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80 Best '80s Horror Movies
Welcome to Camp Rotten! Nosotros've got lakes for skinny dipping, Necronomicons for candle-lit reading, and your esteemed camp counselors: A finer brood of spurned psychos, unstable writers, and sarcastic undead yous'll never meet. That's right, wastoid, they're all hither and more in our list of the 84 All-time 1980s Horror Movies!
Later the 1970s blew the doors open up on horror for mass appeal, and New Hollywood directors became, well, Hollywood, the industry started cranking the movies out past the encarmine bucketload. During this hallowed decade of spandex and Spandau Ballet, slashers hit critical bloat (Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp), equally guffaws mixed in with the guts (Return of the Living Dead, Evil Dead ii). Horror directors who made their proper name in the '70s, similar John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, put up valiant fights with The Matter and Poltergeist. And when in doubt, Hollywood merely twirled the rolodex to that subtle off-white card with Stephen King'south number on it (The Shining, The Dead Zone). The only stipulation for a film to be considered for this listing was a Fresh rating, before nosotros sorted by a ranking formula that factors a movie'southward number of reviews and release year.
Alright you lot sportos, motorheads, geeks, zeeks, bloods, dweebies, and caput bangers: Run across who's really bad with the best scary 1980s movies that did blast ever and so bodaciously from the theaters and out your VCR!
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#xc
Adjusted Score: 58436%
Critics Consensus: Brazenly foreign and uneven in its execution, Lifeforce is an otherworldly sci-fi excursion punctuated with off-kilter horror flourishes.
Synopsis: When a space mission involving American and British astronauts encounters an conflicting craft, the humanoids within are brought aboard the... [More than]
#89
Adapted Score: 57986%
Critics Consensus: The Twilight Zone: The Movie suffers from the typical anthology-film highs and lows; thankfully, the former outnumber the latter.
Synopsis: This tribute to the love supernatural TV evidence has four episodes. In the first, racist Beak Connor (Vic Morrow) is... [More]
#88
Adjusted Score: 58512%
Critics Consensus: Prince of Darkness has a scattering of chillingly clever ideas, but they aren't enough to put John Carpenter's return to horror at the aforementioned level as his classic earlier outings.
Synopsis: Poking around in a church cellar, a priest (Donald Pleasence) finds an otherworldly vial filled with slime. Frightened, he brings... [More than]
#87
Adjusted Score: 34416%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Patrons (Natasha Hovey, Urbano Barberini) of a sneak preview see others zombie-fied to heavy-metal music in a Berlin theater.... [More]
#86
Adjusted Score: 54241%
Critics Consensus: No consensus withal.
Synopsis: When Al (Christa Denton) and Glenn's (Stephen Dorff) parents (Deborah Grover, Scot Denton) leave town for the weekend, Al uses... [More]
#85
Adjusted Score: 43440%
Critics Consensus: No consensus however.
Synopsis: A grouping of motorists, including young Judy Bower (Carrie Lorraine), her horrible father (Ian Patrick Williams), her evil queen of... [More]
#84
Adjusted Score: 36333%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A Beverly Hills teen (Baton Warlock) discovers his parents are function of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.... [More]
#83
Adjusted Score: 61117%
Critics Consensus: He's a vampire! He'south a vampire! He'southward a vampire!
Synopsis: The life of white-collar New Yorker Peter (Nicolas Muzzle) seems to revolve solely effectually making as much money and sleeping... [More]
#82
Adjusted Score: 61260%
Critics Consensus: A fun '80s adventure with a slightly scary twist, The Monster Squad offers tween-friendly horror with but enough of a kicking.
Synopsis: Members (Andre Gower, Robby Kiger) of a monster fan society run into Count Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, the Mummy and Gill Homo.... [More than]
#81
Adapted Score: 62151%
Critics Consensus: The Blob can't replicate the B-moving-picture show charms of the original, though its fast footstep and gory thrills pack enough of a dial to brand it a worthwhile update.
Synopsis: In a tiny California town, high schoolhouse students Brian (Kevin Dillon), One thousand thousand (Shawnee Smith) and Paul (Donovan Leitch) discover a... [More]
#80
Adapted Score: 34416%
Critics Consensus: No consensus even so.
