50 best horror films of the 1980s

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

• United States, 1986.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,6.

A series of films "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" began in 1974 ribbon category B director Tobe Hooper, in 1986 came the second part. And away we go... The maniac named Leatherface (he wears a mask of skin removed from his victims) begins to commit massacres, armed with a chainsaw.

He does this not only for entertainment, but also to feed their cannibal relatives. And although the film was received ambiguously, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" eventually became a cult series, and Leatherface - one of the most recognizable maniacs.

2. children of the corn

Children of the Corn

• United States, 1984.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,6.

This film was based on the novel master Stephen King horror. The couple accidentally falls into the town, populated by crazy cruel children created their religious cult and who killed all living in this town adults. The kids decide to bring guests a sacrifice to propitiate living in cornfields deity.

3. cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust

• Italy, 1980.
• Horror adventure.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,9.

Reporters group goes in the equatorial forest, located in the AmazonTo lift it a documentary about the local tribes. Aborigines did not appreciate the rush of white people, and decided to use them as food.

The film was banned as many as 50 countries around the world because of its cruelty. Thus, the animals that ate the natives in the frame, were killed for real. Therefore, this picture is definitely not for impressionable. And at "Hell cannibal" is a pretty good remake - the movie "Green Hell" in 2013.

4. deadly game

The Funhouse

• United States, 1981.
• Horror.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,9.

Tobe Hooper film, directed by the famous "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Four teenager named Amy, Buzz, Liz and Richie with baby Joey having fun at the fair. For fun, they decide to spend the night at the carnival train and accidentally witness a brutal murder committed by an insane son control carousel.

5. Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night

• United States, 1984.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 79 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,9.

The old man afraid of his grandson terrible stories about Santa Claus, who punishes bad children. And so it turns out that the boy's parents attack maniac dressed exactly this Christmas characters. Fatherless boy is sent to an orphanage, where he was mistreated. Growing up, the guy he wears a Santa Claus costume and begins to brutally kill.

6. The stuff

The Stuff

• United States, 1985.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 86 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,9.

Thriller with elements of black comedy. During miner works in Alaska discover some mysterious substance of unknown origin, which is very pleasant to the taste. And in the end it will be used as a dessert throughout the country. However, it later turns out that The Stuff devours people from within, turning them into violent zombie.

7. Maniac Cop

Maniac Cop

• USA, 1988.
• Horror, thriller, crime.
• Duration: 85 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,0.

In New York, is a terrible massacres committed by man in police uniform. And at first suspicion falls on a young cop Jack Forest. But soon they uncover the terrible truth: the culprit - risen from the dead officer Cordell, who wants to take revenge on their killers and destroy all who will meet on your way.

8. hellish motel

Motel Hell

• USA, 1980.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 101 min.
• IMDb: 6,0.

amusing black comedy about a couple of maniacs, brother and sister. They own a roadside motel, which is famous for its meat kitchen. Smoked meat - a signature dish here again is unable to nobody. Recipe siblings are kept in strict confidence, because the meat is very questionable source of origin.

9. The gates

The Gate

• Canada, USA, 1986.
• Horror, fantasy.
• Duration: 86 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,0.

The family lives in an old house, beside which grows a huge tree. Wood decided to root out, and then remains a deep hole in the area. When parents leave for a few days out of the pit start to climb horrific demons - as it turns out, a hole in the ground is nothing but as a portal to hell. And the boy with his sister Glen E will have to deal with monsters without the help of adults.

10. Cujo

Cujo

• United States, 1983.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 93 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,0.

Another horror film, which has become the primary source of Stephen King novel. Cujo - the nickname of a large St. Bernard dog, pet Camber family. Dog accidentally bites bat rabies infects it, and the dog begins to attack people.

11. Happy Birthday to me

Happy Birthday to Me

• Canada, in 1981.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,1.

