List of horror films from the 1980s

The list of horror films of the 1980s gives a chronological overview of productions made in this genre between 1980 and 1989 . When using it, it should be noted that the majority of the films listed overlap with related genres from the field of fantasy such as science fiction and fantasy , but also crime films and comedy . The list does not claim to be complete.

1980

title	Director	Country of production
Alien, the seeds of horror returns	Ciro Ippolito	Italy
Asphalt cannibals	Antonio Margheriti	Italy / Spain
Crying Fields	Charles McCrann	United States
Fade to Black - The beautiful murders of Eric Binford	Vernon Zimmerman	United States
The horror	Peter Medak	Canada
The Fog - fog of horror	John Carpenter	United States
Friday the 13th.	Sean S. Cunningham	United States
Major attack by the zombies	Umberto Lenzi	Italy / Mexico / Spain
The hell of the living dead	Bruno Mattei , Claudio Fragasso	Italy / Spain
The trip to hell	Ken Russell	United States
Horror infernal	Dario Argento	Italy
The horror alligator	Lewis Teague	United States
Horror baby	Gabrielle Beaumont	United Kingdom
Hotel to hell	Kevin Connor	United States
In the hands of the zombies	Joe D'Amato	Italy
The hearse	George Bowers	United States
Man-Eater - The man eater	Joe D'Amato	Italy
Maniac	William Lustig	United States
Monster in the night express	Roger Spottiswoode	Canada / United States
Mother's Day	Charles Kaufman	United States
Naked and mangled	Ruggero Deodato	Italy
Patrick lives!	Mario Landi	Italy
Prom Night - The Night of the Butcher	Paul Lynch	Canada
Psychock	Denny Harris	United States
The slasher	Ruggero Deodato	Italy
Cry of the lost	John Hough	United States / United Kingdom
Screams of the night	William Fruet	Canada
Shining	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom / United States
The death ship	Alvin Rakoff	United Kingdom / Canada
We come and will eat you	Tsui Hark	Hong Kong
A zombie hung on the bell rope	Lucio Fulci	Italy
Zombies among cannibals	Marino Girolami	Italy

1981

title	Director	Country of production
Off to eternity	J. Lee Thompson	Canada
Absurd	Joe D'Amato	Italy
American werewolf	John Landis	United Kingdom / United States
Barbara's Baby - Omen III	Graham Baker	United Kingdom / United States
The Black Cat	Lucio Fulci	Italy
Bloody Valentine's Day	George Mihalka	Canada
Burning vengeance	Tony Maylam	United States / Canada
Cannibal terror	Alain Deruelle , Julio Pèrez Tabernero	France / Spain
Friday the 13th - Jason returns	Steve Miner	United States
The pit of horror	Lew Lehman	Canada
Halloween II - The horror returns	Rick Rosenthal	United States
The hand	Oliver Stone	United States
The house by the cemetery wall	Lucio Fulci	Italy
Island of the Zombies	Joe D'Amato	Italy
Night school	Ken Hughes	United States
Piranha 2 - Flying Killer	James Cameron	United States / Netherlands / Italy
Planet of horror	Bruce D. Clark	United States
Possession	Andrzej Żuławski	France / FR Germany
The revenge of the cannibals	Umberto Lenzi	Italy
The vengeance of the lynched	Frank De Felitta	United States
The return of the zombies	Andrea Bianchi	Italy
The saw of death	Jess Franco	BR Germany
Seeds of evil	Norman J. Warren	United Kingdom
dance of the Devil	Sam Raimi	United States
The animal	Joe Dante	United States
Dead & buried	Gary Sherman	United States
Above the afterlife	Lucio Fulci	Italy
Before dawn	Jeff Lieberman	United States
Wolfen	Michael Wadleigh	United States
The fear remains	John Irvin	United States

1982

title	Director	Country of production
American monsters	Larry Cohen	United States
Amityville II - The Obsessed	Damiano Damiani	Mexico / United States
Basket Case - The Scary Twin	Frank Henenlotter	United States
Creep show	George A. Romero	United States
The thing from another world	John Carpenter	United States
The fan	Eckhart Schmidt	BR Germany
Halloween III	Tommy Lee Wallace	United States
Cat people	Paul Schrader	United States
The killer parasite	Charles Band	United States
The Living Dead Girl	Jean Rollin	France
Madman	Joe Giannone	United States
The New York Ripper	Lucio Fulci	Italy
Night eyes	Robert Clouse	Canada
poltergeist	Tobe Hooper	United States
Tenebrae	Dario Argento	Italy
And again Friday is the 13th	Steve Miner	United States
Windigo - The night of horror	Jim Makichuk	Canada
Woodoo Baby - Sex and Black Magic in the Caribbean	Joe D'Amato	Italy / Dominican Republic