Synopsis: Tourists are trapped in a cathedral cursed since the Crusades by the mayhem of German knights.... [More]
#79
Adjusted Score: 60648%
Critics Consensus: Although it can't hold a cleaver to the classic original, Psycho II succeeds well plenty on its own merits to satisfy horror fans.
Synopsis: Two decades after the original murders at the Bates Motel, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) completes his handling at a mental... [More]
#78
Adjusted Score: 61426%
Critics Consensus: True terror and typical Disney wholesomeness disharmonism uncomfortably in Something Wicked This Style Comes.
Synopsis: Mr. Night (Jonathan Pryce) brings his traveling carnival to a minor Midwestern town and grants wishes, for a price.... [More than]
#77
Adjusted Score: 64158%
Critics Consensus: No consensus still.
Synopsis: A boy (Rick Herbst) grows addicted to psychedelic jolts from an eel-like brain-eating monster called Elmer.... [More]
#76
Adapted Score: 43246%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A male child (Joey Lawrence) tries to warn his father (Cliff De Immature) and stepmother (Roxanne Hart) almost their unsafe household... [More than]
#75
Adjusted Score: 63445%
Critics Consensus: Paul Schrader's kinky reimagining of True cat People may evidence as well grisly and lurid for some audiences, but its provocative manner and Natassja Kinski'south hypnotic functioning should please viewers who like a fiddling gasoline with their fire.
Synopsis: In this sensual and violent horror tale, Irena Gallier (Nastassia Kinski) has a dark family underground, one that resurfaces dramatically... [More]
#74
Adjusted Score: 44497%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A young man (Leigh McCloskey) returns from Rome to his sis's (Irene Phenomenon) satanic New York apartment business firm.... [More than]
#73
Adjusted Score: 64717%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A professor (Francesca Ciardi) finds the remains of a film coiffure in the Amazon and brings the photographic camera footage back... [More than]
#72
Adjusted Score: 64221%
Critics Consensus: Cujo is artless work punctuated with moments of high canine gore and one wild Dee Wallace functioning.
Synopsis: In this tale of a killer canine, man's best friend turns into his worst enemy. When sweet St. Bernard Cujo... [More]
#71
Adjusted Score: 62786%
Critics Consensus: Its journey is never quite every bit revelatory as it could be, but The Hitcher stands every bit a white-knuckle vision of horror, bolstered by Rutger Hauer'southward menacing performance.
Synopsis: While transporting a automobile from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John... [More]
#70
Adjusted Score: 65903%
Critics Consensus: With effects work and solid direction from Stan Winston -- and Lance Henriksen adding welcome gravitas -- Pumpkinhead is a creature characteristic that stands a cut above.
Synopsis: Later on his son dies in a hit-and-run blow, Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) seeks revenge against the teenagers responsible. With the... [More than]
#69
Adjusted Score: 61175%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A instance of contaminated booze has a debilitating event on the vagabonds haunting the streets and junkyards of Brooklyn.... [More]
#68
Adjusted Score: 66381%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A dying millionaire (Herbert Lom) throws a castle costume party that'south a killer.... [More than]
#67
Adjusted Score: 65814%
Critics Consensus: Although information technology'due south occasionally overwhelmed by excessive special furnishings, The Ophidian and the Rainbow draws on a spooky atmosphere to deliver a intelligent, politically informed story.
Synopsis: In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels to the torn country... [More]
#66
Adjusted Score: 61882%
Critics Consensus: Unabashedly campy -- often to its detriment -- Swamp Thing is not without its charms, among them Adrienne Barbeau equally the damsel in distress.
Synopsis: On the verge of a breakthrough in his quest to wipe out world hunger, altruistic botanist Dr. Alec Holland (Ray... [More than]
#65
Adjusted Score: 66649%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Rebellious teen Amy (Elizabeth Berridge) defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In... [More]
#64
Adjusted Score: 63502%
Critics Consensus: No consensus nonetheless.
