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1988 Horror Movies

Public list by WPS with 98 movies or TV shows/series

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Child's Play(1988)

R
| 1h 27min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 1,351 votes)

A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

The Blob(1988)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 353 votes)

In Arborville, California, three high school students discover a strange, gelatinous substance that melts the flesh of any living creatures in its path and wreaks havoc across town.

The Seventh Sign(1988)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 149 votes)

Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.

Hellbound: Hellraiser II(1988)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 496 votes)

Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 824 votes)

The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer's path.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood(1988)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 442 votes)

A young girl who possesses the deadly power of telekinesis accidentally unchains the bloodthirsty Jason Voorhees from his watery grave.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master(1988)

R
| 1h 34min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 576 votes)

Dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who can draw others into her dreams, wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power to pull a new group of children into his foul domain.

The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

R
| 1h 38min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 196 votes)

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

Pumpkinhead(1988)

R
| 1h 26min | Fantasy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 186 votes)

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.

Poltergeist III(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 203 votes)

Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally achieve his target and capture Carol Anne again, or will Tangina be able, yet again, to thwart him?

Monkey Shines(1988)

3.1/5 (with 121 votes)

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

Critters 2(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 26min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 171 votes)

A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.

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Maniac Cop(1988)

R
| 1h 25min | Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 183 votes)

In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police search and find a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, suspected of murdering his own wife and the rest of the unfortunate individuals to die by the Maniac Cop’s reign of terror. To prove his innocence, he investigates the case with his partner, Theresa Mallory.

Men Behind the Sun(1988)

1h 45min | War, History, Horror, Drama
3.1/5 (with 81 votes)

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.

Directed by Mou Tun-fei

976-EVIL(1988)

R
| 1h 32min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 47 votes)

A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.

Amsterdamned(1988)

R
| 1h 45min | Action, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 72 votes)

A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.

Ænigma(1987)

2.6/5 (with 36 votes)

The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.

Slugs(1988)

R
| 1h 29min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 65 votes)

People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.

Scarecrows(1988)

R
| 1h 23min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 49 votes)

Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

Directed by William Wesley - With Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan

Three-Head Monster(1988)

1h 26min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The film tells the tale of a one thousand year old living Ginseng and initially about the attempts to capture it. But the thousand year old living root is nearly impossible to corral. He is finally captured by a weird group of ninja like fighters led by Taiwanese beauty, Cynthia Khan. However, the group is followed by a small boy who has befriended the Ginseng King and needs him to save his mother. The gang takes Ginseng to an evil, ogreish three headed monster who intends to eat him in order to live forever. It turns out that Khan's warrior woman is an heiress and is under duress since triple dome is holding her mother hostage. She has a change of heart and decides to aid the young boy in destroying three heads and saving Ginseng. But is it already too late?

Evil Dead Trap(1988)

1h 42min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 27 votes)

A talk-show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

The Green Inferno(1988)

1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy
2.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Four friends head into the jungle to locate a lost professor but instead face off against treasure hunters who are torturing and killing natives.

Directed by Antonio Climati - With Fabrizio Merlo, Bruno Corazzari, Roberto Alessandri, Sal Borgese

American Gothic(1987)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 43 votes)

When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.

The Brain(1988)

R
| 1h 34min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...

Pin(1988)

R
| 1h 43min | Horror, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.

Phantasm II(1988)

3.2/5 (with 136 votes)

Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.

Bad Dreams(1988)

R
| 1h 26min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 42 votes)

Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.

The Spider Labyrinth(1988)

1h 26min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

Jack's Back(1988)

2.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.

Pulse(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 25 votes)

An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.

Directed by Paul Golding - With Cliff DeYoung, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence
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