall.

Actors : Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Michael Moriarty, Garrett Morris,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.

Actors : Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield, James Farentino,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.

Actors : Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rowan, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp,
Directors : Tibor Takács,

Kids, left home alone, accidentally unleashes a horde of malevolent, pint-sized demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.

Actors : Lar Park-Lincoln, John Otrin, Jennifer Banko, Susan Blu,
Directors : John Carl Buechler,

Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the dormant Jason Voorhees returns to the camp grounds when he is accidentally released from his prison by a telekinetic teenager.

Actors : Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen, Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett,
Directors : Rob Hedden,

A boat of graduating high school students bound for Manhattan pulls Jason Voorhees along for the ride.

Actors : Debra De Liso, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Michelle Michaels,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

A high school student's slumber party turns terrifying as an escaped mental patient with a drill decides to crash the party.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Kim Greist, John Heard, 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 : Allison Barron, Cathy Podewell, Hal Havins, Alvin Alexis,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.

Actors : William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Steve Miner,

A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, George C. Scott, Brad Dourif,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased 'Gemini' serial killer, lead him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.

Actors : David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

Actors : Cinzia Monreale, Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Antoine Saint-John,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Actors : Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.