Synopsis: Gruesome deaths occur when a adult female (Katherine MacColl) inherits a hotel that is ane of seven gateways to hell.... [More]
#63
Adjusted Score: 66066%
Critics Consensus: An constructive if knowingly giddy Stephen Rex anthology that combines comedy and terror.
Synopsis: Stephen King tales follow a cat into a smokers clinic, onto a penthouse ledge and into a girl's (Drew Barrymore)... [More]
#62
Adapted Score: 66657%
Critics Consensus: Rather quaint by today's standards, Friday the 13th yet has its share of encarmine surprises and a '70s-holdover aesthetic to slightly hogtie.
Synopsis: Crystal Lake's history of murder doesn't deter counselors from setting up a summer camp in the woodsy area. Superstitious locals... [More]
#61
Adjusted Score: 68324%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Locked in the cloakroom after school every bit a Halloween prank, Frankie (Lukas Haas) meets the ghost of a young neighborhood... [More]
#sixty
Adjusted Score: 68316%
Critics Consensus: No consensus all the same.
Synopsis: On a subcontract owned by Eve Trent (Catherine Oxenberg) and her sister Mary (Sammi Davis), immature archaeologist Angus Flint (Peter... [More than]
#59
Adjusted Score: 68225%
Critics Consensus: Eerie and satirical, Motel Hell has no vacancy when it comes to low-forehead horror gags.
Synopsis: Vincent Smith (Rory Calhoun) and his sis Ida (Nancy Parsons) run a rural hotel, only they earn most of their... [More]
#58
Adjusted Score: 68334%
Critics Consensus: The cracks are starting to show in John Carpenter's directorial instincts, just Christine is all the same silly, zippy fun.
Synopsis: Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession... [More]
#57
Adjusted Score: 70807%
Critics Consensus: A silly and ribald superhero spoof, Toxic Avenger uninhibited sense of humour hits more than it misses.
Synopsis: A 98-pound nerd (Mark Torgl) from New Jersey lands in a vat of toxic waste and becomes a chivalrous monster... [More]
#56
Adjusted Score: 45542%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A private detective investigates a new consumer taste treat that's absolutely delicious and just possibly lethal.... [More]
#55
Adjusted Score: 71897%
Critics Consensus: Peter Jackson's early on depression-budget shocker boasts a icky premise - aliens harvesting humans for fast food - that gives the budding auteur plenty of room for gross-out visuals and absurd cleverness.
Synopsis: Gun-toting assassins try to wipe out a grouping of aliens that wants to utilise humans in New Zealand for food.... [More]
#54
Adjusted Score: 72389%
Critics Consensus: Scanners is a night sci-fi story with special effects that'll brand your head explode.
Synopsis: Scanners are men and women built-in with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. In that location are many who exercise the benefits of... [More than]
#53
Adapted Score: 73801%
Critics Consensus: Q's campy charms may exist lost on audiences who want their monsters frightening, but a game cast and lovingly retrograde visual effects requite this kaiju romp some majesty.
Synopsis: A fleeing gangland flunky (Michael Moriarty) finds the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.... [More]
#52
Adjusted Score: 72971%
Critics Consensus: Child's Play occasionally stumbles across its tonal tightrope of one-act and horror, but its genuinely creepy monster and some deft direction by Tom The netherlands makes this chiller stand out on the shelf.
Synopsis: Gunned down past Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), dying murderer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) uses black magic to put... [More]
#51
Adjusted Score: 76134%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Fraternity pledges (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall) pull a prank with a frozen body and let sluglike creatures loose on campus.... [More]
#50
Adjusted Score: 75755%
Critics Consensus: The Howling packs enough laughs into its lycanthropic carnage to distinguish it from other werewolf entries, with impressive visual furnishings adding some bite.
Synopsis: In Los Angeles, television journalist Karen White (Dee Wallace) is traumatized in the grade of aiding the police in their... [More than]
#49
Adjusted Score: 74252%
Critics Consensus: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors offers an imaginative and surprisingly satisfying rebound for a franchise already starting to succumb to sequelitis.
Synopsis: During a hallucinatory incident, young Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund).... [More than]
#48
Adjusted Score: 73413%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) and a homicide detective (Michael Nouri) hunt the electric current human being host of an orally exchanged... [More]
#47
Adjusted Score: 75518%
Critics Consensus: Elevated by writer-director Clive Barker's fiendishly unique vision, Hellraiser offers a disquieting - and sadistically smart - alternative to mindless gore.
