Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Matthew Labyorteaux,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting robotic microchips into her brain.

Actors : Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Gabriel Byrne,
Directors : Ken Russell,

The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.

Actors : Sheila Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Cooper, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Philip Ridley,

In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

Actors : Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Daria Nicolodi, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.

Actors : Melissa Sue Anderson, Sharon Acker, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

Actors : Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Katherine Helmond, Alex Rocco,
Directors : Frank LaLoggia,

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a small town during the 1960's, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

Actors : Bryan Madorsky, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bob Balaban,

A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.

Actors : Brian Matthews, Larry Joshua, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer,
Directors : Tony Maylam,

A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.

Actors : Terrence Mann, Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Don Keith Opper,
Directors : Mick Garris,

Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend.

Actors : Todd Allen, Stephen Nichols, Kathleen Wilhoite, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

A woman (Kitaen) finds an interest in her friend Brandon's Ouija Board when he brings it by her party.

Actors : Jay Baker, Clayton Rohner, Griffin O'Neal, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Fred Walton,

Nine college students staying at a friend's remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool's Day weekend.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

Actors : Harald Lundt, Colloseo Schulzendorf, Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski,
Directors : Jörg Buttgereit,

A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton, Kevin Brophy, Linda Blair,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier.

Actors : Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Ann Turkel,

Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.

Actors : Carol Kane, Joseph Bologna, Ed Begley Jr., Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Rudy De Luca,

Tabloid reporters Jack Harrison and Gil Turner are sent to Transylvania with two choices: find the Frankenstein monster or find new jobs. But before the jumpy journalists can dig up their ...

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Lorraine De Selle, Zora Ulla Keslerová, Giovanni Lombardo Radice,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Diana Scarwid, Anthony Perkins, Roberta Maxwell,
Directors : Anthony Perkins,

Norman Bates falls in love with a nun - which makes his "mother" jealous - who has visited the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter.

Actors : Giovanni Frezza, Catriona MacColl, Ania Pieroni, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.