1983

title	Director	Country of production
fear	Gerald Kargl	Austria
Avanaida - Satan's viper death bite	William Fruet	Canada
desire	Tony Scott	United Kingdom
Bloody summer - the camp of horror	Robert Hiltzik	United States
Christine	John Carpenter	United States
Cujo	Lewis Teague	United States
Curtains - endless madness	Richard Ciupka	Canada
Eyes of Fire	Avery Crounse	United States
The house of long shadows	Pete Walker	United Kingdom
Psycho II	Richard Franklin	United States
thriller	John Landis	United States
Witches' dance of death	Ulli Lommel	United States
The uncanny power	Michael Mann	United Kingdom
Videodrome	David Cronenberg	Canada
Great white shark 3-D	Joe Alves	United States

1984

title	Director	Country of production
CHUD - panic in Manhattan	Douglas Cheek	United States
Friday the 13th - The final chapter	Joseph Zito	United States
Ghostbusters - The Ghostbusters	Ivan Reitman	United States
Gremlins - little monsters	Joe Dante	United States
Horror high school	Richard W. Haines	United States
Children of anger	Fritz Kiersch	United States
The comet	Thom Eberhardt	United States
Nightmare - Murderous Dreams	Wes Craven	United States
The time of the wolves	Neil Jordan	United Kingdom

1985

title	Director	Country of production
The bride	Franc Roddam	United Kingdom / United States
Demons 2	Lamberto Bava	Italy
The Devil's Experiment	Satoru Ogura	Japan
Take a bite, please	Howard Storm	United States
Flowers of Flesh and Blood	Hideshi Hino	Japan
Friday the 13th - a new beginning	Danny Steinmann	United States
Fright Night - The pitch black night	Tom Holland	United States
Hard rock zombies	Krishna Shah	United States
In the death valley of the wolves	Wes Craven	United Kingdom / United States
Cat's eye	Lewis Teague	United States
Lifeforce - The Deadly Menace	Tobe Hooper	United Kingdom
Nightmare II - The Vengeance	Jack Sholder	United States
Phenomena	Dario Argento	Italy
Re-animator	Stuart Gordon	United States
The stuff	Larry Cohen	United States
The Tier II	Philippe Mora	United Kingdom / United States
Damn it, the zombies are coming	Dan O'Bannon	United States
The Tarker Mills werewolf	Daniel Attias	United States
Zombie 2	George A. Romero	United States

1986

title	Director	Country of production
Aliens - The Return	James Cameron	United States
Critters - you are there!	Stephen Herek	United States
Demons	Lamberto Bava	Italy
The fly	David Cronenberg	United States
Friday the 13th Part VI - Jason Lives	Tom McLoughlin	United States
From Beyond - Aliens of Horror	Stuart Gordon	United States
Gothic	Ken Russell	United Kingdom
He Never Dies	Masayumi Kusumi	Japan
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	John McNaughton	United States
Hitcher, the highway killer	Robert Harmon	United States
House - The horror house	Steve Miner	United States
Interceptor	Mike Marvin	United States
Invasion of Mars	Tobe Hooper	United States
The little horror shop	Frank Oz	United States
Link - The butler	Richard Franklin	United Kingdom
The night of the creeps	Fred Dekker	United States
Poltergeist II - The other side	Brian Gibson	United States
Psycho III	Anthony Perkins	United States
Ragman	Charles Martin Smith	United States
Rhea M - It started without warning	Stephen King	United States
TerrorVision	Ted Nicolaou	United States
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2	Tobe Hooper	United States
Robbery in the closet	Bob Dahlin	United States
vamp	Richard Wenk	United States
Witchboard - The witch trap	Kevin Tenney	United Kingdom / United States
Zombie Nightmare	Jack Bravman	Canada