Synopsis: Sexual deviant Frank (Sean Chapman) inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a box he bought while... [More]
#46
Adjusted Score: 48395%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Struggling actress Katie McGovern (Mary Steenburgen) is approached by the mysterious Mr. Murray (Roddy McDowall) and invited to an upstate... [More]
#45
Adjusted Score: 71095%
Critics Consensus: Law procedural meets werewolf flick in Wolfen, a creepy creature feature with a surprisingly profound side.
Synopsis: New York City constabulary investigator Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is trying to solve a serial of grisly deaths in which... [More]
#44
Adjusted Score: 75670%
Critics Consensus: Information technology'southward uneven, as anthologies frequently are, just Creepshow is colorful, frequently funny, and treats its inspirations with infectious reverence.
Synopsis: A compendium of 5 brusque but terrifying tales contained within a single total-length feature, this picture show conjures scares from traditional... [More]
#43
Adjusted Score: 54283%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A sheriff (James Farentino) and his wife (Melody Anderson) realize the boondocks coroner (Jack Albertson) has been creating an army... [More than]
#42
Adjusted Score: 75169%
Critics Consensus: No consensus still.
Synopsis: An American (Jennifer Connelly) at a Swiss finishing school calls on insects to help a paralyzed scientist (Donald Pleasence) fight... [More]
#41
Adjusted Score: 77068%
Critics Consensus: Killer Klowns from Outer Space's championship promises darkly goofy fun -- and more often than not, the movie delivers.
Synopsis: When teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) encounter a comet crash exterior their sleepy small town, they investigate... [More than]
#40
Adjusted Score: 76207%
Critics Consensus: While Basket Case definitely delivers all the gonzo gore promised by its cracked premise, it's really gear up autonomously by its rich vein of genuine pathos.
Synopsis: Duane (Kevin Van Hentenryck) checks into a sleazy hotel with a wicker basket containing his telepathic Siamese twin.... [More]
#39
Adjusted Score: 77921%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Obsessive scientist Dr. Pretorius (Ted Sorel) successfully discovers a fashion to access a parallel universe of pleasure past tapping into... [More than]
#38
Adapted Score: 57518%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A "metal fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metallic into... [More]
#37
Adjusted Score: 77502%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel, writer Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) is pulled into a murder... [More]
#36
Adjusted Score: 79312%
Critics Consensus: Sleepaway Camp is a standard teen slasher elevated past occasional moments of John Waters-esque weirdness and a twisted ending.
Synopsis: Bunks and the showers are a mad stabber's crush at a summer camp strictly for teens.... [More]
#35
Adjusted Score: 39730%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: At summer army camp, some teenagers pull a prank on the campsite'southward flagman, Cropsy (Lou David). But the joke goes terribly... [More]
#34
Adjusted Score: 78639%
Critics Consensus: Valley Daughter culture satire Night of the Comet gets lots of mileage out of its slapstick sci-fi zombie approach.
Synopsis: After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they're amongst the... [More]
#33
Adjusted Score: 63480%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Wolves and werewolves lurk throughout the dreams of young Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), who imagines that she must journeying through a... [More]
#32
Adjusted Score: 80869%
Critics Consensus: A well-crafted return to horror for genre giant John Carpenter, The Fog rolls in and wraps viewers in suitably slow-building chills.
Synopsis: Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California littoral boondocks prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects jump eerily... [More than]
#31
Adjusted Score: 81122%
Critics Consensus: No consensus nevertheless.
Synopsis: A herpetologist (Robin Riker) helps a detective (Robert Forster) rails her flushed-away pet, now a rex-size mutant called Ramone.... [More]
#30
Adjusted Score: 80236%
Critics Consensus: Flawed but eminently watchable, Joel Schumacher's teen vampire thriller blends horror, sense of humour, and plenty of visual style with standout performances from a cast full of immature 1980s stars.
