80's
The movies of the 1980's. Makes you think of all those films filled with psychopathic-serial killers, demonic possessions, blood-splattering action and murderous children doesn't it? Well, that is what we think of so we thought we would give you a place to relive some 80's classics.
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Cannibal Terror
1980 • France • Directed by Olivier Mathot
Even by the sleaziest standards of ‘80s EuroTrash, it remains a film that must be seen to be believed: When a pair of criminal knuckleheads and their busty moll kidnap the young daughter of a wealthy tycoon, they foolishly choose to hide in a local jung...
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House on the Edge of the Park
1985 • Italy • Directed by Ruggero Deodato
For his follow-up to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, director Ruggero Deodato delivered a shocker packed with even more cruelty and controversy. 40+ years later, it remains one of the most disturbing exploitation films of all time: David Hess of THE LAST HOUSE ON T...
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Mansion of the Living Dead
1985 • Spain • Directed by Jess Franco
One of the more infamous works of his Golden Films Internacional period, writer/director Jess Franco's depraved subversion of raunchy comedy, erotic thriller and heretical horror has never popped off the screen like this: When four topless cocktail waitress...
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Heart of Dragon (Cantonese theatrical version)
1985 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung
Lifelong friends since they met as boys at Peking Opera school, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung conquered the Hong Kong film industry side-by-side in the 1970s and 1980s. One of their greatest collaborations sees the two 'brothers' playing actual brothers for...
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Heart of Dragon (Cantonese extended version)
1985 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung
Lifelong friends since they met as boys at Peking Opera school, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung conquered the Hong Kong film industry side-by-side in the 1970s and 1980s. One of their greatest collaborations sees the two 'brothers' playing actual brothers for...
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Nightmare at Noon
1988 • United Kingdom • Directed by Nico Mastorakis
DON’T DRINK THE WATER!
From cult director Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, Hired to Kill) comes Nightmare at Noon, a hectic mashup of eco-horror and shoot ‘em up full of daring stunts and explosive action!
Something strange is afoot in a sma...
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Millionaires' Express
1986 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung
All aboard for the all-star action-packed adventure of a lifetime as martial arts maestro Sammo Hung (Heart of Dragon) brings East and West crashing spectacularly together in Millionaires’ Express!
Sammo himself plays Ching Fong-tin, a former outlaw wit...
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Shocking Dark
1989 • Italy • Directed by Bruno Mattei
For director Bruno Mattei (Violence in a Women's Prison) and co-writers Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi (Troll 2), their final, and most notorious, collaboration went beyond brazen plagiarism to become a fearless act of deranged genius. In this bravura...
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Road Games
1981 • Australia • Directed by Richard Franklin
Stacey Keach (Escape From New York) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Quentin Tarantino's favourite Australian film: Road Games, a high-speed thriller with a Brian May score that you won't regret putting your thumb out for.
A laid-back Amer...
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Inseminoid
1981 • United Kingdom • Directed by Norman J. Warren
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
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Stepfather 2
1989 • United States • Directed by Jeff Burr
"Stepfather" Jerry Blake escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. With a future wife and new stepson who love him, Blake eliminates anyone who stands in his way to building the perfect family.
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Humanoids From the Deep
Humanoid sea creatures emerge from the depths and start killing a fishing town's residents and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off. This glorious, gory and grisly 1980 monster movie also features a score by James Horner and Roger C...
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Dead Kids
1981 • United States • Directed by Michael Laughlin
The Ozploitation classic, and one of the most unique shockers of the ‘80s, returns like never before: Michael Murphy (Manhattan), Dan Shor (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and Fiona Lewis (The Fury) star in this grisly saga of bizarre experim...
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Night of the Demons
1988 • United States • Directed by Kevin Tenney
Ten teenagers - including Linnea Quigley - party at an abandoned funeral parlour on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.
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The Slumber Party Massacre
1982 • United States • Amy Holden Jones
A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.
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Sorority House Massacre
1986 • United States • Carol Frank
College student Beth and her sorority sisters are stalked by an escaped psychopathic killer who shares a strange telepathic link with her.
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Re-Animator
1985 · United States · Directed by 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.
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The Unnameable
1988 • United States • Directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette
College students from Miskatonic University who retreat to an early 18th-century mansion for a weekend of lust are stalked by a fatalistic female in this horror film taken from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The demon delights in tearing the lim...
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Hell High (aka Real Trouble)
1989 • United States • Directed by Douglas Grossman
Teenage kicks take a decidedly dark turn in director Douglas Grossman’s Hell High – a twisted tale of delinquency pushed to its horrifying extreme, where Class of 1984 meets I Spit on Your Grave!
When high school football hero Jon-Jon (Breakin...
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Girls Nite Out
1982 • United States • Directed by Robert Deubel
A host of familiar genre faces including Hal Holbrook (Creepshow), Rutanya Alda (Amityville II: The Possession), Julia Montgomery (The Kindred) and Lauren-Marie Taylor (Friday the 13th Part 2) rounds out the cast of this gloriously mean-spirited s...
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The Mutilator
1984 · United States · Directed by Buddy Cooper
Although the slasher film was in decline by the mid-1980s, there were still some grisly delights to be had… and they don’t come much grislier than writer-director Buddy Cooper’s sickening stalk-and-slash classic The Mutilator! When Ed receives a me...
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Intruder
1989 • United States • Directed by Scott Spiegel
Ace check-out girl, Jennifer, has a deranged ex-boyfriend who's fresh out of prison. When he appears outside, weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut, and the night crew starts dying...one by one, in the most gruesome ways imaginable...
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Nightwish
1989 • United States • Directed by Bruce R. Cook
Using sensory deprivation techniques, a doctor of parapsychology provokes his students to examine their own deaths in ever more horrifying circumstances. Roles are exchanged and shuffled as reality and fantasy become indistinguishable and each new...
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Zombie Nightmare
1987 • Canada • Directed by Jack Bravman
Tony Washington (Jon-Mikl Thor) returns from the dead with the help of a voodoo priestess (Manuska Rogaud) after he is killed by joy-riding teenagers. He then seeks revenge against the terrible teens and the local police captain (Adam West).