Best horror films 1981 – 1990 - Charts
Best horror films 1981 – 1990
1. Aliens (1986)
USA / UK, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn
3. The Thing (1982)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: John Carpenter
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley
5. Angel Heart (1987)
USA / Canada, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Alan Parker
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro
6. The Fly (1986)
USA / UK, Drama / Horror
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis
7. The Evil Dead (1981)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss
8. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña
10. Angel's Egg (1985)
Japan, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Mamoru Oshii
Cast: Kei'ichi Noda, Jinpachi Nezu
11. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
USA, Comedy / Fantasy
Directed by: George Miller
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Cher
12. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
USA, Horror / Comedy
Directed by: Dan O'Bannon
Cast: Clu Gulager, James Karen
13. Bad Taste (1987)
New Zealand, Comedy / Action
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Cast: Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne
14. Holy Blood (1989)
Mexico / Italy, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Adán Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra
15. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Wes Craven
Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
16. Flatliners (1990)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts
18. Variola Vera (1982)
Yugoslavia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Goran Markovic
Cast: Rade Serbedzija, Erland Josephson
19. Halloween II (1981)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
20. The Dead Zone (1983)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams
21. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
USA, Comedy / Sci-fi
Directed by: Frank Oz
Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene
22. The Hitcher (1986)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Robert Harmon
Cast: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell
23. Possession (1981)
France / West Germany, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Andrzej Zulawski
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill
24. Fear (1983)
Austria, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Gerald Kargl
Cast: Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler
25. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Chuck Russell
26. The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
Canada, Comedy / Family
Directed by: Michael Rubbo
Cast: Mathew Mackay, Siluck Saysanasy
30. Heavy Metal (1981)
Canada / USA, Animation / Sci-fi
Directed by: Gerald Potterton, Julian Harris
Cast: Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy
31. Re-Animator (1985)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott
32. Strangler vs. Strangler (1984)
Yugoslavia, Comedy / Thriller
Directed by: Slobodan Šijan
Cast: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic
33. Dead Ringers (1988)
Canada / USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold
34. A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
Hong Kong, Action / Fantasy
Directed by: Tony Ching
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
35. Phantasm II (1988)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Cast: James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister
36. Child's Play (1988)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Tom Holland
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Catherine Hicks
37. Wicked City (1987)
Japan, Animation / Fantasy
Directed by: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Cast: Ichirō Nagai, Takeshi Aono
38. Night of the Living Dead (1990)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Tom Savini
Cast: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman
39. The Blob (1988)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Cast: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith
40. Videodrome (1983)
Canada, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: James Woods, Sonja Smits
41. Prince of Darkness (1987)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: John Carpenter
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker
44. Fright Night (1985)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Tom Holland
Cast: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale
46. Demons (1985)
Italy, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey
47. Pig-Chicken Suicide (1981)
Japan, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Yoshihiko Matsui
Cast: Toshihiko Hino
48. Amsterdamned (1988)
Netherlands, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Dick Maas
Cast: Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven
50. Shaolin Drunkard (1983)
Hong Kong, Action / Horror
Directed by: Woo-ping Yuen
Cast: Yat Chor Yuen, Sin San
51. Mr. Vampire (1985)
Hong Kong, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Ricky Lau
Cast: Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-hou Chin
52. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Japan, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara
53. Opera (1987)
Italy, Horror / Crime
Directed by: Dario Argento
Cast: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson
54. Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Brian Yuzna
Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott
55. Dead Calm (1989)
Australia / USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill
56. Creepshow (1982)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: George A. Romero
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau
58. Reflections (1987)
Yugoslavia, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Goran Markovic
Cast: Anica Dobra, Bogdan Diklic
59. Christine (1983)
USA, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: John Carpenter
Cast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell
60. The Wolf (1982)
Poland, Horror
Directed by: Marek Piestrak
Cast: Krzysztof Jasinski, Iwona Bielska
61. The Reflecting Skin (1990)
UK / Canada, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Philip Ridley
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan
62. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
UK, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Tony Randel
Cast: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence
63. Waxwork (1988)
USA / West Germany, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Anthony Hickox
Cast: Zach Galligan, Deborah Foreman
64. Celia: Child of Terror (1989)
Australia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Ann Turner
Cast: Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie
65. Roadgames (1981)
Australia, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Richard Franklin
Cast: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis
66. Pin (1988)
Canada, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: Sandor Stern
Cast: David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston
67. The Entity (1982)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver
68. The Beautiful Prisoner (1983)
France, Drama / Fantasy
Directed by: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cast: Daniel Mesguich, Cyrielle Clair
69. Siege (1983)
Canada, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Paul Donovan, Maura O'Connell
Cast: Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet
70. Scanners (1981)
Canada, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
71. Next of Kin (1982)
Australia / New Zealand, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Tony Williams
Cast: Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt
73. Anguish (1987)
Spain, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Bigas Luna
Cast: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner
74. Near Dark (1987)
USA, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright
75. Taoism Drunkard (1984)
Hong Kong, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Cheung-Yan Yuen
Cast: Yat Chor Yuen, Cheung-Yan Yuen
77. Terror in the Aisles (1984)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Andrew J. Kuehn
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen
79. Wolf's Hole (1986)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Věra Chytilová
Cast: Miroslav Macháček, Tomáš Palatý
80. They Live (1988)
USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: John Carpenter
Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David
81. Night Warning (1981)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: William Asher
Cast: Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell
82. House of the Long Shadows (1983)
UK, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Pete Walker
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee
83. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
USA / Mexico, Horror
Directed by: Damiano Damiani
Cast: James Olson, Burt Young
84. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
UK / USA, Horror / Comedy
Directed by: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter
85. The Damned House of Hajn (1988)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Jiří Svoboda
Cast: Emil Horváth ml., Petra Kolevská
86. The Monster Squad (1987)
USA, Fantasy / Comedy
Directed by: Fred Dekker
Cast: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger
87. Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Jim Van Bebber
Cast: Jim Van Bebber, Marc Pitman
88. Medium (1985)
Poland, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Jacek Koprowicz
Cast: Wladyslaw Kowalski, Michal Bajor
89. Critters (1986)
USA, Sci-fi / Comedy
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Cast: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh
90. Sounds of Silence (1989)
Sweden / USA, Horror
Directed by: Peter Borg
Cast: Kristen Jensen, Dennis Castillo
91. Trapped (1982)
Canada / USA, Thriller / Horror
Directed by: William Fruet
Cast: Henry Silva, Nicholas Campbell
92. Hard Rock Zombies (1985)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Krishna Shah
Cast: John Fleck, Phil Fondacaro
93. The Hunger (1983)
USA / UK, Horror / Romance
Directed by: Tony Scott
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie
94. Julie Darling (1983)
West Germany / Canada, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Paul Nicholas
Cast: Anthony Franciosa, Sybil Danning
96. The Company of Wolves (1984)
UK / USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Warner
97. Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Toyo'o Ashida
Cast: Ichirō Nagai, Kaneto Shiozawa
98. In a Glass Cage (1986)
Spain, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Agustí Villaronga
Cast: Günter Meisner, David Sust
99. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Hong Kong, Horror / Adventure
Directed by: Hark Tsui
Cast: Biao Yuen, Adam Cheng
100. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: John McNaughton
Cast: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles