Best Haunted House movies of 1980s

Actors : Rufus Norris, Jack Vogel, Eric Larson, Francine Lapensée,
Directors : Charles Philip Moore,

With the need to investigate the mysterious death of his grandparents, Cory and his friends assemble back to the old farm where it all began, sixty years earlier.

Actors : Michael David Lally, Christopher Loomis, Robin Groves, John Carradine,
Directors : Armand Weston,

A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.

Actors : Diane Cummins, Miriam Meth, Samantha Fox, Saul Meth,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.

Actors : Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Ford Rainey, Suzanne Savoy,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

A young boy finds an ancient Comanche monster spirit in the basement of his home. His parents don't believe him, so he must kill the monster alone.

Actors : Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Daniel James, Mark Powley,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

Five shipwrecked English teenagers take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is, it's early summer, and soon enough, even the walls themselves are striking out against them...

Actors : Ichiro Furutachi, Fukumi Kuroda, Shingo Yamashiro, Nobuko Miyamoto,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

Actors : Michael Dante, John Saxon, Mario Milano, Lynda Day George,
Directors : Herb Freed,

An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.

Actors : Kathleen Bailey, Judy Tatum, James W. Quinn, Rob Zapple,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

Parapsychologists try to make an inn haunted by an evil witch's ghost safe for guests.

Actors : Barbara Bingham, Gene LeBrock, David Brandon, Michael Paul Stephenson,
Directors : Claudio Fragasso,

A minister and his wife move into a haunted house.

Actors : Maureen Mooney, Millie Prezioso, Christopher Stryker, Christopher Cousins,
Directors : Douglas Grossman,

A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes beserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Howard Vernon, Fata Morgana, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A young doctor visits the secluded home of his ailing mentor - Eric Usher - who believes the house itself is alive and plotting to drive him insane, manifesting itself through ghostly apparitions.

Actors : Struan Robertson, Bruce Parry, Bob Mendelsohn, Vicki Saputo,
Directors : Kenneth J. Berton,

An evil demon that inhabits a monkey doll takes over the mind of a suburban housewife to carry out its plans.

Actors : Lash La Rue, Mary M. Dalton, Anna Lane Tatum, Cynthia Bailey,
Directors : Phil Smoot,

The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.

Actors : David Ramsey, Andrew Stevens, Mary Page Keller, Josh Segal,
Directors : Richard Friedman,

Strange visions come to haunt a singer when she and her boyfriend-psychiatrist move into the old house that is haunted by the ghost of a slave owner.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nicole Garcia, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Bisson,
Directors : Joël Santoni,

Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Santini, Gabriel Cattand, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Francis Leroi,

On an island, things start going crazy as the islands house hold appliances go rouge. It's up to Dr. Gabrielle Martin to discover whats causing this evil, and much more.

Actors : Amy Adams, Pierre Agostino, Jeff Bankert, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Alessandro Capone,

A young girl and her brother take some friends on trip to check out a house the pair has just inherited. What they don't know is that the house is haunted by demons and the ghost of a woman...

Actors : Robert Quarry, Oliver Darrow, Erik Estrada, Brinke Stevens,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A priest, trying to regain his standing in the church after "falling" and sleeping with a woman, teams with a group of ESP experts to investigate a haunted house. It doesn't help that one of the experts is a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Teresa Mae Allen, Pamela Baker, Navarre Perry, Raymond Elmendorf,
Directors : Mark G. Gilhuis,

Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his strangest events are indeed witnessed by others. As Harry becomes more frustrated by not being able to distinguish fact from delusion he turns to violence.

Actors : Terry O'Quinn, Blair Parker, Kristy McNichol, Elisabeth Brooks,
Directors : Phillip Badger,

A recently widowed writer moves into a Victorian house that is supposedly haunted. Although he is attracted to his pretty next-door neighbor, he finds himself being seduced by the spirit of...