prepare to be afraid be very afraid
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies of the 1980s for this list
we’re looking at those horror gems that
established new groundwork low-budget
underground revelations and the birth of
the horror film franchise this isn’t for
your eyes
this is part of a series of videos
spanning the decades of horror cinema
from the 1920s to the 2000s well things
that were and shall be again number 10
Hellraiser I’m Frank we start things off
very bloody with Clive Barker’s demented
gothic masterpiece
based on his own novella this gory
Marvel follows the poor unsuspecting
victims of a possessed puzzlebox cabal
you opened it after Frank tracks it down
and is able to open it it turns into a
Pandora’s box unleashing unimaginable
demonic creatures whose only purpose is
to torture people in a hellish
Otherworld Jesus wet when he escapes and
is resurrected pinhead and his Santa
bites go on a soul hunting mission the
Cenobites gave me an experience beyond
the limits
with controversial and creative effects
and sadomasochistic imagery this sleeper
hit made Clive Barker a household name
Kirsty its Frank it’s Uncle Frank do you
remember no come to Daddy
number nine child’s play hi Mikey
although a moderate success at first
child’s play like most of our 80s list
became a cult phenomenon when serial
killer Charles Lee ray is cornered in a
toy store he makes sure his soul gets
transferred to a doll he just found
the possessed doll soon finds itself in
the hands of young Andy Barclay the rest
of the mayhem writes itself
oh he’s somethin isn’t he but the
creativity behind making Chucky come to
life and not keeping him in the shadows
the whole time makes this bright fest
stand out you mean I have to live out
the rest of my life in this body no
fucking way
Chucky is menacing but entertaining and
all-out frightening hello Andy
number 8 poltergeist
this Academy award-nominated blockbuster
has a slight taste of golden oldies
drive-in funhouse thrill ride to it but
once it gets going it’s simple haunted
house story grabs you and doesn’t let go
monster under your bed in your closet in
your TV evil clowns dead bodies in your
pool it’s got it all and leaves no stone
or grave unturned
with a powerhouse team like tobe Hooper
and Steven Spielberg behind it and
released just one week apart from ET
people knew what kind of extravagant
special effects and storytelling to
expect and poltergeist certainly
delivered number seven Evil Dead – Dead
by Dawn although the original Evil Dead
has many merits and is highly
influential Evil Dead – Dead by Dawn is
what happens when you give a visionary
all the freedom he needs after much
underground success and an endorsement
by Stephen King funding for a sequel
became possible and a young Sam Raimi
saw an opportunity but for a sort of
reimagining that thing in the cellar is
not my mother
what would evil dead have looked like
with a huge budget throw ash into the
same cabin facing the same demons and
more comedic elements and enjoy the
purely insane pandemonium swallow this
number six Friday the 13th
I’m mad enough Friday hold on to what
kicked off the longest-running horror
franchise of all time
this cheaply made sleeper hit was
developed as a response to the success
of Halloween and other holiday themed
horror flicks oh my sweet it wasn’t
chases Sean s Cunningham created
something unstoppable though what
started off as a revenge thriller about
a killer stocking sex-crazed teens at
Camp Crystal Lake turned into one of the
most iconic masked faces in horror and
which also spawned sequels spin-offs a
TV series books comics video games you
name it Jason has been to hell and back
many times and it seems like nothing is
going to stop him
number five an American Werewolf in
London did you hear that
I heard that comedy genius John Landis
shocked everyone with his 1981 horror
comedy mostly with how easily he scared
everyone will not be threatened by a
walking meatloaf the story follows two
young American backpackers in England
who get attacked by a werewolf
she couldn’t help me up although only
one of them survives he is plagued by
his dead friend’s ghost warning him of
the impending full moon what follows is
an oscar-winning transformation that
will never be forgotten
released alongside other 1981 werewolf
gems like the equally frightening and
classic Wolfen and the howling our
number five pick stands out for being
sophisticated for having aged well and
for being a byte above the rest holy
shit
number four the fly body horror master
David Cronenberg is best known for
bringing the chills without using
conventional methods like ghosts demons
and monsters as evidenced in the
brilliant Videodrome and Dead Ringers
but in 1986 he took a step back and
aimed his disturbed mind at a very
classic monster and we will forever
thank him for it
Jeff Goldblum slow transformation and
deterioration into the fly is the stuff
of nightmares images you will never
unsee and moments that will make even
the toughest guy hide behind a pillow
number three a Nightmare on Elm Street
director Wes Craven was inspired by the
true story of a group of people who
actually died while they were dreaming
and created a man of your nightmares yes
is God putting a twist on the whole
slasher craze this dark fantasy series
follows the demented and unrelenting
Freddy Krueger a demonic child killer
and king of one-liners – Freddy who’s
able to enter your dreams and use
creative ways to end your life
something is innocent as an app can mean
death for the kids of Elm Street try as
they might to stay awake number 2 the
thing that a man
whatever it is they burn it up every
although the fog was a worthy follow-up
to Halloween it wasn’t until the thing
that John Carpenter was able to sink his
teeth into his audience again and never
let go more of a very twisted
reimagining of the novella and less of a
remake of the 1951 classic we follow
Kurt Russell and his team of researchers
in a tiny Antarctic station as they’re
being torn apart by an unseen parasitic
alien life-form here
it quickly devolves into pure
claustrophobic paranoia
since the alien can take the form of any
one of them
before we bleed into our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions
number one The Shining Wendy I’m home
master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has
successfully turned every genre into
cinematic art comedy drama war film
sci-fi historical epic they had to
resort to cannibalism in order to stay
alive which is why people anxiously
awaited to see what you would do with
horror oh he took another master source
material and turned Stephen King’s
already classic novel into what was
hailed as a masterpiece in modern horror
he didn’t let me finish my sins I said
I’m not gonna hurt I’m just gonna bash
your brains unforgettable performances
iconic imagery and dialogue stunning
locations ominous camerawork Jack
Nicholson’s descent into insanity
Boyle’s ever so slowly below the surface
that people can only scare and stunt
terror and pray it never happens to them
here’s Johnny do you agree with our list
damn bitch which horror classic from the
80s would you sink your teeth into for
more thrilling top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com um I’m gonna uh I’ll be
right back okay just
you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies of the 1980s for this list
we’re looking at those horror gems that
established new groundwork low-budget
underground revelations and the birth of
the horror film franchise this isn’t for
your eyes
this is part of a series of videos
spanning the decades of horror cinema
from the 1920s to the 2000s well things
that were and shall be again number 10
Hellraiser I’m Frank we start things off
very bloody with Clive Barker’s demented
gothic masterpiece
based on his own novella this gory
Marvel follows the poor unsuspecting
victims of a possessed puzzlebox cabal
you opened it after Frank tracks it down
and is able to open it it turns into a
Pandora’s box unleashing unimaginable
demonic creatures whose only purpose is
to torture people in a hellish
Otherworld Jesus wet when he escapes and
is resurrected pinhead and his Santa
bites go on a soul hunting mission the
Cenobites gave me an experience beyond
the limits
with controversial and creative effects
and sadomasochistic imagery this sleeper
hit made Clive Barker a household name
Kirsty its Frank it’s Uncle Frank do you
remember no come to Daddy
number nine child’s play hi Mikey
although a moderate success at first
child’s play like most of our 80s list
became a cult phenomenon when serial
killer Charles Lee ray is cornered in a
toy store he makes sure his soul gets
transferred to a doll he just found
the possessed doll soon finds itself in
the hands of young Andy Barclay the rest
of the mayhem writes itself
oh he’s somethin isn’t he but the
creativity behind making Chucky come to
life and not keeping him in the shadows
the whole time makes this bright fest
stand out you mean I have to live out
the rest of my life in this body no
fucking way
Chucky is menacing but entertaining and
all-out frightening hello Andy
number 8 poltergeist
this Academy award-nominated blockbuster
has a slight taste of golden oldies
drive-in funhouse thrill ride to it but
once it gets going it’s simple haunted
house story grabs you and doesn’t let go
monster under your bed in your closet in
your TV evil clowns dead bodies in your
pool it’s got it all and leaves no stone
or grave unturned
with a powerhouse team like tobe Hooper
and Steven Spielberg behind it and
released just one week apart from ET
people knew what kind of extravagant
special effects and storytelling to
expect and poltergeist certainly
delivered number seven Evil Dead – Dead
