1983 Horror Movies

57 movies found (page 1/2):

Christine(1983)

| 1h 50min | Horror

3.4/5 (with 892 votes)

Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Roberts Blossom, ...

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Cujo(1983)

| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 413 votes)

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Directed by Lewis Teague - With Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Arthur Rosenberg, ...

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Psycho II(1983)

| 1h 53min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 260 votes)

After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by 'her' demands and begins to question his own sanity.

Directed by Richard Franklin - With Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia, Meg Tilly, Dennis Franz, Tom Holland, ...

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Twilight Zone: The Movie(1983)

| 1h 41min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 298 votes)

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the TV series "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and featuring one original story "Time Out".

Directed by Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, John Landis, George Miller - With Burgess Meredith, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Priscilla Pointer, ...

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The Hunger(1983)

| 1h 37min | Horror, Drama

3.4/5 (with 250 votes)

Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life, but John, her companion for centuries, suddenly discovers that he is getting old minute by minute, so he looks for Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging, and asks her for help.

Directed by Tony Scott - With Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Dan Hedaya, Bessie Love, Ann Magnuson, ...

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Videodrome(1983)

| 1h 28min | Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 921 votes)

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Leslie Carlson, Peter Dvorský, Jack Creley, ...

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Jaws 3-D(1983)

| 1h 39min | Thriller, Horror

2.2/5 (with 533 votes)

This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a guest at Sea World. What follows is the shark wreaking havoc on the visitors in the park.

Directed by Joe Alves - With Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Lea Thompson, Louis Gossett Jr., John Putch, Simon MacCorkindale, ...

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Sleepaway Camp(1983)

| 1h 25min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 268 votes)

Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.

Directed by Robert Hiltzik - With Mike Kellin, Jonathan Tiersten, Felissa Rose, Christopher Collet, Robert Earl Jones

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The Dead Zone(1983)

| 1h 43min | Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction

3.5/5 (with 661 votes)

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, ...

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Angst(1983)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 133 votes)

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

Directed by Gerald Kargl - With Erwin Leder

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The Keep(1983)

| 1h 36min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

2.9/5 (with 99 votes)

Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.

Directed by Michael Mann - With Jürgen Prochnow, Ian McKellen, Robert Prosky, Gabriel Byrne, Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, ...

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Michael Jackson's Thriller(1983)

14min | Horror, Music

4.1/5 (with 280 votes)

A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a horde of bloody-thirsty zombies.

Directed by John Landis - With Ola Ray, Vincent Price

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Xtro(1982)

| 1h 23min | Science Fiction, Horror

2.9/5 (with 84 votes)

Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.

Directed by Harry Bromley Davenport - With Philip Sayer, Simon Nash, Maryam d'Abo, Bernice Stegers

Curtains(1983)

| 1h 29min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 44 votes)

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Directed by Richard Ciupka - With John Vernon, Linda Thorson, Samantha Eggar, Lynne Griffin, Anne Ditchburn, Lesleh Donaldson, ...

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Nightmares(1983)

| 1h 39min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.9/5 (with 33 votes)

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Cristina Raines, Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Richard Masur, Veronica Cartwright, William Sanderson, ...

The Boxer's Omen(1983)

| 1h 44min | Horror, Fantasy, Action

3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic.

Directed by Kuei Chih-hung - With Phillip Ko

Something Wicked This Way Comes(1983)

| 1h 35min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

3.2/5 (with 71 votes)

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?

Directed by Jack Clayton - With Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Angelo Rossitto, Arthur Hill, ...

The Lift(1983)

| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 67 votes)

A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.

Directed by Dick Maas - With Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine van Dalsum, Serge-Henri, Hans Dagelet, Theo Pont, ...

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Seeding of a Ghost(1983)

1h 27min | Horror, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab. After the driver's wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he pleads with the sorcerer to lift the hex and restore his wife to the land of the living. Otherworldly zombie chaos ensues.

Directed by Kuen Yeung

The Prey(1983)

| 1h 20min | Horror

2.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Three couples go on a camping trip in the woods of southern California during the summer, where a deformed man is stalking their camp.

Directed by Edwin Brown - With Steve Bond, Jackie Coogan

Sweet Sixteen(1983)

1h 30min | Horror

2.5/5 (with 23 votes)

A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.

Directed by Jim Sotos - With Bo Hopkins

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Amityville 3-D(1983)

| 1h 45min | Horror, Thriller

2.3/5 (with 90 votes)

To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people who have come into contact with John and the house begin to meet with shocking fates. Is it all just coincidence, or is the house really the gateway to hell?

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Lori Loughlin, Candy Clark, Meg Ryan, ...

A Blade in the Dark(1983)

1h 50min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 42 votes)

A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.

Directed by Lamberto Bava - With Andrea Occhipinti, Annie Papa, Michele Soavi, Valeria Cavalli, Stanko Molnar, Lara Naszinsky, ...

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The Deadly Spawn(1983)

| 1h 18min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

2.8/5 (with 40 votes)

When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before it’s terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!

Directed by Douglas McKeown

Mausoleum(1983)

| 1h 36min | Horror

2.5/5 (with 33 votes)

By way of an unnatural urge during her Mother's funeral, Susan enters her family's mausoleum, which unleashes an evil presence to lurk inside of her.

Directed by Michael Dugan - With Bobbie Bresee, LaWanda Page, Marjoe Gortner, Norman Burton

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Zeder(1983)

1h 38min | Horror, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 45 votes)

A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.

Directed by Pupi Avati - With Gabriele Lavia, Cesare Barbetti, Bob Tonelli, Ferdinando Orlandi, Alessandro Partexano, Marcello Tusco, ...

The Being(1983)

| 1h 21min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.

Directed by Jackie Kong - With Martin Landau, José Ferrer, Dorothy Malone, Ruth Buzzi, Kinky Friedman, Jerry Maren, ...

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Frightmare(1981)

1h 26min | Horror, Comedy

2.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.

Directed by Norman Thaddeus Vane - With Ferdy Mayne, Nita Talbot, Leon Askin, Jeffrey Combs, Chuck Mitchell, Jennifer Starrett, ...

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Spasms(1983)

| 1h 30min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.

Directed by William Fruet - With Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman, Marilyn Lightstone, Angus MacInnes, ...

Possibly in Michigan(1983)

12min | Horror, Music, Fantasy

3.8/5 (with 19 votes)

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

Directed by Cecelia Condit

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1983 Horror Movies

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Christine(1983)

Cujo(1983)

Psycho II(1983)

Twilight Zone: The Movie(1983)

The Hunger(1983)

Videodrome(1983)

Jaws 3-D(1983)

Sleepaway Camp(1983)

The Dead Zone(1983)

Angst(1983)

The Keep(1983)

Michael Jackson's Thriller(1983)

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Xtro(1982)

Curtains(1983)

Nightmares(1983)

The Boxer's Omen(1983)

Something Wicked This Way Comes(1983)

The Lift(1983)

Seeding of a Ghost(1983)

The Prey(1983)

Sweet Sixteen(1983)

Amityville 3-D(1983)

A Blade in the Dark(1983)

The Deadly Spawn(1983)

Mausoleum(1983)

Zeder(1983)

The Being(1983)

Frightmare(1981)

Spasms(1983)

Possibly in Michigan(1983)

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