Top 10 Best 80’s Horror Movies
List by top10The 80’s was one of the most distinct eras of American history. The style, music, and pop culture of the 1980’s remain among the most unique and distinctive in history. Many of today’s most popular movie horror franchises, such as the Nightmare on Elm Street series, were launched in the 80s. In other words, if you’re a horror movie fan, you owe it to yourself to check out the ten best horror movies from the 80’s. These iconic classics remain every bit as enjoyable today as they were back then.
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The Thing (1982)
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83%
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8.1
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills....
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The Shining (1980)
- Featured Supernatural, Psychological, Supernatural | Cult Classic, Ghosts, Isolation, Killer Parents, Madness, Motel, Nudity, Psychic, Winter, 80's
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86%
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8.4
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't ...
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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88%
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7.6
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists....
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The Evil Dead (1981)
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95%
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7.5
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding for...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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94%
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7.5
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child m...
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The Fly (1986)
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91%
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7.5
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and ...
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Fright Night (1985)
- Vampires | Cult Classic, Suburbs, Teens, 80's
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91%
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7.1
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charl...
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Videodrome (1983)
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78%
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7.3
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station....
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Re-Animator (1985)
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95%
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7.2
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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Hellraiser (1987)
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68%
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7.0
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body ...
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