by Dawn although the original Evil Dead
has many merits and is highly
influential Evil Dead – Dead by Dawn is
what happens when you give a visionary
all the freedom he needs after much
underground success and an endorsement
by Stephen King funding for a sequel
became possible and a young Sam Raimi
saw an opportunity but for a sort of
reimagining that thing in the cellar is
not my mother
what would evil dead have looked like
with a huge budget throw ash into the
same cabin facing the same demons and
more comedic elements and enjoy the
purely insane pandemonium swallow this
number six Friday the 13th
I’m mad enough Friday hold on to what
kicked off the longest-running horror
franchise of all time
this cheaply made sleeper hit was
developed as a response to the success
of Halloween and other holiday themed
horror flicks oh my sweet it wasn’t
chases Sean s Cunningham created
something unstoppable though what
started off as a revenge thriller about
a killer stocking sex-crazed teens at
Camp Crystal Lake turned into one of the
most iconic masked faces in horror and
which also spawned sequels spin-offs a
TV series books comics video games you
name it Jason has been to hell and back
many times and it seems like nothing is
going to stop him
number five an American Werewolf in
London did you hear that
I heard that comedy genius John Landis
shocked everyone with his 1981 horror
comedy mostly with how easily he scared
everyone will not be threatened by a
walking meatloaf the story follows two
young American backpackers in England
who get attacked by a werewolf
she couldn’t help me up although only
one of them survives he is plagued by
his dead friend’s ghost warning him of
the impending full moon what follows is
an oscar-winning transformation that
will never be forgotten
released alongside other 1981 werewolf
gems like the equally frightening and
classic Wolfen and the howling our
number five pick stands out for being
sophisticated for having aged well and
for being a byte above the rest holy
shit
number four the fly body horror master
David Cronenberg is best known for
bringing the chills without using
conventional methods like ghosts demons
and monsters as evidenced in the
brilliant Videodrome and Dead Ringers
but in 1986 he took a step back and
aimed his disturbed mind at a very
classic monster and we will forever
thank him for it
Jeff Goldblum slow transformation and
deterioration into the fly is the stuff
of nightmares images you will never
unsee and moments that will make even
the toughest guy hide behind a pillow
number three a Nightmare on Elm Street
director Wes Craven was inspired by the
true story of a group of people who
actually died while they were dreaming
and created a man of your nightmares yes
is God putting a twist on the whole
slasher craze this dark fantasy series
follows the demented and unrelenting
Freddy Krueger a demonic child killer
and king of one-liners – Freddy who’s
able to enter your dreams and use
creative ways to end your life
something is innocent as an app can mean
death for the kids of Elm Street try as
they might to stay awake number 2 the
thing that a man
whatever it is they burn it up every
although the fog was a worthy follow-up
to Halloween it wasn’t until the thing
that John Carpenter was able to sink his
teeth into his audience again and never
let go more of a very twisted
reimagining of the novella and less of a
remake of the 1951 classic we follow
Kurt Russell and his team of researchers
in a tiny Antarctic station as they’re
being torn apart by an unseen parasitic
alien life-form here
it quickly devolves into pure
claustrophobic paranoia
since the alien can take the form of any
one of them
before we bleed into our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions
number one The Shining Wendy I’m home
master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has
successfully turned every genre into
cinematic art comedy drama war film
sci-fi historical epic they had to
resort to cannibalism in order to stay
alive which is why people anxiously
awaited to see what you would do with
horror oh he took another master source
material and turned Stephen King’s
already classic novel into what was
hailed as a masterpiece in modern horror
he didn’t let me finish my sins I said
I’m not gonna hurt I’m just gonna bash
your brains unforgettable performances
iconic imagery and dialogue stunning
locations ominous camerawork Jack
Nicholson’s descent into insanity
Boyle’s ever so slowly below the surface
that people can only scare and stunt
terror and pray it never happens to them
here’s Johnny do you agree with our list
damn bitch which horror classic from the
80s would you sink your teeth into for
more thrilling top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com um I’m gonna uh I’ll be
right back okay just
you
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