Birthday - not the best holiday for a young Virginia. On that day, the girl with her mother gets into a car accident. Virginia only survives, but its hard to hurt the screw vessel sails past. And in the end she begins to suffer memory lapses. A year later comes its eighteenth birthday and the eve of the birthday of her friends of Virginia begins killing maniac.

12. Fool's Day

April Fool's Day

• USA, Canada, 1986.
• Horror, Detective.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,2.

Some young men come to the country house of his classmates to a fun note April 1 and play a trick one above the other. But the guests begin to disappear suddenly in the midst of fun. And a friendly feast turns into a bloody massacre.

13. Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead

• USA, 1988.
• Horror, fantasy.
• Duration: 86 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,2.

Ed Harley lives simple, but it is a happy life. He owns his own grocery store, he has a young son. However, everything changes when the boy knocked to death adolescent riders who went to ride over the hills.

Crushed by grief father decides to enlist the help of an old witch she is Pumpkinhead demon who begins to take revenge on the murderers of the boy. And the demon that is so cruel that even the thirsty revenge Ed horrified.

14. Warlock

Warlock

• USA, 1988.
• Horror, Fantasy, Adventure.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,2.

In 1691 the sinister sorcerer attractive appearance was caught and imprisoned in the tower of a witch hunter Redfern. But the magician did not wait for the execution: the devil himself, and releases it moves into the future, into a modern Los Angeles.

Here warlock going as much to arrange the apocalypse. However, brave Redfern and then started up for the villain in pursuit. That's just to deal with a sorcerer capable of literally shoot human finger, it will not be easy.

15. Sleepaway camp

sleepaway Camp

• United States, 1983.
• Horror.
• Duration: 84 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

On the lake is sinking boat, what skiers nearby on boats teens do not pay attention. The owner and his son are killed, survived only a little daughter Angela. grown-up heroine returns to the ill-fated camp, and the people in it begin to die a few years later. You are nothing like? Oh yes, the famous "Friday the 13th".

16. cat's eye

Cat's Eye

• USA, Netherlands, 1985.
• Horror, thriller, comedy.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

The film combines just three short story by Stephen King, which was still here, and screenwriter. Event witness picture and the link between the three parts of the film serves homeless cat, trying to protect the little girl.

The first part of the protagonist tries quit smokingAnd he manages it as a psychologist starts to threaten his wife mutilation. In the second criminal makes his wife's lover to go on the roof of a skyscraper. And in the third cat to protect a girl named Amanda from the evil troll.

17. My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine

• Canada, in 1981.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

In a small mining town in the Valentine's Day tragedy strikes: A group of miners die because of a methane explosion. Only one survives - Harry Warden. But after experiencing it goes crazy, and it is placed in a psychiatric clinic. And twenty years later, a madman armed with a pickaxe, escapes to start the massacre.

18. silver bullet

Silver Bullet

• USA, Netherlands, 1985.
• Horror.
• Duration: 95 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

The town is a series of macabre murders. Local residents take up arms, hoping to find and destroy the villain, capable of such crimes. Little boy Marty, confined to a wheelchair, trying to warn others that the bloodshed satisfied with the werewolves, which is powerless against any weapon other than silver. Of course, no one believes him.

19. Friday, 13th

Friday the 13th

• USA, 1980.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 95 min.
• IMDb: 6,5.

In the camp "Crystal Lake" inadvertently counselors drowning boy named Jason. His mother, Pamela Voorhees, decides to take revenge afraid and begins to brutal killings in the camp. In the next parts of the horror franchise, which has become a truly iconic, the villain becomes a grown up, Jason, who really has not sunk (do not ask how he survived alone in the forest).

Then he will turn into a maniac unkillable zombie. Go hunt Manhattan. Undergo kriozamorozke, moved into the future. And even fly into space. Its distinguishing feature - a hockey mask and a favorite weapon - a machete.

