Best Horror movies of 1980s

Actors : Heather Langenkamp, John Tesh, Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson,
Directors : Michael Mann,

Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.

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.

Actors : Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Ian Charleson,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

Actors : Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Steve Miner,

A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.

Actors : Larry Flash Jenkins, Phil Rubenstein, Cassandra Peterson, Damita Jo Freeman,
Directors : James Signorelli,

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle who wants her burned at the stake.

Actors : Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, William Ragsdale,
Directors : Tom Holland,

When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him.

Actors : Fabiana Udenio, Claude Earl Jones, Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

Actors : David Gale, Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton,
Directors : Stuart Gordon,

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

Actors : Michael V. Gazzo, Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Dean Jagger,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion,...

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden, Sarah Patterson,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine and she has a disturbing dream involving wolves which appears to take place in the woods visible from her bedroom window.

Actors : Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Terry Ballard, Tracie Savage,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Having revived from his wound, Jason Voorhees takes refuge at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of co-eds arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing spree.

Actors : Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott, Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.

Actors : John Houseman, Fred Astaire, Alice Krige, Craig Wasson,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.

Actors : Bruce Campbell, Richard Roundtree, Laurene Landon, Tom Atkins,
Directors : William Lustig,

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.

Actors : Kelly Jo Minter, Danny Hassel, Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox,
Directors : Stephen Hopkins,

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.