Best Psychopath movies of 1980s

Actors : Mr. T, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Louis Ducreux, Alain Lalanne, Patrick Floersheim,
Directors : René Manzor,

Thomas, a very intelligent and resourceful child, is left alone with his beloved and fragile granddad on Christmas Eve, when a psychopath dressed as Santa Claus breaks into their mansion ...

Actors : Irene Cagen, Max Manthey, Michael Castagnolia, Phil Therrien,
Directors : Richard Casey,

A van full of college students traveling down a highway is terrorized by a psycho killer in a Richard Nixon mask.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Tom Schanley,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

A serial killer roams the city of Milan, Italy, using scissors to assassinate and kill top-models. A park ranger from USA arrives in the city to protect his sister, but realizes that she ...

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : Marie Claes, Helga Vandevelde, Let Jotts, Nick Van Suyt,
Directors : Johan Vandewoestijne,

A serial killer awakens from a coma and escapes from a mental hospital to kill a survivor of his slayings years ago, all the while stalking, terrifying, and killing women on the way.

Actors : Shoshana Ascher, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong, Jamie Gillis,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA ...

Actors : Linda Miller, James Brolin, Richard S. Castellano, Cliff Gorman,

A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.

Actors : Blue Thompson, Brad McCormick, Scott Davis, Jude Johnson,
Directors : Bret McCormick,

An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Dominique Lavanant, Nicole Garcia, 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 : Cliff De Young, Zoe Trilling, Kay Lenz, Scott Schwartz,
Directors : Robert A. Ferretti,

A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is ...

Actors : Julie Amato, Frank Salsedo, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal,
Directors : Peter F. Buffa,

The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Leo Fong, Richard Roundtree, Stack Pierce,
Directors : Frank Harris,

An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.

Actors : William J. Kulzer, Shea Porter, Elizabeth Trosper, George Engelson,
Directors : Howard Heard,

A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.

Actors : Terence Reis, Michelle Constant, Ron Smerczak, Liam Cundill,
Directors : John Murlowski,

A group of tourists from different corners of the world are planning to stay in an abandoned house, which happens to be the place where an insane serial killer massacred his complete family...

Actors : T.J. Glenn, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola, Joseph Eero,
Directors : W.J. Parolini,

After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.

Actors : Ross Petty, Shelley Peterson, Jonathan Crombie, Rita Tushingham,
Directors : Ousama Rawi,

An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and ...

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : Katrina Alexy, Richard Dry, Addison Randall, Patricia Jacques,
Directors : Ray Di Zazzo,

At a Halloween party, a young boy is almost killed by his drunken, alcoholic father. Ten years afterward, the boy goes on a murder spree.

Actors : Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Giovanni Visentin, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Camillo Teti,

While writing her thesis in criminology, a young woman begins to suspect that her new boyfriend is a serial killer.