1988 Horror Movies

98 movies found (page 1/4):

They Live(1988)

3.7/5 (with 1,265 votes)

Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Raymond St. Jacques, George Buck Flower, Sy Richardson, ...

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The Blob(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Chuck Russell - With Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, ...

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Child's Play(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Tom Holland - With Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff, Alex Vincent, Alex Vincent, ...

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

| 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.

Directed by John Carl Buechler - With Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Spirtas, Susan Blu, Terry Kiser, Kane Hodder, Jennifer Banko-Stewart, ...

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

| 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.

Directed by Renny Harlin - With Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Andras Jones, Tuesday Knight, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, ...

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Hellbound: Hellraiser II(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Tony Randel - With Doug Bradley, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Imogen Boorman, Simon Bamford, Barbie Wilde, ...

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Dwight H. Little - With Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Michael Pataki, Sasha Jenson, Beau Starr, ...

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Nosferatu in Venice(1988)

1h 37min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

Directed by Augusto Caminito, Mario Caiano, Luigi Cozzi, Klaus Kinski, Maurizio Lucidi - With Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Barbara De Rossi, Yorgo Voyagis, Elvire Audray, ...

Pumpkinhead(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Stan Winston - With Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino, George Buck Flower, Dick Warlock, Mayim Bialik, ...

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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

Monkey Shines(1988)

| 1h 53min | Thriller, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

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.

Directed by George A. Romero - With Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci, ...

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Bad Dreams(1988)

| 1h 26min | Horror, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 50 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.

Directed by Andrew Fleming - With Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Elizabeth Daily, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin, ...

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Fright Night Part 2(1988)

| 1h 44min | Horror, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 160 votes)

After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!

Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace - With Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen, Brian Thompson, Ernie Sabella, ...

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?

Directed by Gary Sherman - With Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nathan Davis, ...

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The Seventh Sign(1988)

| 1h 37min | Horror, Drama, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 172 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.

Directed by Carl Schultz - With Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman, Ian Buchanan, Michael Laskin, ...

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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

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.

Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda - With Hitomi Kobayashi, Terumi Niki, Miyuki Ono, Kyōko Hashimoto, Shinsuke Shimada

Maniac Cop(1988)

| 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.

Directed by William Lustig - With Tom Atkins, Robert Z'Dar, William Smith, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, ...

Death Spa(1988)

1h 28min | Horror

2.6/5 (with 46 votes)

Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.

Directed by Michael Fischa - With Brenda Bakke, Ken Foree, Rosalind Cash, Shari Shattuck, Chelsea Field, Joseph Whipp, ...

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Amsterdamned(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Dick Maas - With Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, Wim Zomer, Serge-Henri, Tanneke Hartzuiker, Hidde Maas, ...

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The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Wes Craven - With Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Bill Pullman, Michael Gough, Paul Guilfoyle, ...

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976-EVIL(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Robert Englund - With Robert Picardo, Stephen Geoffreys, Sandy Dennis, Jim Metzler, Lezlie Deane, Jim Thiebaud, ...

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Phantasm II(1988)

| 1h 37min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

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.

Directed by Don Coscarelli - With Angus Scrimm, James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Paula Irvine, Sam Phillips, A. Michael Baldwin, ...

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Pin(1988)

| 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.

Directed by Sandor Stern - With David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn, Helene Udy, John Pyper-Ferguson, Jacob Tierney, ...

Faceless(1988)

1h 38min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 23 votes)

A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kidnapped young women. As Morgan's investigation closes witnesses are eliminated, one by one, each in a more horrible way.

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Helmut Berger, Telly Savalas, Brigitte Lahaie, Christiane Jean, Stéphane Audran, Florence Guérin, ...

Watchers(1988)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 33 votes)

A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.

Directed by Jon Hess - With Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Lala Sloatman, Jason Priestley, Don S. Davis, Blu Mankuma, ...

Spellbinder(1988)

| 1h 39min | Horror, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.

Directed by Janet Greek - With Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich

Ghosthouse(1988)

| 1h 35min | Horror

2.4/5 (with 42 votes)

A group of unlikely companions receive a radio call leading to a deserted house with a grisly past. After exploring the house, the group makes the foolish decision to split up, leading to a trail of death and destruction as the house unleashes its deadly past. Along the way expect severed heads, exploding light bulbs, demonic clown dolls, and creepy children.

Directed by Umberto Lenzi - With Lara Wendel, Donald O'Brien, Tim Van Patten

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American Gothic(1987)

| 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.

Directed by John Hough - With Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Michael J. Pollard, William Hootkins, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Janet Wright, ...

Ghost Town(1988)

| 1h 25min | Horror, Western

2.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman.

Directed by Mac Ahlberg, Richard McCarthy - With Franc Luz, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Michael Alldredge, Bruce Glover

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1988 Horror Movies

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They Live(1988)

The Blob(1988)

Child's Play(1988)

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

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

Hellbound: Hellraiser II(1988)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)

Nosferatu in Venice(1988)

Pumpkinhead(1988)

The Green Inferno(1988)

Monkey Shines(1988)

Bad Dreams(1988)

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Fright Night Part 2(1988)

Poltergeist III(1988)

The Seventh Sign(1988)

Men Behind the Sun(1988)

Evil Dead Trap(1988)

Maniac Cop(1988)

Death Spa(1988)

Amsterdamned(1988)

The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

976-EVIL(1988)

Phantasm II(1988)

Pin(1988)

Faceless(1988)

Watchers(1988)

Spellbinder(1988)

Ghosthouse(1988)

American Gothic(1987)

Ghost Town(1988)

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