Synopsis: Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small boondocks in... [More]
#29
Adapted Score: 82126%
Critics Consensus: Visually audacious, disorienting, and just plain weird, Videodrome'south musings on technology, entertainment, and politics withal feel fresh today.
Synopsis: Equally the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is drastic for new programming to attract viewers.... [More than]
#28
Adjusted Score: 83325%
Critics Consensus: George C. Scott's somber performance gives this haunted house horror a moving soul to go along with its harrowing scares.
Synopsis: Composer John Russell (George C. Scott) is vacationing with his family unit when a car blow kills his wife and girl.... [More]
#27
Adjusted Score: 84338%
Critics Consensus: Predator: Function sci-fi, office horror, function activity -- all muscle.
Synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.South. regime to secretly rescue a group of politicians... [More]
#26
Adjusted Score: 85795%
Critics Consensus: Day of the Dead may arguably be the least haunting entry in George A. Romero'south undead trilogy, only information technology volition give audiences' enough to chew on with its shocking gore and scathing view of gild.
Synopsis: The living dead regroup higher up while humans (Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato) sweat it out below in a Florida... [More]
#25
Adjusted Score: 85475%
Critics Consensus: Dead Ringers serves up a double dose of Jeremy Irons in service of a devilishly unsettling concept and commandingly creepy work from director David Cronenberg.
Synopsis: Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works at the same practise equally his identical twin, Beverly (also Irons). Elliot is... [More than]
#24
Adjusted Score: 86235%
Critics Consensus: Near Nighttime is at once a creepy vampire moving-picture show, a thrilling western, and a poignant family tale, with sense of humour and scares in abundance.
Synopsis: Cowboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets gorgeous Mae (Jenny Wright) at a bar, and the two take an immediate attraction.... [More]
#23
Adjusted Score: 89317%
Critics Consensus: Blending genres every bit effectively equally it subverts expectations, Possession uses powerful interim and disquieting imagery to grapple with complex themes.
Synopsis: After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her married man, Marking (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him... [More]
#22
Adapted Score: 88748%
Critics Consensus: Extraordinarily daring for a Hollywood film, Contradistinct States attacks the viewer with its inventive, aggressive mix of muddled sound effects and visual pyrotechnics.
Synopsis: Respected scientist and psychology professor Edward Jessup (William Injure) decides to combine his experiments in sensory deprivation tanks with powerful... [More than]
#21
Adjusted Score: 89131%
Critics Consensus: Brilliantly baroque and overflowing with ideas, Beetlejuice offers some of Michael Keaton's most deliciously manic work - and creepy, funny fun for the whole family.
Synopsis: Subsequently Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) dice in a machine accident, they detect themselves stuck haunting their... [More]
#20
Adjusted Score: 88982%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) is a family unit man, but he happens to have a series of families, with each one... [More than]
#19
Adjusted Score: 88553%
Critics Consensus: Those unfamiliar with Alejandro Jodorowsky'southward style may discover it overwhelming, simply Santa Sangre is a provocative psychedelic journey featuring the director'southward signature touches of violence, vulgarity, and an oddly personal moral heart.
Synopsis: In Mexico, the traumatized son (Axel Jodorowsky) of a pocketknife-thrower (Guy Stockwell) and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely with his... [More]
#18
Adapted Score: 88380%
Critics Consensus: A politically subversive blend of horror and sci fi, They Live is an underrated genre film from John Carpenter.
Synopsis: Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the earth... [More]
#17
Adjusted Score: 90525%
Critics Consensus: Whether you choose to see it every bit a argument on consumer civilisation or simply a special furnishings-heavy popcorn picture, Gremlins is a minor archetype.
Synopsis: A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds i at a store in Chinatown.... [More]
#sixteen
Adapted Score: 90093%
Critics Consensus: The Opera house location gives plenty to work with for manager Dario Argento, who hits his decadently bloody high notes hither.
Synopsis: A hooded figure forces a immature diva (Cristina Marsillach) to scout equally he murders performers in a production of Verdi'southward... [More]
#15
Adapted Score: 91471%
Critics Consensus: Smartly filmed, tightly scripted, and -- most importantly -- consistently frightening, Poltergeist is a mod horror classic.
Synopsis: Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings -- Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged... [More than]
#fourteen
Adjusted Score: 92403%
Critics Consensus: Terrifying and funny in almost equal measure, John Landis' horror-comedy crosses genres while introducing Rick Baker's astounding brand-upward effects.
Synopsis: David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American higher students, are backpacking through United kingdom when a large wolf attacks... [More]
#xiii
Adjusted Score: 88147%
Critics Consensus: Grimmer and more terrifying than the 1950s have, John Carpenter'south The Thing is a tense sci-fi thriller rife with compelling tension and some remarkable make-upwardly effects.
Synopsis: In remote Antarctica, a grouping of American research scientists are disturbed at their base campsite past a helicopter shooting at... [More]
#12
Adjusted Score: 89972%
Critics Consensus: Henry: Portrait of a Series Killer is an constructive, chilling profile of a killer that is sure to stupor and disturb.
Synopsis: Henry (Michael Rooker) is released from prison house following his mother's murder. He supplements his job as an exterminator with a... [More]
#11
Adjusted Score: 94065%
Critics Consensus: A punk take on the zombie genre, The Render of the Living Dead injects a healthy dose of '80s silliness to the flesh-consuming.
Synopsis: When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a surreptitious armed forces experiment in a supply warehouse, the... [More]
#10
Adapted Score: 92824%
Critics Consensus: The Expressionless Zone combines taut direction from David Cronenberg and and a rich performance from Christopher Walken to create one of the strongest Stephen Rex adaptations.
Synopsis: When Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma caused by a car blow, he finds that years have passed,... [More]
#9
Adapted Score: 94433%
Critics Consensus: Fright Dark deftly combines thrills and humor in this ghostly tale about a human living next to a vampire.
Synopsis: Teenage Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is a horror-motion picture junkie, so it's no surprise that, when a reclusive new neighbor named... [More than]
#viii
Adapted Score: 94441%
Critics Consensus: Remixing Roger Corman's B-moving picture past style of the Off-Broadway musical, Piddling Shop of Horrors offers camp, horror and catchy tunes in equal measure -- plus some inspired cameos by the likes of Steve Martin and Bill Murray.
Synopsis: Meek flower store assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an... [More]
#7
Adjusted Score: 92802%
Critics Consensus: Though it deviates from Stephen Rex'south novel, Stanley Kubrick'south The Shining is a chilling, often baroque journeying into madness -- exemplified past an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson.
Synopsis: Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer'southward cake.... [More]
#6
Adjusted Score: 97602%
Critics Consensus: Perfectly mixing humor and horror, the but thing more effective than Re-Animator's gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes.
Synopsis: A medical student (Jeffrey Combs) brings his headless professor back from the dead with a special serum.... [More]
#5
Adjusted Score: 97785%
Critics Consensus: Wes Craven'southward intelligent premise, combined with the horrifying visual advent of Freddy Krueger, still causes nightmares to this twenty-four hours.
Synopsis: In Wes Craven'southward classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler... [More]
#four
Adapted Score: 98358%
Critics Consensus: David Cronenberg combines his trademark analogousness for gore and horror with strongly adult characters, making The Wing a surprisingly affecting tragedy.
Synopsis: When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to... [More]
#iii
Adjusted Score: 99602%
Critics Consensus: Evil Dead 2'south increased special effects and slapstick-gore makes it as good -- if non better -- than the original.
Synopsis: The second of three films in the Evil Expressionless series is part horror, part comedy, with Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell)... [More]
#2
Adjusted Score: 99678%
Critics Consensus: This classic low budget horror film combines just the correct amount of gore and black humor, giving The Evil Dead an equal amount of thrills and laughs.
Synopsis: Ashley "Ash" Williams (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend and 3 pals hike into the woods to a cabin for a fun... [More than]
#1
Adjusted Score: 104426%
Critics Consensus: While Alien was a curiosity of slow-building, atmospheric tension, Aliens packs a much more visceral punch, and features a typically strong operation from Sigourney Weaver.
Synopsis: Later on floating in space for 57 years, Lt. Ripley'south (Sigourney Weaver) shuttle is plant by a deep space salvage team.... [More]
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