20. Kids games

Child's Play

• USA, 1988.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 87 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

Little Andy receives a gift of a doll Chucky. Boy resides in delight until it finds out his new toy closer. It turns out that the doll possessed by a cruel maniac, who died a few years ago. He brutally kills babysitter Andy. And, of course, no one believes a child, the killer - Chucky.

21. Pet cemetery

Pet Sematary

• United States, 1989.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

The film is based on a story by Stephen King. Louis Creed and his family moved to a country house, which is located next to the old Indian cemetery. Anyone who will be buried here, will rise from the dead. It worked with the dead cat family. Therefore, when under the wheels of the truck killed a young son Louis, the father decides to resurrect the same way and it. That's just not what good it does not.

22. howl

The Howling

• United States, 1981.
• Horror.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

Committed numerous murders maniac named Eddie asked for a meeting with journalist Karen White. And in front of the girl he begins to turn into a wolf-like monster. Police kill the maniac, but Karen could not recover from what he saw. And when her husband hurt like Eddie creature, events take an unexpected turn and do.

23. Halloween-2

halloween II

• United States, 1981.
• Horror.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

The main villain of the franchise "Halloween" - a sinister maniac Michael Myers commits his murders on the eve of All Saints Day. In the first film, bloody slashers in 1978 by John Carpenter, Myers escapes from a psychiatric clinic and brutally kills a group of teenagers - could be saved only girl Lori.

In the continuation of the same psychopath decides finish the job, finishing off the surviving victim. Even if it means he will have to kill every living thing in the whole hospital, where Laurie was taken.

Michael Myers, along with Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Leather Face - one of the most iconic villains in modern culture. His adventures already filmed eight films, two remakes of well-known rock musician and director Rob Zombie, and the recent restart of the same name, continued in 2018.

24. alien stew

Bad Taste

• New Zealand, 1987.
• Horror, fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,7.

First Full Movies Peter Jackson - a great black comedy, which he took for a student scholarship. In the New Zealand town of newcomers arrive, people who want to use as an ingredient for the alien fast food dishes. The government sends a special squad to deal with the invaders. Fight to be serious, hilariously funny and very bloody.

25. Fog

The Fog

• USA, 1980.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,8.

The fishing town in northern California, there is something strange. From the sea comes unusually thick mist and envelops everything around. But not horrible fog, but what it hides. Under the cover of darkness on the people of the town attacked by vengeful ghosts of drowned sailors who want to get even with all the living that will get their hands on.

26. Stepfather

The Stepfather

• UK, Canada, USA, 1987.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,8.

Cruel psychopath, pretending to be a caring and friendly man, rubbed into the trust to single mothers, and then kill them with all his household. When he marries a widow, Susan, her daughter Stephanie begins to suspect something. And this results in a new series of macabre murders.

27. Kaleidoscope of horrors

Creepshow

• USA, 1982.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 120 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

The film director George Romero filmed in collaboration with Stephen King. The "Kaleidoscope of horrors" the boy is a ghost who tells five horror stories. These stories are based on King's short stories - about a man on the body is alien weeds have grown about a jealous husband, who avenged he killed his wife, a box with locked inside the monster, blood-thirsty cockroaches, evil zombies and other gizmos that are so fond of the King Horror.

28. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

• United States, 1986.
• Thriller, drama, biography, horror.
• Duration: 83 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,0.

The film is based on a true story serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, has committed at least 11 murders. Together with his friend, a moron criminal Ottisom Thule, he traveled along the roads of Texas, choosing victims and killing them in various ways.

29. almost dark

Near Dark

• United States, 1987.
• Horror, Action, Thriller.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,0.

Girl-a vampire travels in the van with a trailer in the country along with his clan. In one city, she meets a handsome young man, and bites him, so he could be with her forever. But the clan refuses to accept the newcomer until he commits his first murder. And the vampire is necessary to protect it from its neighbors.