1987

title	Director	Country of production
Angel Heart	Alan Parker	United States / Canada / United Kingdom
Bad button	Peter Jackson	New Zealand
Bates Motel	Richard Rothstein	United States
Blood Diner	Jackie Kong	United States
Flowers of the night	Jeffrey Bloom	United States
The caller	Arthur Allan Seidelman	United States
A Chinese Ghost Story	Ching Siu-Tung	Hong Kong
Creepshow 2	Michael Gornick	United States
La croce dalle sette pietre	Marco Antonio Andolfi	Italy
Epidemic	Lars from Trier	Denmark
The princes of darkness	John Carpenter	United States
Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell	Clive Barker	United Kingdom
The Witches of Eastwick	George Miller	United States
The Hidden - The unspeakable evil	Jack Sholder	United States
Hollywood monsters	Roland Emmerich	BR Germany
House II - The Unexpected	Ethan Wiley	United States
Killing Birds	Claudio Lattanzi	Italy
The Lost Boys	Joel Schumacher	United States
Near Dark - The night has its price	Kathryn Bigelow	United States
Necromancer	Jörg Buttgereit	BR Germany
Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger is alive	Chuck Russell	United States
Predator	John McTiernan	United States
Psychos in Love	Gorman Bechard	United States
Redneck zombies	Pericles Lewnes	United States
Return to horror high	Bill Froehlich	United States
The ritual	John Schlesinger	United States
The stepfather	Joseph Ruben	United States
Dance of the Devil II - Now there is more dancing	Sam Raimi	United States
Teenwolf II	Christopher Leitch	United States
A fateful affair	Adrian Lyne	United States
The great white shark - the reckoning	Joseph Sargent	United States
Zombie Nightmare	Jack Bravman	Canada

1988

title	Director	Country of production
The monkey in man	George A. Romero	United States
Android of Notre Dame	Kazuhito Kuramoto	Japan
Beetlejuice	Tim Burton	United States
The snake woman's bite	Ken Russell	United Kingdom
The blob	Chuck Russell	United States
Evil II	Don Coscarelli	United States
Chucky the killer doll	Tom Holland	United States
Critters 2 - They're Returning	Mick Garris	United States
Elmer	Frank Henenlotter	United States
Elvira - ruler of darkness	James Signorelli	United States
Faceless	Jess Franco	France
Flesh Eater	S. William Hinzman	United States
Friday the 13th Part VII - Jason in a bloodlust	John Carl Buechler	United States
The ghosts that I called …	Richard Donner	United States
Ghosthouse	Umberto Lenzi	Italy / United States
Halloween IV - Michael Myers returns	Dwight H. Little	United States
The Halloween monster	Stan Winston	United States
Hellbound - Hellraiser II	Tony Randel	United Kingdom
High spirits	Neil Jordan	United Kingdom / United States
Hobgoblins	Rick Sloane	United States
The Baskerville Dog	Brian Mills	United Kingdom
Jack the Ripper - The Monster of London	David Wickes	United Kingdom
Maniac cop	William Lustig	United States
My neighbor, the vampire	Tommy Lee Wallace	United States
Monster Hospital	William Lustig	United States
Night of the Demons	Kevin S. Tenney	United States
Nightmare on Elm Street 4	Renny Harlin	United States
The Red Monks	Gianni Martucci	Italy
Travel back in time	Anthony Hickox	United States
Return of the Living Dead III	Brian Yuzna	United States
The Ripper	Rowdy Herrington	United States
The return of the killer tomatoes	John De Bello	United States
The snake in the rainbow	Wes Craven	United States
you live	John Carpenter	United States
The seventh character	Carl Schultz	United States
Space Invaders	Stephen Chiodo	United States
Terror Serpent	Godfrey Ho	Hong Kong
Devil in blood	Steve Cohen	United States
The wild zombies have a great time	Ken Wiederhorn	United States
Underground werewolf	John Carl Buechler	United States
Zombie III	Lucio Fulci , Bruno Mattei , Claudio Fragasso	Italy

1989

title	Director	Country of production
Black Rainbow	Mike Hodges	United Kingdom
Bloodnight	Scott mirror	United States
Evil is back	Claudio Fragasso	Italy
The Church	Michele Soavi	Italy
The Dead Next Door	JR Bookwalter	United States
Friday the 13th Part VIII - Manhattan Death Trap	Rob Hedden	United States
Pet Sematary	Mary Lambert	United States
Halloween V - The Revenge of Michael Myers	Dominique Othenin-Girard	United States
Leviathan	George Pan Cosmatos	United States
Nightlife	David Acomba	United States
Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma	Stephen Hopkins	United States
The clock of horror	Lucio Fulci	Italy
Vampire's Kiss	Robert Bierman	United States
Zombie Town	Dan Hoskins	United States

See also

• List of ghost movies
• List of slasher films
• List of splatter films
• List of vampire films
• List of werewolf films
• Zombie movie

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