Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Sara Botsford, Cec Linder, Sam Groom, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Contaminated grain breeds overgrown, killer rats in this Golden Harvest production. Dachshunds were dressed up as rats for the special effects.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Actors : Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff, Jamie Rose, Vicki Frederick,
Directors : Dan Hoskins,

The title should be enough to explain the plot here. Riding around on their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of Zombies, which have ...

Actors : Ned Manning, Wilbur Wilde, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

In the near future, a teenage couple are trapped in a drive-in theater which has become a concentration camp for social outcasts. The inmates are treated to drugs, exploitation films, junk food, and new wave music.

Actors : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Hitomi Kobayashi, Eriko Nakagawa, Aya Katsuragi, Miyuki Ono,
Directors : Toshiharu Ikeda,

A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life when a small, fetus-like creature murders her crew.

Actors : Jeff Montgomery, Manuel Gélin, Eduardo Fajardo, France Lomay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune.

Actors : Eva-Maria Kurz, Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause,
Directors : Jörg Buttgereit,

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Actors : Lena Endre, Joanna Berglund, Johannes Brost, Kjell Bergqvist,
Directors : Jack Ersgard,

Frank, Sara and their two children have recently moved into the house of their dreams on the countryside. Frank is disturbed by mysterious sounds and somebody tears down the wallpaper from ...

Actors : Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross, Nicole Rio, Angela O'Neill,
Directors : Carol Frank,

College student Beth and her sorority sisters are stalked by an escaped psychopathic killer who shares a strange telepathic link with her.

Actors : Malcolm Danare, Claude Akins, Cooper Huckabee, Wil Wheaton,
Directors : David Keith,

When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themeselves.

Actors : Albert Salmi, James Houghton, Lynn Carlin, Larry Pennell,
Directors : James W. Roberson,

A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.

Actors : Cynthia Bain, William Prince, Jon Cypher, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Actors : Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins, Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III; when they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Biehn, James Garner,
Directors : Ed Bianchi,

Douglas, a record salesman, is an obsessive fan of actress Sally Ross. When his letters are rejected, he strikes out at her and her loved ones.

Actors : Mike Marshall, Carina Barone, Françoise Blanchard, Marina Pierro,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, James Franciscus, Joshua Sinclair,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.

Actors : Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas, Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin,

God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane asylums ...

Actors : Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Charlton Heston, Susannah York,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.

Actors : Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Gerrit Graham, Leslie Nielsen,
Directors : Bruce Kimmel,

When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On ...