30. Hellraiser

Hellraiser

• United Kingdom, 1987.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 93 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,0.

Petty criminal seizes a mysterious device - Lemarshana casket, a kind of demonic Rubik's Cube. And he does not even know what this thing can open the gate to hell, releasing out-Cenobite demons wanting to torture and kill all who will fall under the arm.

Like many other cult horror '80s, "Hellraiser" has turned into an entire franchise. In all, nine movie sequels, the last of which is very recent - 2018.

31. Horror in Opera

Opera

• Italy, 1987.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

Italian horror film director Dario Argento. The young singer Betty suddenly gets the lead role in the opera "Macbeth", after its predecessor hit by a car. Heroin comes a resounding success, but the joy of this is overshadowed by a string of bloody murders. Makes their mysterious fan of Betty, hiding his face behind a mask.

32. Night of fear

Fright Night

• United States, 1985.
• Horror, thriller, comedy.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

The young man, Charlie - a huge fan of horror. He's watching his weird neighbor and becomes convinced that he is a real vampire. Of course, no one believes Charlie. So he decides to seek help from the host of a popular program "Fright Night," as an expert on vampires.

33. reanimator

Re-Animator

• United States, 1985.
• Horror, fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

The script of this film was inspired by the work of HP Lovecraft. Herbert West, the Medical University student invents mysterious green slime that can raise the dead. And even if the corpse was left only his head. However, returned from the dead, as it should be in a horror movie, not very friendly. Of course, getting to know them does not end good.

34. Shiver

Tenebrae

• Italy, 1982.
• Horror, thriller, detective.
• Duration: 101 min.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Film Dario Argento. famous American writer Peter Neal arrives in Rome to present his new novel "Shiver". And soon, the city rocked by a series of bloody murders committed in imitation of the events of the novel. Moreover, the criminal puts into the mouth to the victims of the page from the book. Police powerless, and the writer will have to look for the killer.

35. day of the dead

Day of the Dead

• United States, 1985.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Famous horror George Romero, has a passion for the story about the walking dead. And a classic film about zombie apocalypse. After the almost complete extinction of mankind a small group of soldiers and scientists hiding in a bunker, engaged in the search for a vaccine against the zombie virus. Prevent them from not only bloodthirsty dead, but also the constant personal differences.

36. Videodrome

Videodrome

• Canada, 1982.
• Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller.
• Duration: 84 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

Owner of a small channel Max searches the new pornoWho could fill the airwaves. He accidentally catches a mysterious signal transmission "Videodrome", broadcasting of torture, murder, and sexual perversion. View this transfer leads to the hero of terrible hallucinations, during which his body is changing.

37. The Lost boys

The Lost Boys

• United States, 1987.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

A single mother of Lucy and her sons move to a small provincial town. Older brother, Michael, is associated with a bad crowd - a gang of bikers. And the younger Sam tusit with fans comics, Fantasize about hunting vampires. And this knowledge may well be useful to them, because those bikers actually vampires.

38. Gremlins

Gremlins

• United States, 1984.
• Horror, fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

The father gives his young son wonderful pet - a strange little creature with fluffy hair and touching his eyes. The seller when buying a warning that you need to follow important rules: do not spray on the animal with water and do not feed after midnight. But the boy, of course, is not listening.

39. Defector

The Changeling

• Canada, 1980.
• Horror.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

After losing his wife and daughter, the composer John Russell moved to an old abandoned mansion, where he intended to while away the days in solitude. But in the house obviously unclean - piano plays by itself, things are moving... And he decides to hold a seance to contact the spirit of living here.

40. Companion

The Hitcher

• United States, 1986.
• Thriller.
• Duration: 93 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

A man catches a ride. It agrees to throw the guy took pity on the shivering under the heavy rain pedestrian. But goodness comes to him sideways: the man is a psychopath who kills everyone. And he does it so skillfully that all suspicions eventually fall to the poor driver.

41. Poltergeist

Poltergeist

• USA, 1982.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,4.

The house Freeling family is something wrong: the TV turns on itself, moving objects, even though they had not been touched... Apparently, to become implanted in the cottage, which stands on an old Indian burial ground, and even digging a trench was not the best for swimming pool idea.

42. Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead

• United States, 1984.
• Horror, fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,4.

Due to logistical errors warehouse medicines brought two barrels that previously belonged to the US Army. In one is the latest chemical weapons - gas, raising of the dead graves, and a pair of alcoholized dead.

Because of the awkwardness warehouse workers barrels are damaged, gas starts to leak, and then by dead crawl out. And if you are a connoisseur of black humor, the film will seem great comedy.

43. obsessed

Possession

• France, Germany, 1981.
• Horror, Drama.
• Duration: 127 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,4.

Pretty crazy film impregnated spirit arthouse. Special services worker Mark returned from another trip and discovers that his wife, Anna, not herself - intends to divorce, arranges hysterics, and often leaves the house. At first, he decides that his wife is cheating on him. But soon learns far more terrible truth: Anna possessed by a demon.

44. Fly

The Fly

• US, UK, Canada, 1986.
• Horror, science fiction, drama.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

A scientist named Seth Brundle creates a device that can teleport objects. And after some preliminary experiments, he decides to test it for yourself. Unfortunately, at this time in your device's camera flies fly, and after the experiment, the scientist begins to gradually turn into a huge insect.

45. A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

• United States, 1984.
• Horror.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

One of the most famous and iconic horror films of the 1980s. Creepy maniac with a disfigured face and sharp claws haunts teenagers living on Elm Street in the town of Springwood. He gets into their dreams, and therefore will not be able to protect anyone from him.

46. Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

• United States, 1981.
• Horror.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

A group of young people come to an abandoned hut to hang out on the weekends. In the basement they accidentally find a ritual dagger, tape recordings of the previous owner of the hut and sinister Manuscript - Book of the Dead. Heroes cast spells, arousing evil demons that inhabit them, and they do terrible things.

this film - a rare example, when the second part is much better than the first (though the first is good). "Evil Dead - 2» has made the franchise is literally a cult, it was dismantled for quotes. In the story, the only surviving hero of the first part of Ash falls into the Middle Ages and continues to fight with the dead, demon-possessed.

47. An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London

• United Kingdom, United States, 1981.
• Horror, comedy.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

A pair of American students on a journey of good old England. In some woods creepy werewolf kills one of them, and second only to wound. Of course, the survivor begins to turn into a werewolf. At night, he kills, but the day is trying to cope with his animal nature.

48. Something

The Thing

• USA, 1982.
• Horror, Science Fiction, Detective.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

A group of American explorers spends time on the research station, lost in the snow of Antarctica. Suddenly, the idyll is broken: the Americans notice how some of their fellow Norwegians pursuing helicopter escaping dog. The helicopter crashed, and the Norwegians are dying, and the dog picked up the Americans. And it's better they did not, because in the dog home to something terrible, eager to absorb all the living.

49. Aliens

Aliens

• United States, 1986.
• Horror, fantasy, action.
• Duration: 137 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Continuation of the film "foreign", Which was released in 1979. Capsule with Ellen Ripley, the only vyshivshey on board the spaceship "Nostromo", picks up the escape pod. The heroine discovers that while she was in suspended animation, on a planet populated by aliens built the colony. And she has to go back to where she miraculously took the legs last time.

50. Radiance

The Shining

• US, UK, 1980.
• Horror, Thriller, Drama.
• Duration: 144 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

religious movie Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Stephen King. The protagonist and his family populated in the empty hotel for winter to silence and solitude to write his new novel, and at the same time earn extra money on the position of caretaker. And in this godforsaken place it starts to happen something strange: the writer gradually goes mad, and his little son suddenly learns to see ghosts.